Shores of Valinor Discussions - Soul Star Travelers of Elven World2024-03-28T12:02:01Zhttps://elvenworld.ning.com/groups/group/forum?groupUrl=shores-of-valinor&feed=yes&xn_auth=noBanishing ritual from Valinortag:elvenworld.ning.com,2023-01-08:2735650:Topic:1103702023-01-08T10:32:01.691ZMorell Sunweaverhttps://elvenworld.ning.com/profile/Morell
<p>When you want to start occult practice, the first thing along with meditating and focus training you start doing daily first ritual and that's banishing ritual. This ritual is very fast and easy, but as one who has no use of abrahamic religions, all banishing rites were useless for me, who walks with the elves and Valar. So after finding a "blueprint" I designed banishing rite that suits my way. For short I'll say VBR.</p>
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<p>When you want to start occult practice, the first thing along with meditating and focus training you start doing daily first ritual and that's banishing ritual. This ritual is very fast and easy, but as one who has no use of abrahamic religions, all banishing rites were useless for me, who walks with the elves and Valar. So after finding a "blueprint" I designed banishing rite that suits my way. For short I'll say VBR.</p>
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<p>Banishing ritual is building and reclaiming your personal space and aligning yourself with powers, that are helping you to achieve this goal. For this version of the rite you need to know the directions (north, east, south, west) of the place where you are, but if you can't figure them out, just trust and don't bother too much.</p>
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<p><strong>East</strong> is asigned to the element of <strong>air</strong> and air is rulled by <strong>Manwe</strong></p>
<p><strong>South</strong> is asigned to the element of <strong>fire</strong> and fire is rulled by <strong>Melkor</strong></p>
<p><strong>West</strong> is asigned to the element of <strong>water</strong> and water is rulled by <strong>Ulmo</strong></p>
<p><strong>North</strong> is asigned to the element of <strong>earth</strong> and earth is rulled by <strong>Aule</strong></p>
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<p>In this ritual two more directions are added, up and down:</p>
<p><strong>Up</strong>, the heaven is place of hope and future, the realm of the <strong>stars</strong> that are rulled by <strong>Varda</strong></p>
<p><strong>Down</strong>, the underground is place of past and wisdom of the <strong>ancestors</strong> and is rulled by <strong>Námo</strong></p>
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<p>Why Melkor rulling the fire?</p>
<p>Well, for light sake, all those tales of SIlmarilion happened thousands of years ago, time moves on. It's about time we forgive and start again with Melkor. I doubt he would survive so long beyond Arda with his life bound to it. Probably vala spend enough time with Eru to understand what was wrong. Let us all make peace instead of oppening old wounds. Can we?</p>
<p>(also it was Melkor, who convinced me to share this rite publicly, so if you like it, thank him.)</p>
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<p>Why Manwe on the East?</p>
<p>Arda is round now, so where are evil nalds? On East or on the west? Also if you still aren't convinced, start rite with imagining standing int he middle of Valinor.</p>
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<p>Last thing to have prepared ahead:</p>
<p>If you have some sort of sigil of power you love to use, master drawing it in air. Common one is pentagram, that can be drawn on paper in one stroke. You may also use special sigil for each element, along with light and darkness.</p>
<p>For the rite to be effective this is however not necessary at all.</p>
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<p><strong>So, let's begin.</strong></p>
<p>Stand up where you have some space around you, facing east. Take few breaths to relax and calm your mind.</p>
<p>Extend your hand and point to the East. Say the name of power of air, Manwe, and imagine light blue energy orb appearing in front of you. Then draw the symbol of power.</p>
<p>Slowly turn to the south, drawing silver line with your finger.</p>
<p>Pointing to the south say the name of power of fire, Melkor, and imagine firely energy orb appearing in front of you. Then draw the symbol of power.</p>
<p>Slowly turn to the west, drawing silver line with your finger.</p>
<p>Pointing to the west say the name of power of water, Ulmo, and imagine deep blue-green energy orb appearing in front of you. Then draw the symbol of power.</p>
<p>Slowly turn to the north, drawing silver line with your finger.</p>
<p>Pointing to the north say the name of power of earth, Aule, and imagine deep green energy orb appearing in front of you. Then draw the symbol of power.</p>
<p>Slowly turn to the east, drawing silver line with your finger.</p>
<p>Slowly raise your hand up, drawing silver line with your finger.</p>
<p>Pointing up say the name of power of light, Varda, and imagine white energy orb appearing in front of you, along with many stars on the sky. Then draw the symbol of power.</p>
<p>Slowly lower your hand down to the west side,(behind you, Ulmo), then lover it down, pointing at the ground right in front of your legs, all the way drawing silver line with your finger.</p>
<p>Pointing down say the name of power of darkness, Námo, and imagine gery energy orb appearing in front of you, along with bones and souls of your ancestors, filled with wisdom guiding you. Then draw the symbol of power.</p>
<p>Slowly raise your hand drawing silver line to the East (In front of you, Manwe) then up to the sky (Varda), then down to the south (Melkor), down to the ground (Námo) and bach up to the north (Aule) and up to the sky again (Varda)</p>
