The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. TolkienTOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works
To the Headsmans Axe
by Culumacilinte
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Summary
But Melkor came nigh then, and pressed himself against Mairon’s back, so that he needed to bend to speak in his ear, and his cloak of darkness drew about them. To any who might have seen, those two together were a sight of surpassing beauty. Mairon was as if a brand of gold and orange and yellow, a blazing star amid Melkor’s darkness, made the brighter and hotter by it, and the blackness in which Melkor arrayed himself seemed an endless, velvet void.
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