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Erestor lay up against a tree, brown washed to black in the wet of the snow. The black disc of the new moon sailed across the dark sky. Erestor wished it were gone. He had no need to look into dark eyes any longer.
He was dying.
(AKA Erestor unwittingly travels back in time to the…
Fëanor shrugged, studying the contents of his wine glass. “Something must be done about that house. It will fall down eventually.” “It does not follow that it must be you that tears it down single-handedly. Are you sure you do not want help?” “It’s not as though I…
This is my new poetical attempt to add my own interpretation to Tolkien's Cosmology as to Eru's Creation and the Valar's minds and behind-the-scene providence reasons and mechanisms.. I often review Eä as part of our own world, just in another dimension, this is why I have always seriously…
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This is terrific. Absolutely beautiful. So poetic and magical. I love it.
Fabulous conclusion also:
And now he had it still, playing soft and easy notes, that Russandol might sleep and know he was not in that place of un-Music, of clamor and cacophony.
He thought: Is not the world Made of music? Does it not still Shape the world, to play, to sing, with intent and focus? Oh, YES! This is beautiful. I love that you made Fingon consciously decide to bring a harp along. It adds so much power - and, in the light of the Ainulindale, makes perfect sense in-universe. Loved the conclusion as well.
I really like your answer to the question, the layers of reasoning, the musical texture of the phrasing, and also the concluding paragraph.
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Oh this is lovely! I love how it draws on the notion of Song, so important to the elves, and so fundamental to creation and the role of song in Tolkien's myth. Lovely!
Oh I love the way this was written! The phrasin was superbly lyrical! I also adore the concept that Fingon would voluntarily use the Music in his favor, especially of chasing the chaos away!
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