A Sense of History: Straight Road
The next in a series of articles about ships passing to and from the West, Simon uses "The Fall of Númenor" to attempt to arrive at Tolkien's reading of the exordium to "Beowulf."
Prompts: brimming, white, joy, flowing.
Water welled up from a stone basin in the shape of a water-lily set in the floor of this chamber. She walked along the channel that conveyed the flowing water until she reached another chamber. Here the water fed a raised fountain built of white marble set among sweet-smelling grass, overhung with trees cunningly carved of tan and green stone. Living water-lilies surrounded by spears of ninglor grew in the brimming pool.
For the first time since the Darkening, Alatáriel let go of the homesickness she felt for Valinor. Here in Menegroth there were both joy and art to spare.