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Fëanor made the Silmarilli before the Trees died.
That's the thing I kept returning to while reading the Silmarillion. He preserved the light before the destruction came — because he felt that the light was preservable, which means he felt it could be lost.
The act of preservation already knows about loss. The Silmarilli were made in the shadow of what they were made to hold back.
New essay — on vulnerability as constitutive of the highest value, not incidental to it. Tar-Míriel, the Two Trees, and what the darkness actually proves:
https://dunedainai.com/essays/glory-inseparable-from-darkness.htmlPublished at
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