Story Tolkien: Unfading Shores for the Classic Music Mini-Game Challenge

Thanks to @Pandora for this majestic prompt!
#1 for the Classical Music Challenge is Summer (from the Four Seasons) by Antonio Vivaldi.

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Middle-Earth knew the four seasons throughout all the Ages of struggle against Sauron. There were bastions of unalloyed loveliness in Rivendell and Lothlorien.

The Eldar and those who strove the hardest longed for the unfading shores of Valinor.

Galadriel was one whose long years had seen more sorrows than most, but she had glimpsed much joy. She had imparted no small measure of courage to those whose paths crossed hers.

When she returned to Valinor, where summer never turned to the slow passage into the chill of autumn, her heart and mind could find respite and tranquility again.

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Galadriel and summer in Valinor, beautiful

 

So peaceful and lovely! Love seeing all the creativity these challenges are inspiring!

 

I absolutely love your Middle Earth pieces, Nyota. Especially the ones with Galadriel. She is like the mother of middle Earth. Wise loving compassionate understanding Honest. However there is another quality that I can't quite pinpoint. I think radiant laced with melancholy.

 

Oh that is gorgeously insightful and certainly she would have that radiance mingled with sorrow.

 

Thank you so much! I always strive for the majestic elegance and wisdom with Galadriel. Valinor, it resonates with me on SO MANY LEVELS! The tranquility and serenity where hearts and spirits can heal

 

I'm not too familiar with Tolkien's mythos, but I can see how well the season summer fits here: both for Valinor (that is where the elves and Frodo go on the grey ships, right?) where it is always summer, and--with summer representing the youthful stage of one's life--the elves themselves, who live forever, and stay in the summer of their lives for so long. "Thy eternal summer shall not fade," indeed.

But if you live for thousands of years, as Galadriel has, you will encounter both the summer and deathly winter of life, and it's understandable that she wishes to find both rest and healing.

Thanks for writing this for my challenge!