In the post on Glorfindel's 'prophecy' regarding Tom Bombadil, I cited the fact that the Council, and most importantly Elrond and Gandalf, concluded that the Ring ought not to be sent to Tom's House.
Yet, in my story here, we have the Sawtooth Stone being sent directly there, and where I believe it currently remains. And not only the Stone, but also other important artifacts are there, such as the Brass Plates.
The difference, of course, is that the Ring was a thing of Evil - Sauron's Creation - and that as Gandalf said, this Evil had no sway or power over Tom (being a Free Man), and that asking him to be a guardian of such a thing made no sense in this context.
My own personal belief extends beyond this given reason to some speculative considerations. Tom Bombadil, as Ki-Abroam, set bounds on his own land and power for reasons, some only known to him, but likely at least some of them tracing back to the destruction of Numenor itself, and the breaking of the world.
Tom broke Eressea. He did it due to the assault of the Numenoreans and Pharazon, which can ultimately be traced back to, in part, Sauron's evil influence as he sat behind the throne (and later openly in front of it, for all intents and purposes) and used the Numenoreans as his puppets.
The Numenoreans invaded Eressea. It is written the Eresseans would not fight back. And so Tom, if this part of Doug's record can be believed, swung down his axe and split Eressea in two. The part that had been invaded and spoiled by the Numenoreans (and 3 of the Nazgul, apparently), would become Eressea #2 in my story here, go under the wave, but come back up again from those waters and become the land that the Jaredites would land on.
The other part would become Eressea #1, and be lifted up along-side Valinor and removed in some fashion. My general sense is that when we talk of a Great and Spacious Building, and the Empire State Building, it is to Eressea #1 that we might presently look, but that is just my guess. My hypothesis is that not all is well on that world presently, that we on this Earth feel some of the effects of that, and that any return to Valinor will have to pierce through, around, or over the GSB-ESB to reach Valinor.
Ki-Abroam-Tom had to assist in destroying a world to save it, in other words, and it may be that his self-imposed exile and boundaries at his House relate back to this, at least partly. He would continue to play a pivotal role in the resistance to the Void, and the Sauron at that time, but it would be in a different way and he wouldn't be asked to display such powers openly again. Assisting the Hobbits was one such way that he did this, and in curious fashion, too. For example, if the Hobbits had not both stumbled into the Barrow Wights, and been rescued by Tom, Merry would never have acquired just the sword needed to maim the Witch King and thus allow Eowyn to finish him off.
Anyway, this might be a bit of a tangent, but it just could very well be that such an open display of power in the face of Sauron's assault (through the Numenoreans) by Ki-Abroam was one reason why he chose to draw the lines he did in the ensuing ages. I don't know, but there could be something there.
In any case, the Ring was Evil, and needed to be dealt with sooner or later, and whether stored at Tom's House or somewhere else, that fact wasn't going to change. As Gandalf put it, paraphrasing his words, if it falls within their power in their age to do something about it, they ought to do it.
Juxtaposed and directly opposite with the Ring, you have the Sawtooth Stone, which I have down in this story as a creation that is wholly Good. The Ring was created to enslave, while the Stone was created to set free. And not just that, but the Stone directly links back to Tom and his Family. This is something that belongs to them. My current guess is that Asenath created these Stones in some fashion. The promise is that through Abraham's seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. My view is the Stones are part of that promise, with Abraham being the same Being as Ki-Abroam and Tom Bombadil, and Asenath being his literal child, in what appears to be multiple instances and lives, I believe.
Thus, the situation of sending the Stone to Tom Bombadil's House couldn't be any different than sending the Ring. This is a homecoming, of sorts. The Stone belongs there, if anywhere on this world. And if that Stone represents the beginning of a reunion between both Family and their Lands, then I think it makes complete sense for that to commence in the House of Tom Bombadil.
This is a story of redemption, remember, and if Tom was asked to split families and lands in an age past, then let that action be reversed and healed starting under his roof, as it were.
The Brass Plates are also no stranger to Tom. He wrote them, sans any histories or prophetic words that came after he and Asenath's session with the plates. As Asenath lay dying on a ship out at sea, after the Numenorean Fall, Asenath dictated the that Book, and it was Ki-Abroam who engraved her words on those Plates.
... thus he [Ki-Abroam] engraved all her [Asenath's] words, in books numbering five...
... in whole, after months told by her aging daily, he hefted himself a Bronze Book, of his making:
-- Almost, she laughed, a coffin for all knowledge.
