This time the challenge was to write a poem about Nimrodel. In The Lord of the Rings, there is a tale told in a poem about the elf-maid Nimrodel beside whose waterfall the Fellowship rests for a while. She and her lover wandered in Middle-earth, then parted, meaning to reunite at the sailing of the last ship from Middle-earth into the West. But though they waited for her, Nimrodel never came to the ship. Amroth sailed but could not bear to leave her, and leaped into the sea to swim back to... Sign in to see full entry.