The "Fool's Hope" of Gandalf Embodied in the Sun

The waning of one light is always the waxing of another.

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“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…