Comment on Helcaraxe by zdrava

ninquetari's avatar
Wow, it's amazing. What is written there?
The style and design are beautiful.
zdrava's avatar
Thanks!
This is quotes from chapter 9 of Silmarillion
ninquetari's avatar
The relevant parts about crossing the Helcaraxe, repeated?

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zdrava's avatar
No, I don't know about this group:)
ninquetari's avatar
Then come have a look! *shamelessly enthusiatic*
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Here is this quotes:

The Noldor came at last far into the north of Arda; and they saw the first teeth of the ice that floated in the sea, and knew that they were drawing nigh to the Helcaraxe. For between the land of Aman that in the north curved eastward, and the east-shores of Endor (which is Middle-earth) that bore westward, there was a narrow strait, through which the chill waters of the Encircling Sea and the waves of Belegaer flowed together, and there were vast fogs and mists of deathly cold, and the sea-streams were filled with clashing hills of ice and the grinding of ice deep-sunken. Such was the Helcaraxe, and there none yet had dared to tread save the Valar only and Ungoliant...

Then Fingolfin seeing that Feanor had left him to perish in Araman or return in shame to Valinor was filled with bitterness; but he desired now as never before to come by some way to Middle-earth, and meet Feanor again. And he and his host wandered long in misery, but their valour and endurance grew with hardship; for they were a mighty people, the elder children undying of Eru Iluvatar, but new-come from the Blessed Realm, and not yet weary with the weariness of Earth. The fire of their hearts was young, and led by Fingolfin and his sons, and by Finrod and Galadriel, they dared to pass into the bitterest North; and finding no other way they endured at last the terror of the Helcaraxe and the cruel hills of ice. Few of the deeds of the Noldor thereafter surpassed that desperate crossing in hardihood or woe. There Elenwe the wife of Turgon was lost, and many others perished also; and it was with a lessened host that Fingolfin set foot at last upon the Outer Lands. Small love for Feanor or his sons had those that marched at last behind him, and blew their trumpets in Middle-earth at the first rising of the Moon.
ninquetari's avatar
Thanks!
But I meant to ask if you repeated these paragraphs over and over again, for there seem to be much more words written. I guess the answer is 'yes', then. =)
zdrava's avatar
Yes, text was repeated. And somewhere there is much more text (it could be even whole chapters) - on the background, for example.
ninquetari's avatar
How much time does it take you?
zdrava's avatar
I don't remember, but as usual it takes a lot of time - at least several days
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