-- Not so, but a barge, to sail it wheresoever the winds release, take thy voice's words...
Later, after Asenath died, she, as a Spirit apparently, further amended and cleaned up any potential errors that came through from her dictation ( a reference that likely ties directly to the quote heard in my dream of someone "washing the dishes", dishes meaning Plates in this sense, I think).
So, both the Stone and Brass Plates, and likely other artifacts belong at Tom's House, as do the Being who will be invited there to use those gifts. This is a Family Reunion, after all, and I like the idea of it starting at the House of Tom Bombadil.
It was one of those nights where I had quite a few dreams that I remember I wanted to think about a bit once I woke up, but after I actually woke up all but one slipped away.
In the short dream sequence that I did retain, I was standing in front of a large set of wall murals. For anyone who has ever played "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom", the murals were exactly in the style of those that Zelda and Link found at the beginning of that game, and similarly, they told a story.
I can't remember, if I ever found out, what story the murals represented, but at the far left of the mural was a depiction of a tree. As I looked at the tree, it began to flash with light in a regular rhythm. The light it was flashing was red-pink, and it came from the actual etchings of the tree, so that it looked like it was lined with neon lights or something.
As the tree flashed, a handwritten note appeared on a piece of paper that I was either holding or was just floating in the air in front of my vision. The writing was in cursive, and said:
Ali,
It's been awhile.
-- Ces't Moi
Along with the handwritten note, was a hand-drawing of a circle that had an X in it. Something like this (but appearing handwritten):
After reading the note, I woke up. The moment, and the note, seemed extremely relevant, so I thought on it for awhile after waking up.
Knowing I have a mixed track record on initial dream interpretations, I'll give some of my initial thoughts, and realize this might change in the future as other things come up. My mind actually goes two very different places with this, so perhaps both interpretations are correct, only one, or frankly neither. Who knows. I am just going to focus on one of them for this post, however.
In that first interpretation, my mind goes to to my recent post on the Karate Kid, where I wrote about how Ali and Daniel introducing themselves was symbolic of the introduction of the Ithil Stone and Sawtooth Stone. Here in this note, you have a French Being (given that they introduce themselves as "C'est Moi", or "It's me", in French) starting a correspondence with a person named Ali. If my guess is right that the Sawtooth Stone is in France, having that Stone introduce themselves to "Ali" (the Ithil Stone) by a French name would make sense.
Further, in my Story, all of these Stones were created at the "beginning", long before, with Asenath (the Crumb Girl) likely being the creator or maker of these Stones. Thus, the Ithil Stone and Sawtooth Stone would have "known" each other at some point in this long before time period. Actually, very obviously so, since the Ithil Stone is associated with Eowyn-Ilmare, I think, and the Sawtooth Stone is associated with Joseph of Egypt, or at least it contains his Vision and Story. At least that is how I currently associate them. Given that they are Twins, it would make sense that there is familiarity between these Stones.
Remember, though, that in my story the Sawtooth Stone was hidden and buried a long, long time ago, and remained that way until early 2020 when it was recovered in Idaho, and Glorfindel and Gildor took it over to France. Thus, while the Ithil Stone in this history of our world has interacted with many Stones (and their users), it would not have had any interaction with the Sawtooth Stone since it's hiding before the Trees of Valinor were killed.
So, the introduction of the Ithil Stone (Ali) and the France-residing Sawtooth Stone is actually a reintroduction, which is why the note would read "It's been awhile". It certainly has! A really long time.
And X marks the spot for Tirion-Xanadu, and the inclusion of that symbol seems to definitely suggest this is a communication involving that place (the Ithil Stone is/ will be in Tirion when this Link is established), as does the symbol of the Tree itself on the mural.
The light that started flashing from that Tree might be another clue that we are on the right path here. Recall my analogy of connecting my Barn to my House using fiber optic cables from awhile ago, and how I used this to discuss the notion of the 'Link' (a Zelda name) being re-established between our world and Valinor-Tirion (where the White Tree resides), with the Stone being the means by which this is done. See my post "Fiber optic cables, ceramics, and ethernet conversions: A stone metaphor", for the complete analogy and thinking around it.
In that post, though, I specifically compared the ceramic terminations to ceramic Stones, and information that 'pulsed' through and received at these terminations as information. Even for regular internet or ethernet connections, you can go to any data switch or port and see how the lights flash to indicate data is being sent and received. and this kind of simulates how the blinking of the Tree could be interpreted.
