#13: Eru's Second Great Bait-and-Switch
Date: Before the Sun and Moon
My Mood Is: aggravated
Sorry I haven't posted in a little while, things have been very hectic here in Arda. And I am NOT happy.
The Vision of the Ainulindalë showed us a world vast in time and space. Well, that's not what we got. Eä itself is finite in scope, with beginning and end, and so seems tiny and cramped compared to the Infinite Realms of the Timeless Halls of Ilúvatar.
But we don't GET to live in Eä. Oh no. Surprising, isn't it, since Eru never told us anything of the kind before we committed to this?
No, we Ainur are confined to Arda, a tiny sphere in the center of Eä. The whole damn thing's only a few tens of thousands of miles across. And outside of it, all is Dark and Void.
So, in all the infinite and immeasurable vastness of spacetime, we, the Ainur, the First and True Children of Ilúvatar, greatest all all beings save One, must slum around on a tiny planet surrounded by walls of firmament.
This sucks balls.
Well, you might say, at least you get to rule over Arda, right? A world of light and life and fire and ice? Filled with delicious animals and servile mortals, right?
No. Arda is filled with Dark and Void, as well.
You see, Eru showed us a preview of the World, but He didn't bother to actually create it. WE have to create it. Molecule by molecule, stone by stone.
Something He also failed to mention.
There's one more thing He forgot to tell us, and even more than our virtual imprisonment, and the long hard labour before us, this irks the hell out of me.
You see, when we Ainur arrived, "first" of all beings to dwell in Arda -- there was already somebody here.
My Mood Is: aggravated
Sorry I haven't posted in a little while, things have been very hectic here in Arda. And I am NOT happy.
The Vision of the Ainulindalë showed us a world vast in time and space. Well, that's not what we got. Eä itself is finite in scope, with beginning and end, and so seems tiny and cramped compared to the Infinite Realms of the Timeless Halls of Ilúvatar.
But we don't GET to live in Eä. Oh no. Surprising, isn't it, since Eru never told us anything of the kind before we committed to this?
No, we Ainur are confined to Arda, a tiny sphere in the center of Eä. The whole damn thing's only a few tens of thousands of miles across. And outside of it, all is Dark and Void.
So, in all the infinite and immeasurable vastness of spacetime, we, the Ainur, the First and True Children of Ilúvatar, greatest all all beings save One, must slum around on a tiny planet surrounded by walls of firmament.
This sucks balls.
Well, you might say, at least you get to rule over Arda, right? A world of light and life and fire and ice? Filled with delicious animals and servile mortals, right?
No. Arda is filled with Dark and Void, as well.
You see, Eru showed us a preview of the World, but He didn't bother to actually create it. WE have to create it. Molecule by molecule, stone by stone.
Something He also failed to mention.
There's one more thing He forgot to tell us, and even more than our virtual imprisonment, and the long hard labour before us, this irks the hell out of me.
You see, when we Ainur arrived, "first" of all beings to dwell in Arda -- there was already somebody here.
posted by Sauron at 4:16 PM
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