[The Silmarillion] Romimus

Leaving the noisy and chaotic Prince's Mansion, Ivanez led Romemos further north. Romemos clearly felt the ground under their feet rising higher and higher, and the bitter sea breeze Also getting bigger and bigger.The short distance actually took twice as long to walk because of the steeper terrain than on flat ground, and they were almost climbing the mountain afterward.Compared to Ivanez, who was panting at the beginning, Romemos looked much more relaxed, and soon overtook him and walked to the front.

After turning over a small hill, Romemos saw the mysterious place that Evanes said.

It was a tower, standing quietly in a dark night, and the bright starlight reflected his outline, and cast his huge black shadow on the plateau land covered with heather and other wild flowers.

The sound of the sea tide beating against the rocks on the shore could not be heard from below her feet. Romemos raised his head and narrowed his eyes slightly to look at the tower, as if he and he had become a sculpture.

After she waited silently for a few minutes, Ivanes finally caught up. Romimos glanced at him from the corner of his eye: "This is the good place you said? A tower that has been abandoned?"

"It's just that few people come. It can't be said that it is completely abandoned. Every few years, someone will come to repair and clean it." Ivanez said panting.

"Is there anything special about this tower?" Romemus asked, walking down the tower. "It doesn't seem to be a lighthouse either."

"No, the terrain of the North Cape is not suitable for building a port. There are no ships here, and there is no need for a lighthouse." Ivanez followed her, "This is a stargazing tower."

Romemos paused: "Stargazing?"

"Yes, this tower was built by His Majesty the former king Tal-Menieldur. He is the fifth king of the Númenor Empire. He loves stars and astronomy more than sailing. Ermo” is another name, that is, he specially ordered this tower to be built here.” Ivanez’s tone revealed a bit of pride, “Although Forosta does not have dense forests and bustling ports, we have the whole The cleanest and clearest starry sky in Númenor."

"Yeah." Romemos didn't comment much, she continued to stare at the tower, "Does this tower have a name?"

"I have never heard of it being officially named, and it may have been forgotten, because His Majesty Meneldur had little time to come here after he succeeded, and the kings of Númenor after him did not like it anymore. He also likes the stars." Ivanes said, "But because it was built on the mountain of Solon Tier, many people call it the Eagle Tower."

"Ah, I should have thought of it." Romemos stopped, "The mountains here are so high, they must be very popular with those stupid birds. So are there many eagles here?"

Ivanez shrugged: "There were many in the past, but in recent years most of them have flown away and never returned."

Romemos nodded in satisfaction: "Then can we go up there now?"

"Of course, that's why I invited you here." Ivanez smiled, and stretched out his hand in a gentlemanly manner, "Please first."

Lord Varda... Romimos murmured silently.

The starry sky is a scene that Romemos is all too familiar with.She will never forget how Varda's voice and the power in her voice moved her when the creation movement was sung for the first time. When Varda decided to descend on Arda, Romimus Follow her without hesitation.She had loved Varda almost obsessively, eagerly absorbing every drop of her great ideas for building Arda, and delighted in the occasional glimpse of the goddess she was lucky enough to catch.

But all of this was as far away as tens of thousands of years ago.Since the defection of Amanzhou, Romemus has not formally watched the stars for a long time.

She was certainly not incapable of seeing, and though stargazing was a dangerous and impossible thing in Angband, she would have had the opportunity to be as quiet as this nearly every clear night in Gondolin and the Land of Dusk Gondolin has many beautiful white towers, and the Tower of Twilight in the Land of Dusk was designed and built by Romimos to get closer to the starry sky. Sometimes she does open the roof to bathe Starlight, but even so, she rarely looked up at the stars again.

Romimos was afraid to look long into that deep and mysterious night sky, as if the stars were the bright eyes of Varda herself.

Now she finally raised her head again full of apprehension and a little timidity, the starry sky engraved in her heart was still reflected in her eyes, there was no anger or indifference as Romimos imagined, Varda's starlight was like It shines gently on her face and body as it was thousands of years ago, and the trajectory of the stars does not shift for anyone.

"Are you okay?" Ivanes' voice brought Romemos back to his senses.

"I'm fine." Romemos replied, her tense shoulders slowly relaxed, and finally a smile appeared on her face, "I like this place very much."

"That's great. If you can't be satisfied here, I really don't know how to make you happy." Ivanez let out a long breath.

"Have you brought many girls here?" asked Romemus.

Ivanez was taken aback, and quickly denied: "Nothing, the location is relatively remote, and there are no lights. Although there is no danger, not everyone dares to come here at night like you, especially the girls."

