heartofoshun:professor-thu:heartofoshun:askfeanor:sketchspot:A POINT FOR THE ‘SILMARILS WERE PART OF
heartofoshun:professor-thu:heartofoshun:askfeanor:sketchspot:A POINT FOR THE ‘SILMARILS WERE PART OF FEANOR’S SOUL’ TEAMbecause notice how tolkien did not write ‘for his mind conceived…’, as one would usually do for this sort of thing. He wrote ‘heart’.Morgoth’s Ring pg. 94Directly in the headcanon page.And the Valar somehow did not understand, or refused to understand, except perhaps Aulë:But Aulë the Maker said: ‘Be not hasty! We ask a greater thing than thou knowest. Let him have peace yet awhile.’ —The Silmarillion, “Of the Flight of the Noldor.“Anyone who has invented/discovered/created Something of Significance™ and has sweated blood (figuratively, sometimes literally) over the process of invention/discovery/creation will understand Fëanor. Such a process does feel like it’s a conception from one’s “soul.” Aulë, also an inventor, gets it.What Tolkien describes plays out in high stakes research in academia and industry quite frequently. It just isn’t as romantic. Exactly! -- source link
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