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Walküre:
The spirit undaunted


Heath-maiden, you have not for our good the courage of your hard heart lost,
Even whilst challenging the deadly servant of the Eye who so much of evil to our side has caused in the intention of breaking the allegiance among those fighting for the Good,
The temper of your braveness came forth as fire that warm makes in the coldest of the nights, when other fighters failed and fell under the prowess of the witch-ghost leading the assailants against Gondor's defence,
The foul phantom knew, however, the real might of the maidens of Rohan and of whom Evil never had dreaded before.


The Shield-maiden of Rohan is always a fascinating character to deal with. I personally find her characterisation absolutely brilliant, of which fundamental traits are part: the strive to fight for justness and the spirit of sacrifice. All mixed with the sad and evenly tormented love for the Heir of Gondor. All in all, Éowyn embodies also the value of valour in itself, despite the lack of means or of an initial disadvantage. The contest with the Witch-king is nothing more than the epitome of all of this, when an apparently simple maiden manages to win the battle against whom had been a nightmare for many brave heroes. A kind maiden that never has asked much or demanded. A pale beauty across the harshness of the heath, both meteorological and figurative.

Walküre:
Content they just were


Not much of the Two Lovers is known after their coming back to the ways of mortal ones, once both the fate of the Gift in adamant conviction decided to elect, for love was as perennial as the light of far stars which us never forget to enlighten, and maybe even more, in the fashion of the force that is said to reside yonder where the Angels were born, and approaching the time of their demise, content they just were and the purest farewell to Arda during their passing they have eventually bidden.


Beren and Lúthien, love itself in its purest form. A force whose actual nature goes perhaps beyond the realm of Eä as well, and destined to resist the worst of the fates, even if it's an impossible quest or the very decay of reality, by which the Valar are to be affected as everything else. And once they returned in Beleriand, after the decision to follow the path of mortality, they were just content of one another, alongside being totally uninterested in the matters revolving around the War of the Jewels (which was still demanding its terrible death toll, between the two sides battling one another). Content and nothing more.

Walküre:
Home, sweet and kind


Home, sweet and kind, your amicable walls and rooms I miss without pause or relief of some sort,
Oh, one misses surely a tremendous lot when his being is not to enjoy the comfort of your protection and the gentle routine that each day with a proper meaning fulfils,
We are on a perilous journey, though, and even if protection and quiet life I am not granted, the wonders of the broad world I may admire in awe,
For the colours of Arda are of multiple nature, and one could not taste their savour to the fullest, even within solace, for the intricate routes for such knowledge need be taken.

Walküre:
The lost gems


Gems of pure sidereal radiance are known to lie hidden and crystallised in the stone-made halls of the scattered mountains of this earth, and they have logically captured the interest of the Woodland King, who much longs to retrieve them once again from the darkness of many centuries of ignorance about their exact fate, and Wood-elves actually believe that those splendid treasure might be the grandest of Doriath's leavings to this world, even advancing hypotheses that the lost crown of Elwë the gems may have once constituted, forged by Dwarves as a gift for the Silver Lord, if only to turn into the decoy of brutal fight and ultimate murder, which stained the halls of the past palace, tolling for the ancient realm the bell of final demise.


The legacy of the millennial realm of Doriath has always cast a spell of admiration and almost worshipping on the Wood-elves that elected to remain in Middle-earth. In the guise of an ancient glorious past that ought to be preserved, at all costs. Namely, Thranduil believed that the lost crown of Elwë could be part of the Dwarven wealth; crown that was crafted with the wish to welcome one of the Silmarils at its top. The bell, however, tolled for the grand realm and all fell after the murder of the Elven patriarch, combined with the vanishing of Melian from Beleriand.

Walküre:
His body was torn asunder


Wicked priest that the ruin to the Island of greatness had brought with deception and far-reaching schemes of snares,
Once the proud king had his mind conquered by lies, the way was paved and very open for the sorcerer's will to unfold in liberty,
Yet the fury of Valinor he did not expect, nor had he envisaged that the most terrible of the punishments would then be unleashed,
All ending with the raging waves of the seas which very little spared from the cataclysm, and the fell mastermind of such a conclusion was swallowed by water in equal manner, alongside his body being torn asunder and his bewitching talents getting halved.


The spirit, the spiritual component, of the Ainur may not be destroyed or annihilated completely, by any known device at disposal of the people of Arda. Nor is their soul subjected to the passing of time in the same way as the ones of Elves and Men are. Nevertheless, since the Ainur chose to clothe themselves with humanoid robes, the physical body of each of them has become a fundamental part of their intrinsic being. Hence, even if not doomed to undergo the sad fate of death, the destruction of these said robes is indubitably a grave event even for the angelic kind, for the harmonious order between the spiritual and physical gets disrupted or even totally torn apart. The result is the loss of some capabilities and magical prowess, together with a very long rehabilitation via agony and toil. Should such a defeat occur multiple times, an Ainu would no longer be permitted the privilege of a physical appearance.

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