the old guard’s main theme is answering the question “why do we exist?” and its answer? to do good and be kind and love. its literal core message is that humanity is inherently good, and that were inherently kind, and that given all the time in the universe we would still spend eternity trying to help others and love one another and make art and write poetry and love and love and love and love
For now, Celebrimbor was happy to only anticipate the next day or, at this moment, the next minute. Never had Finrod’s gardens seemed larger. The whimsically winding walkways always annoyed him, but today they were especially irksome. He discarded dignity and decided to hop along the stones in the pond to close the final distance to the guest-house.
The end, perhaps.
The final chapter of What Brings Us Together is up on AO3.
