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After three times seven years he sailed again for halls of Mandos with Voronwë — he got there because [?only] those who had suffered may do so. There he found that Tuor is '''not'' in Valinor, nor [[Eruman|Erumáni]], and neither Elves not [[Ainur|Ainu]] know where he is. (He is with Ulmo). Nought is known of Idril or of Elwing. Tuor and Idril some say sail now in Swanwing and may even seen going swift down the wind at dawn and dusk.
After three times seven years he sailed again for halls of Mandos with Voronwë — he got there because [?only] those who had suffered may do so. There he found that Tuor is '''not'' in Valinor, nor [[Eruman|Erumáni]], and neither Elves not [[Ainur|Ainu]] know where he is. (He is with Ulmo). Nought is known of Idril or of Elwing. Tuor and Idril some say sail now in Swanwing and may even seen going swift down the wind at dawn and dusk.


<br /> Reaches bar at the margin of the world and sets sail on oceans of the firmament in order to gaze over the Earth. The Moon mariner chases him for his brightness and he dives through the [[Door of Night]]. How he cannot now return to the world or he will die. <br /> He will find Elwing at the Faring North.<br /><br />  || || He sets sail over the margent of the world. || (xviii) When Eärendel comes to Mandos  <br /><br /> (xix) Eärendel returns from the firmament ever and anon with Voronwë to Kôr to see if the [[Magic Sun]] has been lit and the [[fairies]] have come back — but the [[Moon]] drives him back. <br /><br /> (xxi) ''From the Name-list to [[The Fall of Gondolin (chapter)|The Fall of Gondolin]]:'' He was the greatest and first of all mariners among [[Men]], and saw regions that Men have not yet found nor gazed upon for all the multitude of their boats. He rideth now with Voronwë upon the winds of the firmament nor comes ever further back than Kôr, else would he die like other Men, so much of the mortal is in him.
Eärendel reached bar at the margin of the world and set sail on oceans of the firmament in order to gaze over the Earth. He tried to return from the firmament ever and anon with Voronwë to Kôr to see if the [[Magic Sun]] has been lit and the [[fairies]] have come back — but the [[Moon]] drove him back. How he cannot now return to the world, and rideth with Voronwë upon the winds of the firmament nor comes ever further back than Kôr, else would he die like other Men, so much of the mortal is in him. He will find Elwing at the Faring North.


==Heraldry==
==Heraldry==

Revision as of 12:12, 21 July 2021

Harmony of the Lost Tale of Eärendel

First part.

The Tale of the Nauglafring down to the flight of Elwing.

Second part.

After the Fall of Gondolin, the folk of the Lothlim dwelt at Sirion's Mouth. Eärendel dwells with Tuor and Idril in a house of snow-white stone, on the Isle of Sirion. Eärendel grew fairest of all Men that were or are.

The Oarni loved Eärendel, in Ossë's despite, and they came to him. They gave him a wonderful shining silver coat that wets not, and taught him the lore of boat-building and of swimming, as he played with them about the shores of Sirion. Eärendel was smaller than most men but nimbled-footed and a swift swimmer

Then came thither Elwing from Artanor with the Nauglafring. Eärendel and she loved one another as boy and girl.

The love of Tuor and Eärendel was great, but Tuor fell into age and Ulmo's conches far out west over the sea called him louder and louder. Tuor groweth sea-hungry — and sang a song to Eärendel. One evening he called Eärendel and they went to the shore. There was a skiff: a twilit boat with purple sails, Swanwing, Alqarámë. Tuor bade farewell to Eärendel and bade him thrust it off — the skiff fared away into the West. In the twilight, Eärendel heared a great song swelling from the sea as Tuor's skiff dipped over the world's rim. Eärendel fell into a passion of tears upon the shore, and Idril lamented, as they saw Tuor won't return. There in the beach of Sirion, Idril sang a song. Some say Tuor sailed back to Falasquil and so back to Ilbranteloth to Asgon where he sat playing on his lonely harp on the islanded rock.

