Ardanion, son of Her Ladyship Seregrian of House Bar-en-Acharn and her husband Cutch Crane of the Bree-lands, has asked me to write a journal of my life experiences, intending to catalogue them in the Library of Saphadzîr at Dol Amroth. He says there are other accounts of Elven history seen by the ‘bird’s eye’, but few observed from the ‘ground level’. I am flattered by his request, and I suppose the reader may more easily identify with a personalized view. Be aware that any opinions that seep into them are purely my own, and I do not claim to reflect the combined memories and wisdom of all Elfdom.
I hope that future readers, undoubtably mostly children of Men, will find some relevance in these accounts. Perhaps these words will endure long after my kind have sailed to the west or otherwise faded from these lands. Ardanion has expressed the desire that Elves should not be forgotten, and hopes that our histories, large and small, should be recorded and thus revisited by Mortals who, in his words, “have memories shorter than their brief lives”. His being mostly Elf by blood I imagine gives him a uniquely blended perspective of both Mortals and Immortals.
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