"Since time immemorial," the elf explained. "My family teaches this ancient song to its children. I don't really know what it means. Who this King of Ireland, Brian Boru, is... But it seemed important to the person who composed it. For us elves, death is only a passage to a new body. My father said that one day, one of our ancestors would return to Middle-earth to sing this melody to his beloved. Since then, from father to son, we learn it in the hope of finding that lost love again."