Chapter II Thoughts:
I get so caught up in the vivid wording that Tolkien uses:
"... and his elven-sight saw afar off a dust and a
glint of steel like stars in a mist..."
"The light of the drawing of the swords of the Noldor was like
fire in a field of reeds; and so fell and swift was their onset..."
"...the Noldor of Gondolin were strong and their ranks shone like a
river of steel in the sun..."
I wonder why a white flame came out from Fingon's helm when they killed him. Was that his soul leaving him? Maybe he was just such a high elf with so much passion that his soul was visible leaving his body, although it was not visible in other elves less passionate or high?
I have to hand it to Tolkien for creating beautiful ideas, places, people; but he can also write about some of the most disgusting, most evil things I've ever heard of! Orc hands that "clung to him still, though he hewed off their arms... till he fell buried beneath them." ??!! Ewwww....
"My brain and this world don't fit each other, and there's an end of it!" - G.K. Chesterton