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Into the Bosom of the Earth

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'But the jewel burned the hand of Maedhros in pain unbearable; and he perceived that it was as Eönwë had said, and that his right thereto had become void, and that the oath was vain. And being in anguish and despair he cast himself into a gaping chasm filled with fire, and so ended; and the Silmaril that he bore was taken into the bosom of the Earth.'

JRR Tolkien: The Silmarillion: Chapter 24: Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath

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Painted in watercolour.

This was created for Warner Bros and originally intended to appear in Peter Jackson's 
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 3D Extended Edition DVD & Blu-ray box-set, in a 'Making of ...' documentary. Unfortunately it did not make the final cut.

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Truth-lover3712's avatar
Thus you have the light of Arda's core, the light of night which is the moon (Earendil had also a Silmaril), and the sun.

I always wondered whether Tolkien, in his books, imagined the three Silmarillion to be ending as the light of the moon, sun and that inside the Earth, or not. :)