Telperion

Do we leave Middle-Earth to its fate? Do we let them stand alone?

"Love is a fragile, capricious thing in this cold, fleeting world. But if anything can redeem anyone, then yes. Love can redeem them."

CATE BLANCHETT as GALADRIEL THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001) | Costume by Ngila Dickson

𝔯𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔶 𝔴𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔰𝔱𝔲𝔡𝔶

𝔱𝔢𝔞 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔟𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔰

𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔦𝔣𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔴𝔢𝔢𝔱 𝔞𝔠𝔞𝔡𝔢𝔪𝔦𝔠

— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

But Tuor looked upon the walls of stone, and the uplifted towers, upon the glistering pinnacles of the town, and he looked upon the stairs of stone and marble, bordered by slender balustrades and cooled by the leap of threadlike waterfalls seeking the plain from the fountains of Amon Gwareth, and he fared as one in some dream of the Gods, for he deemed not such things were seen by men in the visions of their sleep, so great was his amaze at the glory of Gondolin.

𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔤𝔦𝔣𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴𝔩𝔢𝔡𝔤𝔢 (𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔠𝔞𝔣𝔣𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔢)

— Carol Shields, The Republic of Love

— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

𝔤𝔢𝔫𝔦𝔲𝔰

Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Joaquin Nin, featured in Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940

old souls

Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student