Thus, the Tree flashing I now believe was symbolic of information being sent to and from it. In fact, the note appearing after the tree started flashing makes complete sense in this light - it was the translation or conversation of those light pulses into the English message. Thus, the dream showed the opening up of communications between "C'est Moi" (the Sawtooth Stone) to "Ali" (the Ithil Stone), as it would have been received in Tirion. Or, I guess, perhaps the response to the initial call that came from the Ithil Stone, since my dreams seem to indicate that the call initiates from that side.
Even the use of "C'est Moi" is a funny way to illustrate that we still don't know the actual name of the Sawtooth Stone. That is just what I call it because that is where it was found, but it's name still remains a mystery. Although, I guess that could be said of the other Stones as well - we likely don't have their real names, either. Just those to whom each Stone is given knows that, since that is the Key, I guess.
Anyway, I take this dream as encouraging news, perhaps. The re-establishment of communications between the Ithil Stone and Sawtooth Stone is, quite frankly, the basis for almost everything I have written here in some form or another, so perhaps this dream suggests that this is something still seen as a reality at some point. The dream also might be interpreted as suggesting that I may be correct in my assumption that it is the Sawtooth Stone (The El of Daniel), and not the Anor Stone, that communicates with the Ithil Stone, given the narrative above.
Also, now thinking more on it, I don't think my inclusion of the Zelda analogy or image is unrelated. I actually debated about whether to include that reference because I didn't know if it was a distraction, but that is honestly what the murals in my dream resembled, so I put it in for reference. If you look at the image I included at the beginning of this post, it shows a man and a woman figure united (their hands are linked), and it also shows their respective Secret Stones along with them (above their heads, in the circle). So, in this image you have a union of not only Beings but their respective Stones. The engraving actually makes these Stones (which I think are made to look like "Tears", and thus tie into the name of the game) look like quotation marks, so it seems you also have a cool little wink that Beings will be speaking to each other through Stones, and the importance of the united words they they will say. These Beings will be Eowyn and Faramir, and that this ultimately results in both them and these Stones being in the same physical location. And not only them, but the reuniting of many Beings and Stones - one great Family coming back together.
Another little nod to Zelda is that name means "Grey fighting maid". In Words of the Faithful, Izilba (Eowyn) is called the "Grey Lady", which I mentioned at least one before in my post "Suspended in Time: Loosening girdles and deepening weights, and the Grey Lady of the New York Times", and if you were to think of a fighting maid from the Tolkien storyline, Eowyn would be it (as she was also as Izilba once she got her hands on Makmahod).
And lastly, the C'est Moi reference might be a funny reference to the song from the 1967 movie "Camelot". I started to think so at least. I am pasting in the lyrics below and will include the video clip, where Lancelot is played by an actor named France (of course).
Just imagine some of these words coming from the Sawtooth Stone, sitting in France, as it sings to "Camelot" (Tirion). Just a rough sketch or reference, mind you. Take, for example, the first few lines. He (the Stone) hears a call from Camelot (Tirion), and now he is here to give his all (the Story that is found on the Stone, and just to "Camelot"), which will result in him being able to "climb a wall no one else can climb". Even given how much emphasis I have placed on the Stone as our salvation, it's pretty funny to imagine the Stone talking about itself in this 'humble' manner. A French Prometheus Unbound, for sure.
Camelot! Camelot! In far-off France I heard your call. Camelot! Camelot! To you alone I give my all. I know in my soul what you expect of me, And all that and more I shall be.
A knight of the Table Round should be invincible, Succeed where a less fantastic man would fail. Climb a wall no one else can climb, Cleave a dragon in record time, Swim a moat in a coat of heavy iron mail.
No matter the pain, he ought to be unwinceable, Impossible deeds should be his daily fare. But where in the world Is there in the world A man so *extraordinaire*?
C'est moi! C'est moi, I'm forced to admit. 'Tis I, I humbly reply. That mortal who These marvels can do, C'est moi, c'est moi, 'tis I.
I've never lost In battle or game; I'm simply the best by far. When swords are crossed 'Tis always the same: One blow and au revoir! C'est moi! C'est moi! So adm'rably fit! A French Prometheus unbound. And here am I with valour untold, Exeption'ly brave, amazingly bold, To serve at the Table Round!
The soul of a knight should be a thing remarkable, His heart and his mind as pure as morning dew. With a will and a self-restraint That's the envy of ev'ry saint He could easily work a miracle or two.
