The Daily Drabble: "The Source of All Things"

[dawn_felagund]

Do your eyes deceive you? No! I have done a daily drabble again!

(Perhaps I should rename it the Occasional Drabble?)

Only it's not a drabble; it's actually 250 words. My mind can't even begin to conjure a name for this. (This from the woman who coined "drabunculus.")

So here, first, is the word of the day:

Comments

[dawn_felagund]

I am guilty of having enjoyed way too much the discussion of The Ainulindale over at the Henneth-Annun Yahoo! list. ;) (I am leading a Silmarillion discussion there, and the most posts we've had--strangely--have come from The Ainulindale!)

Also, Rhapsody got me thinking a few months ago (she is not lying when she says to be wary around her; the woman can throw a plotbunny for miles! :^D) at SWG when I said that Melkor was the only character with whom I could not sympathize. And she asked, "But can't Melkor be seen as the product of bad parenting? How might things have been different if Eru and the other Valar had not rejected his independent thought, his contribution to the Music?"

(Sorry, Rhapsy, if I have inadvertantly misquoted you. This chat was months ago!)

So when I read The Ainulindale again for HA, this really struck me.

As did the quote, "And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined."

So even evil has its source in Melkor...and it all shall contribute to Eru's purposes in the end.

I find this really interesting, and if you look at Tolkien's stories at a whole, it reinforces this notion. For all the evil that Feanor committed, but for him, the Noldor would never have returned to Middle-earth and it is questionable whether events by which Sauron could be defeated would have been set in motion without them.

Every now and then, I manage to write about something other than pretty Elves. ;)

[ann_arien]

I do agree with everything you have said, concerning Melkor. It is an interesting perspective that needs to be looked at closely. the strangest thing is that I've never truly resented Morgoth, though he is the source of all evil and suffering, as far as the Feanorians are concerned. As much as Feanor hates him, I've never truly been able to lay the blame on Melkor, especially since canon speaks of him they way it does.

And, knowing my beliefs (or lack of them), I cannot but agree with what Maitimo says in the end of the drabble.

Every now and then, I manage to write about something other than pretty Elves.

*pretty Elves are pouting*

[digdigil]

I've seen a painting somewhere of Melkor and he's beautiful. It was fanart and I cannot remember for the life of me where I saw it. His face was gorgeous and he had wings--big white wings!

Do you know this one, Alina? Anyway, it made me think of Satan immediately because wasn't he one of God's angels who fell from grace? Now don't imagine I'm religious or anything, or know much about it, because I'm not and I don't, although I did have some early childhood Sunday School and a little bit of religion drummed into me when I was much younger. And I've always loved the beautiful bible stories.