The Dagor Dagorath

shadowy 😱

my lord praise

Originally posted by shadowy_blue
Thus everything dies

but only mortals die forever

the others watch and wait

eternally in the shadows.

Oooh that's where this quote comes from 😱

(found it ages ago in an article on annalsofarda.dk in the encaclopaedia and never knew what it was about... liked it so much that now I even have it printed on a tshirt in sarati 😂 )

There's also a little info bout it in the Lost Tales part 1 in the last paragraph of chapter IX; and in the "The End of Tales"-chapter in LTII.
I think the Lost Tales are the book where most of the info-fragments bout the Dagor Dagrath come from though there are also bits and pieces of information in some other volumes of the HME, like in the Athrabeth
And a little in the Unfinished Tales
But nearly nothing detailed is found in the Silmarillion

Originally posted by Exa
Oooh that's where this quote comes from 😱

(found it ages ago in an article on annalsofarda.dk in the encaclopaedia and never knew what it was about... liked it so much that now I even have it printed on a tshirt in sarati 😂 )

Originally posted by shadowy_blue
Yeah...I got it from Annals of Arda too! I loved it so much that it was never erased from my memory. There's just something about how the prophecy was arranged, kinda eerie, and sad, and overwhelming, everything. I had mixed emotions when I first read it.

😱 lol
Fascinating

Was exactly the same for me 😂

I totally loved the whole text when I first read it ... especially these last four lines, I also had them in my signature in an other forum until yesterday 😂 though I'm still not sure where exactly the lines come from - Lost Tales?

they come from the pen of tolkien 🙂😛

Originally posted by sauron
they come from the pen of tolkien 🙂😛

Lol I also think so

Though I wasn't really sure about that... it sounds nice, but somehow not like Tolkien, at least not like later Tolkien

"Thus everything dies, but only mortals die forever, the others watch and wait eternally in the shadows" - isn't that kinda the opposite of what Tolkien writes? (at least concerning the Last Battle)

... Mortals die and leave the world all the time,

but when the World is destroyed everything dies... but it's the elves that die forever, being bound to the circles of the dying earth, while men are independant, their spirits leave the world and maybe find a new one

The other quote would only be true for the time the world lasts and only regarding Middleearth itself

So if this quote comes from Tolkien, I doubt that it's sensible to use it as a summary of the last battle

we all make mistakes exa 🙂

Originally posted by sauron
we all make mistakes exa 🙂

Tolkien doesn't 😖hifty:

well, nearly

oh doesnt he

well any excuse for me to drag up n old thread

which i made

you hush lordy lol

nice description shadowy, its been informative, is that what he predicted before it actually happened.....the fall of morgoth?

he predicts alot of stuff

like when feanor and his posse go across the sea he says 'so it is doomed'
and everyones like 😑 and he is like not telling!

Originally posted by sauron
thats bull, well all know that chris tolkien is indeed exa

whoah-am i gay?

😆 ...you said it 😛

😖hifty: