Binary Bonsai

“Then Melkor saw what was done, and that the Valar walked on Earth as powers visible, clad in the raiment of the World, and were lovely and glorious to see and blissful, and that the Earth was becoming as a garden for their delight, for its turmoils were subdued. His envy grew then the greater within him ; and he also took visible form, but because of this mood and malice that burned in him that form was dark and terrible. And he descended upon Arda in power and majesty greater than any of the other Valar, as a mountain that wades in the sea and has its head above the clouds and is crowned with smoke and fire ; and the light of the eyes of Melkor was like a flame that withers with heat and pierces with a deadly cold.

Thus began the first battle with the Valar and Melkor for the dominion of Arda.”

- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarilion, ill. edn, Harper Collins, 1998, p. 21.

There you go! Now that is the proper way to start this blog. Very end-of-the-worldish, very geekish and a beautiful piece of writing.

I’m just up, it’s over noon, dammit I need to get to work on this WWII project again today. Oh well.