[ Somewhere over here, Maglor laughed aloud at Davesprite's reaction - this is always his favourite part about telling people his age ]

For one of my folk, even nine thousand is not that long. My mother lives still, and her father, and my father's father was one of those who were the very first to open their eyes, all the way back in the Beginning. We are the Eldar, whose life is tied to that of the world. So long as it exists, so will we.

I will see you then.