{"id":88674,"date":"2014-04-18T22:20:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T03:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=88674"},"modified":"2014-04-18T22:20:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T03:20:57","slug":"experiencing-the-music-of-the-ainur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2014\/04\/18\/88674-experiencing-the-music-of-the-ainur\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiencing the Music of the Ainur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/The-Silmarillion-and-the-birth-of-Middle-earth.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-70793 no-lazyload\" alt=\"The Silmarillion and the birth of Middle-earth\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/The-Silmarillion-and-the-birth-of-Middle-earth.jpg\" width=\"202\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As soon as you open your copy of <em>The Silmarillion<\/em>, you are faced with what is perhaps the most difficult chapter in all of the book.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Have you ever tried to image how the scene of the Music of the Ainur and the vision of the world, would unfold?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>How is Tolkien&#8217;s highly-complex imagination perceived by you?<\/p>\n<p>The following post presents a three-minute video with one fan&#8217;s outlook towards the\u00a0Ainulindal\u00eb.<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Comprehending and\u00a0Conceptualizing\u00a0the Ainulindal\u00eb in the real world<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ever read Dante Alighieri\u2019s\u00a0<em>La Vita Nuova<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><strong>That passion. That love. All the emotions in just a few cleverly-constructed sentences.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Transform that text into music and you get Patrick Cassidy\u2019s\u00a0<em>Vide Cor Meum<\/em>; and you might just start to comprehend what the Music of the Ainur may have sounded like.<\/p>\n<p>No discords of Melkor. At first.<\/p>\n<p>Just all the Ainur signing in unison before the seat of Il\u00favatar \u2013 the\u00a0glory, the majesty, love and subtleties of nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atolkienistperspective.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/13\/experiencing-the-music-of-the-ainur\/\">[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as you open your copy of The Silmarillion, you are faced with what is perhaps the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14907,"featured_media":85420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[238,198,197,153,6,98,152],"tags":[897],"class_list":["post-88674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christopher_tolkien","category-fans-creations","category-fans","category-tolkien-life","category-tolkbooks","category-silmarillion","category-tolkien","tag-the-silmarillion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SilmarillionBook_LR.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-n4e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88674"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88804,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88674\/revisions\/88804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}