When someone has - inside themselves - something so beatiful as the capability to see a world beyond ours, that someone is always alone (or it is very difficult for them to find like-minded people).starwater wrote: ↑Sun Aug 05, 2018 4:05 pm Speaking of interesting things - I learned of this forum interestingly as well. Several years ago, a friend had pointed out Calantirniel's website to me (Elven Path) and I eagerly signed up to it. Years went by, and I never heard anything more about it. Then, this year, on my birthday, I received something from them that included a lot of posts from a number of people. Someone had been working on a new site: temple of the Valar, and was inviting folks to explore. Someone else (Calantirniel, I believe) had put a calendar of Elven holidays together within the format of the Elven Wheel of the Year, and was promoting it, and there were posts from various people regarding it as well. Two of the names of those posting... Oh boy, to tell you why they were significant will take some time and perhaps I should save it for later. A third one was equally compelling and for the same reason, but what grabbed me there was not the name but the content.
As you may have noticed by now ( :blush2: ) I am not the most regular of posters. A good bit of time went by without my doing much more than wonder, and think I had asked around a little when in fact I had not. Then one day while I was working at my computer on something else, a page from a document I'd never seen before (it was called 'Quenya - the Ancient Tongue' and at the top it said 'Appendix: Examples of Quenya Nouns Fully Inflected') showed up on my computer screen out of the blue. I have no idea how this happened but I was thrilled to have it and saved all 36 pages of the whole thing (not just the appendix) to my documents. I also took it as a reminder, so I went back to ask a friend something I thought I had asked her already, found her as mystified as me, plucked up my courage, and wrote to the one name who had included an email with (I believed it was her but it was really his) post. This person turned out to be Mildir, and after corresponding for a very short time, he directed me here. So we have him to thank or curse, as the case may be [...] for my presence here.
I wish Forums like this could help people like you - Starwater - and me, to overcome this "fate" that goes against us.
They certainly have the potential to be a start...
And that is also why I'll always recommend this Forum to someone who might have to tell interesting and wonderful things about other worlds (i.e.: worlds different from ours in essence, not just outwardly).
Lúthien: I believe gnosis is - or may be - a gift.
Especially the kind of gnosis that led you to sharing images of Valinor, of Meríithiel and of Nost-na-Lothion in Gondolin...
I would like to know if, in your opinion and in Starwater's, it is possible and it is right to use the capability to see different worlds to make our world (the primary world) a better place, one little step after time.
(We wouldn't be here if it weren't for the world we live in, we wouldn't be capable of imagining or discovering things inside us. So, why not use the things we find inside us to try to prevent the world from running towards its end?)
Personally, I am interested in reading everything you will decide to share here, no matter if it looks wordy...
After all, wasn't J.R.R. Tolkien wordy himself, many times?

That didn't mean he wasn't an interesting guy!

This is extremely saila...

