Favourite moment in the Silmarillion

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

And the funniest is Aule's response to Yavanna about the need for wood - Cosi fan tutti?

Oh, I love that too! Let me quote it for everyone's fun:

Then Manwe and Yavanna parted for that time, and Yavanna returned to Aule; and he was in his smithy, pouring molten metal into a mould. 'Eru is bountiful,' she said. 'Now let thy children beware! For there shall walk a power in the forests whose wrath they will arouse at their peril.'

'Nonetheless they will have need of wood,' said Aule, and he went on with his smith-work.

I can picure him in his shed, getting on with something Important on the workbench and just ignoring her. I'm surprised he doesn't ask her for a mug of tea, too