Title: No Forgiveness (Originally published as "Love and Weakness")

Rating: PG
Pairing:(if there are any) Mithrellas/Imrazor, with minor references to Amroth/Nimrodel and Beren/Luthien

Summary: Mithrellas is no Luthien.
Warning:(if there are any) I own nothing. Partially inspired by the Arwen vs. Luthien 2007 debate at LJ's discussrealm.

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I will not ask for your forgiveness, for there is no earning it. You wished for a Luthien to your Beren, but you seem to have forgotten something of their story that I have not. Beren dies. All mortals must die, someday, and I could not bear to watch you or our children follow that path. Luthien might have followed her Beren through the Halls of Mandos, but I am not ready to face those grim corridors.

It was love that brought me to these lands. She loved him, and because I loved her as a sister, I followed her after him. We had intended to go across the sea together, but love drew us all in unplanned and uncertain directions. I went with you, for I could not bear to sail so soon after they were swallowed by the ocean.

In time, I have grown to love you. Truly, I still do. But I cannot dive beneath these waters, no matter who might await me upon the other side. And so I sail across them, to where I might love you after you are gone. I shall not ask for forgiveness for my weakness. I never claimed to be Luthien.