The age of anxiety:

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

"The World is changing".

Well, that is a recurring theme in Tolkien's books, with phrases like "sundered from the glory of old" (I don't know if that's actually a quote) or the like. All sorts of things get lost, like, for example the skill of gem-making. There is an ideological past (or sort of the opposite of a utopia, and I don't mean dystopia, though there's some of that too)................