'Sleeps a Song in Things Abounding', Julian Eilmann

[Faramir Jones]

Mark, you asked me this:

Originally Posted by mark12_30

Have you read -- I think it's in the Sil-- that the music of rivers (by Ulmo?) brings a longing to the heart of men? Elsewhere it says that the horns of Ulmo awaken the sea-longing. Makes sense to me.

How often was Frodo "pierced" by music!

I have read that piece, which is in the Valaquenta part of The Silmarillion:

At times he [Ulmo] will come unseen to the shores of Middle-earth, or pass far inland up firths of the sea, and there make music upon his great horns, the Ulumuri, that are wrought of white shell; and those to whom that music comes hear it ever in their hearts, and longing for the sea never leaves them again. But mostly Ulmo speaks to those who dwell in Middle-earth with voices that are heard only as the music of water. For all seas, lakes, rivers, fountains and springs are in his government; so that the Elves say that the spirit of Ulmo runs in all the veins of the world. (The Silmarillion, p. 29)

Lovely!