Are We Prepared to Meet with Wonder Face to Face?
So it shall ever be with the Valar – when they enter Eä, the world as it is, they always come upon something new and unforetold.
And Oromë looking upon the Elves was filled with wonder, as though they were beings sudden and marvellous and unforeseen; for so it shall ever be with the Valar. From without the World, though all things may be forethought in music or foreshown in vision from afar, to those who enter verily into Eä each in its time shall be met at unawares
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