Fadesintothewest: Utúlie'n aurë! Aiya Eldalie ar A

stirring. every act of rebellion counts.

thinking about the person on a forum years ago who described the noldolantë as a culmination of everything you feel while reading Tolkien’s work. it’s an underlying emotion, not a physical work. hang on I gotta find it again

[ID: a post by Turgon Ghost-King of Gondolin from August 7th 2006, that reads “The Noldolante remains something of a mystery, much like the fate of its author Maglor. That’s not such a bad thing really. I don’t think Tolkien was enough of a poet to write a Noldolante himself... at least one that was supposedly composed by the greatest of Noldorin poets. So it remains lost to history... but you know those feelings you get when you read the Silmarillion? The sudden blow of sadness when Finrod dies? The indescribable elation when Turgon’s appears during the Battle of Unnumbered Tears? That’s the folk memory of Noldolante. Deep down inside, all Silmarillion fans know the song... but just like Tolkien we don’t have the means to express it. The true beauty of the Silmarillion.” /end ID]

some people really be out there typing fanfics longer than war and peace in their free time and then going on about their life like it's no big deal. how fucking incredible. like no offense to tolstoy but that was like. his whole job