Echoes of the One Ring - 2. A Door Closed
It seemed only yesterday that she had stared into the mirror in horror, watching the armies of darkness flow like sickness over the land. Then had come the flash of coldness and confusion as, in her mind, a door closed that would never open again.
Galadriel stared the ring on at her hand as if she'd never seen it before. Nenya's song of power had concluded and fallen silent. Her mind was leashed, no longer wandering freely across the face of Arda. Lorien would rejoin the river of time and eventually fade away.
The time to go home had come.