Reading Where Decay Sleeps Part 4

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Read my thoughts on previous parts of the book.

Warnings for this section:

  • Claudine: Manipulation.
  • Aftermath: Depression, loss of a loved one, mental illness (general).
  • Whispers of Autumn: Loss of a loved one.
  • Lost and Found: Loss of a loved one, medication use, mental illness (general).

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Lessons Learned from Mahal

Mahal made the Middle-Earth Dwarves. And a bunch of junk that doesn’t matter by the Third Age. He also taught Sauron, Sarumon, Mahtan, and that loveless loser Faenor.

Mahtan’s wife doesn’t have a name either by the way. Let’s name her Ruscundil (Quenya, gender-neutral, lover of foxes). The fox she loves most is him, even if he is faking it. But hey, you know what the Humans say! Fake it ’til ya make it; and when you get bored, shake it up.

Mahtan was such a great student to Mahal that one is his names is Aulendur (“Servant of Aulë”. That’s what the Elves call him). Here’s what I learned from Mahal.

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