West Coast of Ireland, Robert Henri. American Ashcan School Painter (1865 - 1929)
(via cavetocanvas)
This is so cute and sad </3
Beleg and Túrin
Okay, this is just me being a desperate fangirl. Long post is very long and is only about Beleg and Túrin.
All the quotes are taken from The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The Children of Húrin, The Lays of Beleriand and The Book of Lost Tales. I wrote this quite a while ago and didn’t put the refs in with the quotes and now I can’t remember which quote comes from which source (unless I already put it there)…so yeah…. I just hope you’re not like me and feel a obsessive compulsive need to go look up every single one of them yourself.
‘I don’t like anything here at all,’ said Frodo, ‘step or stone, breath or bone. Earth, air and water all seem accursed. But so our path is laid.’
‘Yes, that’s so,’ said Sam.’ And we shouldn’t be here at all, if we’d known more about it before we started. But I suppose it’s often that way. The…
It’s pretty interesting to think about the Music of the Ainur while reading this~ The ‘tale’, as such, of Arda was already sung in its beginning, like an opera almost, leading up to the final end when the Music ceases. It really is like a play, and though Sam and Frodo don’t know what tale they’re in and how it’s going to end, Tolkien could be suggesting that the tale was already written from the start. (Of course there are counter-arguments to that and the topic of Fate vs Choice in Tolkien’s legendarium is about as brain-aching as it is in our world.)
What’s even more interesting is that, being mortals, Frodo and Sam eventually do leave the circles of the world, where time is finite, and go wherever mortals go. So they literally do come (into Arda) and go (from Arda) when their part in Arda’s history is ended.
