manulpika reblogged
#curse to me because of the way it’s broken#Ulmo orchestrating everything in Gondolin to produce a guy who can make it to Valinor and represent elves and men to mandos#and then the Valar themselves have to decide to lift it#if it was a prophecy it would just play out on its own#or be like the witch king’s prophecy (and I feel like mythical prophecy in general)#where you have to fulfill it in a tricky way#the prophecy version would be that no elves or men could reach Valinor#and then Earendil would be like np I am no man#or elf#but the doom of Mandos is just like you guys are fucked#there’s no tricky little foothold that Earendil is taking advantage of#I think he himself is still under the doom when he sails??#also the Valar do have the power to sing reality into existence#doesn’t seem like a stretch that mandos speaking ex cathedra is a creative act#silmarillion