Then Iluvatar spoke, and he said: ‘Mighty are the Ainur, and mightiest among them is Melkor; but that he may know, and all the Ainur, that I am Iluvatar, those things that ye have sung, I will show them forth, that ye may see what ye have done. An thou, Melkor, shalt see that no…
There can be no Triumph without loss. No Victory without suffering. No Freedom without sacrifice.
It only takes a moment to see something special in a person. A second to get to know them. A minute to fall in love, and a lifetime to forget them.
We are not among the living and so we cannot die but neither are we dead. For too long I’ve been parched with thirst and unable to quench it. Too long I’ve been starving to death and haven’t died. I feel nothing, not the wind on my face nor the spray of the sea, nor…
Darkness dawns upon my days, my anguish, chained within its mud. In solitude. In solitude. In dark dawns of still, sweet, nights. Quiet as the sounds of thought and as loud as solitude itself. I am condemned and rightly so – The griffin chained within my tarnished soul.