Schlagwort: valar

yavieriel:

The Valar’s capture of Melkor after the awakening of the elves is a last desperate sortie; they do not know that they will succeed, that they will not fail and fall and leave the world to utter darkness.  

Melkor is strong.  He has thrown them down and driven them out time and time again, left them battered and in disarray.  Only his pride and carelessness and the delicate hand of Eru bringing hope from despair has left them as much as they have now.  Even so, they are scarred, wounded, crippled.  

The maiar who guard Cuvienen are ordered that if their Lords and Ladies fall, they must not stay and fight.  They are to take as many of the Eldar as they can and run; behind the stony walls of the Pelori, within the light of the Trees, perhaps they will be able to hold against the siege that Melkor will surely bring against them for defying him so.  At least something will be salvaged, at least their Father’s youngest children will not live purely under the dominion of darkness.  Perhaps, with time to grow strong in safety, these new Children will be able to win free of the darkness themselves.  Perhaps the One will have given them some new gift to defeat the dark one.

But somehow they succeed: Melkor is cast down, enchained, captured and defeated.  They have a few more scars, and even more maiar who will never fight again.  Victory unlooked-for – and the Eldar never question at what price their freedom was bought.