Elves can waste away from weariness of life and can be slain, for the desire to live is linked to their freedom of will and their ability to spread and promote inner beauty and enchantment and goodness. If those conditions are absent, often an Elf will die from long-suffering weariness of too much, particularly ifContinue reading “The Doom of Mandos”
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A Dignified and Noble people, the Elves, part three
If one greets the varying and various fortunes or misfortunes with dignity, composure, sangfroid, it is easier to manage and to deal with, if one is serenely calm in the face of life, and meets it with grace and calmness under pressure, and studiously cultivates patience and peace, the world is better and existence appearsContinue reading “A Dignified and Noble people, the Elves, part three”
A dignified and noble people(Part Two)
An Elven soul looks at the apparent constant change and ever-flowing transitory nature of things…and sees the constancy of eternity and of the Light….and sees untold radiance and beauty and art and culture and goodness and right action…and virtue Itself within us and around us and an intimate part of us…dignity and nobility in theContinue reading “A dignified and noble people(Part Two)”