<p>Then put your hand on your heart, being surrounded by energetic protection, through which the enregy and protection of the Valar surrounding you flows.</p>
<p>Now say "Ea!" And draw three deep breaths, inhaling gaining the strength and blessing in, exhaling filling your space by the light shining from you.</p>
<p>After that cross your hands on your chest, this hand pose stops any energy work and ends the rite.</p>
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<p>The rite is part of magic training, so it is recommend to do it very often, recommended is doing it four times a day, morning, noon, evening, and before going to bed, or if you don't sleep for whatever reason, then midnight.</p>
<p>Doing it this often alows the mind to do some real practice in sensing spiritual world and is active training your imagination.</p>
<p>If you sense nothing at first, it is completely normal. Mind must be trained to do magic effectively. But even first attempt is the beginning and that counts. But it counts way more if you practice actively as then your ability to do this work will grow.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>I don't fear a warrior who practiced thousand moves one time, but I'm deadly scared of warrior, who practiced one move thousand times.</em></p> Working with the Valartag:elvenworld.ning.com,2022-07-25:2735650:Topic:1084222022-07-25T05:59:54.577ZMorell Sunweaverhttps://elvenworld.ning.com/profile/Morell
<p>I became really interested in working with these great spirits. Is someone here with some experience working with them? I'd like to get some ideas on how to improve my own ways.</p>
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<p>I became really interested in working with these great spirits. Is someone here with some experience working with them? I'd like to get some ideas on how to improve my own ways.</p>
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<p style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Trigger warning; a lot of provocative thoughts for Tolkien Literalists… (also the quotes I translate from cz version from my memory)</strong></p>
<p>The royal Valar, as I call them, are of mystery, that goes far deeper once I began to wonder about them concerning practice of devotion and learnig about them from them… just as well as thinking about them in light of other traditions from the world, that are less… like chrystianity.</p>
<p>Just to make some…</p>
<p style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Trigger warning; a lot of provocative thoughts for Tolkien Literalists… (also the quotes I translate from cz version from my memory)</strong></p>
<p>The royal Valar, as I call them, are of mystery, that goes far deeper once I began to wonder about them concerning practice of devotion and learnig about them from them… just as well as thinking about them in light of other traditions from the world, that are less… like chrystianity.</p>
<p>Just to make some obvious things set, Varda is wife of Manwe and she knew Melkor before the world began. Manwe is lord of the wind, the king of the Valar, with deep connection to Eru, Melkor rules frost, fire and darkness. Varda is queen of light and beauty, that reflects wisdom of Eru, probably.</p>
<p><a href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/48/b9/d7/48b9d728c7f28b173f599fadd52ff5d3.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/48/b9/d7/48b9d728c7f28b173f599fadd52ff5d3.png?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a><br/> From the spirits I got the note, that Varda is lover of Melkor and it resonated true. It does makes sense, lord of darkness with lady of light, doesn’t it? You can see the stars only during the night, in realm of Melkor. It makes me think why being wife of Manwe, when she loves Melkor who she works and dances with? Possible answer might be that wile Mlekor is firely pleasure Varda enjoys as it fuels her light, Melkor is too chaotic for real engagement, simply said he was no wedding material. Manwe on the other hand could give her safety as he is calmer than his brother and more stable. Although it is highly unlikely that Melkor would ever harm Varda, as he indeed loves her, he would here and then tire of her and seek other interests.</p>
<p><br/> Relationship between the brothers is fascinating. As brothers in soul they could also be twins. Wind and chaos, or wind and freedom are not that far from each other. They are very much like blood brothers Odin and Loki, but not the same. They too share many attributes, actually more than is obvious. (includes that who serves the one, serves the other as well, most likely) Who say Manwe is harmless, reread about eagle shaped winds above Númenor killing humans with lightening, which is power of Manwe. This was not done by Osse, as he doesn’t shape clouds. In fact storms are work of three elements; air, water and fire, together fused in lightening. Manwe works with Ulmo playing with water shaping clouds, but he also works with Melkor using lightening and setting fires, causing damage and even killing. Manwe probably prefers when Melkor goes with him as he follows Eru’s will way more and can guide Melkors powers more in line with the intentions of the One.</p>
<p>Being twin-soul with Melkor might go far deeper than between Odin and Loki, but in the end outcome is probably the same. Once one is killed the other one dies as well. Just like in Ragnarok, where Loki dies one death and Odin another one, seemingly unrelated, with Manwe and Melkor it probably goes that either the similarity between them suggest that they are in a way one, having but one life together (like Siamese souls with one heart) or it goes the way that killing Melkor removes the darkness and light without it goes out of all control and burns everything, till it evaporates into nothing.</p>
