When the elves first awoke, they watched the world in wonder. They saw darknes all around them, but in the shadowy meres (meers? meere?) of Cuiviémen they saw a reflection of pinpricks of light. They looked up, and in wonder they saw the jewled stars, bright, shining, beautiful. And they fell in love, and for ever more they loved the stars, and the Elebereth, their maker. The Eldar sing her name at nightfall, when the stars rise in the sky, and Varda always thinks of the Elves in her councils, for she loves them for the light in their eyes.
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Utúlie'n aurë! Aiya Eldalië ar Atanatári, utúlie'n aurë! The day has come! Behold people of the Eldar and Fathers of Men, the day has come!
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