"And It Is Told Of Maglor That He Could Not Endure The Pain With Which The Silmaril Tormented Him; And

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“That is the way I want to write—rich and rhythmic—heavy, sonorous prose that befits those mythic ambiguities that are both source and structure to an aesthetic experience symbolized by language—”

— Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

Pride & Prejudice, dir. Joe Wright

O DEATHLESS SEA / irene by simon harsent / the invading surf by frederick judd waugh / the mediterranean in the ancient world by fernand braudel (trans. siân reynolds) / stormy sea by ivan konstantinovich aivazovsky / dancing in odessa by ilya kaminsky / i lived the beloved name by odysseus elytis (trans. olga broumas & t. begley) / strong winds and high tides battered a coastal road close to newtownards, northern ireland by peter morrison /  shipwreck off the cliffs of dover at night with dover castle in the distance by eugène lepoittevin / the odyssey, book 13 by homer (trans. emily wilson) / seebild by ingo kühl

"I wish I had done everything on earth with you."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

-Painting by Ron Hicks

Fëanor but if he was a fae king

Live slowly enough to think deeply about God.

OCCUPATION: was High King of the Noldor

CAUSE OF DEATH: was High King of the Noldor

i love the conclave. what do you mean the entire world has tv cameras trained on the chimney of an old italian palace waiting for days or weeks until the color of the smoke changes and we find out who’s been elected as the next supreme dictator of catholicism

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, from a letter featured in The Life & Letters of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky