Annatar (Sauron) by DanPilla
Happy Birthday, @lucifers-cuvette. Don’t usually do birthday greetings here, but wanted to share this picture and a poem this cruel winter morning.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, OzymandiasBest wishes to a dear friend and co-conspirator and fellow Tolkien heretic. Here’s hoping there will be future collaborative encounters.
Meanwhile, fic recs!! (Just a few favorites culled from among many excellent stories.)
Aw, thanks so much, @heartofoshun, for the illustration (dark-haired Annatar – YES!!!) and for kindly reccing my mo(u)ldering fan fic.* Ozymandias has long resonated with the DM and me. This (and a number of other greetings elsewhere) were bright spots in an otherwise stressful day. I’m overloaded with work lately. Hopefully it will let up again in a few weeks. The DM snidely reminds me: “No rest (or fan fic writing) for the wicked and ambitious.”
* I haven’t given up on the notion of returning to writing ficcish stuff.
MisbehavingMaiar: Tumblr Archive 