Moot? perhaps..yet it's when the wings of fantasy grasp my fallible mind I almost always find myself drifting across the timescape to the edges of valinor. floating thru the airs above the ocean I see the mingling lights of the trees just over the mountains as they fade a final time; the stars are enhanced where there was once light of the blessed realm as a mighty shadow of darkness passes to my right... woops sorry, lost myself.
Seriously, what I have been wondering in relation to Finwe and kiddies is how pivotal they were/are to the song of the Ainur.--
"But Iluvatar sat and hearkened until it seemed that about his throne there was a raging storm, as dark waters that made war one upon another in an endless wrath that would not be assuaged.
Then Iluvatar arose, and the Ainur perceived that he smiled; and he lifted up his left hand, and a new theme began amid the storm, like and yet unlike to the former theme, and it gathered power and had new beauty. But the discord of Melkor rose in uproar and contended with it, and again there was a war of sound, until many of the Ainur were dismayed and sang no longer, and Melkor had the mastery."...Ainulindale
Was the second theme of Iluvater the elves, specifically Feanor. In laymens terms was Feanor the lead guitar for Iluvater.
