Month: August 2017

Since Melkor is unreliable narrator, then how much credibility his statements about things from void and those unreachable stars are? Do those stars represent the post-Arda creation or are they the other creations? Or are they merely a result of an attemt to fully comprehend unexistense by being that is existent?

Not quite sure what you mean by that last point, but in my mind the other stars that appear in the sky after the world is “globed” are indeed other suns and planetary systems, just as they are in our own world. Whenever you hear the muses talking about “more stars than in Varda’s heaven”, they’re talking about worlds outside that the Valar had no part in making. They represent the gradual movement of Arda from being a divinely authored world to a natural one without custodians– the kind Melkor insists* Arda should have been, free of divine influence. 

They also kind of abstractly represent my theory that Arda was both a seed and an experiment, to see how sentient life behaves with and without intervention, and the first introduction of matter into the Void. Melkor, in the greater scheme of things, is a reactive agent, added intentionally to make the yeast rise, as it were. He doesn’t get a choice in the matter, and he knows this, and resents it, because being the agent of change and entropy makes you very unpopular, even when you’re right about stuff. He will always be part of the Theme, even when he rebels against it, because rebelling against the Theme is part of the Theme, and boy does he just hate that. 

The eventual Remaking of Arda and the Second Theme will be the version of creation that combines all the lessons learned and matter repurposed from the first version, fully bringing Arda into the universe we recognize as our own. ……And it’s also a great playground for Human!AU Ainur and redemption arcs, where all the Valar and Maiar are given a chance to learn from their various mistakes and gradually atone as part of humanity– which hot diggity, I am all about.   

*(This is all Wesley!verse stuff– my Melkor is firmly an anti-theist and anarchist, rather than an atheist nihilist, as Tolkien describes him. I personally don’t think that canon makes sense, as Melkor is one of the privileged beings who has seen and met god, and therefore KNOWS there is one. He just doesn’t LIKE him, and claims his influence is no longer present on the earth. I’ve always seen Melkor as an agent of chaos rather than one of domination, however much the Silmarillion claims he wants to rule Arda. I certainly think he wants to be free to do whatever he wants on Arda without interference from higher powers or armies of elves, but his actions in the First Age aren’t organized the way Sauron’s are in the Third. 

Sauron, I believe, started out trying to achieve Melkor’s ideals of a free Arda in his absence, but being who he is, he gradually slips more and more into authoritarianism and control. In my verse he even admits that Melkor would find it distasteful and ironic that he was being worshiped as the Giver of Freedom, when in reality what he espoused was more of a do as thou wilt style satanism. He’s not exactly benevolent or insightful enough to be a humanist… he’s not human and he doesn’t think very much about humans, but he’s definitely secular, and a whole religion based around him would make him pretty indignant. Unless he got foot rubs and sacrificial offerings out of it. XD) 

Will silmarils ever run out of light?

Of course. All things fade, even the Valar.

But these are a near perfect system; the light they emit is replenished by even minute sources, and it stays trapped within many magnitudes of refraction, depleting with exquisite slowness and revealing light from a time now eons past… And it is more than light, but also the Song from which it originated that is trapped as if in amber, preserved from elder times. 

They are a salve for decline itself. 

Even as the sun meets its eventual suffocating death at the hands of the Void, even as Arda crumbles– if the Silmarils are left untampered with, they will be the last living light in the universe. 

That is their miracle, and why they are sought so desperately all– including my kin, who, having lost their own art of making Light, feel they are necessary for the rebirth of the world. 

It is why I need them. 

Okay, there is one thing that keeps troubling me. If Namo in weasleyverse is no Vala, so can he be considered brother of Nienna and Irmo? Do they know about him? Or are they not much different?

I’m still amazed that my wesleyverse Namo headcanons are drawing attention from ppl!!! :’D I never thought my old headcanons would make that much impact? Y’all have long memories! 

