'Pre-baptised'

[Lalwendë]

That's a bit like the odd feeling I got when we were in Scotland in March. One evening we went for a walk along the cliffs north of Portpatrick and the sun was setting. Across the sea you could see mountains and hills in Ulster, some closer and some more distant, and a really eerie looking tower. This will have been a lighthouse, but from that distance it could have been anything. It was exactly like looking at the tower of Avallone on Tol Eressea, with the distant Valinor further off in the background.

I tried to take photographs but I don't think they have captured the oddness of this scene at all well, and we had to stay and look at it until it disappeared. Very odd indeed, especially as it was so utterly silent apart from the wind and the birds.

Then at night, you can see across an inky black sea just lots of little lights, and several lighthouse beams, with the stars brilliantly bright above.