// I do not know if I’ve already pestered you with this poem (if I have: I’m sorry!), but in the doubt I will again. it is an unfinished, and edited, work from Giacomo Leopardi (one of Italy’s most gifted poets). This translation is by me so… well.. Still: here is to the august attention of the Dark Lord(s)
King of all objects! Author of the world! Arcane viciousness. Highest power and highest intelligence. Eternal, author of evils and governor of motion.
I do not know whether this gladdens you, but watch and relish, contemplating eternal.
..Nature is like a child that so quickly unmakes what it made. Oldness Either dullness, or passions filled with pain and despair.. Love! With different names the plebs name you: Fate, Nature and God
But you are: Arimane!
I won’t speak of the storms and plagues, gifts of yours that other gifts you are unable to bestow.
You give the ardour and ices and the world raves searching for new orders and laws and, it hopes, perfection.
But this work of yours remains immutable. Because the nature of man always will rule ambition and deceit, as honesty and temperance are left behind and fortune will be enemy to valour and merits won’t be enough to thread your own path and the just and the weak will be oppressed.
Live, Arimane, and triumph, and always will you triumph! An envy the ancients thought came from the Gods against the mortals Why, god of evil, have you put in life some semblance of pleasure? Love? To torment us with desire, with the comparison to others and to our times past?
I do not know whether you rejoice from lauds or curses Your praise will be our weeping witness to our suffering.
Weeping, for sure, from me you shall not have: but a thousand time by my lip your name will be cursed.
Never will I give in..
..If ever a favour was asked of Arimane:
grant me that I won’t live through my seventh lustrous
I have been, in life, your most fervent preacher, the apostle of your religion.
Reward me! I don’t ask of thee any of what the word calls goods,
I ask for what is deemed the greatest of misfortunes:
It should be obvious that the above calculations for the trajectory of an arrow do not take into account deceleration, drag, viscosity of the air, etc., but they’re a start.
;^) <= from my wretched mortal gaoler
(( Oooh, the most elaborate arrow yet! ))
It’s so -sweet- how you still look for me in the stars… Don’t think I haven’t noticed. They get “Aulendil’s Apprentices” in the Void; I never miss a show.
Cut from the same cloth, and yet so much more ambitious than I… How does a brother of mine sleep at night? Knowing he fled from Angband when his master was in peril. I sense that ambition will be your undoing, while lack of it may be mine…