primum nil nocere

"As much or as little as you want. No one tells you how to mourn."

'Laugh as you please now, Judith, but soon you will not be a child anymore, and you will face dangers so grave that they will cripple your body and your soul if you don't stand ready. Study, child. Learn the ways of the spellcaster. Because your time will come, and on that dreadful night before your Harrowing, knowledge will give you peace.'

(Matsuo Basho)

A creature from interstellar space

I want to break freeeeee

Lúthien, freshly escaped from Hírilorn, ready to kick ass

“ The song of Lúthien before Mandos was the song most fair that ever in words was woven, and the song most sorrowful that ever the world shall hear. Unchanged, imperishable, it is sung still in Valinor beyond the hearing of the world, and listening the Valar are grieved. For Lúthien wove two themes of words, of the sorrow of the Eldar and the grief of Men, of the Two Kindreds that were made by Ilúvatar to dwell in Arda, the Kingdom of Earth amid the innumerable stars. And as she knelt before him her tears fell upon his feet like rain upon the stones; and Mandos was moved to pity, who never before was so moved, nor has been since. “ (JRR Tolkien: The Silmarillion)

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“Mightier than Estë is Nienna, sister of the Fëanturi; she dwells alone. She is acquainted with grief, and mourns for every wound that Arda has suffered in the marring of Melkor. So great was her sorrow, as the Music unfolded, that her song turned to lamentation long before its end, and the sound of mourning was woven into the themes of the World before it began. But she does not weep for herself; and those who hearken to her learn pity, and endurance in hope. Her halls are west of West, upon the borders of the world; and she comes seldom to the city of Valimar where all is glad. She goes rather to the halls of Mandos, which are near to her own; and all those who wait in Mandos cry to her, for she brings strength to the spirit and turns sorrow to wisdom. The windows of her house look outward from the walls of the world. “