<p>Tolkien writes that before Melkor comes to destroy the world that even Valar will be jealous of the gift of humans. After some thinking it became obvious to me why they would come to such state of mind, which could also be described as wish to die. (suicide thoughts) Answer was actually written at the beginning of Hobbit. Hobbits live in the way of predictability. There are norms to keep and everyone who doesn’t fit into them slightly is weirdo, who doesn’t fit little more is social outcast. These norms are to be kept and the more you keep them, the more revered you are. Baggins were revered for being just as predictable. “You could say what Baggins will answer you even before you asked the question.” Also there is note that Bilbo says when he realizes that he speaks with Gandalf, the note that he caused many people to go on adventures and into danger and that life used to be far more interesting thanks to that. Once all dark lords are removed from the Middle-Earth, all unknown is starting to fade away and entire world is on the way to become like the Shire: predictable, known even before you start asking. By removing the unknown, or the chaos, that is Melkor, you get machine without any amazement, any surprise, any joy as that lasts only that long and then turns into boredom as life is change and change is gift of Melkor. (only such ideal beings that you can always perfectly know their answers before asking are brainless machines; that is actually scary thought)</p>
<p><br/> Just to sort out some relationships between the three…</p>
<p>Melkor – Manwe</p>
<p>Air (oxygen) is esencial for fire, it would be extinguished without air</p>
<p>Fire/heat, and also cold, causes movements of the atmosphere, so it is essential for “birth” of wind</p>
<p>(these shows how Manwe and Melkor are connected through their “life,” one being heart of the other)</p>
<p><br/> Melkor – Varda</p>
<p>Quote: The brightest light casts the darkest shadow</p>
<p>Quote: In the night that is darkest, the stars shine the brightest</p>
<p>(worth meditating and contemplating about, worth a lot of research and thinking)</p>
<p>Dance of light and darkness...</p>
<p><br/> Manwe – Varda</p>
<p>Winds move clouds covering or uncovering the stars, like hiding them from the world or uncovering them to it</p>
<p>Light reveals the quality of air</p>
<p>Sun, the day star (fire of Melkor, light of Varda), causes the warming of Earth and moving of wind</p>
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<p>In the end no matter which one of the three you pick, the one is balancer of other two:<br/>Manwe: Balancing light of Varda and Darkness of Melkor<br/>Melkor: Balancing Heavenly nature of Varda and Earthly of Manwe<br/>Varda: Balancing chaos of Melkor and order of Manwe</p>
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<p>When you take Tarot cards, you might get to the tale, that a Mage and Priestess are the parents of the Empress. It could also go for an Emperor. Still you get to the trinity, that is also deified in Christianity; father (god), mother (holy spirit), and son. Melkor as master of both fire and frost embodies the mage, Varda with her light and patience is priestess. Both are like extremes, being lord of darkness and lady of light, giving birth to the third being, the emperor in this case. Makes sense, considering that both darkness and light are heavenly aspects, while air is between heaven and earth. It also fits with ancient myths of creation, first is one, then two, they create third and then many are created.</p>
<p>And Manwe being third and representing balance, the mind that rules and freely moves between the extremes, was the fated emperor of all that was created further.</p>
<p><br/> Tell me, how strange this got for you?</p> Elven language courses - nicely donetag:elvenworld.ning.com,2021-11-13:2735650:Topic:1053852021-11-13T16:39:20.679ZMorell Sunweaverhttps://elvenworld.ning.com/profile/Morell
<p>I think I should note here these interesting courses I'm trying to persuade myself to work with as they are amazing.</p>
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<p>All courses are in pdf for free, but you can also buy a paperbook version, which I think is incredible approach. I already have my paper ones, as I found out that I like paper better and I like the courses.…</p>
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<p>I think I should note here these interesting courses I'm trying to persuade myself to work with as they are amazing.</p>
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<p>All courses are in pdf for free, but you can also buy a paperbook version, which I think is incredible approach. I already have my paper ones, as I found out that I like paper better and I like the courses.</p>
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<p>Also, this is not on this site, but very useful pdf as well, about writing and reading in tengwar.</p>
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<p>This was cute experience. Although I'm used to way more profi speakers, the lady is doing her best and that counts.</p>
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<p>I wanna open the topic on elven rituals here, because this video made me wonder about them. This is apparently adapted wicca, which comes from golden dawn... which comes from more ancient sources.</p>
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<p>This was cute experience. Although I'm used to way more profi speakers, the lady is doing her best and that counts.</p>
