Your writerly skill keeps amazing me. There's something about your stories (besides the fantastic storytelling, use of motifs and symbolism, turns of phrase, and I mean no insult to others when I say that yours are some of the most literary fics I know because I enjoy most everything that's been posted here, for different reasons) that really shows the care that goes into them on and makes them emotionally engaging on a different level than the plot and characters. So not surprising I'm in love with this as well.

"Let them sit in primitive light," he whispered, imagining what the Valar must have said, in planning this festival, "and let him come in last of all. Let him bring them all into Light!" <- one of my favourite lines. How do you do it?