![]() ![]() Our King was changed in those halls of stone, I grant him peace, stability, freedom of mind. I do not do what I do out of desire for power, I do so that our realm may endure. “You did not see what Melkor made him into. You seek to fix us all in a new realm, and to be the true King of Arda. ![]() With that awareness, Mairon turned his stare to him, his eyes shifting from the fair to the glowing monstrous yellow of the old days. ![]() Mandos was the lord of the land of the dead, and as death was impartial and amoral, so was he. I know what you have done to my brother, Gorthaur. It was that evening that Annatar, returned from stabilizing the coastline near the newest north of Arda, saw Namo outside his chambers. Only Namo’s expression displayed not disquiet but resignation. The first time that he had arrived with robes more form-fitting than regal, with his arms bare and marked with the sigils of the nine Orc clans, one on his shoulders, one on his upper arms, one on his lower arms, there had been a stir in the Mahanxanar. Publicly, Manwe Sulimo had said that there were other captives in Angband who bore the marks of Melkor’s torments and they were not broken, so why should he feel shame that he had been among the tormented? There were others, even in Aman, who bore those signs. The others were known, and the symbolism on his arms frequently seen as he had taken to wearing a new kind of robe, sleeveless. Manwe was marked forever with the scarring and the marks of Melkor’s servants, Orc-clans on his arms, Trolls on his stomach, and symbols of a ring on his cock and the small of his back. The initial distaste of Tulkas faded with the seemingly humility of Annatar, whose new name and fair form marked his severance from Melkor, as did his free bestowing of gifts and working to heal Melkor’s ravages. The day that Melkor was cast through the Doors of Night into the endless void with his feet hewn off and wounded by the Zweihander Sauron wielded one-handed in an effortless display of strength by his side was the first and for that next century, only time that Annatar had displayed his presence that puiblicly. The repentant, seemingly, servant of Melkor had his potential new seat to the right of Manwe’s great throne. Mairon, once Melkor’s feared and abhorred servant, had become Annatar, the Gift-Lord. In that timeframe the Lost King, Manwe Sulimo, Breath of Arda, had become the Restored King. Only a century in mortal time, which was far less than that in the eyes of the Deathless Realm, had lapsed. An age had passed with the fall of Beleriand and the fall of Morgoth. ![]()
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