Over the weekend I was taking a short vacation in the
mountains. And walking through the almost total silence, beholding the beauty of far off peaks, cloud-enfurled, I suddenly was reminded of a passage from the
Ainulindale:
It was this line "
the immeasurable vastness of the World, which still the Ainur are shaping" that suddenly emerged in my mind when gazing upon this close yet far mountain on who's sides we can see what once has been the ocean floor. And I was thinking about the work of the Ainur and how they built the Pelóri or how
Melkor piled up the Erde Engrin. And it filled me with great awe and inspiration.
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Do you sometimes think about the Ainur and their labours when outside? What is your favourite reference about their work? Big or small. Be it a mountain or the littlest of flowers. The shores of the rolling sea or the very spring of a creek. And anything in-between or beyond. I would be delighted if you'd share your vision of the Ainur's work with us 😊
P.S. In lack of any other place I could think of, I decided, since it is concerning
the Silmarillion, this is the best place to post it.
P.P.S. Mountains like those must have had a lasting impression on young
Tolkien, and he surely had the likes in mind when shaping
Middle-Earth.