"Then how are you sure that I will like this place?" Romemos asked.In order to dispel the doubts of Morgoth and Sauron, her complex about the starry sky should be a secret in Middle-earth. Even Glorfindel and Celebrimbor don't know it very well. figure it out.

"I'm just guessing." Ivanez scratched the hair on the back of his head, "I heard that you used to have a tower in Middle-earth... and besides the starry sky here, I can't think of any other scenery that can set off the You are beautiful."

Here it comes again, Romimos chuckled inexplicably.Although this person said all kinds of nice words and all kinds of sweet words, in the final analysis, he just wanted to see her true face, but this time he really tried to please Romemos, so Romemos treated him I also unconsciously became a little more tolerant.

"You see, the reason why the starry sky is so beautiful is because every star is shining." Ivanez began to chatter again, "Similarly, in my opinion, if everyone is willing to show their beauty, then This society will definitely become more beautiful, and as an artist, you must also hope to—”

"Okay." Romimos lazily interrupted his nonsense, "I admit that you have a point."

Ivanez didn't realize the meaning of the other party for a while, but suddenly, besides the end of the sea level, it seemed that another round of moon suddenly appeared beside him, and its brilliance was even brighter than the real moon. soft.Then he turned his head in a daze, staring at the face that eclipsed the beauties of the entire Númenor Empire, but he couldn't utter a word as if he had suddenly become dumb.

Luo Mimo calmly continued to watch the bright stars under his absent-minded gaze, until a ray of white light appeared in the eastern sky, and she turned around contentedly: "Okay, let's go back."

Ivanez seemed to have not heard what she was saying at all, and just followed her subconsciously, never taking his eyes off her face for a moment, so until Romimos thanked him and said goodbye, he seemed to have never left her. Waking up suddenly like waking up from sleepwalking.

"You haven't slept all night, you must be sleepy?" he asked, "You can find a room at my house to rest."

Romemos refused, she didn't want to stay in the prince's mansion after the banquet for one more second.

"Also, that, in fact, the Eagle Point Tower is also a good place to watch the sunset." Ivanez spoke quickly and quickly, "Anyway, you will leave early tomorrow morning, I think this evening, we, we may We can come here again..."

"Yes." Romimos readily agreed.Sunset is also one of her favorite views. Although the tower is old, it is indeed a good place to watch.

Ivanez didn't expect Romemos to agree so happily this time, and when he realized that Romemos accepted his invitation, his face was ecstatic, and he hurriedly said, as if afraid that she would go back on his word: "That's it. Alright, I'll pick you up then."

"No, if you want to come, let's meet on the tower before sunset." Romemos said, her reaction seemed to be much colder at this time, which made Ivanez not sure what she was thinking, but He also understood that it was too late, so he didn't force it anymore.

Romemos intended to finish the day with a tome before evening, but after lunch she bumped into Ocanom in a hurry.

"Director Ocanom, good afternoon." Romemos nodded casually and insisted.

Okanomo also nodded his chin, and then quickly walked past her, but then retreated as if thinking of something: "Have you seen Vespa, Miss Romemus?"

Romemos shook his head: "I haven't seen her since this morning, what happened?"

"It's not a big deal." Okanomu looked a little annoyed, "But she's the only one who hasn't come back to report yet."

"Perhaps she is with some important person now." Romemos half-jokingly said.

"I asked other people, and some people said that they saw her leave alone before the banquet was over."

"Oh..." Romimos's heart skipped a beat, suddenly she had a bad premonition, she looked up at the sun, "There is still a little time before dark, maybe she will come back in a while? Vespa also You're not a child anymore, you should behave properly."

"I hope." Okanomu muttered and walked away. As soon as he walked away, Romemos couldn't sit still anymore, closed the book and stood up.

Although Romemos felt that she could not be blamed for this matter, if Vespa left halfway after seeing Ivanez looking for her, then this matter had something to do with her, and she couldn't just sit idly by .

Romemos whistled, and two birds flew in after a while, and flew away after being told a few words by Romemos. After that, Romemos also fought with others. A hello and left.

For Forosta, Romemos is completely unfamiliar with life, and it is fruitless to turn around a few times by chance. Fortunately, Vespa can't run too far. After less than half an hour, her children He brought her back the news.

Romemos followed them to a small bar on a bustling street. Romemos looked around and found the bright red hair without much effort. Vespa was lying on the bar counter. Sleeping deeply, there are six or seven empty wine glasses next to her, her clothes are neat, and she looks fine.

Romemos breathed a sigh of relief, pushed the door in and walked to Vespa, poking her with a finger: "Vespa?"

Vespa snorted a few times, but didn't wake up.

"Are you this lady's friend?" The bar owner greeted enthusiastically, "Your friend is drunk, why don't you sit here for a while, and I'll get her something to sober up."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome, would you like something to order?"