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<p>I wanna open the topic on elven rituals here, because this video made me wonder about them. This is apparently adapted wicca, which comes from golden dawn... which comes from more ancient sources.</p>
<p>I agree that it is very usable even for the elves. The resources from evles who remember their past lives are rare and they seem to rather adapt earthly ways. Valar are earthlings or as I love to say, Ardarians, after all as well so why not.</p>
<p>Still it is somehow not enough to me. Elven path is more than rituals to celebrate and history. It is also personal growth and realization. I still wonder how can one achieve that?</p>
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<p>Source: <a href="https://www.best-poems.net/j_r_r_tolkien/elbereth.html">https://www.best-poems.net/j_r_r_tolkien/elbereth.html</a></p>
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<p>Snow-white! Snow-white! O lady clear!<br/>O Queen beyond the Western Sea!<br/>O Light to us that wander here<br/>Amid the world of woven trees!<br/>Gilthoniel! O Elbereth!<br/>Clear are thy eyes and bright thy breath.<br/>Snow-white! Snow-white! We sing to thee<br/>In a far land beyond the Sea.<br/>O stars that in the Sunless Year<br/>With shining hand by her were sown,<br/>In windy fields now bright and clear<br/>We see your silver blossom blown.<br/>O Elbereth! Gilthoniel!<br/>We still remember, we who dwell<br/>In this far land beneath the trees,<br/>Thy starlight on the Western Seas.<br/>A Elbereth Gilthoniel,<br/>Silivren penna miriel<br/>O menal aglar elenath!<br/>Na-chaered palan-diriel<br/>O galadhremmin ennorath,<br/>Fanuilos, le linnathon<br/>nef aear, si nef aearon!<br/>Ai! laurie lantar lassi surinen!<br/>Yeni unotime ve ramar aldaron,<br/>Yeni ve linte yuldar vanier<br/>Mi oromardi lisse-miruvoreva<br/>Andune pella Vardo tellumar<br/>Nu luini yassen tintilar i eleni<br/>Omaryo airetari-lirinen.<br/>Si man i yulma nin enquantuva?<br/>An si Tintalle Varda Oilosseo<br/>Ve fanyar maryat Elentari ortane,<br/>Ar ilye tier undulare lumbule;<br/>Ar sindanoriello caita mornie<br/>I falmalinnar imbe met, ar hisie<br/>Untupa Calaciryo miri oiale.<br/>Si vanwa na, Romello vanwa, Valimar!<br/>Namarie! Nai hiruvalye Valimar.<br/>Nai elye hiruva. Namarie!<br/>Ah! Like gold fall the leaves in the wind,<br/>Long years numberless as the wings of trees!<br/>The long years have passed like swift draughts of the sweet mead<br/>In lofty halls beyond the West<br/>Beneath the blue vaults of Varda<br/>Wherein the stars tremble in the song of her voice,<br/>Holy and queenly.<br/>Who now shall refill the cup for me?<br/>For now the Kindler, Varda,<br/>The Queen of the Stars, from Mount Everwhite<br/>Has uplifted her hands like clouds,<br/>And all paths are drowned deep in shadow;<br/>And out of a grey country darkness lies on the foaming waves between us,<br/>And mist covers the jewels of Calacirya for ever.<br/>Now lost, lost to those from the East is Valimar!<br/>Farewell! Maybe thou shalt find Valimar.<br/>Maybe even thou shalt find it! Farewell!<br/>Gilthoniel A Elbereth!<br/>A Elbereth Gilthoniel<br/>O menel palan-diriel,<br/>Le nallon si dinguruthos!<br/>A tiro nin, Fanuilos!<br/>A! Elbereth Gilthoniel!<br/>Silivren penna miriel<br/>O menal aglar elenath,<br/>Gilthoniel, A! Elbereth!<br/>We still remember, we who dwell<br/>In this far land beneath the trees<br/>Thy starlight on the Western Seas.</p> In Elven Lands Music Albums - Composer Carvin Knowles - Oglio Records..tag:elvenworld.ning.com,2019-01-29:2735650:Topic:612122019-01-29T00:28:20.714ZᏉℓἇ∂ἇ ኔጡ።https://elvenworld.ning.com/profile/VladaMikahlSchoon
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<em>In 1992, composer Carvin Knowles attended an exhibit at Oxford University, celebrating the J.R.R. Tolkien Centennial. There, on display, were many of Tolkien's handwritten manuscripts which appeared, at first, to be so many early mediaeval texts. In that moment, the concept of using musicological techniques to reconstruct the music of Tolkien's…</em></div>
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<em>In 1992, composer Carvin Knowles attended an exhibit at Oxford University, celebrating the J.R.R. Tolkien Centennial. There, on display, were many of Tolkien's handwritten manuscripts which appeared, at first, to be so many early mediaeval texts. In that moment, the concept of using musicological techniques to reconstruct the music of Tolkien's ancient worlds was born.</em><br/></div>
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<div id="story" style="text-align: center;"><em>When The Fellowship began recording IN ELVEN LANDS on boxing day 1998, it was their intent to create the same kind of musicological experience you might have while listening to the historical re-creations of René Clemencic, Phillip Pickett, David Monroe, The Jay Consort and Sequentia. Those musicologists, in particular, performed music from ancient sources in an entertaining way, so as to bring those ancient texts to life, warts and all. Knowles was particularly drawn to the Carmina Burana, and even more so, ancient Christmas music, with it's carols that included smatterings of Old English, Old French and Latin, in a mish-mash of cultural cross-reference, pointing at a mix of tradition and a miraculous tale of religious and cultural importance.</em><br/> <br/> <em>At first, it was their intent to set Professor Tolkien's lyrics to music. In The Lord of the Rings alone, there are descriptions of some fifty songs, many with complete lyrics. But getting permission from the Tolkien Estate to set his lyrics to music is notoriously difficult. Their first attempts to get permission to record Tolkien's lyrics failed. In order to continue The Fellowship would need original lyrics that didn't infringe on Tolkien's copyrights.... but what they really needed was an ancient manuscript of Eldarin literature, a corrupt copy of a copy, just as Tolkien had described.</em><br/> <br/> <br/><h1><em>Tolkien the Translator</em></h1>
