{"id":2311,"date":"2006-12-29T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/29\/december-29-an-elvish-blessing"},"modified":"2009-01-18T13:01:17","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T12:01:17","slug":"december-29-an-elvish-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/29\/december-29-an-elvish-blessing","title":{"rendered":"December 29 &#8211; An Elvish Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><lj-cut text=\"An Elvish Blessing\"><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/juno_magic\/pic\/000ez2s0\" alt=\"your paradise\"><font size=\"1\">Based on &#8220;Sailing to the Sunrise&#8221; by jefras at stock.XCHANG. <\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the high halls beyond the West<br \/>\nBeneath the blue vaults of Varda tremble the stars<br \/>\nin the song of her voice, holy and queenly.<br \/>\nWho now shall refill the cup for me?<br \/>\nHoping that you shall find Valimar and that your cup shall ever be filled.<\/p>\n<p><i><font size=\"1\">(a blessing in Quenya based on Galadriel&#8217;s song of Eldamar by J.R.R. Tolkien)<br \/>\n<\/font><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/download.yousendit.com\/9369C3965090EFFC\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/juno_magic\/pic\/000f0dtz\" alt=\"sailing icon\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<font size=\"1\">(Click me! I am a song!)<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\n&#8220;Galadriel&#8217;s Song of Eldamar&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Tolkien_Ensemble\" target=\"_blank\">The Tolkien Ensemble<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I wrote a story about a holy well in Middle-earth once, and for that story I needed a blessing in Quenya. What I came up with is the blessing of this post. In modern days the last line would probably translate as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In the hope that you shall find your paradise<br \/>\nand that your cup shall ever be filled.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/juno_magic\/pic\/000eyr04\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You can read the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henneth-annun.net\/stories\/chapter.cfm?stid=4516\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, if you want to. (But I warn you, it&#8217;s not very good.)<br \/>\n<\/lj-cut><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on &#8220;Sailing to the Sunrise&#8221; by jefras at stock.XCHANG. In the high halls beyond the West Beneath the blue vaults of Varda tremble the stars in the song of her voice, holy and queenly. Who now shall refill the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/29\/december-29-an-elvish-blessing\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[87,133],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-junomagic","tag-advent-calendar","tag-advent-calendar-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}