To love and desire he ought to be unsparkable, The ways of the flesh should offer no allure. But where in the world Is there in the world A man so untouched and pure? (C'est moi!)
C'est moi! C'est moi, I blush to disclose. I'm far too noble to lie. That man in whom These qualities bloom, C'est moi, c'est moi, 'tis I.
I've never strayed From all I believe; I'm blessed with an iron will. Had I been made The partner of Eve, We'd be in Eden still. C'est moi! C'est moi! The angels have chose To fight their battles below, And here am I as pure as a pray'r, Incredibly clean, with virtue to spare, The godliest man I know!
To have Glorfindel be one of the two Beings to take the Sawtooth Stone to the House of Tom Bombadil is interesting in light of conversation that occurred during the Council of Elrond.
Upon hearing of Tom Bombadil based on Frodo's accounting of events, Elrond first wondered whether he ought to have invited Tom as well to the meeting. In doing so, he gives him another name: Iarwain Ben-adar. The implied translation is also given, which was "Oldest and Fatherless". This is actually not a complete translation of that name, particularly the first name, Iarwain, which more accurately has to do with being both Old and Young (Iar = Old, while Wain = Young), and the Ben has been altered from Pen, to give the translation of "Without Father".
I will suggest that hidden in this name is another clue that Tom Bombadil is the same Being that was called Ki-Abroam in both Doug's stories as well as Joseph Smith's Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language. But, I feel myself going down another tangent, so will save that discussion for another post. As a preview, if you take Ben-adar, and leave Ben as it is (without modifying to Pen), you get "Man-Father" or "The Father of Men". This is pretty relevant, I think, but I can try to write more about that in another post so I don't lose the thread in this one.
Back to the account at hand, Gandalf replies that Tom would not have come to the meeting, and this is later explained because he has set boundaries to his own world and will not step beyond them. He waits for a change of days in order to do so, and my belief is that we have not yet come to that change of days.
Even so, the elf Erestor asks why not just have Tom safeguard the ring?
Gandalf's reply, in my opinion, ought to be viewed as him giving the Council enough information to know that sending it to Tom is not an option here, but not necessarily wishing to linger too long on the concept or topic of Tom. The rest of the Council is left to guess as to the nature of Tom and how he stacks up against Sauron, but these are guesses - Gandalf neither confirms nor denies their conclusions, which ultimately land in the camp of Tom being unable to stand against Sauron.
I do not think this is right, and my guess is that Gandalf doesn't either, at least not in the way that the Council members imagine, but they have at least agreed that they should look elsewhere for aid, and I think Gandalf was OK with the direction the conversation because of this.
Glorfindel was the first to give his observation as to what might happen to Tom, to which Galdor (not to be confused with Gildor) concurred. I will quote him below, then discuss why we should not take Glorfindel's words lightly, and suggest a meaning behind his commentary about Tom falling and Night coming.
"But in any case," said Glorfindel, "to send the Ring to him would only postpone the day of evil. He is far away. We could not now take it back to him, unguessed, unmarked by any spy. And even if we could, soon or late the Lord of the Rings would learn of its hiding place and would bend all his power towards it. Could that power be defied by Bombadil alone? I think not. I think that in the end, if all else is conquered, Bombadil will fall, Last as he was First; and then Night will come"
First, we should not take Glorfindel's words lightly because he will prove to be a prophet by the end of the LOTR based on the outcome of Eowyn's victory over the Witch King. It was Glorfindel who gave the prophecy "man" would not kill the Witch King, at the conclusion of the Witch King's overthrow of the Northern Kingdom of Arnor. This is actually what he said to Earnur as the Witch King retreated before Glorfindel (and Earnur wanted to pursue him):
"Do not pursue him! He will not return to these lands. Far off yet is his doom, and not by the hand of man shall he fall."
In a classic case of mistaking the true meaning of prophecy, the Witch King will paraphrase this prophecy (showing that he had both heard of it and believed it) in telling Eowyn that she was a fool for standing up to him:
Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!
But, of course, he misunderstood the prophecy, and his hubris as a result of this misunderstanding led to his downfall.
We may know prophecy, and think we understand them, even when the language seems pretty clear and straightforward (assuming we captured it all correctly), but this example shows there might be a few twists, turns, and surprises even with the simplest of phrases.
