Ultimately, we were doomed no matter the result. I'm going to bed and I wish you all well. I leave you with my vision for what this day represents, in the nerdiest way I know how...by quoting Tolkien:


"Tears unnumbered ye shall shed; and the Valar will fence Valinor against you, and shut you out, so that not even the echo of your lamentation shall pass over the mountains. On the House of Fëanor the wrath of the Valar lieth from the West unto the uttermost East, and upon all that will follow them it shall be laid also. Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue. To evil end shall all things turn that they begin well; and by treason of kin unto kin, and the fear of treason, shall this come to pass. The Dispossessed shall they be for ever. ..."


THE DOOM OF MANDOS

J.R.R Tolkien - The Silmarillion

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