WIP Ping-Pong
Ok thanks for the tag @demonscantgothere!
Something I'm still working on, very early stages, for chapter 5 of First Fire in the Void!
Melkor had vanished long ago, beyond the Walls of the Night. In his absence the Valar repaired all the hurt that his meddling had caused to the foundations of the Earth. The tasks that the Valar had laid out now proceeded efficiently, Aulë’s Maiar shaping the lands while Ulmo’s carved rivers and streams through the prepared channels and basins. Other Valar seeded the world more indirectly, preparing a multitude of crafts and learning that might one day be passed down to the Children of Ilúvatar, whenever that may be. Still not all of Melkor’s influence was dissipated. Mairon, among others who delved deep in the cores of mountains or or other dark places closer to the warm center of the Earth, could still feel the echo of Melkor’s dissonance resonating yet in those places. Mairon went to those places more than most as a result of his assignments to Aulë once the Lamps were finished.
