Dedicated to everyone who gave me such joy this year with their stories, discussions and comments. Somehow I come to love the Tolkien fandom more and more with every passing year - thank you to everyone who makes it such an awesome place!

(And yes, this is not exactly a very positive story, but this is how inspiration hit, I fear. And there are some of you who always wanted to know more about my Thranduil, which is hard to write into the story as Legolas just does not know any of the things that happened before this birth, so here instead there is a Thranduil-centric ficlet that will hopefully shed a little more light on him as a character.)