Núvë Nwalma Nólë (Root Pain Knowledge) by Lferion

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Fanwork Notes

Written for the July 2020 Silmarillion Writer's Guild challenge "A True Leader" where the prompts were quotes from Women Leaders. My quote was "Pain is the Root of Knowledge" -- Simone Veil.

Posted here on AO3.

Many thanks to Runa and Morgynleri for encouragement and feedback.

Fanwork Information

Summary:

Roots, knowledge, and pain, a tangle of possibility

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Genre: Poetry

Challenges: True Leader

Rating: General

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Chapters: 1 Word Count: 126
Posted on 1 August 2020 Updated on 1 August 2020

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Núvë Nwalma Nólë (Root Pain Knowledge)

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If pain is the root of knowledge,
What is the root of pain?
What ground do those roots grow in
What waters those leaves like rain?

Too simple to blame the Marring
To Melkor give all fault
When Making itself is effort
Mere effort no reason to halt

Oh growing is change and struggle
And that which lives must grow
Or fail and fall to shadow
And start again up from the blow

More than one root had the treelight
Whose seeds are many and one
Their death wrought grief and darkness
But now shine the Moon and the Sun

If substance come forth out of sorrow
If story or song bear fruit
Hands, hearts and minds must labor
With knowledge of pain at the root

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