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These Flowers Upon Your Flames by Somnis
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
28 May 2026
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He remembered their days in Almaren, bathed in innocence and light. Melkor would not have tolerated him speaking of them, except with sarcasm, so he had pretended to have forgotten. The name of Manwë’s herald had never been spoken, never written, never thought, since Mairon had chosen his master.
But his master had been defeated. And as he approached the camp raised by the host of the Valar, he felt, in the midst of his immense weariness, a faint stir of regret.
