[The Silmarillion] Romimus

"One thing I don't quite understand." Gilleen said, "According to what you said, Romimos and Io already hated each other at that time, so why did Io force Romimos to stay in the Nan Elmos?"

"That's why you don't know about Io, Your Highness." Antonia replied, "Indeed, Io probably didn't have any feelings for Romimos at that time. The same is true for the princess. But even so, with Io's possessiveness, I'm afraid it would be hard for Romimos and Arisil to leave her at the same time, not to mention that the two left without his approval—— If he has this power. In any case, he cannot accept the fact that the bamboo basket is empty, and he must get one of Romimos and Arisil."

"But why did Io choose Romimos instead of Princess Arisil in the end?" Aragorn asked, "One of the reasons why he gave up waiting for Romimos to marry His Royal Highness the White Princess was that Romimos was too difficult to control. .Ah, that's a good example of how controlling this guy is over what he thinks he owns."

"However, today is different. At that time, Arisil and Maeglin had fled far away from South Elmos. Io might not be able to catch up with them, but as long as Arisil returns to Gondolin, she will come back again." Io is no longer under the control of her, but Romemos is just the opposite, and Io has a handle on her." Antonia was silent for a few seconds before she couldn't help sighing, "The handle... oh, how ironic When Romimos was not so eager to leave Angband, she was not threatened by anyone, and even Sauron had nothing to do with her; but when she wanted complete freedom, she was freed instead. bound."

According to Romimoth's original plan, she only had to follow Arisil quietly, and once she found out the way into Gondolin, she would turn and leave back to Angband without hesitation.

However, plans never catch up with changes, and she is now entangled by Io.Although Romemos got along well with Io hundreds of years ago, she has not completely hated the life of Nan Elmos, but the premise is that she is willing to do so. If Io forces her to stay, then she He just wanted to leave.

Io also knows that Romemos is not willing to agree to his request, and may change his mind at any time. In order to prevent Romemos from sneaking away without saying a word, Io snatches her away in the name of temporary custody. Cloak of invisibility.Although Romimos could also abandon her body so as not to be discovered by the elves, she would not be able to get back her cloak if she did so—it's not that Romimos is stingy, but which creator is willing to give up his creation easily?Secondly, without the cover of Angorian's spider silk, Romimos can't guarantee that she can escape 100% from the eyes of the giant eagle hovering over Gondolin, and she is unwilling to take the risk of being exposed now.Rather than being spotted by the giant eagles and elves, it is better to follow up with Lan Wen's appearance. Even if Gondolin's guards find out, he can find a way to get away with it.

What's more, Romimos changed his mind. If he wanted to get rid of Io, he might as well use the power of Gondolin.

With Romimoth's illusion, it was easy to hide from the eyes of the elves. They quickly passed through the Himlad area without alarming anyone. Even so, Romimos still felt that Io slowed her down. , she could have walked faster by herself.

However, they finally caught up with the two men, and saw Yarisil's conspicuous white clothes from a distance, and followed them to find the secret passage into Gondolin.

Alas, if Io hadn't followed her, her purpose would have been fully accomplished by now!

Io obviously felt the same way, and stopped on his feet. "We don't need to go any further?" He asked Romimos warily.

Romimos smiled contemptuously and deliberately provoked him: "What? Are you scared?"

Io snorted coldly: "What tricks do you want to play?"

"Since I want to leave Angband completely once and for all, of course I have to do things beautifully this time." Romemos said, "Now we have only found the entrance, but the specific route and the strength of the guards on this road are not at all different. Clear."

This seems to be reasonable, and Io thought about it again and found no major flaws, so he could only continue walking to the depths of the valley with Romimos.

On the other side, Yarisil led Meglin through the six gates of Gondolin and came before her brother Turgon, the king of Gondolin. The news quickly spread to everyone's ears, Gondolin The elves rejoiced for the return of the white princess.

Of course, the lords of Gondolin also received the news. Among them, Glorfindel, Exilion, and Egamos were particularly pleasantly surprised. They always believed that they were responsible for the accident that year.Agamos still remembered the astonished and sad expressions of Turgon and the other lords when they returned to Gondolin to tell them that they had lost Arisil, and he seemed to feel a burning pain on their faces.That was definitely the strongest black history in his career. The three big men who boasted of their martial arts skills couldn't even catch the two girls.

In contrast, Glorfindel may be a little bit more surprised and happy than those two, because he took it for granted that Lan Wen must have returned with Arisil.In all Gondolin there was no one who cared more for Lanwen than Glorfindel.

However, when he rushed to Turgon's palace impatiently, he didn't see Lan Wen's figure anywhere in the hall. He only saw a strange young elf with pale complexion who looked exactly like Arisil standing silently in front of him. side.

"Your Royal Highness." Seeing that Yarisil was safe and sound, Glorfindel was naturally very happy, his lips trembled, and he didn't know what to say for a while, "Back then..."

"Oh, it's all over, so don't mention it again." Ya Ruishi interrupted his apology, showing an anxious look, "This is not the top priority now, you must rescue Lan Wen immediately."

Glorfindel was shocked, and took a step forward: "What happened to Lan Wen?!"

"It's hard to say, and I'll tell you later. It was my fault that I couldn't bring her back with me when I hurried back to Gondolin, but the most important thing now is to go to Nan Elmos to pick her up. Let her be found by my husband."

