From: danielthomasandrewdaly@live.com.au   
      
   The Fate of Dagolas   
   (A Short Tale of Middle Earth)   
      
   By   
   Daniel Thomas Andrew Daly   
   © 2010-04-05   
      
   Dagolas had held the ring, one of the famed elven rings, for a short time.    
   And then he had felt a power – a dark, almost sovereign power, which claimed   
   authority over the ring he held, and all the other rings.  And he called this   
   sovereign ring ‘The One    
   Ring’.  And since then a hunger had been in heart, in his soul.  He must taste   
   the power of the ‘One Ring’.  He must taste it, and pursue the delightful   
   power of rulership which had been sparked in the deepest yearnings of his   
   heart.   
      
   It was later, that Galadriel spoke with him, sharing her temptation and the   
   test she overcame.  ‘Dear Dagolas.  Dear, dear Dagolas.  It seems to me, in   
   the plans of the immortal, that the temptings and testings of the heart, our   
   very being, have a    
   purpose.  For what we have always been as elves is subject to the whims of   
   destiny, yet destiny must be tested in our hearts, for should the corrupt seed   
   of evil’s purest might find hold – yea, should it find hold and seduce us away   
   to its service of    
   purest might, then I fear what would become of us all.  For I am Galadriel,   
   and I shall be not another, for my pure heart remained true, and such I will   
   remain.  But I fear for thee, Dagolas.  I sense a shroud around thy heart, one   
   not easily removed or    
   persuaded against its dark seekings.  And this shroud shall cover thee from   
   all goodness which would attempt to seek right wisdom in your thinking and   
   thoughts, for it is a shroud of the ring of power, which craves your   
   submission.  Think carefully,    
   Dagolas, for our kind could verily be affected by your choices of the heart.’   
      
   Yet, Dagolas, despite his queen’s apparent protestations of warning, heeded   
   her not.  And he sought the power of the one ring.   
      
   Yet, that day, that day which the elves recorded as the vanquishing of their   
   enemy, he sensed the death of that shroud, for the ring was gone from middle   
   earth.  And then it seemed the fate of Dagolas would be for the good.  It   
   seemed that, then.  Yes it    
   did verily seem as such.   
      
      
   The End   
      
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