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After they had rested long in the land of Lórien, the time to say goodbye to the Elves had come. They gave them new cloaks, made of Elvenstuff, which made them nearly invisible in any natural landscape and especially in woods. They also gave them boats to easy their journey. As Gandalf was dead, Aragorn had become leader of the party. He had decided to take the river for their journey, because it was much easier and faster than walking.
As they had nearly left the land, the lord and the lady invented them to a feast on the shore of the river. There they gave them special presents, unique and special for anyone of them. Aragorn got a sheath for his sword Andúril and a great green gem in a silver brooch, which was the stone of Elessar, the Elfstone of the house of Elendil, Aragorns ancestors. Boromir got a golden belt; and Merry and Pippin got silver ones. For Legolas she had a bow, longer and stouter than his own bow. For Sam she had a special present. Nothing to help him on his journey but for the time after the war. She gave him a box with Lórien-earth, which would make his garden the fairest ever seen in Middle-Earth. For Frodo she had a crystal-light which should lighten the darkness he would encounter. It was the light of the silmarils, she said, and it should lighten his way, where any other light should end. They also gave everyone of them coats, which would make them near invisible and a special kind of waybread they called lembas. These lembas would give them enough strength to walk a whole day and they were very small and took little space in their equipment.
After this, the company made their way on the great river to go south, closer to the end of their long journey.
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