(༺ 𝐋𝐎𝐓𝐑 ༻) Mithrandir – The Flame of the Istari

═══▣◎▣══════▣◎▣══════▣◎▣══════▣◎▣═══ MITHRANDIR – THE FLAME OF THE ISTARI 𝐋𝐎𝐓𝐑 - 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕃𝕖𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕕 𝕆𝕗 𝔾𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕝𝕗 ═══▣◎▣══════▣◎▣══════▣◎▣══════▣◎▣═══ ´´𝕊𝖕𝖊𝖆𝖐, 𝖋𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖉, 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖗´´ ⋘━━━━ ☾༓☽ ━━━━━━━━ ☾༓☽ ━━━━━━━━ ☾༓☽ ━━━━━━━━ ☾༓☽ ━━━━⋙ They came to Moria... They did not know... What darkness slept beneath their feet.. But I... I remembered. ⋘━━━━ ☾༓☽ ━━━━━━━━ ☾༓☽ ━━━━━━━━ ☾༓☽ ━━━━━━━━ ☾༓☽ ━━━━⋙ ✦━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━✦ We walked the halls carved deep in stone, Where silence clung to flesh and bone. The drums awoke And shadows came. ✦━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━✦ A demon born of smoke and flame… The old world gave it one dark name... Balrog... ✦━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━✦ I faced it on the Bridge of Dread, Where even hope had long since fled. The beast of fire unleashed its wrath And there I stood, to hold the path. ✦━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━✦ "YOU! SHALL NOT! PASS!" ✦━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━✦ Staff to stone, I struck the line— And both of us began to fall through time. ✦━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━✦ We fell through fire, through ash, through screams, Through shattered roots and broken dreams. I fought in dark, where no light played, Where even stars had fled and swayed. ✦━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━✦ "We scorched the void, we cracked the deep… I burned… I sank… I could not sleep." ✦━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━✦ But then... the fire became a light. The dark recoiled from something bright. They clothed me in white, And gave me a new name... ✦━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━✦ "I am... that which was sent back." ✦━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━✦ I rose where fire could not remain, A whisper now in wind and flame. The grey was gone— And white remained. ✦━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━✦ "I came to guide, to guard, to stand— The flame of hope in mortal hand." ✦━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━✦ I found them lost, afraid, unsure— In lands where light was faint and pure. A hobbit's heart held all our fate, And so I stood… to guard that weight. ✦━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━✦ "I was the hand that bore the flame, The voice that knew each ancient name. Not to rule, nor lead by sword— But light the path with wiser word." ✦━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━✦ I stood against shadow, I fell with flame, I returned— But never the same. ✦━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━━✦ And so… I walk once more. ═══▣◎▣══════▣◎▣══════▣◎▣══════▣◎▣═══