O river of stars and shadows, lead me through the night
One of these days, the other girls in our hallway are going to get fed up with these 3 a.m. hysterical gatherings in the hallway, and they're going to murder us. They'd kill us in our sleep, except we never actually sleep.
And here's something to ponder: The Elves in The Lord of the Rings were born from the soldiers' experiences in World War I. Discuss.
This is what comes from reading WWI poetry and having Maglor on the brain. But I don't know, maybe there's something to it. Innocents forced into war and changed by it. And it might explain the strength of the relationship between Maedhros and Fingon, the extremes to which Fingon went to rescue Maedhros.
By choice they made themselves immune
To pity and whatever mourns in man
Before the last sea and the hapless stars;
Whatever mourns when many leave these shores;
Whatever shares
The eternal reciprocity of tears.
--"Insensibility," Wilfred Owen.