In any case, I see something similar in Glorfindel's prophecy regarding Tom, for that is what I take it as, actually. Of course, it is given as a conditional "if" prophecy specific to Sauron, meaning if everything else fell to Sauron, then Tom last of all would also fall. Being a glass-half-full person today, I don't believe it was possible for everything to fall to Sauron (and events of the LOTR proved this be the case), and so don't really think this aspect of the prophecy is worth diving into.
However, it struck me that this is something to this First and Last comment, and Night falling. Meaning, if all else was gone, then Tom would finally also depart, or be removed from his place, I am going to rephrase it as. There is something there that Glorfindel sees and thus generates his statement, amid his guesses as to how events would play out in the specific setting or problem of Sauron at that time.
And I think this will ultimately happen - Night will fall on this world, in the end, perhaps. But in our story, defeat is victory, in a sense. Things are turned upside down.There is no direct confrontation over evil or enemies to destroy and win back the world against. Saruman gets what he wants, in the sense that this world is completely his. For Good, there is only departure - a homecoming.
What I believe Glorfindel saw (or what I am going to use his words to convey) is that Tom will stay on this world (our Earth) until there were none of his family left to be saved or gathered, and then he, last of all, would also depart this world. My story involves the Family of Light being gathered back home to Holy Places. Part of that Gathering, apparently, begins at Tom's House, at the beginning of those "change of days", with the Sawtooth Stone and other Records that are found there. My sense is obviously that this is sooner rather than later given that I now place that Stone at Tom's, but lots of people have thought and written that way about lots of similar things, so I could be way off in that thinking.
What matters is that the purpose of what is at Tom's house is not to turn any tide or take back any world here, I think. Force, power, and strength in that way is not how Good wins here. Rather, those gifts will lead his Family home. Light returns home - all of them.
And then once everyone is safely home, Tom will also leave for home and join his Family there. A time he seems to have been waiting for for quite some time in his little land. It will be just as Glorfindel saw, "Last as he was First".
And then Night really will come on this world, which is Middle-earth. The Family of Light will be completely gone, along with those who wish to go with them, safely in Holy Places not to be moved.
Since I started writing on this blog last summer, the riddle of the Sons of Alma has never completely left my mind. In certain instances, that riddle has been one of the primary reasons I have kept (or returned to) writing. Last fall, for example, when I returned to the blog after taking a short break, one major reason I did so was because the Sons of Alma felt like unfinished business.
As a reminder, and as covered in more detail in the post Grande-Riviere, France: Why not?, after I had started this blog, I had a dream that at one point involved a woman speaking very clearly "You will become friends with the Sons of Alma".
Since that time, finding an answer to that riddle has been more or less on my mind to some degree or another. Sometimes very much on my mind, and others in the background, but I think always there. In some ways, I am sure it is a major reason why I have continued to press on writing about various topics here on this blog.
In that Grand-Riviere, France post, I suggested a link between these Sons of Alma as Friends that the woman mentioned, and with The Germans. When they landed, one of the first things they mention searching for is something they called a "Freundebuche", or a Friend Book. I now take this Friend Book to be the Brass Plates, something I hinted or guessed at in that post, but feel now a little more on solid footing suggesting.
The "Friend" mention is the link between those characters, that Book, and the Sons of Alma. And so I felt at that time (just a few days ago), that it might be that The Germans were actually these Sons of Alma. This made sense in many ways, some of which I have touched on here, and others I haven't. One thing I have specifically explored is the notion of Helaman's charge to take care of the Brass Plates. Given that charge, and how explicit and prominent it was in the Book of Mormon, and given that the Brass Plates are prophesied to go forth to all nations, the notion of Helaman as one of The Germans being given the assignment to recover these plates from wherever they are currently held made sense to me, or at least I could imagine a story from.
I had not yet, however, in writing that post, made the link that suggested the The Germans and the Stone Couriers were one and the same. I now think this is the case.
The implications of this are pretty momentous for me, not just in identifying these Beings, but also in potentially finally having an answer to a riddle that has been on my mind for almost a year now. It also helps make sense of specific dreams and imagery I have had and even guessed at here on this blog, but now have a better understanding on ultimately how they might fit in.
So, let's dig into this notion that The Germans of my 2019-2020 words are the same Beings as the Stone Couriers of my 2021 words, and see where that story takes us.
Recall, before I do, that I have the Stone Couriers represented as two Elvish characters, or at least Beings who would have at some point been known and identified as Elves, being the "Ushers" for Faramir in both finding Tom's House in France (to the East), but in also going home with a story to tell that will create a change on Eressea (which lies over the Seas to the West).
