14.08.2012, 16:18
Pour ma part, je ne me souviens pas d'aucune description précise de Mandos (sauf peut-être dans les Contes perdus). La description la plus précise d'un Vala dont je puisse retrouver trace est celle de Yavanna, apparaissant sous la forme d'un arbre merveilleux. Le texte authentique est tiré de MR, p. 15-16 ; il est légèrement différent de celui du Silm.
Tolkien a écrit :But think not, Ǽlfwine, that the shapes wherein the Great Ones array themselves are at all times like unto the shapes of kings and queens of the Children of Ilúvatar; for at whiles they may clothe them in their own thought, made visible in forms terrible and wonderful. And I myself, long years agone, in the land of the Valar have seen Yavanna in the likeness of a Tree; and the beauty and majesty of that form could not be told in words, not unless all the things that grow in the earth, from the least unto the greatest, should sing in choir together, making unto their queen an offering of song to be laid before the throne of Ilúvatar.
Rollant est proz e Oliver est sage.
Ambedui unt merveillus vasselage :
Puis que il sunt as chevals e as armes,
Ja pur murir n’eschiverunt bataille.
— La Chanson de Roland
Ambedui unt merveillus vasselage :
Puis que il sunt as chevals e as armes,
Ja pur murir n’eschiverunt bataille.
— La Chanson de Roland