Destiny

Like you, I wrestle with my thoughts, never speaking of our choice, delaying and delaying and delaying until we can delay no more.  I have long feared this moment, when I – when we – must face our heritage; choose our  destiny. 

Do we take the fate of men or elves?  Mortality or immortality?  A brief’ glorious spark followed by swift death, or a slow gradual flowering and eventual decline?  I love this world; would gladly take eternity to explore it; but that same eternity without you, my brother, would be unbearable.  

I know I could not endure our father’s unending grief.

Author’s Note:  I do not know the twins’ choice, but I tend to think that they chose immortality.  Whatever the decision,  I think they chose the same fate – I cannot imagine them being sundered as Elrond and Elros were.