The other lords who didn't know the truth said in unison in surprise: "Your husband?"

Glorfindel didn't care about that much anymore, he wished he could fly over with his wings like a giant eagle now: "Nan Elmos? I see, I'll set off now." They all took two steps away Only then did I realize that I hadn't obtained Turgon's permission, and turned back, "Your Majesty—"

Turgon waved his hand: "Go and come back quickly, be careful not to reveal the location of Gondolin."

Glorfindel saluted hastily, and was about to leave quickly, but before he could walk out of the gate of the palace hall, a messenger rushed over.

"Your Majesty!" the messenger shouted, and saw Glorfindel again in a blink of an eye, "Lord Glorfindel, we met His Highness Lanwen at the gate, and a Sindar named Io was with her , that man claims to be the husband of Princess Yarisil!"

Ya Ruishi showed a terrified expression: "My God."

Glorfindel rushed out with a single stride.

At the beginning of Arda's founding, Romimos came to Arda following Varda. She learned a lot of knowledge and power from the goddess of light. The magic of light is what Romimos is best at, and she thinks she surpasses Most of the other Maia who followed Varda, because Romimus was not satisfied with the monotonous work of giving light to the stars and embellishing the night sky, she insisted that there is more to light than illumination Other usefulness.

For example, the eyes that allow Yiru's children to see the colorful things in the world were just a pair of exquisitely designed light receivers in Romimos's view at first. What they see is not so much the things themselves as the light shining into The reflection in their eyes.

This is the principle of Romimoth's illusion design. Since she can control light, she can easily modify the scene seen by human eyes.

However, this illusion also has obvious flaws: Romemos can only control the vision of others, but cannot manipulate other senses (but the senses will also affect each other).So long as she made no sound, she swaggered past under the noses of the Gondolin guards and no one could see her.

But that's not what Romemos is hoping for right now.

Under the cover of Romimoth's illusion, she and Io successfully passed through two of the six gates of Gondolin. When they approached the third gate, she had other thoughts and rolled her eyes.

So when Io suddenly felt a lark flying straight towards him, and wanted to land on his shoulder, he reflexively took a step back to avoid it, but accidentally stepped on a dry twig on the ground, and the branch broke Come, make a click, which is particularly noticeable in the silent environment around you.

"What's going on?!" Gondolin's guards were already a little tired from standing on guard for a long time, but now they all cheered up, surrounded the area in a short time, and searched everywhere.

"Oh, this is terrible!" Romemos still pretended to be flustered, "It's all your fault, now my illusion can't last anymore, they will find us sooner or later."

Io was at a loss: "What should I do now?"

Romemos pretended to think about it: "Don't panic too much, you are still the husband of Arisil in name, according to Turgon's law, they will not kill you immediately; besides, I used to be in Gong Dorin is also a bit famous, maybe some of those guards can recognize me. But you should be careful not to reveal my identity in front of them."

Io snorted coldly, wanting to ridicule a few words, but now is not the time.

So Romemos released the illusion cast on himself and Io, patted his face, brewed his expressions and emotions, and instantly entered the queen mode, and ran happily from behind the bushes where he was hiding out.

Those guards found nothing for a long time. At first, they almost thought that they heard it wrong. It might be the sound of birds and beasts in the forest. As soon as they relaxed a little, they saw a figure jumping out, and they were all startled. All of them stretched their bows and pressed their swords, pointing at Lan Min.

Lan Wen let out a silent scream, and the smile on her face froze instantly, feeling aggrieved.

The guards were all stunned when they saw Lan Wen clearly. Now that they saw her crying, they subconsciously wanted to put down the weapons in their hands. With such a beautiful woman, who could be so cruel as to point a sword at her?

"His Royal Highness Lan Wen?" The leading guard was the first to recognize her, and his face was full of surprise, "You are back too? Please forgive my rudeness, you—" He spotted Yi standing in the dark with sharp eyes. Oh, I became vigilant again, "Who is this?"

"I am the husband of your White Princess, and the father of her son Maeglin, Io the Sindar Elf." Io answered them haughtily.

The captain of the guard looked at Lan Wen for verification, and Lan Wen nodded to him, indicating that Io was not lying. The captain frowned: "In that case, please follow me with His Royal Highness Lan Wen. Anyway, You must go before my king Turgon."

Io showed impatience and anger, but Romemo gave him a dark look to warn him not to act rashly and act according to circumstances.

In this way, Romimos and Io drove straight into the center of the city of Gondolin, and all the last secrets of Gondolin were exposed to Romimos. Its survival and death depended on Romimos' thoughts. between.

However, now Romimos is not caring about joy or thinking about how to negotiate with Sauron for the best interests, and is only thinking about how to get his cloak back and get rid of Io.

She kept her head buried in thinking, followed the guard mechanically, and didn't even bother to observe the surrounding environment. It was not until a familiar voice called her Lan Wen eagerly that Romimos raised her head in a daze, and saw the man who was walking towards her and Glorfindel from Io's side.

Before Romemos could figure out how to react, Glorfindel stretched out his hand and pulled her to his side, looking at Io warily.

Romemos suddenly had a weird delusion - really weird because she didn't actually feel like she was in danger, and Io did upset her, but Romemos was perfectly confident that through some small trick Get rid of him completely, but when Glorfindel was protecting her behind her, Romimus still inexplicably had this idea in his mind:

She is safe.