Tolkien's Lore and On Ungoliant

  The Song of Eru: The Song of Creation With breath before all being, I shaped the stars in thought. A melody of timeless grace, With love and purpose wrought. Let peace be born in golden chords, And wisdom in each line, Let beauty rise with every note, In harmony divine. O voices pure, arise and sing, Let joy your music bring. Together we shall weave the light, And set the world to wing. One theme, one will, in unity, A song of sacred harmony. Instrumental and Explanation:      I chose “Tavern” by Jan Valta ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vExdKZ0Lby4 ) as the instrumental component to Eru’s song of creation, and I did so because of the joyous and peaceful nature of the song. I felt that this piece of music was a good representation of how a song of creation, a music meant to be made completely of goodness and to not have been touched by the evils yet to come, might sound. I had some trouble in coming up with the lyrics, as this was the more di...

     I am called many things - spider, shadow, void. But my true name, the one I keep hidden even from those of the Valar, is Ungoliant, and I am the ever thirsting darkness. I was not made for the light, nor do I crave its beauty. I am hunger, endless and insatiable. Some whisper that I was once a spirit of great power who turned from the order of the Valar. I remember only that I fled to the dark places of the world, weaving webs in the silent chasms, where even the air grew heavy with despair. There, I fed on all that shone, until no light remained around me. My form is terrible to behold. The Elves would call me monstrous, for I wear the shape of a vast spider, though I am more than flesh - I am shadow made solid. My body is swollen with the light I have devoured, my legs long and sharp, and my eyes glow faintly with stolen fire. But always, always, I hunger. When I swallow radiance, I grow in might, and yet the emptiness gnaws deeper within me. I am not good. Nor wou...