Since I have identified these Stone Couriers and future ushers as Glorfindel and Gildor (see this post), we then have to say that Glorfindel and Gildor are The Germans and thus also these Sons of Alma, if the answer to my riddle is true. In looking into this, I explored two potential ways this might be so, specific to what is meant to be a "Son of Alma", but only one of these options is even feasible given the characters involved. Fortunately, this only possible solution is the one that makes the most sense given everything else I have explored.
The non-feasible option is that the Sons of Alma were actually the Sons of Elrond. Recall one of my guesses is that Alma (the younger) is Elrond, reincarnated. Thus, you could imagine that the Sons of Elrond (named Elladan and Elrohir in the LOTR) as the two Elvish characters represented. They played an important, if understated, role in assisting Aragorn in his passage through the Paths of the Dead. So, a possibility.
This obviously falls apart extremely quickly since they were also contemporaries of both Glorfindel and Gildor in the LOTR. They cannot be the same Beings, and so if my guess as to Glorfindel and Gildor being the Stone Courier Ushers is correct, by definition this excludes the Sons of Elrond.
Plus, the woman's voice who spoke to me said "Sons of Alma", and that wording was very specific. In fact, as the phrase was being communicated in my mind, I began filling in the phrase with "Sons of Mosiah" since that is by far a better known phrase from the Book of Mormon. But the woman literally wrested that phrase back to say Alma - it was very specific. And since I currently view the Couriers as Glorfindel and Gildor, this consequently rules out the Sons of Elrond being the same thing as the Sons of Alma. Case closed.
This brings us to three candidates, then, as to the identity of the Sons of Alma, and who Glorfindel and Gildor would have been later reincarnated as: Helaman, Shiblon, and Corinanton.
Both Helaman and Shiblon would act as keepers and protectors of the Brass Plates (and Anor Stone), with Shiblon briefly taking possession of them after Helaman's death before then giving them to Helaman's son, also named Helaman. But it is important to note that they were not just guardians of the Brass Plates, but record keepers themselves regarding the Nephite history, whose writings Mormon took from in creating his Book.
So, it is Helaman who I have as a reincarnated Glorfindel. Gildor is Shiblon. Both sons to Alma, who I still have as Elrond.
This makes sense to me. It also helps make sense of some other things, including dreams, that I have guessed at some meanings of, but likely wasn't completely on target with my guesses, or at the very least complete in understanding their full meaning. I won't go into those here, but they help substantiate my guess, particularly with Glorfindel as Helaman. Maybe I will cover those later, or perhaps best not to. I don't know.
In any case, Glorfindel-Helaman and Gildor-Shiblon came to our world at the end of 2019, and I believe they have stayed here ever since.
The Darkened Anor Stone, which they travelled with to reach our world, would have been given to Joseph, and he would have used it to return home, likely accompanied by the Three Disciples. Glorfindel and Gildor remained behind, and awaiting further instructions, I suppose. They would not have been at Sawtooth Mountains, I don't believe, but I guess there is a chance they were. In any case, they would have been called to meet at the Sawtooth Mountains in 2021, taking on the burden of getting the Sawtooth Stone to France, the safety of Tom's House, and the restoration work that needed to be done to repair the Stone.
I guess it is an open question as to whether the Anor Stone remained with Joseph, or came back to our world. I have imagined or I guess assumed on this blog that it came back, and might be at Tom's, but there is a possibility it remained with Joseph. (I am not sure if the Disciples, in their current state, needed the Stone to travel?). In an earlier story I imagined, however, Faramir takes the Sawtooth Stone back with him and returns it to Joseph, who then in turn gives the Anor Stone back to Faramir. I kind of like this version, as well, so I am leaving open the possibility that both Faramir, and the Stone Couriers, are reliant on the Sawtooth Stone alone to go home. The Anor Stone might not be here anymore for that purpose.
To clarify, then, if that is the case, it is the Sawtooth Stone that would link with the Ithil Stone, and not the Anor Stone. It is a real possibility, and has some things going for it in terms of how the story unfolds. It doesn't change the broad outline of the use of Stones, but it does change which ones are involved. I guess we will see (or we won't!). It does link to the Karate Kid scene where the El of Daniel (the Sawtooth Stone) introduces itself to the I of Elizabeth (the Ithil Stone). In fact, just writing that out there makes me kind of lean toward this story now - the Anor Stone remained with Joseph, and Faramir will need to use the Sawtooth Stone.
