"GL5" - читать интересную книгу автора (vol10)

the Children of God is imminent. Melkor desires to dominate
them at once with fear and darkness and enslave them. He
darkens the world [added in margin: for 7 years?] cutting off all
vision of the sky so far as he can, and though far south (it is
said) this was not effective. From the far North (where [they
are] dense) to the middle (Endor)(11) great clouds brood. Moon
and stars are invisible. Day is only a dim twilight at full. Only
light [is] in Valinor.
Varda arises in her might and Manwe of the Winds and strive
with the Cloud of Unseeing. But as fast as it is rent Melkor
closes the veil again - at least over Middle-earth. Then came the
Great Wind of Manwe, and the veil was rent. The stars shine

out clear even in the North (Valakirka) and after the long dark
seem terribly bright.
It is in the dark just before that the Elves awake. The first
thing they see in the dark is the stars. But Melkor brings up
glooms out of the East, and the stars fade away west. Hence
they think from the beginning of light and beauty in the West.
The Coming of Orome.
The Third Battle and the captivity of Melkor. The Eldar go to
Valinor. The clouds slowly disperse after the capture of Melkor
though Utumno still belches. It is darkest eastward, furthest
from the breath of Manwe.
The March of the Eldar is through great Rains?
Men awake in an Isle amid the floods and therefore welcome
the Sun which seems to come out of the East. Only when the
world is drier do they leave the Isle and spread abroad.
It is only Men that met Elves and heard the rumours of the
West that go that way. For the Elves said: 'If you delight in the
Sun, you will walk in the path it goes.'
The coming of Men will therefore be much further back.(12)
This will be better; for a bare 400 years is quite inadequate to
produce the variety, and the advancement (e.g. of the Edain) at
the time of Felagund.(13)
Men must awake while Melkor is still in Arda? - because of
their Fall.(14) Therefore in some period during the Great March.

This text ends here. There follows now the associated narrative,
identical in appearance to the foregoing discussion (both elements are
written in the same rather unusual script).

After the Valar, who before were the Ainur of the Great Song,
entered into Ea, those who were the noblest among them and
understood most of the mind of Iluvatar sought amid the
immeasurable regions of the Beginning for that place where they
should establish the Kingdom of Arda in time to come. And
when they had chosen that point and region where it should be,
they began the labours that were needed. Others there were,
countless to our thought though known each and numbered in