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Re: A reply to sect.4
Alright, then, I'll give it a go. (I feel like a fool doing this but) [] = Sil, {} = BoLT, and ** = own improvisation. *{}* = improvisation improvised from BoLT, *[]* etc. That is, sorced from Sil, or BoLT, because I've changed the words around a little (obviously) to make them fit. If there are no brackets, BoLT and Sil agree with each other.
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[It is told that even as Fëanor and Fingolfin stood before Manwë] {Telperion came to the time of his waxing, and the silent halls of Valmar were filled with a radiance of brightest silver; but as yet the boughs of Laurelin shone but weakly.} [And in that very hour Melkor and Ungoliant came hastening over the fields of Valinor, as the shadow of a black cloud upon the wind; and the Unlight of Ungoliant hid them both. And they came before the green mound Ezellohar, and the Unlight rose even to the roots of the trees.]
Then Melkor sprang onto the mound; {and summoning all his godlike strength} [seized his black spear and smote the trunk of Laurelin to it's core;] {and the fiery radiance that sprung suddenly forth would have consumed his raiments of flesh even as it did his spear, had not Ungoliant cast herself down and lapped it thirstily.} Then she, setting her black beak to the wound in the bole of the Tree, sucked away it's life and strength until they were drained; [and the poison of Death that was in her went into it's tissues and withered them, root, stock, and leaf.]
{By accursed fortune this deed was not straightaway marked, for Laurelin was now in her time of deepest repose, and her faint light was not missed;} *{but Melkor then took the weapon that remained to him, a knife, and plunged it again and again into the beaticous stock of Telperion.}* And Ungoliant plying her lips once more to the cracks fed on his life and light. And the Trees died; [and Ungoliant still thirsting went to the vats of Kullulin and drank them deeply, and belched forth black vapours as she drank; and swelled to a shape so vast and hideous that Melkor was afraid.]
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How's that?
(Yes, I agree with you on the subject of the Noldo that attacked Melko now that you've said that. )
Gwaihir the Windlord
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