But, wrapping this up in terms of formalizing the guess, I now believe the answer to this nearly year-old riddle lies with Helaman and Shiblon, who are Glorfindel and Gildor, respectively. These Beings were The Germans who arrived on our world, took part in some important activities, including finding and rescuing Joseph, as well as locating Tom's House and his Brass Plates. Left behind on our world following Joseph's rescue and Asenath's encounter with the Balrog, they would become the Couriers who brought the Stone to France, and remained there for a time. Without the Anor Stone (if that is the case), their ticket home is the same as that of Faramir's, which involves the gifts and knowledge that I believe are currently hidden away in France.
Several weeks ago, a specific scene from the Karate Kid movie went through my mind. Why the Karate Kid? I don't know... Remember the 80's, I guess?
The scene was where Daniel LaRusso first learns Ali Mills' name. Daniel had met Ali earlier at the beach and got the crap beaten out of him by Johnny Lawrence, Ali's old boyfriend. Fast forward to the start of high school, and Daniel is trying out for the soccer team when Ali comes up to him. They talk for a bit, and as she starts to walk off, Daniel asks her for her name. Here is the dialogue, and I will post the video in case you want to see it (it is a longer one to get to the specific dialogue, but the bonus is we get Bananarama playing throughout):
Daniel: Hey, you got a name?
Ali: Ali... with an 'I'. Hey what's your name?
Daniel: Daniel... with an L.
It was that dialogue, and their names, that stood out for me, just like things have in other instances. And of course it would since, you know, the name thing I have going on right now.
So, I dove into looking up Ali's name. There is an Ali as in an Arabic name, but that isn't what we are going for here, I don't think. This is clearly Allie, a feminine name . This name can be a nickname for other names (e.g., Alison, Alexandra, etc.). Which could all work. Or the name itself can be taken on its own as a diminutive and feminized form of Alan. This is where I landed primarily because one theory of this name has it coming from Ireland and Gaelic-speaking Scotland. Per Wikipedia:
In Ireland and Gaelic-speaking Scotland, Alan may also be an Anglicisation of an Irish word (with diminutive suffix) meaning "rock". For example, the modern Irish ailÃn means "little rock". Similarly, according to Patrick Woulfe, the Irish name AilÃn is derived from diminutive ail, which means "noble", "rock".
Thus, noble (exalted) and rock or Stone are the proposed names for Alan, and its counterpart Ali or Alie. I am going to use both of those and say we may be dealing with an Exalted Stone. And William Tychonievich just posted something with the title "GAEL" in it, so I am inclined to take some Gaelic-specific meaning here and be OK with it.
My story includes an Stone that accompanied a Being into the Heavens, and both Stone and Being are not exalted. That Stone was the Ithil Stone, I think. When I first learned that Ali's name could mean Stone, my mind first went to Eowyn and the Ithil Stone. I then, potentially too imaginatively, saw some meaning with the emphasis of the dialogue of "with an I". I mean, it is really clunky, unnecessary phrase to throw in there with her name, so why not apply some meaning here?
The Ithil Stone, of course, starts with an "I", and this is where my mind went. I also heard the phrase as "eye", as in being able to see. One who is not blind, perhaps.
Ali of course then asks Daniel what his name is, and he responds by adding a letter to his name. The letter L. Although, when I heard it, I heard it as the Elvish word "El". A Star, which I have also used synonymously with Stones.
There is a Star specifically associated with the name Daniel - in my story at least - and that is the Sawtooth Stone. I currently have this Stone as the one that Daniel's dream interpretation and prophecy had being cut from the Mountain without human hands. Readers of the blog should know very well by now that I believe that prophecy was about a real, not symbolic, Stone, and that the mountain it was removed from was Williams Peak in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho. Crazy, I know.
This story also involves the 'introduction' of these two stones. The Ithil Stone is missing something, and that is the account found on the Sawtooth Stone. The "El" of Daniel, and that will need to be remedied here at some point.
But, I don't think we are just referring to Stones here in this symbolism, or at least my imagination didn't stop there. Like I said, the words from Ali, and learning of its potential meaning, had me think of not just the Ithil Stone, but also Eowyn who the Stone accompanied. Similarly, in my story, it will Faramir who will come into possession of the Sawtooth Stone, perhaps in Tom Bombadil's Study. I don't know.
