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Originally Posted by Laitoste
Are they? If so, they would fit the image I have of music being associated with the sea...perhaps because of relaxing images and calming music?
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The Teleri are called the Lindar, the singers; moreover:
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Originally Posted by Of Eldamar and the princes of Eldalie, Silmarillion
Thus it came to be that the Teleri, who were from the beginning lovers of water, and the fairest singers of all the Elves, were after enamoured of the seas, and their songs were filled with the sound of waves upon the shore.
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Originally Posted by Laitoste
Are you talking about this passage?
I've not read HoME yet...but if this is the passage, you're getting a bit ahead of yourself! But it makes sense. Ulmo is the Valar most connected to Arda, so it follows that he would continue to make music and "create" thoughts in Elves and Men...
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I think this is the passasge in question:
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Originally Posted by Ainulindale, Silmarillion
And it is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance else that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Iluvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.
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