Wedding Gift

(exactly 100 words)

Cirdan smiled at his protégé.  "You haven't forgotten anything, have you?  You've got the ring?" 

Impatiently, Eärendil nodded.  "Yes. Of course!"  He displayed the golden circle to the Shipwright, then put it away.  "Isn't it time?" 

Before Cirdan could answer, Elwing was there, clad in white and silver, with flowers in her hair.  Holding a velvet-wrapped bundle in her hands, she said, "It would be my mother's part to give you a jewel.  So, in her stead, my beloved husband to be, let me gift you with this." 

As the couple exchanged vows, the Silmaril flared gloriously on Eärendil's breast.