Mine Taror er ei Grimme (My tears are not hideous)- Leaves Eyes
Beautiful.
Top 10 Places in Middle Earth | #4 Minas Tirith: City of Kings
“Have you ever seen it Aragorn? The White Tower of Ecthelion, glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver. Its banners caught high in the morning breeze. Have you ever been called home by the clear ringing of silver trumpets?”
Top 10 Places in Middle Earth | #10 Isengard: Iron Fortress
”Isengard was a green and pleasant place, with many large trees and grass fields, fed by the Angren. Orthanc stood in the exact centre.”
Top 10 Places in Middle Earth | #9 Osgiliath: Citadel of the Host of Stars
”This city was once the jewel of our kingdom. A place of light, and beauty, and music. And so it shall be once more! Let the armies of Mordor know this: Never again will the land of my people fall into enemy hands. The city of Osgiliath has been reclaimed. For Gondor!”
Top 10 Places in Middle Earth | #8 Moria: Halls of Durin
”Most ancient and famous of all the Dwarven kingdoms was Khazad-dûm, the ancestral home of Durin the Deathless, the first of the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves.”
It was soooooooo sad when they found the Tomb of Balin…I broke my heart!!!!
Top 10 Places in Middle Earth | #7 Mithlond: The Grey Havens
“To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying,
The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.
West, west away, the round sun is falling,
Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling,
The voices of my people that have gone before me?
I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me;
For our days are ending and our years failing.
I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing.
Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling,
Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling,
In Eressea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover,
Where the leaves fall not: land of my people forever!”
Top 10 Places in Middle Earth | #6 Fangorn Forest: Entwood
“Elves began it, of course, waking trees up and teaching them to speak and learn their tree-talk. They always wished to talk to everything, the old Elves did. But then the Great Darkness came, and they passed away over the Sea, or fled into far valleys and hid themselves, and made songs about days that would never come again. Never again.”
Top 10 Places in Middle Earth | #5 Edoras: Seat of the Kings of Rohan
“Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harp-string, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning?
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?”
Top 10 Places in Middle Earth | #4 Minas Tirith: City of Kings
“Have you ever seen it Aragorn? The White Tower of Ecthelion, glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver. Its banners caught high in the morning breeze. Have you ever been called home by the clear ringing of silver trumpets?”
Top 10 Places in Middle Earth | #3 Lothlórien: Heart of Elvendom on Earth
“That is the fairest of all the dwellings of my people. There are no trees like the trees of that land. For in the autumn their leaves fall not, but turn to gold. Not till the spring and the new green opens do they fall, and then the boughs are laden with yellow flowers; and the floor of the wood is golden, and golden is the roof, and its pillars are of silver, for the bark of the trees is smooth and grey.”
Today’s god is Raven
God of: Creation and trickery
People: Native Americans
Place: North America
Depiction: Red and black ravenThere are many tales of Raven in Native American oral traditions. In these stories he is responsible for the creation of the world, finding the first people and bringing important foodstuffs such as salmon into the world.
Fun Fact: One story describes how Raven became bored with the land of spirits and flew away with a stone in his beak. When the Raven became tired of carrying the stone and dropped it, the stone fell into the ocean and expanded until it the earth.
Today’s goddess is Ilmatar
Goddess of: Creation goddess. Ilmater literly means “female air spirit”
People: Finnish
Place: Finland
Depicted as: A virgin flouting in the sea.In Finnish myth Ilmatar came down from the heavens and rested on the waters. During a storm she mysteriously fell pregnant. While pregnant a celestial eagle came down and made a nest on her, it lay seven eggs and out hatched the earth, sun and moon. Ilmatar began shaping the newly formed world, creating the mountains and oceans. When she finished her work she gave birth to Vainmoinen, the worlds first shaman, who finished her creation.
Fun Fact: The Finnish creation myth is most famously portrayed in the Kalevala, an epic poem by Elias Lonnrot.
