sitoutside: Wish you were here by Adhemar Duro During…

sitoutside:

Wish you were here

by  Adhemar Duro 

During the Darkening of Valinor, and even after, nothing was really said of what happened in Middle-earth as the light of the Two Trees failed. I imagine that much like the hour of mingling, it faded gradually, like a dusk that deepens into Night, only the dawn never comes.

– sitoutside:

Wish you were here

by Adhemar Duro

During…

Reader: The Silmarillion. Quenta Silmarillion, Chapter 9 “Of the Flight of the Noldor”

Reader deep thought: How bitter the cup Melkor brewed. And yet it would not have burnt as terribly if not for Fëanor’s self-righteous hard-heartedness, and obsession with the Silmarils.

Reader: The Silmarillion. Quenta Silmarillion, Chapter 8 “Of the Darkening of Valinor”

Reader deep thought: Forget about light-swallowing monsters far and near, here be the original beast, the Black Hole to end all black holes: Ungoliant, from parts unknown, and Melkor’s go-to gal of Binge.