Omega: It Is Finished by ElrondsScribe

Omega: It Is Finished

After the Dagor Dagorath was won on the plains of Valinor, after Melkor the Morgoth was destroyed by the sword of Turin Turambar, the Valar sat enthroned once more in the Ring of Doom. Therein was gathered a mulititude beyond number was gathered, for all the Children of Iluvatar had been summoned. They had come, every one of them, from the uttermost parts of the World, even from the Halls of the Dead which was before the domain of Namo Mandos.

Then it was that Feanaro Curufinwe delivered up the Silmarils to Yavanna, as Mandos had foretold. In the breaking of them also his own words were fulfilled that he would be slain, and even as that most holy Light was released he sank to the ground.

Fro mthe crowd a lone figure broke loose and ran forward to catch the dying Elf in his arms, and Finwe Noldoran mourned over the body of his son. He was joined by Miriel, who had never seen her child come to maturity for whom her own life had been spent. Nerdanel came also, and her seven sons, to touch Feanaro, and he was cold, for all his fire had gone out of him in the breaking of the Silmarils.

Yet as they grieved, they who had loved and lost Feanaro, the voice of Manwe Sulimo was heard, and her said to them, "Mourn not or weep, for it is not the will of Eru Iluvatar that any blemish be upon this day. Therefore stand back and see what He will do."

Wondering they stood away, and were silent. A light wind swept over the assembly. Feanaro's nostrils widened and his lips parted as he drew breath once more. His grey eyes opened, and deep within them shone the flaming light for which he was named. He essayed to rise to his feet, but swayed a little; then he steadied himself and looked up to the Valar. Varda it was who now spoke.

"In the breaking of the Silmarils truly thou gavest all, even thy very essence," said she. "Therefore grace is granted thee to live once more."

The Noldo bowed his head.

"Yet give ear also unto this warning," said the Valie. "Beware lest thou forget the wisdom and temperance thou didst learn while in the keeping of Namo. Let not thine heart become proud beyond measure as before, and remember who and what thou art. Hearest thou these words?"

"I hear," said Feanaro. "So be it."

Then Yavanna came to that holy place where had grown the Two Trees. There the light of the Silmarils had come to rest. She lifted up her hands and began to sing, and as she sang two shoots sprang up, the one whiter than newly fallen snow, the other more perfect than the purest gold. The two shoots then became saplings, which became young Trees, and the Trees grew stronger and taller and fairer, till those who had see nthe Two Trees before cried aloud in joy and wonder, for the mighty Trees which blossomed there were even more glorious and beautiful even than they remembered.

Great joy was in all hearst then, for an end was come of Arda Marred, and Arda Remade was beginning. An lo! the voice of Eru, the One, speoke aloud to them all, and bade them look eastward where once had been Middle Earth. How it was granted to them to see so far they knew not, but there was no time to dewll upon such questions.

A formless Void they now saw, a Darkness where the light of the Trees would not or could not reach - not yet. And into the Void Iluvatar spoke with a power that shook the foundations of Ea to their root:

"LET THERE BE LIGHT!"