back to middle-earth month 3/6/26 | 2010: the last battle | the great sea | âGod is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.â
But IlĂșvatar showed forth his power, and he changed the fashion of the world; and a great chasm opened in the sea between NĂșmenor and the Deathless Lands, and the waters flowed down into it, and the noise and smoke of the cataracts went up to heaven, and the world was shaken... ...But the land of Aman and EressĂ«a of the Eldar were taken away and removed beyond the reach of Men for ever. And Andor, the Land of Gift, NĂșmenor of the Kings, Elenna of the Star of EĂ€rendil, was utterly destroyed. For it was nigh to the east of the great rift, and its foundations were overturned, and it fell and went down into darkness, and is no more. And there is not now upon Earth any place abiding where the memory of a time without evil is preserved. For IlĂșvatar cast back the Great Seas west of Middle-earth, and the Empty Lands east of it, and new lands and new seas were made; and the world was diminished, for Valinor and EressĂ«a were taken from it into the realm of hidden things.
âThe Silmarillion, âAkallabĂȘthâ
