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Nar · 09-13-2002, 10:32 AM

It seems to me that if the mirror of Galadriel shows what has been, is, and might be (barring the freedom of Man) then it must be in contact with the song that defined all of Arda and its history (subject to freedom). The song ceased before time began, but let us suppose the echoes remain until the end of time.

Song, voices rising, harmonics, vibrations--

Still, clear water in a fine basin forged thin and true, trembles to the finest echo murmuring from the song. These ripples translate into another medium the notes that define much or most of the History of Middle Earth. They are caught in starlight derived from the oldest of trees. This starlight, a light like no other, is alternately scattered and focused by the concentric ripples --rings of song, like the rings of a tree. They represent the tale of years, expanding ever outward across the surface of the water from the deep centre to silver rim.

At each moment, all the years, all of the song, is caught in the concentric ripples, but what picture does the observing mind form of of this song of rings? Moment to moment, the picture changes according to the filter the receptive mind applies to the endlessly renewed pattern of diffusion and convergence. What each mind perceives at any given moment depends on the mood, current cares, and nature of the perceiver-- but the song, all of it, is always there, trembling across the surface.

[ September 13, 2002: Message edited by: Nar ]

09-13-2002, 10:32 AM	#18
Nar Wight Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 228	It seems to me that if the mirror of Galadriel shows what has been, is, and might be (barring the freedom of Man) then it must be in contact with the song that defined all of Arda and its history (subject to freedom). The song ceased before time began, but let us suppose the echoes remain until the end of time. Song, voices rising, harmonics, vibrations-- Still, clear water in a fine basin forged thin and true, trembles to the finest echo murmuring from the song. These ripples translate into another medium the notes that define much or most of the History of Middle Earth. They are caught in starlight derived from the oldest of trees. This starlight, a light like no other, is alternately scattered and focused by the concentric ripples --rings of song, like the rings of a tree. They represent the tale of years, expanding ever outward across the surface of the water from the deep centre to silver rim. At each moment, all the years, all of the song, is caught in the concentric ripples, but what picture does the observing mind form of of this song of rings? Moment to moment, the picture changes according to the filter the receptive mind applies to the endlessly renewed pattern of diffusion and convergence. What each mind perceives at any given moment depends on the mood, current cares, and nature of the perceiver-- but the song, all of it, is always there, trembling across the surface. [ September 13, 2002: Message edited by: Nar ]