<em>Throughout most of J.R.R. Tolkien's works, the author presents the idea that he was translating an ancient text from one of many ancient and lost languages. Recent studies of Tolkien's early papers from <a href="http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/3305/tolkien_sales_are_not_very_great" target="blank">The University of Leeds</a> would indicate that the idea dates from the beginning of his career and was part of the author's sense of humor. Considering his work translating The Book of Job for The Jerusalem Bible, and Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, it is clear that he had plenty of experience with ancient manuscripts.</em></div>
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<div id="story" style="text-align: center;"><em>In the Introduction and Appendices to The Lord of the Rings, Professor Tolkien claims that he translated the text from the Red Book of Westmarch. He speaks of multiple corrupt copies of the text and corrupt copies of copies. The Silmarillion makes reference to Tolkien's unfinished works The Lay of Leithian and The Lays of Beleriand as if they were well-known epic poems. The idea of the author translating these old myths and legends rather than inventing them himself permeates those stories, and leads many readers to forget that they are tales from the mind of a single man, taking them as real events.</em><br/> <br/> <em>But in a strange, academic way, those ancient manuscripts did exist in the form of Professor Tolkien's notes and unpublished tales, which outlined languages, histories and etymologies. In these notes, Tolkien composed epic romances to mimic the alliterative poetic style of the Saxons or the folk poetry of the English countryside. In every case, the good professor presents a fully-formed civilisation replete with annotations that would be the envy of any ancient civilisation, real or imagined.</em><br/> <br/> <br/><h1><em>The Tîr Im Psalter</em></h1>
<em>Knowles writes "The concept of a 'lost manuscript' had been in my mind since that day in Oxford, back in 1992. It was reinforced by reading Tolkien's The Book of Lost Tales in the mid-90s. So I took the opportunity to create our ancient manuscript by writing new lyrics in Elvish." In the late 1990s, resources were limited to whatever books the band could find or order. There were no internet resources for Elvish languages at the time and the Etymologies hadn't been published...but for creating a "corrupt manuscript" those resources which they could find would be enough. </em></div>
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<div id="story" style="text-align: center;"><em>A strong operative principal in Tolkien's linguistic work is the way languages change over time, as witnessed by his artificial evolution of Sindarin which he describes as "changing with the changefulness of the tongues of men." The new "manuscript" would explore this linguistic evolution, so that each lyric is in a different dialect from the last. In the composition of lyrics, they sometimes created compound-words from existing vocabulary. Before long, the ancient manuscript began to take shape.</em><br/> <br/> <em>The Tir Im Psalter is decribed as "the most recent Eldarin text and, without a doubt, the most corrupt." According to the album notes, "the book was handwritten by no less than four different scribes, using at least four different writing systems and three different languages. In places, it is illustrated with brightly coloured inks, paints and both silver and gold leaf. </em><br/> <br/> <em>"There is evidence on the leather back cover that it was stored in a wooden box, where it was eventually water damaged, especially near the back pages of the book. In the 18th century, a book-moth destroyed four pages and damaged several others near the middle....The languages which appear in The Tir Im Psalter are Quenya, Sindarin and an early form of Anglo-Saxon. But the languages and their usage have caused great debate amongst linguistic scholars. Quenya was the ceremonial language of the Eldar, and while it uses the same letters as Sindarin, their spelling practices are quite different. Several of the Tir Im scribes mix the two in their texts. Helge Fauskanger wrote in his commentary that it is clear that some of the author(s) were not fluent in Quenya. He decribed some of their use of grammar as "idiosyncratic" and one hymn to Illúvatar as a kind of "Pidgin Quenya." Yet buried among the corrupt texts lies at least one complete, perfect example of the ceremonial language." </em><br/> <br/> <em>Several portions of The Tir Im Psalter have been produced as actual manuscript and are printed as "colour plates" in the album notes.</em><br/> <br/> <br/><h1><em>Reconstruction Practices</em></h1>
<em>Treating Professor Tolkien's works as historical sources, Knowles applied reconstructive practices to find out how the music of Middle-Earth might have sounded.</em><br/> <br/> <em>The process took into account Tolkien's descriptions of singing styles and musical instruments, as well as the natural rhythm of the languages and poetic metres he employed. In the literary context of many of Tolkien's songs, the performer is often described not as singing but as chanting the lyrics. Most ancient chant derives its rhythm from the words and poetic forms, of the lyrics. Since The Tir Im Psalter drew its poetic metres from Professor Tolkien's writings, the rhythms of those songs would naturally be the rhythms that belong to Tolkien's languages.</em><br/> <br/> <em>Tolkien's Elvish languages contain words used to describe poetic "mode," much like the "rhythmic modes" of 12th century Troubadour music, these modes provide a vital clue as to the accent used in Elvish languages, by telling us which syllables of each word are to be emphasized. The most simple explanation is that, like their mediæval counterparts, they divide poetic rhythms into long-short, short-long, long-short-short etc. By establishing the rhythm of these languages, The Fellowship used their "natural" rhythm to provide the rhythm for their musical setting.</em><br/> <br/> <em>When it comes to melodies, however, they needed to look to a figure from the ancient Classical world for help.</em></div>
