The Silmarils are unique because they are at once a lantern and a mirror; they receive and they give. But there is very little down here for them to reflect. They love the starlight and moonlight, and I cannot give them those without going outside, where I am not safe.
That is why my throne is surrounded by polished stone and mirrors, to amplify what they give me, and so I can see myself in their light.
Viking Bar, Weight and Hack ‘Hoard’ Group, 9th-11th Century AD
A large group of silver items comprising of: nine northern European coins, a gilded lion-head finial, a heater-shaped pendant with cross decoration and pelleted border, a crescentic pendant fragment, a cross pendant fragment, a Thor’s hammer amuletic pendant, a fragment of a flat rectangular pendant, four fragments of belt mounts, thirty-eight ingot bars fragments, two coiled hair ring fragments, a twisted torc fragment, two temple rings(?) fragments; seven bronze barrel-shaped weight with decoration, two bronze plain of polyhedral shape
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