"I do not need it, thank you."

"You're welcome, this is my invitation to you." The bar owner was still enthusiastic.

Just as Romemos was about to say something, Vesper suddenly sat up like a dead body, and pointed at the most expensive wine on the menu: "Then have two glasses of this!"

The boss gave her a dark look, but when he turned to Romemos, he smiled again: "No problem, just wait a moment."

"You still want to drink?" Romimos frowned.

"What do you care about me?" Vespa turned around and ignored her, "Anyway, the boss said that he treats guests, and he doesn't drink for nothing."

"He really dares to drink when he invites you? There is no such thing as people taking advantage of it for no reason." Romemos picked up the empty wine glass next to him and sniffed it. "He didn't give you any medicine, did he?"

Vespa suddenly laughed out loud, startling Romimos.

"why are you laughing?"

"We took advantage of him? He took advantage of us!" Vespa said angrily, "Oh, no, to be precise, he took advantage of you. How can I compare with you?"

"What's the mess?"

"Look next to you." Vespa rolled his eyes, and when the boss handed them the wine, he snatched it and took a sip, "When did this small place fill up with so many people? Because of whom? You sit here for 10 minutes, enough for this boss to sell the wine he usually sells in a day."

Romimos glanced at it casually: "It's just human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, it's not important."

"It's not important?!" Vespa suddenly roared again, grabbed Romemos by the skirt and pulled her over. The two of them were almost nose to nose, and Vespa gritted his teeth and asked, "You know Where is your most annoying place?"

"His Royal Highness Ivanez approached me yesterday but ignored you?"

"Indeed! But that's not the most annoying thing about you!"

Isn't it?Romemos was surprised for a moment, and then thought about it: "So I'm prettier than you?"

"It's half right." Vespa released Romemos and looked at her resentfully, "But it's still not all right. The most annoying thing about you is that you are so beautiful, but you never put Take it seriously!"

Romemos felt that what she said was not very accurate. Maybe she did not take her appearance as a treasure like many beauties. It's not that unusual for one's own needs to change at any time, but it doesn't mean that Romemos is a fool who doesn't know how beautiful he is.

Vespa sneered disdainfully at Romemos' rebuttal: "Really? Then what did you do with your face?"

Romimos's first reaction was naturally that she used this face to sneak into Gondolin, but she suddenly remembered that Sauron once asked her: "Even if you don't have this face, can the elves really ignore you?" This seems to make sense. If so, beauty is not an indispensable factor for her to successfully enter Gondolin. Then what else has she done with her beauty...

Romimos hesitated for a while, and didn't answer for a while, Vesper giggled as expected: "I guessed it, an innocent girl like you who would blush when kissed, I'm afraid You never even touched a man's hand when you were in love, right?"

"This assumption is not valid, and I will not fall in love with them, why should I hold their hand?"

Vespa's eyes widened as if hearing some Arabian Nights: "You mean you haven't even been in love since you were born?"

"No. There's nothing strange about that."

"Where is that handsome man who came to Numanuer with you? The one named Myron, I thought he and you were..."

"No." Romemos looked like he had eaten a fly alive, shaking his head like a rattle, "It's complicated between me and him, but it has nothing to do with what you said."

"Oh, I see." Vespa suddenly understood, "You mean that although there are many people who admire you, you have no one to fall in love with."

"It can't be said that there are many. If I have to say it, there may be one..." Romimos refers to Io. Although her relationship with Io has turned into an ugly situation, Io is serious anyway. She proposed.

"One? How is it possible." Of course Vesper didn't believe it. Even if it was a human girl, as long as she was more beautiful, it was normal to have ten or eight suitors at the same time, let alone a fairy-like appearance like Romimos. After living for tens of thousands of years, she wouldn't be surprised if her admirers could line up all the way from Númenor to Middle-earth.

Romemos didn't care about this at first, because she never planned to develop a romantic relationship with anyone, so she didn't think about it on weekdays, but now that Vespa asked her, she felt a little embarrassed.It's one thing to agree to other people's pursuit, but if no one pursues you at all, it will always make people lose face.

If she is a maverick who easily scares people away, then that's okay at other times, at least in the period of Gondolin, she was recognized as the number one beauty by everyone, and she was gentle and dexterous, so she was considered a Dumb, how could there be no suitor for hundreds of years?

"Appearance is of course important, but it's not a panacea that can solve all problems." Romimos forcefully said to himself, "There are also many people who don't pay much attention to appearance."

"Nonsense. There are only two types of men: those who only value appearance, and those who value both appearance and other conditions."

"That's too absolute. For example, Ivanez, even though I didn't show my true self at first, he still came to talk to me, didn't he?"

