Dueling Earworms

[iolanthe_chubb]

All day long these two poems have been duking it out in my head. Each has three verses, but they could not possibly be more different. First, the downer.

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AUTUMN

There is wind where the rose was

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[iolanthe_chubb]

>>>>>>I know that in Tolkien's worldview, Eru will finally fulfill and consummate all things, but in saying that, am I projecting what I know of Tolkien's outlook onto the narrative, or is that hope actually within the text itself?

I don't think you're projecting at all, although without the Arthrabeth Finrod ah Andreth we'd really be bereft of any sort of definite answer to that question (and it's more of a strong suggestion than an answer). Silm and Akallabeth are one long "fighting the long defeat" as Galadriel calls it. We don't meet Hope in the form of Estel until the latter days of the Third Age. Even he doesn't know because no Child of Arda can, but he chooses to believe that beyond the Circles of the World there is more than memory