Eärendel set sail to the North to find Tuor, and if needed be Mandos, urged also by Idril who was immortal. Building of Eärámë, Eaglepinion. Eärendel built Eärámë. Elwing lamented, but both married before he left. Ulmo forbade his quest but Eärendel would yet sail to find a passage to Mandos. When she learned Ulmo's bidding, Elwing grieved. "For no man may tread the streets of Kôr or look upon the places of the Gods and dwell in the Outer Lands in peace again." Eärendel had reluctance and Idril cried. Eärendel weds Elwing before he sets sail.

Thus, Eärendel sailed in Eärámë, but the curse of the Nauglafring rested on his voyages and Ossë was his enemy. His sailors were enchanted in the fiord of the Mermaid. Eärámë wrecked, but Ulmo appeared and saved Eärendel, bidding him sail to Kôr — "for for this hast thou been brought out of the Wrack of Gondolin".

Third part.

Eärendel attempted a second time to Mandos, going North. Thus he is wrecked in Falasquil by the treachery of Ossë, and he and Voronwë are rescued by the Oarni. He sighted the Isle of Seabirds "whither do all the birds of all waters come at whiles". Eärendel surveyed the first dwelling of Tuor at Falasquil. He made his way back by land with Voronwë. In Sirion he found that Idril has banished. Eärendel grieved her.

Eärendel prayed to Ulmo and heared the conches. Ulmo bade him to build a new and wonderful ship of the wood of Tuor from Falasquil. The ship Wingilot was built of wood from Falasquil with "aid of the Oarni", being "shaped as a swan of pearls". Eärendel bade the last farewell to Elwing.

Fourth part

Eärendel and Voronwë set sail in Wingilot for Valinor. Eärendel had many wanderings, occupying several years. He was driven south. Dark regions. Fire mountains. Tree-men. Pygmies. Sarqindi or cannibal-ogres. Then he was driven west. Ungweliantë. Magic Isles. Twilit Isle [sic]. Littleheart's gong woke the Sleeper in the Tower of Pearl: a messenger that was despatched years ago by Turgon and enmeshed in magics. Even now he cannot leave the Tower and warned them of the magic. During his voyages Eärendel sighted the white walls of Kôr gleaming afar off, but was carried away by Ossë's adverse winds and waves.

Fifth part.

With the Fall of Gondolin, the doves and pigeons of Turgon's courtyard bring tidings to Kôr — only to Elves, telling them of the Fall of Gondolin and the horrors of the fate of the Gnomes. The Gods had counsels, but the Elves uproared, so Inwir, Teleri, and Solosimpi marched to the Great Lands. The Solosimpi went forth also but fared along the beaches of the world, for they were loth to fare from the sound of the sea — and only consented to go with the Teleri under these conditions — for the Noldoli slew some of their kin at Kópas. Death of Inwë.

The Gods felt great sorrow and wrath, and dropped a veil between Valmar and Kôr, for the Gods will not destroy it but could not bear to look upon it.

Ulmo's protection removed from Sirion in wrath at Eärendel's second attempt to Mandos, and hence Melko overwhelmed it. Raid upon Sirion by Melko's Orcs and captivity of Elwing.

Coming of the Eldar. Biding of Melko. There is an exodus of the Elves from the Great Lands to Lonely Isle. The ship carrying Elwing is lost by the curse of the Nauglafring during the voyage to Tol Eressëa.

Sixth part.

Eärendel reached Kôr and found it empty. On the walls of Kôr were many dark tales written in pictured symbols, and runes of great beauty were drawn there too or carved upon stones, and Eärendel read many a wondrous tale there. His shoes and self were powdered with diamond dust so that they shone brightly.

Eärendel fared home in sorrow, sighting Tol Eressëa and the fleet of the Elves, but a great wind and darkness carried him away, and he missed his way and has a voyage eastward. He was driven east — the deserts and red palaces where dwells the Sun.

Arrives at Sirion, only to find it sacked and empty. Eärendel distraught wanders with Voronwë and comes to the ruins of Gondolin. Men are encamped there miserably. Also Gnomes searching still for lost gems (or some Gnomes gone back to Gondolin). There Eärendel heared of the sack of Sirion and the captivity of Elwing.

