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Sindarin - "can, to be able to" is referenced as "puli", "pul-" referenced in the Hiswelókë dictionary as Neo-Sindarin; "reach" is also referenced as "ratho", "ratha-" in the Hiswelókë dictionary, as Neo-Sindarin derived from Quenya "rakta"; "only" translated as "na-erui" is also Neo-Sindarin (na + erui); I took poetic license and allowed the sounds to flow together.

Tanka - This tanka reflects the loss of the light of the Two Trees to Melkor and Ungoliant.

Illustration - The background of this Photoshop collage is a public domain picture from the NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), an ESA/Hubble Collaboration. The hands belong to a picture by Natashalatrasha posted under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike licence at Flickr. The eye is a part of a picture by Don_Gato (Creative Commons Attribution licence at Flickr).