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I know I just made this exact post but I am not – and will never be – over the fact that ppl are rlly out here leaving google reviews on the alps and volcanoes and the pacific fuckin ocean like?? This is the pinnacle of human hubris?? If I were God I’d just be like “yeah well make your own damn planet then if you’re so smart. A 4.5 on the Mississippi River? Unbelievable”
an exclusive peak inside fëanor’s journal (morgoth by jenny dolfen btw)
Melkor’s final impotence and despair lay in this: that whereas the Valar (and in their degree Elves and Men) could still love ‘Arda Marred’, that is Arda with a Melkor-ingredient, and could still heal this or that hurt, or produce from its very marring, from its state as it was, things beautiful and lovely, Melkor could do nothing with Arda, which was not from his own mind and was interwoven with the work and thoughts of others: even left alone he could only have gone raging on till all was leveled again in a formless chaos. And yet even so he would have been defeated, because it would still have ‘existed’, independent of his own mind, and a world in potential.
The Histories of Middle Earth vol. 10 “Myths Transformed”
Anonymous asked, for the Middle Earth Quote Meme: “What is the saddest thing/quote you read about Melkor/Morgoth?”
Después de muchos intentos y pruebas por fin he acabado la primera página. Al final me he decidido por hacer una mezcla entre comic y manuscrito…y que los textos del Silmarillion aparezcan escritos en élfico. Esta página corresponde a justo el principio del capítulo 1 del Silmarillion, citando una parte sería:
“Chapter 1: Of the Beginning of Days
It is told among the wise that the First War began before Arda was full-shaped, and ere yet there was any thing that grew or walked upon earth; and for long Melkor had the upper hand. But in the midst of the war a spirit of great strength and hardihood came to the aid of the Valar, hearing in the far heaven that there was battle in the Little Kingdom; and Arda was filled with the sound of his laughter…”
Salen por orden de arriba a abajo: Morgoth, Tulkas y Yavanna
Ahora me faltará hacer la página simétrica a ésta, la número 2, que espero llegue antes que la primera; XD o no llegaré viva ni al final del capítulo 1…
After many attempts and tests I have finally finished the first page. In the end I decided to make a mixture between comic and manuscript … and that the texts of the Silmarillion appear written in Elvish. This page corresponds to just the beginning of chapter 1 of the Silmarillion, quoting a part would be:
“Chapter 1: Of the Beginning of Days
It was told by the wise that the First War began before Arda was full-shaped, and there was still something that grew or walked upon earth; and for long Melkor had the upper hand. But in the midst of the war a spirit of great strength and hardness came to the aid of the Valar, hearing in the far heaven that there was battle in the Little Kingdom; and Arda was filled with the sound of his laughter … “
They leave in order from top to bottom: Morgoth, Tulkas and Yavanna
Now I will need to make the page symmetric to this one, the number 2, which I hope will arrive before the first one; XD or I will not arrive alive at the end of chapter 1 …
Melkor was more interested in and capable of dealing with a volcanic eruption, for example, than with (say) a tree. It is indeed probable that he was simply unaware of the minor or more delicate productions of Yavanna, such as small flowers.
ephal ephalak idon hi-akallabeth 