![]() The vision ends as Tuor catches the merest glimpse of Valinor. ![]() Ulmo allows him to see all the breadth and depth of the sea 'with the swift sight of the Valar,' but no more. In its limitation Aeneas' vision is like the one Ulmo grants Tuor when he says that his 'heart yearneth rather to the Sea' ( Unfinished Tales, 30). Aeneas is a mortal his vision of reality is necessarily and unsurprisingly limited. Yet the difference between them is not as great as we might expect, which is in a way precisely my point here. Aeneas's vision is of a single moment in time and space Manwë's appears far more cosmic in scope. Now clearly the perspectives of Manwë and Aeneas differ greatly. For a time: while the Firstborn are in their power, and while the Secondborn are young." But dost thou not now remember, Kementári, that thy thought sang not always alone? Did not thy thought and mine meet also, so that we took wing together like great birds that soar above the clouds? That also shall come to be by the heed of Ilúvatar, and before the Children awake there shall go forth with wings like the wind the Eagles of the Lords of the West.' And Manwë said: 'O Kementári, Eru hath spoken, saying: "Do then any of the Valar suppose that I did not hear all the Song, even the least sound of the least voice? Behold! When the Children awake, then the thought of Yavanna will awake also, and it will summon spirits from afar, and they will go among the kelvar and the olvar, and some will dwell therein, and be held in reverence, and their just anger shall be feared. Then Manwë awoke, and he went down to Yavanna upon Ezellohar, and he sat beside her beneath the Two Trees. And at last the Vision was renewed, but it was not now remote, for he was himself within it, and yet he saw that all was upheld by the hand of Ilúvatar and the hand entered in, and from it came forth many wonders that had until then been hidden from him in the hearts of the Ainur. Then it seemed to Manwë that the Song rose once more about him, and he heeded now many things therein that though he had heard them he had not heeded before. 'For while thou wert in the heavens and with Ulmo built the clouds and poured out the rains, I lifted up the branches of great trees to receive them, and some sang to Ilúvatar amid the wind and the rain.' Then Manwë sat silent, and the thought of Yavanna that she had put into his heart grew and unfolded and it was beheld by Ilúvatar. Would that the trees might speak on behalf of all things that have roots, and punish those that wrong them!' 'This is a strange thought,' said Manwë. Long in the growing, swift shall they be in the felling, and unless they pay toll with fruit upon bough little mourned in their passing. But the kelvar can flee or defend themselves, whereas the olvar that grow cannot. 'Of all thy realm what dost thou hold dearest?' 'All have their worth,' said Yavanna, 'and each contributes to the worth of the others. 'If thou hadst thy will what wouldst thou reserve?' said Manwë. ![]() If those two had seen us, they would have dropped all their quarrel until we were dead.'Īfter Ilúvatar has sanctioned Aulë's making of the Dwarves because of his humility, Yavanna turns to Manwë, fearful of what the coming dominion of the Children of Ilúvatar will mean for the other life of Arda. They hate us far more, altogether and all the time. Orcs have always behaved like that, or so all tales say, when they are on their own. But that is the spirit of Mordor, Sam and it has spread to every corner of it. We have evidently had a very narrow escape, and the hunt was hotter on our tracks than we guessed. 'If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.' 'Quietly, Sam,' Frodo whispered. 'Well I call that neat as neat,' he said. The other ran off across the valley and disappeared. But the tracker, springing behind a stone, put an arrow in his eye as he ran up, and he fell with a crash. The day after Sam rescues Frodo from the tower of Cirith Ungol, two orcs, an Uruk and a smaller tracker, nearly catch them, but a fight breaks out between them: The big orc, spear in hand, leapt after him.
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