There King Finrod Felagund, hastening from the south, was cut off from his people and surrounded with small company in the Fen of Serech; and he would have been slain or taken, but Barahir came up with the bravest of his men and rescued him, and made a wall of spears about him; and they cut their way out of the battle with great loss.
Will Fletcher as Finrod Felagund in Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)
Valinor | The Land Across the Sea, The Undying Lands
“Nothing is evil in the beginning. And there was a time when the world was so young there had not yet been a sunrise. But, even then, there was light. [...] We thought our light would never dim. So when the Great Foe, Morgoth, destroyed the very light of our home, we resisted.”
– Galadriel Rings of Power "A Shadow of the Past"
Do you know why a ship floats and a stone cannot? Because the stone sees only downward. The darkness of the water is vast and irresistible. The ship feels the darkness as well, striving moment by moment to master her and pull her under.