It was a cloudy day and the sun had a thick veil of clouds to hide its face, so that nobody gets to see its beautiful bright face completely.

There is a scene between Arwen and Elrond in Return of the King where she is asking him to tell her what he saw in her future. He tells her that he sees sorrow and death. As he unfolds to her his vision, the scene shifts to a possible future of hers where she is seen meandering through a dreary wood. She approaches a great bier and on it a marble coffin wherein lies the dead king. The sunset goes down behind her. That is the inspiration for this poem.