and the beauty of Melian was as the noon

So there's this fanfic meme on Tumblr where someone gives you a chunk of your fic and you do a dvd commentary sort of thing on it--and then vardasvapors took it and adjusted it for canon material so you're doing a close-reading instead, and I reblogged it and got an ask and I'm just gonna copy/paste what I wrote here, so I have it somewhere not-tumblr.

The ask was: "Now as has been told, one Lenwë of the host of Olwë forsook the march of the Eldar at that time when the Teleri were halted by the shores of the Great River" to "but when the Valaróma echoed in the hills, they knew well that all evil things were fled far away." ?

My response under the cut:

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