"How dare you mention this?!" Vespa gulped down the wine in his glass with burning eyes.

"It's just an example, just discussing the facts, there is no other meaning."

"You may be a smart person in many ways, Luomi." After drinking his own, Vesper snatched the glass of wine that belonged to Romemus, "But when it comes to the relationship between men and women, you are How silly."

"What do you mean?"

Vespa let out a long sigh, and explained to Romemos in the simple and patient tone of explaining to a silly child that two plus three equals five: "Even if you don't show off at the banquet with this face, but you are Beauty, this news has spread from Armenelos to every corner of Numenor. You are not disfigured, but you have not shown your true face. In other words, he talked to you just to lure you to show your truth It’s just appearance, otherwise what do you think? To talk about poetry philosophy with you?”

"I know he wants to see me for real, but it's just normal curiosity, isn't it?"

"Of course the first step is to see your real appearance, what's the next step?" Vespa hated iron and steel, "If you are not so beautiful, maybe it's fine, but in the end you are really so beautiful, and in the end he didn't Or do you want to abduct you to the bed?"

"I can't say that he definitely didn't have similar thoughts." Romemos said, "It's determined by human reproductive instinct, and I can't control what everyone is thinking, but he never had any objections from the beginning to the end. A disrespectful act or statement by me. No matter what is on his mind, I will not do anything to him as long as he does not actually act on it."

"You are still not convinced that you are stupid in this regard. Didn't I tell you a long time ago? Ninety-five percent of those men who shake out all their inner thoughts when they meet for the first time are not very promising. Originally, this matter is not shameful if you love me, you pay, I am born, how understandable! But those who have a bit of status think this is ugly, and they all want to face, so they say a set of words. It's a trick, I just want to have fun with my lower body, but I want to treat myself as a gentleman and lady, first I have to talk a lot of nasty words, as if the two are in love. If you want me to say, with that time, I can go to bed three or four times .Ivanez, I was blind before and thought he was different. In the end, he was still the same old way. But he is young and handsome compared with those big men with big brains. The woman in the middle is not bad at all, but it's a pity that this guy has a bad eye for someone, but our highland flower." Vespa smiled, stretched out his hand with drunken eyes, and pinched Romimos' face , rubbing violently, "This is what he deserves too? If His Majesty Falazon knows, he can skin their family alive!"

Romemos slapped her hand off: "Maybe there is such a possibility, but we can't say with 100% certainty that this is the case, can we?"

"Oh, I just said it." Vespa snorted and laughed, "If he didn't want to sleep with you, I would jump off the Solon Tier. When you parted last night, he must have asked you out again today Bar?"

She really hit the spot, and Romemos was momentarily at a loss for words.

"You still don't believe it?" Vesper clicked his tongue, "That's why I said you are annoying, you know you are beautiful, but you don't know how to exert its maximum magic power, which makes you..."

Make you more beautiful.Vespa didn't say the second half of the sentence, and drank the second glass of wine in one gulp.And it makes them ridiculous and vulgar women who are self-satisfied with a little beauty.

Just like now, if another woman is belittling her in front of her, seeming to be ridiculing her, but in fact, there is no place to hide the surprise and envy under the words, even if Vespa doesn't say anything, the feeling in his heart Vanity is bound to be greatly gratified.As for Romimos, she still and always has a virgin-like pure and bewildered cute expression, which makes Vespa secretly grit his teeth with hatred and itches unbearably.

Vespa suddenly thought of something: "Since you are a god, besides your own changes, you must also be able to change the appearance of others?"

"Do you mean modifying it with illusions, or changing its essence?" Romemos asked, "The former is very simple, and the latter is not too difficult, but it takes some time to prepare."

"It doesn't matter." Vespa waved his hand, "So, you can also change me into your appearance?"

"Yes, yes." Romimos nodded, "But it's not necessary. If you want, I can indeed make you look more beautiful, but did you just say that you want to become me completely?"

"Let's make a bet." Vespa was in high spirits, her eyes suddenly sparkled, and Romemos didn't know if it was because she drank too much alcohol, "You still have to meet that Ian tonight Vanness, right? Why don't I pretend to be you to meet him."

"You?" Romimos smiled, "I don't mean anything else, but the two of us are not only similar in appearance, but also in character and temperament. Even if you are a good actor, it is one thing to create a character out of thin air , you want to pretend to be me? It's impossible, anyone can tell at a glance."

"This is the bet I want to make with you." Vespa held out his hand to her, "Don't you think Ivanez is not only interested in your face? But I bet, only this face is enough, he It doesn't matter who is under this face at all."

Romemus did not speak at once.

"You dare not bet?" Vespa urged her.

"Okay." Romemos held out his hand and held it back, "I agree."