New Challenge: Allusive
Literature and art constantly refer back to each other using allusions, and this month's prompts are inspired by allusions to literature, myth, art, and history.
When he passed for the first time through the Doors of Night, Eärendil drank in the view of Valinor from on high. He looked down from the deck of Vingilótë eastward at something unexpected: a solitary dwelling. Here beneath him, in the lee of the Walls of the World, it stood on an eyot in a littoral of Ekkaia, the outer sea, looking ever away from the world and toward he knew not what.
As the ship passed over the Walls of the World, he saw undulating plains, deep forests, bright gardens, and nearby the Houses of Vairë and Mandos.