[The castle was lovely, of course, but was no place like home.
Lúthien had followed the fairies because she did not know what they were, and they had invited her close with such sweet words - but one minute she had been there, and the next she had been gone, in a world wholly foreign. The fairies had stayed long enough to explain, more or less, why she was here, and then scattered like beams of light. A war? And a shard that she held? Lúthien didn't know if she should believe them. But stepping again into the ring of mushrooms had done nothing, though she tried several times, so she'd looked to the sky and left to find another route. And found her way here. And it wasn't home.
Lúthien was not often timid, but she had found herself growing more and more unsure of herself as she found that there was less and less that she knew. She had never been away from home before, and this seemed like a terrible place to begin.]
1. Lúthien Tinúviel | The Silmarillion
Lúthien had followed the fairies because she did not know what they were, and they had invited her close with such sweet words - but one minute she had been there, and the next she had been gone, in a world wholly foreign. The fairies had stayed long enough to explain, more or less, why she was here, and then scattered like beams of light. A war? And a shard that she held? Lúthien didn't know if she should believe them. But stepping again into the ring of mushrooms had done nothing, though she tried several times, so she'd looked to the sky and left to find another route. And found her way here. And it wasn't home.
Lúthien was not often timid, but she had found herself growing more and more unsure of herself as she found that there was less and less that she knew. She had never been away from home before, and this seemed like a terrible place to begin.]