The Koreldar fared and Melko is bound. There were wars with Men and the Eldar were unable to endure the strife of the world, so they departed to Tol Erëssea. Eärendel sailed to Tol Eressëa and learned of the sinking of Elwing and the Nauglafring. Elwing had became a seabird. When he hears of her loss he says that his children shall be "all such men hereafter as dare the great seas in ships". His grief was very great, and his garments and body shone like diamonds and his face was in silver flame for the grief.

Eärendel set sail with Voronwë, going even to the empty Halls of Iron seeking Elwing. Then he dwelt on the northern tower of the Isle of Seabirds, in the northern waters (not far from Falasquil)—and there hoped that Elwing returned among the seabirds, but she was seeking him wailing along all the shores and especially among wreckage.

Seventh part.

After three times seven years he sailed again for halls of Mandos with Voronwë — he got there because [?only] those who had suffered may do so. There he found that Tuor is 'not in Valinor, nor Erumáni, and neither Elves not Ainu know where he is. (He is with Ulmo). Nought is known of Idril or of Elwing. Tuor and Idril some say sail now in Swanwing and may even seen going swift down the wind at dawn and dusk.

Eärendel reached bar at the margin of the world and set sail on oceans of the firmament in order to gaze over the Earth. He tried to return from the firmament ever and anon with Voronwë to Kôr to see if the Magic Sun has been lit and the fairies have come back — but the Moon drove him back. How he cannot now return to the world, and rideth with Voronwë upon the winds of the firmament nor comes ever further back than Kôr, else would he die like other Men, so much of the mortal is in him. He will find Elwing at the Faring North.

Heraldry

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Tolkien's works

  • Invented languages
  • Myth and Sub-creation

The Gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy-stories. They contain many marvels—peculiarly artistic, beautiful, and moving: 'mythical' in their perfect, self-contained significance; and among the marvels is the greatest and most complete conceivable eucatastrophe. The Birth of Christ is the eucatastrophe of Man's history. The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation. This story begins and ends in joy. It has preeminently the 'inner consistency of reality.' There is no tale ever told that men would rather find was true, and none which so many skeptical men have accepted as true on its own merits. For the Art of it has the supremely convincing tone of Primary Art, that is, of Creation. To reject it leads either to sadness or to wrath.
On Fairy-Stories

  • Fiction theology

Some have puzzled over the relation between Tolkien's stories and his Christianity, and have found it difficult to understand how a devout Roman Catholic could write with such conviction about a world where God is not worshipped. But there is no mystery. The Silmarillion is the work of a profoundly religious man. It does not contradict Christianity but complements it. There is in the legends no worship of God, yet God is indeed there, more explicitly in The Silmarillion than in the work that grew out of it, The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien's universe is ruled over by God, 'The One'. Beneath Him in the hierarchy are 'The Valar', the guardians of the world, who are not gods but angelic powers, themselves holy and subject to God; and at one terrible moment in the story they surrender their power into His hands.[1]:91

Tolkien explained he pretended to make a 'new' mythology, but like all mythologies it had to include many elements from other places. Thus, the stories of the Legendarium were founded with Christian elements since its beginning. The early Music of the Ainur

  • Themes
    • Creation
    • Fall

I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect "history" to be anything but a "long defeat" - though it contains [...] some samples or glimpses of final victory.
Letter 195, p. 255

    • Redemption
    • Hope

Letter to G.S. Rigby Jr

  • Christian figures

Tolkien gave Kilby a lecture which describes the biblical figures in TLOTR (Frodo the self-sacrificed priest, the prophet Gandalf or the "Much of this is true enough -except, of course, the general impression given (almost irresistibly in articles having this analytical approach, whether Christians or not) that I had any 'scheme' in my conscious mind before or during the writing." p. 56