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<div id="story" style="text-align: center;"><em>Pythagoras of Samos (c. 582 b.c.e. - c. 507 b.c.e.) was the father of arithmetic, geometry and music theory. Perhaps Pythagoras' greatest contributions to music theory were the Greek Modes (often referred to as the Church Modes because of their influence on Gregorian Chant). Named for different regions of the ancient Greek Empire, these Modes were a series scales, each with a different interval structure. The Major and Minor scales that are so common today were only two of those Modes. These Greek Modes allowed The Fellowship to explore a wide variety of melodic styles from the ancient world.</em></div>
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<div id="story" style="text-align: center;"><em>Most of the music for IN ELVEN LANDS uses a harmony system called organum. Organum emphasises the pythagorean "perfect" intervals of the fourth, fifth and octave. Organum takes three forms or "species;" parallel, oblique and contrary. Parallel organum is quite simply the perfect intervals moving together in block harmonies. Oblique organum begins with the harmony voice staying on one note, like a drone, until the distance between the harmonies becomes a perfect interval, at which point the voices remain parallel until it is time for them to converge, at the end of a phrase. Contrary organum is created by voices moving in opposite directions, landing on perfect intervals at the strong beats, or at the beginnings of important words. In practice, these three forms of organum were mixed liberally in a given work of music, however some styles of music would favour one "species" of organum over another, for example: Oblique organum was important in the composition of mediæval motets, while contrary organum appears in 13th century dance music. </em><br/> <br/> <em>Just as Tolkien's works are strongly influenced by ancient literary forms, IN ELVEN LANDS was influenced by Troubador virelais, Notre Dame conducti, the hymns of Hildegard von Bingen, the Carmina Burana, Macedonian folk-dances, Gregorian Chant, Minnesinger melodies, English country-dance tunes and thirteenth-century polyphonic dances.</em><br/> <br/> <em>From the beginning of the project until recording began was just over six years. The process of recording for the "First Edition" release in 2006 took another seven years. </em><br/> <br/></div>
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<div id="story" style="text-align: center;"><h1 style="text-align: center;"><em>The First Edition</em></h1>
<em>The first release of IN ELVEN LANDS was in January 2006 on Voiceprint Records, an English record label dedicated to Progressive Rock. The album was an odd fit for the record company and the entire release relied upon an English rock star appearing on the album. The deal was made, but the process compromised the project's unique integrity. While illustrations from The Tir Im Psalter were used in the packaging, no mention of the manuscript was made. But even worse, the entire album was often attributed to the record label's rock star. In just over three years, the album went out of print.</em><br/> <br/></div>
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<div id="story" style="text-align: center;"><h1 style="text-align: center;">The Second Edition</h1>
<em>For the new second edition, released by <a href="http://www.oglio.com/" target="blank">Oglio Records</a> on 5 November, 2012, The Fellowship have made a few changes to bring the project closer to their original intent, including four previously un-released tracks, and the return to older versions of many of the songs.</em><br/> <br/> <em>Most noticeably, the lineup of The Fellowship has changed. The rock star from the first release is nowhere to be found. Instead, South African countertenor Stephen Diaz has joined the lineup to sing Elechoi Mirnu Aglaron, and the previously un-released work EIo Elleth. Also joining the project is Maori singer Dennise Pehi who sings The Canticle to Elbereth Gilthóniel.</em><br/> <br/> <em>This edition also features a completely new work which is a collaboration with one of the foremost experts on the Elvish languages, Helge Kåre Fauskanger. In the midst of all the "corrupt" versions of Tolkien's languages, Fauskanger's lyrics show the delicate beauty of well-written, un-corrupted high Quenya, sung as a simple chant.</em><br/></div>
