Eärendil's Device

"... Otherwise he obviously thought the whole thing rather above my head, and he said that if I had the cheek to make verses about Eärendil in the house of Elrond, it was my affair. I suppose he was right."

"I don't know," said Frodo. "It seemed to me to fit somehow, though I can't explain..."

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"And you, ring-bearer," she said, turning to Frodo. "I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared this." She held up a small crystal phial: it glittered as she moved it, and rays of white light sprang from her hand. "In this fhial," she said, "is caught the light of Eärendil's star, set amid the waters of my fountain. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out..."

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J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

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Eärendil, one of the Great heroes of the Silmarillion, appears in the Lord of the Rings only as a memory of a legendary past. And yet he's both a very real person, Elrond's father, no less, and a star in the very real and visible sky. His story is interwoven like a glittering thread in the whole epic and his name still commands power: Aiya Eärendil Elenion Ancalima! Because as Sam rightly observed, the great storied never really end. 

This is his device, or personal sigil, originally sketched by Tolkien on a used envelope, and carved on a vintage wooden plate. Handpainted in iridescent blues and silvery sea greens, it has an echo of Idril's device in the geometry and colours. This is a deeply carved that really plays with the light. 

Ø 29.5 cm

280 €