  • Academic work
  • Legacy: Christian Scholarship

Christian essays and articles

Gandalf, servant of the Secret Fire by Fabio Leone
  • Arda Philology 3
    • Petri Tikka, "God's names in Elvish"
  • Lembas Extra 2015
    • Kristine Larsen, "A 'Perilous, Lonely Venture': Tolkien, Lewis, and the Theo­logical Implications of Extraterrestrial Life"
  • Middle-earth, or There and Back Again
    • "The Wisdom of Galadriel: A Study in the Theology of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings" by Andrzej Wicher
  • Mythlore 25
    • A. R. Bossert, "Surely You Don't Disbelieve": Tolkien and Pius X: Anti-Modernism in Middle-earth"
  • Mythlore 127
    • Cami Agan, "Hearkening to the Other: A Certeauvian Reading of the Ainulindale"
  • Proceedings of the 2nd Mythgard Institute Mythmoot
    • Kevin R. Hensler, "God and Ilúvatar Tolkien’s Use of Biblical Parallels and Tropes in His Cosmogony"
  • Tolkien the Medievalist
    • John William Houghton, "Augustine in the cottage of lost play: the Ainulindalë as asterisk cosmogony"
    • Bradford Lee Eden, "The 'music of the spheres': relationships between Tolkien's The Silmarillion and medieval cosmological and religious theory"
    • Jonathan Evans, "The anthropology of Arda: creation, theology, and the race of Men"
    • Michael W. Maher: "'A land without stain', medieval images of Mary and their use in the characterization of Galadriel"
  • Tolkien Studies: Volume 10
    • Claudio A. Testi, "Tolkien's Work: Is it Christian or Pagan?: A proposal for a 'synthetic' approach"
  • Tolkien Studies: Volume 6
    • Verlyn Flieger, "The Music and the Task: Fate and Free Will in Middle-earth"
  • Tolkien Studies: Volume 12
    • Carrol Fry, 'Two Musics about the Throne of Ilúvatar': Gnostic and Manichaean Dualism in The Silmarillion
  • Tolkien Studies: Volume 13
    • John D. Rateliff, "'That Seems To Me Fatal': Pagan and Christian in The Fall of Arthur"
  • Tolkien Studies: Volume 14
    • H.L. Spencer, "The Mystical Philosophy of J.R.R. Tolkien and Sir Israel Gollancz: M
  • Tolkien Studies: Volume 15
    • Chiara Bertoglio: "Dissonant Harmonies: Tolkien's Musical Theodicy"

Important matters that have stub/bad articles

Things I can't get

History of the Ainulindalë manuscripts

Manuscript Year of composition Publication Notes
The Music of the Ainu draft Between November 1918 - Spring 1920 LT1, pp. 60-61 Erased draft, only given with notes.
The Music of the Ainur Between November 1918 - Spring 1920 LT1, pp. 52-60 Clean manuscript, improving the previous one. Links the tale with "The Cottage of Lost Play".
Ainulindalë A Late 1930s LR, pp. 164-166 Rough manuscript, only given with notes. Follows closely the Lost Tale, but now as a separate work.
Ainulindalë B Late 1930s LR, pp. 156-164 Clean copy of the previous one.
Ainulindalë B copy 1946 MR, p. 4 Copy, lost apart from a single torn sheet, so it is only mentioned.
Ainulindalë C* 1948 MR, pp. 39-44 Experimental 'Round World Version' of Ainulindalë B, only given with fragments and notes.
Ainulindalë C Late 1948 MR, pp. 8-22 New version of Ainulindalë B, rejecting the innovations of Ainulindalë C*.
Ainulindalë D 1951 MR, pp. 29-37 New version of Ainulindalë C, beautifully scripted, only given with fragments and notes.
Ainulindalë D copy Unknown MR, p. 39 Typescript copy, so it is only mentioned. Includes a couple of interesting notes.
Ainulindalë chapter 1977 The Silmarillion Christopher's edition based on Ainulindalë D.
A Elbereth Gilthoniel

Ă Él|bĕréth | Gĭlthó|nĭél
sĭlív|rĕn pén|nă mḯ|rĭél
ŏ mé|nĕl ág|lăr é|lĕnáth!
Nă-chaé|rĕd pá|lăn-dḯ|rĭél
ŏ gá|lădhrém|mĭ én|nŏráth,
Fănú|ĭlós, | lĕ lín|năthón
nĕf aé|ăr, sḯ | nĕf aé|ărón!

Sam's invocation

Ă Él|bĕréth | Gĭlthó|nĭél
ŏ mé|nĕl pá|lăn-dḯ|rĭél
lĕ nál|lŏn sḯ | dĭ'ngú|rŭthós!
Ă tí|rŏ nín, | Fănú|ĭlós!

