The "Fool's Hope" of Gandalf Embodied in the Sun
The waning of one light is always the waxing of another.
“At the first rising of the Sun the Younger Children of Ilúvatar awoke in the land of Hildórien.” The Silmarillion
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s lore, Iluvatar’s children are not exactly made; they are awakened. The Elves awoke at the bay of Cuivienen and for a long age watched the stars of Varda. Men, the Second-born, awoke with the first rays of th…
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