A riddle [G]

[aesc]

Title: A riddle
By: HF
Email: hfox @ontheqt.org
Rating/Warning: None
Work: LotR
Disclaimer: Tolkien hoc fecit.

Notes: A riddle for the tolkien_weekly "Queens" challenge. Under the wire! (I hope!)


A RIDDLE

A dowager queen am I, for my husband is gone.

My garment is white, my seven skirts embroidered with tales of the great. Each day the living weave new ones.

I am learned though unlettered; in my heart is the seat of wisdom. I see from afar the captains returning, the dark in the East, the Sea that covers the old home of my children.

I am old, white-crowned. Great men ride to protect me, even into the hand of the Shadow.

Say who I am and where I reside, and if he who must wed me shall come again.


Feel free to supply an answer :)

Comments

[seleneheart]

I think he will come again. Wonderful riddle . . . the King wed to the land. Although that implies that we need a sacrifice, summer king or somesuch.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Although that implies that we need a sacrifice, summer king or somesuch.

*grin* I think the Gondorians will stay away from blood sacrifices.

There are some skaldic texts in Old Norse that refer to the conquering or taking of a land in terms of either marriage or rape (depending on the poet), and that was kind of what I'd been thinking of.