So it refers to someone creating something out of nature, but before Caradhras.
The water horses before Rivendell?
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Earlier.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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Is it Ulmo to Ilúvatar 'Truly, Water is become now fairer than my heart imagined, neither had my secret thought conceived the snowflake, nor in all my music was contained the falling of the rain." Or maybe just the last half?
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Yes! Just the last part.
It's literally fairies making snow flakes, just as Inanna said.
It's literally fairies making snow flakes, just as Inanna said.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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Risk requires zero, a rugged race.
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Lao Tzu to Confucius?
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
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Possibly the Inspirobot?
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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Yep! That narrows in down to a few Millennia!
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Its spoken during an argument. 
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Are any of the words present in the original?
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
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Are dwarves involved?
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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Hmm. Is Túrin also involved?
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Thingol?
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."