Suilad everyone,
I had a dream last night in which I returned to the grass field - Rowan and I had been talking about the possibility of doing this ~ going there in a dream ~ and it happened. There was no special thing that I did ~ it just came together. I know from some very specific things that have happened to me over the past couple of years that Lord Irmo listens to a lot of the wishes that we make.
It was even more interesting in that my entering the grass field was the best part of the dream ~ almost an intermission between two rather 'stressful' parts.
Anyway, after I sat down in the field, I looked up at the sky overhead that was filled with every star that Varda ever fashioned. After Rowan and I watched them for awhile, the Aurora Borealis appeared between us and the stars. The main color I remember seeing was red, but some of them were green and blue.
After I woke up, I got to thinking about the Aurora ~ and how the ones that ribbon across the sky look either like roads or cliff~side walls. I've been thinking a lot about roads anyway, this being Enderi. It hit me then that perhaps there was a connection between the Aurora and the Olore Malle. At the time, I couldn't recall a passage that expressly mentioned either color or the sky, but I couldn't forget the idea, and tonight found the following passages ~ both from BoLT1 ~
"for it was mostly at this hour that a new comrade would come down the lane called Olore Malle or the Path of Dreams.
It has been said to me, though the truth I know not, that that lane ran by devious routes to the homes of Men, but that way we never trod when we fared thither ourselves. It was a lane of deep banks and great overhanging hedges, beyond which stood many tall trees
wherein a perpetual whisper seemed to live; but not seldom
great glow-worms crept about its grassy borders..."
the Aurora could certainly be seen as a 'devious route,' or at least an unconventional one.One is seldom fortunate enough to hear them, but with the Aurora come the solar winds, which have been described to me as a low humming soundthis passage gave me the impression that the Aurora is a marker of where the Olore Malle crosses through the sky..."for Lorien wove a way of delicate magic, and it fared by winding roads most secret from the Eastern lands and all the great wildernesses of the world even to the walls of Kor, and it ran past the Cottage of the Children of the Earth' and thence down the "lane of whispering elms" until it reached the sea.
But the gloomy seas and all the straits it bridged with slender bridges resting on the air and greyly gleaming as it were of silken mists lit by a thin moon, or of pearly vapours;"
My heart jumped in my chest when I read this last sentence ~ while everyone talks about the colored Auroras, the most commonly seen color (at least around here) is white.
Another road I have thought about lately is Ilweranta ~ and I had the passing thought of how neat it'd be to see a rainbow at night ~ and dismissing it as my rational mind immediately said 'no sun, Silly!'
Score one for my imagination...and I felt thankful to Lord Irmo for showing me that it's certainly possible to see bands of color appear in the night sky.
I would like to hear your thoughts on this idea.
Eruannlass
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Topic: The Olore Malle...an insight/theory (Read 740 times)