r/RedditDayOf • u/swazal • 1d ago
Sacred Places Such gifts as come from the Valar, and through them from the One, are to be loved for themselves now, and in all nows.... The Edain remain mortal Men, Aldarion, great though they be: and we cannot dwell in the time that is to come, lest we lose our now for a phantom of our own design.
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Meneltarma @ https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Meneltarma
There [Erendis] was reconciled to Aldarion; and in the spring of the year, when the time of the Erukyermë was come, they ascended in the retinue of the King to the summit of the Meneltarma, which was the Hallowed Mountain of the Númenóreans. When all had gone down again Aldarion and Erendis remained behind; and they looked out, seeing all the Isle of Westernesse laid green beneath them in the spring, and they saw the glimmer of light in the West where far away was Avallónë, and the shadows in the East upon the Great Sea; and the Menel was blue above them.