At this point in my verse development, I would take those early Namo headcanons with a grain of salt, or at least, consider them to be from Melkor’s perspective, and he is an unreliable narrator.  

My headcanons about Namo were always sort of a reflection of my own (and Melkor’s) fears about death and entropy; I think Namo seems to Melkor like a personification of the Void, of nothingness, and unspeakably horrifying, while to others he may appear as something more comforting. 

Elves don’t die, and just like Legolas says he can look up on the souls of dead men without fear, they can probably look at Namo and see a simple caretaker of spirits, or at worst, a warden keeping them from re-embodiment. 

Namo held Melkor prisoner for four ages in Mandos, which was Melkor’s first taste of captivity and powerlessness– an experience which scarred him forever after, so that also had an effect on his perception. Melkor’s sanity suffers a great deal in isolation and confinement, and for ages he had only one visitor, one person he could focus on to blame for all his torments (besides Manwë). 

To the other Valar, I think Namo appears very serene and stoic, less inclined towards outward emotions than some of his kin, but otherwise “normal”, as Ainur go. All the Valar are all “siblings”, but the Fëanturi are bound more closely due to their nature; they are all aspects of human thought and life, rather than of the natural world. I think these three especially have more whimsical and abstract designs than the other Valar, when they take shape at all.  

A lot of what makes Namo creepy is that he represents a function of the universe that the Valar do not fully understand– only Eru knows what becomes of souls after death, and Namo is only a gatekeeper. I think Melkor is perhaps more aware of this than his fellows, and never forgets that death itself remains a great unknown in their limited omniscience. 

But Namo isn’t death itself; so Melkor’s distorted vision of him is mainly caused by fear, and his old brooding hatred of captivity– that is my current take on the headcanon anyway. 🙂

everywindintheriver:

I haven’t posted anything for a while on tumblr, music or otherwise, so here’s a little something. It’s one of my older songs with added harmonies! Hopefully now that I’m at school, I’ll be able to start writing and recording more regularly again. Thanks for being patient and for listening!

Lament for Boromir 

(original music, poetry from The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien.)

Aragorn:Through Rohan over fen and field where the long grassgrowsThe West Wind comes walking, and about the walls itgoes.‘What news from the West, O wandering wind, do youbring to me tonight?Have you seen Boromir the Tall by moon or by starlight?’’I saw him ride over seven streams, over waters wideand grey;I saw him walk in empty lands, until he passed awayInto the shadows of the North. I saw him then no more.The North Wind may have heard the horn of the son ofDenethor.’’O Boromir! From the high walls westward I lookedafar,But you came not from the empty lands where no menare.’

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Legolas:From the mouths of the Sea the South Wind flies, fromthe sandhills and the stones;The wailing of the gulls it bears, and at the gate itmoans.‘What news from the South, O sighing wind, do you bringto me at eve?Where now is Boromir the Fair? He tarries and I grieve.’’Ask not of me where he doth dwell – so many bonesthere lieOn the white shores and the dark shores under thestormy sky;So many have passed down Anduin to find the flowingSea.Ask of the North Wind news of them the North Windsends to me!’’O Boromir! Beyond the gate the seaward road runssouth,But you came not with the ailing gulls from the greysea’s mouth.’

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Aragorn:From the Gate of Kings the North Wind rides, and pastthe roaring falls;And clear and cold about the tower its loud horn calls.’What news from the North, O mighty wind, do youbring to me today?What news of Boromir the Bold? For he is long away.’’Beneath Amon Hen I heard his cry. There many foes hefought.His cloven shield, his broken sword, they do the waterbrought.His head so proud, his face so fair, his limbs they laidto rest;And Rauros, golden Rauros-falls, bore him upon itsbreast.’’O Boromir! The Tower of Guard shall ever northwardgazeTo Rauros, golden Rauros-falls, until the end of days.’

*casually cries out all bodily fluids and becomes a raisin of grief*

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