Gandalf's opening spell

Ánnŏn ĕ|dhéllĕn, || édrŏ hĭ | ámmĕn!
Fénnăs nŏ|góthrĭm, || lástŏ bĕth | lámmĕn!

Gilraen's linnod

Ṓnĕn ĭ-|Éstĕl | Édaĭn, || ṹ-chĕbĭn | éstĕl | ánĭm.

Lúthien's hymn

Ĭr Í|thĭl ám|mĕn É|rŭcḯn
mĕnél-|vḯr sḯ|lă dḯ|rĭél
sĭ lóth | ă gá|lădh lás|tŏ dḯn!
Ǎ Hḯr | Ănnṹn | gĭlthó|nĭél,
lĕ lín|nŏn ím | Tĭnṹ|vĭél!

Gnomish translations

Gnomish Literal English
No cwenthi i·dûr: "Bâl i·dhodri a Gondolin", ar in·anosin papthi, ar atha thin i·gwethin nan·Amnon i·gwedron gîrin; far Tuor pacthol a gumlaith ar meleth na·dûra: "Gondolin rô far, ar Gulma gwirtha an laithra!" Gui onin thin ba i·lu rôl, Tuor art i·'aldonwi ar i·dûr anthos numbros, fel a·rôthi dîn dos Tuor pacthi i·gwethin a Gulma. Far Turgon cwenthi: "Obruith ni·gaithi anthos Lothengriol had Gulmor, ar gui o·'wiltha an ir cweloth ba sâ. Ai! Hodhir û gaid ba ilf nintha an i·mbar nintha idrisaith, far i·buith a·Nguilfo û-roth gaistin bóra." Then said the king: "Great is the fall of Gondolin", and men trembled, for those were the words of Amnon the ancient prophet; but Tuor speaking for sorrow and love of the king: "Gondolin stands yet, and Ulmo does not wish it destroyed!" Now they were in that moment standing, Tuor beneath the trees and the king upon the slopes, as they stood when once Tuor spake the words of UImo. But Turgon said: "Evil consequences I brought upon the Flower of the Plain against Ulmo, and now he leaveth it to the fading in fire. Oh! Hope is no more in my heart for my city of avarice, but the children of the Noldoli do not remain tormented forever."
No i·'Ondothlim rumli da gaigin athra, ar lî rôthi lent, far Turgon cwenthi: "Û-sacth had ir·umbart, ai puith nintha! Rauth othin don ogin muinos ba uthwen, da tunc lûm na nuidro: far gwen·anth i·vronweth gwethra Tuori." Far Tuor cwenthi: "Fi·na i·dûr"; ar Turgon abod·gwenthi: "Far er drambor nin·û-sactha nodro", ar o·hanthi in·ôn ontha i·darcir na·'Lingol. No Galdor don rôthi hai lôgi an, far Turgon gwirthi an, ar cafalon o·vacthi ir·estrin dônta na·mindon gloss i rôthi lent i·mbaur ontha. Hant on·upthi ba ûm fel ligin fafin ba i·sectha na·orodion, ar i·gwant nal i·'Aldonwi ar i·forogin ba in·uscin na·gantrib gaimi on: "Bâl in·abair na·Nguilfo!" Ar na cwedri i thi fuimeg ba lu sitha, ar in·Orchoth upthi ba canc. Then the Gondothlim made noises with their weapons, for many stood nigh, but Turgon said: "Fight not against doom, oh my children! Chase ye who can safety in escape, in chance time is still later: but ye give your loyalty to Tuor." But Tuor said: "Thou art king"; and Turgon said back: "Yet a stroke I do not fight again", and he throwed his crown to the roots of Glingol. Then Galdor who stood there picked it up, but Turgon wished it not, and head-naked he walked to the highest pinnacle of the white tower that stood nigh his palace. There he shouted in a voice like a horn blown in the centre of the mountains, and all those under the Trees and the enemies in the mists of the square heard him: "Great is the victory of the Noldoli!" And is a telling that was midnight in this moment, and the Orcs shouted in laugh.
  1. Humphrey Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, "III. 1917-1925: The making of a mythology"