“Meneldur was a was a man of gentle mood, without pride, whose exercise was rather in thought than in deeds of the body. He loved dearly the land of Numenor and all things in it, but he gave no heed to the Sea that lay all about it, for his mind looked further than Middle-Earth: he was enamoured of the stars and the heavens. All that he could gather of the lore of the Eldar and the Edain concerning Ea and the deeps that lay about the kingdom of Arda he studied, and his chief delight was in the watching of the stars. He built a tower in the Forostar (the northernmost region of the island), where the airs were clearest, from which by night he would survey the heavens and observe all the movements of the lights of the firmament.”
-"Aldarion and Erendis" in JRR Tolkien's Unfinished Tales
I think I have found the Tolkien character that I relate the most to! The whole quiet disposition, bigger on exercising thought rather than the physical, and the love of the stars. Now I need to build a tower.
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