The Light of Valinor
the light of the Two Trees; the glory of the Blessed Realm
Definition
The Light of Valinor — the light of the The Two Trees of Valinor in the years before the Sun and Moon — is the radiance that: the mingled gold-and-silver glow of Telperion and Laurelin over the Blessed Realm. It is the symbolic “first light” of the world — “the morning of Arda” — the light in which the Eldar of Aman were born to the full and.
The Meaning of the Light
- The mark of the Calaquendi: The Elves who saw the Trees carried the light in their eyes; the Sindar and others (the Moriquendi) never did — the division of the “Elves of the Light” and the “Elves of the Darkness” is literally this: having or not having seen the Two Trees.
- Its carriers: The light was caught in the Silmarils; reflected (in the later sciences) in the last fruit and flower (the Sun and Moon); carried by the exiles in their being — Galadriel’s hair, is the lore’s emblem of the light’s survival (Fëanor desired it; Gimli later admires it — beyond scope).
- The loss and the hope: With the death of the Trees the light “failed” — the world walked in “the twilight” — and its return (the rekindling at the Dagor Dagorath) is the mythology’s eschatological candle.
Significance
The Light of Valinor is the mythological “unfallen light” — the primal brightness at which all the later lights (the sun and the moon) are pale copies; the measure of beauty against which every loss and every Silmaril is weighed, and the emblem of the divine presence in the world from which the fall separated the exiles.
Related
Werke: die Quellen sind seitenübergreifend die Bücher von J.R.R. und Christopher Tolkien (Silmarillion, Hobbit, Herr der Ringe, Unfinished Tales, History of Middle-earth, Nature of Middle-earth u. a.) — eigene Zusammenfassung. Siehe die Concordance und den README der Quelle für die Einzelbelege.
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