Tal stands in front of the Great Hall as the merriment begins, his blue crystal lute within his hands as he calls for the rooms attention, "I wish to sing a song for you all, a song of our people, the Tel'Quessir. It is a tale of our beginnings, when first we sat at Corellon's feet. He taught us much in those early days, when we walked alone on this world, and it should not be forgotten. I call it "Eldemar Nuin Tel'Gilen", although the great poet, Tolkien, did not call it such. But since I have taken the Liberty of changing a bit of it, I thought one more liberty would be appropriate."

In Eldemar ,where all Elven folk's roads end, however long,
There is a sound of faint guitars and distant echoes of a song,
For there the Tel'Quessir gather in rings
Round the moon's fires whilst one sings
And all about is Sehanine's night
Not night as ours, unhappy folk,
Where nigh the Earth in hazy bars.
A mist about the springing of the stars,
There trails a thin and wandering smoke
Obscuring with its veil half seen
The great vastness of Arvandor.
A globe of dark glass faceted with light
Wherein the splendid winds have dusky flight;
Untrodden spaces of an odorous plain
That watches for the moon that long has lain
And caught the meteor's fiery rain -
Such there is night.
There on a sudden did my heart perceive
That they who sang about the Eve,
Who answered the bright -shining stars
With gleaming music of their strange guitars,
These were his wandering happy sons
The Tel'Quessir on those aery leas
Where Corellon's unsullied garment runs
In glory down his mighty knees.

The music stills as Grey finishes his last words, a silence descending for a moment as the Tel'Quessir's closeness to their gods still burns hotly within their minds. "Melareamin," says Tal in a soft voice, "Remember this reminder from Eru of our great gifts, and the great responsibility that they entail. That is all I have to sing, melloneamin, of who the Tel'Quessir are."

Then the merriment continues again, with a thoughtful eye turned within every Edhel to their ancient roots and Eru's wonderful gifts...