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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: The Deepest Forges of Ered Luin
Posts: 733
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Not within the Legendarium, I know, but when Annie Lennox sings "Across the Sea", it certainly seems like Heaven is closer to the ocean.
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Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: The Edge of Faerie
Posts: 7,066
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The Sea
The Sea calls with the cry of the gulls, Calls us to leave these changeful lands, Where leaves fall, trees are felled, and mountains crumble. The gulls call us to cross the Sea heeding the call of Elbereth to come to lands undying where leaves never fall, flowers never fade, trees flourish, and the mountains stand tall in Eldamar. I composed this back in 2002 - I think because of some inspiration from this site. It's nothing great, of course, but I thought I'd put myself inside the skin of an Elf, if I could, and see what came. I think that the ocean - when calm - evokes for us the things that seem most like heaven to us - the mystical, seemingly eternal, peaceful yet powerful, wholly 'other', where we cannot survive without aid. All that water, so very physical but something we cannot take hold of, and yet what it is, is very much what we are. Still, there are things about the ocean that have something in common with being out in a meadow on a starry moonless night, seeing the milky way banded across the sky. |
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