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Wanted to share this edit I made a while ago for Elendil and Míriel. I'm not one for romantic subplots but I liked the writing for them. The song is The Diving Bell by my beloved The Crane Wives.
It is the first edit I've made, so any thoughts are welcome :)
I think some of the audio clips are spaced out too much, I'd do it a little differently now.
I've also got a few more thoughts on tRoP Crane Wives edits I may get to at some point.
and if they don't now, they will soon!
You know, for all that the elves are beautifully described by Tolkien to have a deep cultural connection to the stars, the only character in Middle Earth that I would really label an astronomer is a mortal man: Tar-Meneldur, the fifth king of Numenor.
Tar-Meneldur was actually born “Irimon”,...
Once the City of Kings Where the Elven Lord Elros made his home Among the blossoming growth Sweet laughs caught upon the wind The Star of Eärendil brightens the night sky with the fading light of the Two Trees
And the Valar watch us with kind eyes and tender care Tis Númenor where life is untainted and death is unknown,
But Annatar- Lord of Gifts- showed us the altar and decorated it with wynorrific things The Good God Morgoth who we shed our bliss for The promise of immortality, of days spent to praise the seas and land But alas! As we reached the Valar’s home, our white city turned black and soiled
The ground quaked with anger, and fire bit flesh So Ulmo swallowed the great kingdom, men and women and children taken to the depths of his home Tis the fate of Númenor, as such with every Man.
You ever think about unimaginably far back in the past the event of the First Age are compared to LOTR. Just. By LOTR Gondor is more than 3000 years old. For us 3000 years ago is… It’s not just before the Roman Empire, it’s before Rome even existed. It’s back before Ancient Greece as we usually mean it was a thing. Tutankhamun ruled around 3300 years ago. Numenor is to Gondor what ancient Egypt is to us. And the founding of Numenor was more than 6000 years prior. That’s older than the first recorded examples of a writing system we have
Imagine being a scholar in Gondor and being able to read a diary that was written by someone in Numenor. Imagine reading a 5000 years old letter written by a Numenorean, and not like a transaction receipt or something of the sorts, not something written for functionality when written language was just invented, but something already fully fleshed out and nuanced. Imagine being told that out there the brother of the first king of Numenor is still alive and he could tell you all about him. That’s like if you could just stroll to a Sumerian and ask them what Uruk was like back in the day. If I was Boromir I would have died on the spot meeting Elrond
And like maybe the scholars would have enough documents and proof to say yes, Numenor existed, Elros existed too, but the common people? What would a fisherman or farmer said if you told them about it? The tale about the son of a star who ruled a star-shaped island, and of the star-shaped island who was sunk in the sea after the old kings became evil, that would absolutely be seen as a legend. There’s gotta be plenty of Gondorians who think Numenor was just a tale, a metaphor, that there’s no way the stories are true, and they’d be right to think that because it’s such a wild tale and from so long ago that it just sounds like someone made it up at some point
