Monday, January 15, 2007

O the beauty of Lorien is of no end...

It seemed to him that he had stepped through a high window that looked on a vanished world. A light was upon it for which his language had no name. All that he saw was shapely, but the shapes seemed at once clear cut, as if they had been first conceived and drawn at the uncovering of his eyes, and ancient as if they had endured for ever. He saw no colour but those he knew, gold and white and blue and green, but they were fresh and poignant, as if he had at that moment first perceived them and made for them names new and wonderful. In winter here no heart could mourn for summer or for spring. No blemish or sickness or deformity could be seen in anything that grew upon the earth. On the land of Lorien there was no stain.

Frodo felt that he was in a timeless land that did not fade or change or fall into forgetfulness.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes, it is all very beautiful, no? And to think, some people find him DULL... Oh how very wrong they are... "A song that seemed to come like a pale light behind a grey rain-curtain, and growing stronger to turn the veil all to glass and silver, until at last it was rolled back, and a far green country opened before him under a swift sunrise."
Indeed, so very very beautiful...
And once more, to be entirely incomprehensible:
"Ai! Laurie lantar lassi surinen!"
"Namarie! Nai hiruvalye Valimar. Nai elye hiruva. Namrie!"

Quenya really is amazing...

1/15/2007 5:05 PM  

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