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Aldamir, or the search for the Green Jewel
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Chronicle Summary
It is an adventure story, a tale about the search for the Green Jewel. But most of all, it is a tale of love.
Chronicle Content
"The elven sage once said: Mortals and the Firtsborn... Consider the swallow and the sparrow: the swallow ever building, the sparrow ever flying, at times living on the same cliff, but never in the same nest, following Iluvatar’s everlasting laws.
It is an adventure story, a tale about the search for the Green Jewel. But most of all, it is a tale of love. If it has a messsage, it is this: unlike the swallows and the sparrows, among people, shackles from the past cannot fetter true love, for surely the bindings will shatter before this greatest enchantment of all".
The source of this tale is a tattered, partially burned copy of Commentaries on the Lays of Bard Pantlinn, an incredibly fortunate find dating from the time before The Age of Men. Compiled by an anonymous scholar from Tinnudir during the reign of Eldarion, King of Gondor, the titles of each of Pantlinn’s lays is recorded, then augmented with historical accounts of the events surrounding the legends depicted in the bard’s work. Unfortunately, the music itself is missing, as well as the exact lyrics, though internal references at times quote specific passages therein. It is clear that Pantlinn gained fame by singing of Thindaer the Ranger and Linglorel of the Wood and Passerose the Troll-Slayer and Frimsi Gembeard, and the Green Jewel, and of great wyrm.
