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Published: 2014-08-10 15:34:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 4420; Favourites: 133; Downloads: 44
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'It is told that even as Varda ended her labours, and they were long, when first Menelmacar strode up the sky and the blue fire of Helluin flickered in the mists above the borders of the world, in that hour the Children of the Earth awoke, the Firstborn of Ilúvatar. By the starlit mere of Cuiviénen, Water of Awakening, they rose from the sleep of Ilúvatar; and while they dwelt yet silent by Cuiviénen their eyes beheld first of all things the stars of heaven. Therefore they have ever loved the starlight, and have revered Varda Elentári above all the Valar.In the changes of the world the shapes of lands and of seas have been broken and remade; rivers have not kept their courses, neither have mountains remained steadfast; and to Cuiviénen there is no returning. But it is said among the Elves that it lay far off in the east of Middle-earth, and northward, and it was a bay in the Inland Sea of Helcar; and that sea stood where aforetime the roots of the mountain of Illuin had been before Melkor overthrew it. Many waters flowed down thither from heights in the east, and the first sound that was heard by the Elves was the sound of water flowing, and the sound of water falling over stone.'
JRR Tolkien: The Silmarillion : Chapter 3: Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor
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Watercolour, hint of white gouache.
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This jibes with the MAP near the start of the Tolkein Sscrapbook,Running Press, 1978. Beautiful pictures,fan-fiction, and the front cover shows Bilbo picking up his mail, and suddenly a very heavily robed Gandalf shows up. The back picture shows Frodo about to arrive in Valinor !
The map shows many periods in MiddleEarth's history, as if they all existed together. I count this book an invaluable part of my Tolkein shelf.
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Sounds good, never heard of nor seen this, I don't think! Who is/are the artist(s)?
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The famous Tim Kirk did the covers and some illos, tho such look more serious than usual.
The map by some joe named Malcom Strandberg.
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Ah thanks for this! (And sorry for the late reply). I always liked Kirk's illustrations, but I'm not so familiar with Strandberg
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Oddly enow, I am minded of property my family held in antique days, property in middle NJ, but never developed. After my mother died, and none of my family left, I found the tax receipts of that lost property. Nobody I could query about it ...
In the 50'we finally stopped paying taxes on the land, and let it go forfeit, rather than expend money on land we had no more interest in. My folks never discussed it with me, and so I learned of it only when all had died but me.
Now,here is where the link to this pic lies. I've checked a map of the current layout, compared it to the old one in our papers, and found the yery roads vanished, and new streets in their place, going in different ways. It would be futile to try & find anything. Just like Cuivenenen.
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Indeed, considering the 1950s were barely 70 years ago, whereas Cuivenenen is 'years uncounted' lost, as Thingol himself put it, to memory and time ...
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With no sun or moon before the First Age, how can time be counted ? Between the toppling of the Great Lamps (one of which stood like a tower at where Cuivenen later lay, and the other way south.), and the birth of the sun and moon from the silmarils, the Two Trees gave light, and Morgoth had a chance to repent, reform and atone for his crimes (but pride finally won out...), lay many thousands of years...
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Waw, this is definitely evoking the atmosphere of the story! A beautiful representation of Cuivienen…
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Well I'm absolutely glad you think so - it's been on my mind for many a year to paint this scene, and in the end it took very little time and just sort of fell out of the brush
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Just like some of my Casper books practically wrote themselves ! Now all I can write are summaries practically. I finally have some energy to do "Director's cuts" but they are nothing like the pieces that wrote themselves.
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