ingoblingo galadhremmin there is a joke to be made here about mae and hurin walking into a bar during dagor dagorath but i can’t for the life of me figure out who the third one is
galadhremmin Earendil, obviously! Have you read some of the earlier poems about his everlasting journey through the sky? Pretty depressing
ingoblingo …oh
it’s the ‘made to witness the world from somewhere high up without the ability to act is a form of torment itself’ (even if Morgoth did nothing but hang Maedhros from high up, powerless, that would be a horrible torment. And who’s to say the intention was not similar to what he did to Húrin– watch your people destroy themselves without being able to do anything while your body withers– he didn’t even need to curse them, Mandos already did) venn diagram but also the ’literally bound to an object’ (rock/chair/ship) venn diagram but also the ‘bound to a Doom to the point of agony’ diagram. Earendil…
But on him mighty doom was laid, till Moon should fade, an orbéd star to pass, and tarry never more on Hither Shores where mortals are; for ever still a herald on an errand that should never rest
Till his light grew old in abysses cold/and his eager flame was spent.