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<div id="story" style="text-align: center;"><em>Also in the spirit of capturing the feeling of those raw, ancient manuscripts, The Fellowship have included a recording of J.R.R. Tolkien's chant Namárië, which recreates the author's first, "uncorrected" version that he recorded in 1952.</em><br/> <br/> <em>For the second edition of IN ELVEN LANDS, The Fellowship have re-recorded nearly half of the album. For those familiar with the original release, the second edition might appear to be an entirely new album. Perhaps in a very real way, that first edition was a corrupt copy of the original text, which now appears in the second edition. </em><br/> <br/> <em>The Fellowship are an all-acoustic ensemble. Their performances on IN ELVEN LANDS feature cello, harp, hurdy-gurdy, flutes, gongs, lute and an astounding array of other ancient and modern instruments.</em><br/> <br/> <br/></div>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>First conceived in 1992, IN ELVEN LANDS is a musicology experiment to find out how the music of J.R.R. Tolkien's "Middle-earth" may have sounded. Taking clues from descriptions of music and culture in "The Book of Lost Tales," "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of The Rings," The Fellowship began to reconstruct Tolkien's "ancient" cultures. After years of research, they began recording on Boxing Day of 1998, a journey that would take them more than seven years. The results of their labour, IN ELVEN LANDS is the fully realised music of an ancient, lost civilization. </em><br/> <br/> <em>The Fellowship take a musicological approach to imagine how the ancient cultures described by J.R.R. Tolkien might have sounded, performing on an all-acoustic array of ancient and modern instruments that includes harp, lute, hurdy-gurdy, krumhorn and gong. Their international cast of singers deliver stunning performances using dialects of Sindarin, Quenya, Anglo-Saxon and Modern English. </em><br/> <br/> <em>The Fellowship's songs are all drawn from aspects of J.R.R. Tolkien's myths of Middle-earth. The album title, "IN ELVEN LANDS" is taken from the lyrics of their song "Beware The Wolf": </em><br/></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><br/> <em>This digitally remastered Second Edition features previously unreleased material and several entirely new performances, including J.R.R. Tolkien's original song "Namárië", plus an entirely new song with lyrics by the noted Tolkien linguist <a href="http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Helge_Fauskanger" target="blank">Helge Kåre Fauskanger. </a></em><br/> <br/> <em>Digital album downloads include a fully illustrated 50-Page digital booklet with album notes and lyrics. </em><br/></p>
<div id="notice" style="text-align: center;"><em><b>DID YOU KNOW?</b> In 2015, The Fellowship were called upon to provide ancient-music performances of Elvish and Dwarvish music on ancient instruments for the documentaries for Sir Peter Jackson's films <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2310332/" target="blank"><b>The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies"</b></a> on the Extended Edition DVDs.</em></div>
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<div id="story" style="text-align: center;"><em>Silmesse is the best example of Quenya, the ceremonial language of the Eldar, to be found in the Tir Im Psalter. It appears just below a verse to Elbereth Gilthóniel which was written in a Sindarin dialect. Both text and the Tengwar spelling for Silmesse are very close to earlier versions found in much older manuscripts and was probably carefully copied by the first of the Tir Im scribes. </em><br/> <br/> <em>The poem its-self is is an affirmation of identity that poetically connects the singer with those first Elves who awoke to see the stars.</em></div>
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<div id="story" style="text-align: center;"><em>Elo Elleth was not included on the first release of In Elven Lands. It was composed in Sindarin, to suggest The Song of Beren and Luthien from The Fellowship of the Ring, Book 1, Chapter XI, A Knife in the Dark. The song was one of many on the subject, and the recording was left unfinished for many years. When Countertenor Stephen Diaz joined The Fellowship for the Second Edition release, the band thought the song would be perfect for his voice and recorded him in Auckland, New Zealand.</em></div>
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<div id="story" style="text-align: center;"><em>Tîr Im is a prayer for light in the darkness. This theme recurs throughout Eldarin poetry. The Vala Värda is also known as the Starkindler, a goddess-like figure who first set the stars into the heavens. She is better known by her Sindarin name, Elbereth Gilthóniel. </em><br/> <br/> <em>Professor Tolkien's languages seem best-suited for sacred texts. Tîr Im makes much use of early Quenya vocabulary, the language which he described as "Elf Latin," to frame a prayer for light in the darkness. Throughout his tales, the lifting of light against the darkness is a recurring theme. Tîr Im was composed in 2002, using the style and structures of the music of the mediaeval composer Hildegard von Bingen.</em></div>
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<div id="story" style="text-align: center;"><em>This song began as a setting of Arwen Evenstar's Hymn to Elbereth Gilthóniel in The Fellowship of the Ring, Book 2, Chapter I, Many Meetings, but in order to avoid violating the Tolkien Estate's copyright, we have written new lyrics. This particular verse to Elbereth is written in the style and metre of those several verses in Sindarin that appear throughout The Lord of the Rings. </em><br/> <br/> <em>In the same chapter as Arwen's Hymn to Elbereth Gilthóniel, Frodo describes the Elves' harmonies as an "interweaving of voices." This description is unmistakable as what we would call counterpoint. Singing in a round, or canon as it is technically known, is a simple form of counterpoint that goes back to ancient times. One of the earliest English songs to survive to this day is the round "Sumer is Icumen In" (12th or 13th century) which is still sung on Mayday at sunrise throughout England. In the repetition of our Verse to Elbereth Gilthóniel, the canon is taken up by a girls' choir (really it's just Caítlin Elisabeth recorded eight separate times).