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Walküre:
Whispers in the woods


One should always hearken and attention pay to the murmurs of the grand forests of the world, green and vast they extend their borders over miles of ground and lands, so that you may understand the actual magnitude of size, and rapid winds transport across these large ways the words and whispers about what befalls, being wise intelligences capable of grasping the sign of misadventure and unfortunate future.

Walküre:
Premonition IV


The swift wings of night have brought another vision to me, being this another uncanny dream of which the nature I can't fathom with exact mind, because it was very much hasty and much chaos I have been in front of, yet I recall an important character of these images that so much dread have caused me to feel.

I recall malicious eyes staring at our domain from frozen caverns, hidden and deep in the stone of the North, and that gaze was harbinger of crude winter and freezing storms, and snow now seems to fall heavier and more furious than before, as weather sensed the arrival of evil forces, responding in wrathful rage and ill-natured vindictive fashion.

Walküre:
Mending


Who can mend the broken blade that lies still and unused in the magical valley of rest and calmness? Who may rectify the failure of its iron and the wound that was inflicted in the battle of doom? Who may reunite its scattered pieces that only sad fate seem to express from such a sight of ruin?

Only the Heir, who shall make the wrong right, and the foes of Men shall kneel in obedience at the feet of the sole among mankind with the just authority endowed.

Walküre:
And all the stars will dance and flow


Tales speak of voyages of stars through the ways forbidden of the infinite skies beyond Arda and its circles of night, out of the very air of our places, out of all belonging to the common knowledge that we cherish and recall in memory and old customs,
And so the eternal lamps of the grand sky are beheld dancing and flowing at a pace resembling eternity for the humble man, busy and immersed in his daily duties, yet the wise know well and plain, that stars shall dance and flow in time and years needing still to pass.


Stars are commonly beloved and worshipped as the eternal source of light existing in Eä, even though their radiance is at times pale and much afar. Immortal and never-perishing, they nonetheless continue their journey through the sidereal skies of the universe, away from every peril and risk. Varda's first and exceptional deed.

In the knowledge of classical times, stars were too believed to embody still eternity, secluded and placed in ways which the common man could never have trodden.

Walküre:
You must continue


Frodo, fain I did choose to accompany you in the journey and the service of my magic to offer you, so that the arts of an old wizard may be of some aid for the task, but I tell this again, Ring-bearer, that you for any reason must not halt the progress of your proceeding or my return await, should I be lost in the way or worse.

I might call and keep on calling, as I might falling in the void that all claims and naught back sends, but you must nonetheless continue, for a wizard is not of such note, compared to the imperative mission of this fellowship that you are to lead to a successful end.


'Fain', often utilised in my compositions, is a very old-fashioned form that indicates the pleasure or willingness in doing something. The context of the poem makes usage of the said adverb to show the genuine and kindhearted wish of the Grey Wizard to accompany Frodo along the perilous voyage the Hobbit is due to face, but this is unfortunately not possible, for the imperative task of the Istar is the one of guarding the world from all sorts of potential threats. In this case, the awakening of the Balrog does represent an imperative danger which ought to be countered, lest additional catastrophes and mayhem spread in Middle-earth.

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