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Nimruzimir, a natural philosopher recently out of his apprenticeship, hardly considers himself very important to anyone, least of all his colleagues. When his strange, prophetic fits bring him to the attention of the High Priest, however, he may find that his existence is less superfluous than…
This is my new poetical attempt to add my own interpretation to Tolkien's Cosmology as to Eru's Creation and the Valar's minds and behind-the-scene providence reasons and mechanisms.. I often review Eä as part of our own world, just in another dimension, this is why I have always seriously…
My newly drawn map of Aman, as complete as I could make it.
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The arrival and departure of ships across the Great Sea carries mythic significance for the peoples of Middle-earth. The image of ships crossing out of and back into a mysterious West appears as well in Beowulf and is alluded to in Tolkien's tower analogy in his lecture "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics," where the tower allows those who climb it to observe the passage of the ships.
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He and Diamond were visiting, though Pippin had been disappearing every afternoon, and taking Frodo and Elanor and most other lads and lasses in the neighborhood with him—though why they couldn’t use Pippin’s own pony, Sam couldn’t imagine.
So gathered they were to Bree, what lieutenants who could be spared, from their scattered watches west and east, for their chieftain had returned from his long sojourn in lands godless and mountains strange.
Aragorn returns from the South to tells his tales. Halbarad listens.
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Knowing that Thranduil is at home, waiting for him to return, helps Mablung to hold on to the last bit of strength he has. If it weren't for Beleg needing him to drag him out and the memory of the promise he gave Thranduil, he might not be able to go on.
Thanks! Those two can get away with a lot more than anyone else. They were around before he became king and he knows he can't make them stay with their relationship staying intact.
Aww! Young Thranduil! I like how just at the words "Take me with you." Thranduil is clearly still a child, and I love their interaction, the feels of both of them are so palpable. And Mablung is right, he shouldn't promise, and yet we all make those hope-filled promises.
I don't know if there's canon evidence that I've missed for Mablung also being unbegotten, but I love that they both are, here, and the fact that that's the reason they can choose for themselves what to do has made me think about what it is that gives a king the right to dictate what any subject can and can't do — lots of complexities there!
I get such big feels with the graphic image of them escaping, both wounded, and the image in Mablung's mind of Thranduil on the bridge and the thought of seeing him again giving him added strength to get them both home.
Thranduil is still very young, but Mablung knows he has to treat him like the grown-up he insists he is, or this is going to turn into a huge argument.
You didn't miss anything (at least I don't know any canon source either), I made that up, because it fit with the reason I made up for them being able to go ;). Beleg and Mablung are old, they were around before Thingol (or Olwe, for that matter), became the king. They decided to stay with him, protect him and their people. But they will sometimes do what they think is right, even if it goes against Thingol's wishes and Thingol knows he has to accept that, if he wants them to stay in Doriath.
Thank you so much for your comment. Your photo is so beautiful and it was a bright light in a rather (weather-wise) dark, grey week.
Mablung and Thranduil are so tender in this moment, their promise is so significant for both of them... a promise is like a flower, is as delicate as it is strong, because it always groes back
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