Sublime

The Doom (or the Gift) of Men is mortality, freedom from the circles of the world. Since the point of view of the whole cycle is the Elvish, mortality is not explained mythically: it is a mystery of God of which no more is known than that ‘what God has purposed for Men is hidden’: a grief and an envy to the immortal Elves.

Three Rings for the Elven-Kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne…

I sit beside the fire and think of how the world will be when winter comes without a spring that I shall ever see.

S. Bach on a loop, starting with the Brandenburg Concertos. Volume level three.”

lidless

For nothing is evil in the beginning. Even Sauron was not so.

Her imagination was getting the better of her.