</em></div>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><b>CREDITS</b><br/> <br/> <em>Produced by <b>Carvin Knowles</b> and <b>Adam Pike</b></em><br/> <br/> <em>Executive Producer for the Second Edition: <b>Carl Caprioglio - Oglio Records</b></em><br/> <br/> <em><strong>THE FELLOWSHIP</strong></em><br/> <br/> <em>Directed by </em><br/> <em><b>Carvin Knowles</b></em><br/> <br/> <em><b>Carvin Knowles</b></em><br/> <em>Backing Vocals, Flutes, Lute, Gong, Harp, Oboe, Corneto, Slide Trumpet, Krumhorn, Recorder, French Horn, Trumpet</em><br/> <br/> <em><b>Caitlín Elisabeth</b></em><br/> <em>Vocals, Cello, Rebec</em><br/> <br/> <em><b>Patrick Delaney</b></em><br/> <em>Drums and Percussion, Backing Vocals</em><br/> <br/> <em><b>Adam Pike</b></em><br/> <em>Vocals, Backing Vocals, Percussion</em><br/> <br/> <em><b>Stephen Diaz</b></em><br/> <em>Vocals</em><br/> <br/> <em><b>Kate St. Píerre</b></em><br/> <em>Vocals</em><br/> <br/> <em><b>Dennise Pehi</b></em><br/> <em>Vocals</em><br/> <br/> <em><b>Ethan James</b></em><br/> <em>Hurdy Gurdy</em><br/> <br/> <em><b>David Uebersax</b></em><br/> <em>Sackbutt, Trombone</em><br/> <br/> <em><b>Eddie Freeman</b></em><br/> <em>12-String Guitar</em><br/> <br/> <em><b>Marta Victoria</b></em><br/> <em>Vocals, Bones</em><br/> <br/> <em><b>Stefan Kac</b></em><br/> <em>Tuba</em><br/> <br/> <em><b>Susan Skup</b></em><br/> <em>Vocals</em><br/> <br/> <em>Recorded at Sound Asylum in Pasadena, Icarus Music Studio in Lakewood, </em><br/> <em>The Studio Near Fountain & Vine in Hollywood, </em><br/> <em>and The Office in Pasadena</em><br/> <br/> <em>Engineered by <b>Adam Pike, Marta Victoria, Eddie Freeman</b> and <b>Carvin Knowles</b>. </em><br/> <em>Additional vocal recording by <b>Piper Payne</b>, San Francisco </em><br/> <em>and <b>Carvin Knowles</b>, High Street Studio, Auckland, New Zealand</em><br/> <br/> <em>Mixed by <b>Adam Pike</b> & <b>Carvin Knowles</b> at The Office in Pasadena</em><br/> <br/> <em>Digitally remastered by <b>Adam Pike</b> at The Office in Pasadena</em><br/> <br/> <em>Album design by <b>Carvin Knowles</b></em><br/> <br/> <em>Website design by <b>Carvin Knowles</b></em><br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/></p>
<center><br/> <img src="http://inelvenlands.com/images/carcharoth.jpg" width="99%"/></center> Experiences with the Valartag:elvenworld.ning.com,2018-05-19:2735650:Topic:550712018-05-19T16:33:10.649ZMorell Sunweaverhttps://elvenworld.ning.com/profile/Morell
<p>Share some with us if you have them and I believe that there are some here, who have some.</p>
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<p>I clearly have some interesting ones.</p>
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<p>SInce I feel so close to Melkor, that morning I awoke with real pain and asked him for help. He called Irmo. And he really did came and helped me, removing spiritual parasite from me.</p>
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<p>I had doubts so I asked Manwe if he's okay with me being a vampire ad he made amazingly annoyed look, that explained everything, telling…</p>
<p>Share some with us if you have them and I believe that there are some here, who have some.</p>
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<p>I clearly have some interesting ones.</p>
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<p>SInce I feel so close to Melkor, that morning I awoke with real pain and asked him for help. He called Irmo. And he really did came and helped me, removing spiritual parasite from me.</p>
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<p>I had doubts so I asked Manwe if he's okay with me being a vampire ad he made amazingly annoyed look, that explained everything, telling me that he accepted me as I am and that simply includes everything so why I ask him such meaningless question? Lol!</p>
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<p></p> Origins of hobbits - humortag:elvenworld.ning.com,2018-05-09:2735650:Topic:551132018-05-09T05:22:15.834ZMorell Sunweaverhttps://elvenworld.ning.com/profile/Morell
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<p><img src="https://orig00.deviantart.net/cfbb/f/2014/165/5/5/hobbit_origins_part_2_by_snartha-d7md7yc.jpg"/></p> Valar temple seeks contributorstag:elvenworld.ning.com,2018-04-17:2735650:Topic:545672018-04-17T19:01:19.096ZMorell Sunweaverhttps://elvenworld.ning.com/profile/Morell
<p>I was working on the Valar Temple for years, particulary because of laziness, particulary because I had many other things to do too, but I did damn a work.</p>
<p>Visitors counter on the page, Toplist.cz, (using javascript included in the page itself, no cookies, no externals) reports that Temple has 15-25 visitors a month. (of course excluding AD blocking users and no-javascript browsers)</p>
<p>The web has a LOT of free space for texts or pictures. However my work is finished and I have no…</p>
<p>I was working on the Valar Temple for years, particulary because of laziness, particulary because I had many other things to do too, but I did damn a work.</p>
<p>Visitors counter on the page, Toplist.cz, (using javascript included in the page itself, no cookies, no externals) reports that Temple has 15-25 visitors a month. (of course excluding AD blocking users and no-javascript browsers)</p>
<p>The web has a LOT of free space for texts or pictures. However my work is finished and I have no will to continue. I tried to beggin trnslating into quinea, but left it.</p>
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<p>So again I call for those, who wish to share their experience with the Valar, their tales, stories, poems, rituals, even thoughts and ideas. There is so much more to be discovered...</p>
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