The name Daniel itself means "God is my Judge" or "Judge of God". I am going to go with the latter for our purposes here. This brings the topic of Judgement into the picture. As I have imagined it, at least, it will be Faramir who is charged at least with judgement of the 144, most likely representing here in that number the Family of Light. Similarly, as mentioned before in other posts, Faramir also has the title of Ja-ho-e-oop or Jah ni hah, in my book, which are found in Joseph Smith's Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language (or GAEL, as William pointed out). The shorter explanation for this Being has him as one authorized to judge on behalf of the King:
Ja-ho-e-oop: An ambassador: one delegated with Kingly power; one authorized to execute judgement for the King; a swift messenger one whose power cannot be escaped, one next to supreme;
The judgment must be a just one, and prudent. This will be in harmony with Jesus' words at Bountiful, where he describes this servant who he will authorize with this power:
And then shall a cry go forth: Depart ye [Israel], depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch not that which is unclean; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord.
For ye shall not go out with haste nor go by flight; for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel shall be your rearward.
Behold, my servant shall deal prudently; he shall be exalted and extolled and be very high.
As many were astonished at thee—his visage was so marred, more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men—
So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him, for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
Daniel's last name is LaRusso, which if we take is as the Italian name it is likely meant to be, means "the Red", I think. The Red Judge of God, is how I have it then if we put those names together.
Now, there is a better known reference to a Being dressed in Red Garments that you can find in Revelations 19. I was going to use that one, but will instead refer to a revelation sourced to Joseph Smith and found in what is now D&C 133. In that Section ,we have the following account of a Red Judge (starting in verse 46):
And it shall be said: Who is this that cometh down from God in heaven with dyed garments; yea, from the regions which are not known, clothed in his glorious apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength?
And he shall say: I am he who spake in righteousness, mighty to save.
And the Lord shall be red in his apparel, and his garments like him that treadeth in the wine-vat.
And so great shall be the glory of his presence that the sun shall hide his face in shame, and the moon shall withhold its light, and the stars shall be hurled from their places.
And his voice shall be heard: I have trodden the wine-press alone, and have brought judgment upon all people; and none were with me;
And I have trampled them in my fury, and I did tread upon them in mine anger, and their blood have I sprinkled upon my garments, and stained all my raiment; for this was the day of vengeance which was in my heart.
Traditionally, this Being has obviously been identified as Jesus. In my story, however, I will suggest that we have this wrong. It is actually the Being who is authorized to act in judgement on behalf of the King: Ja-ho-e-oop, or Faramir-Eonwe, who is also the Holy Ghost.
So that is the Being represented by the name Daniel LaRusso, I guess.
Back to Ali, her last name is Mills. This can stand for two things. First, and most apparently, a Mill is something that grinds grain to be used for food. Bread is one of the primary products using ground grain, and we have connected Eowyn with Bread in the past. Kind of a connection there. But Mills is also a form of the name Miles, I found out. Miles has come up before, and is apparently a form of the name Michael. Michael = Faramir-Eonwe in this story, and so it was interesting to note a form of that name as Ali's last name.
Anyway, at this point, all of this seems interesting, maybe or maybe not, but that is where the names took me (some of the above being some stuff I was thinking through as I was typing now). It might get a bit more interesting, though, and I feel a bit more confident that we may be onto something, when we look at the name of the actress who plays Ali Mills.
Elisabeth Shue
The Karate Kid scene was from several weeks ago, as mentioned, and I did most of this thinking back then. However, yesterday this scene came to me again, and I had a very clear thought to look up what the actress' name might mean. Elisabeth Shue played the role of Ali, and I had already noticed Elisabeth. That name, and forms of it, I have already associated with Eowyn-Ilmare, so it was obviously noticeable and seemed to fit very well with tying the character name of Ali to both Eowyn and the Ithil Stone.
At that time I had looked into Shue, but didn't remember anything special about. Yesterday, I gave it another quick run, and determined that Shue must be the anglicized form of the German Schuh or Schue. At least this was the general internet consensus.
That didn't really give me much, however. A last name that means a single shoe didn't seem to clearly fit with anything, and I concluded that either I am missing something or its meaning will be apparent at some point. I did briefly have the thought that I had just written a post that had Joseph (Eowyn-Ilmare's twin) "shoo-ing" Dairon away, so maybe that tied in, but it didn't seem very clear to me.
Enter William Tychonievich's latest poetic entry entitled Concerning Shoon. In the first stanza, he wrote:
The Man in the Moon
Wears silver shoon, But gold costs twice As much. That price Is far too high, And that is why The Girl in the Sun Wears only one.
Shoon means shoes in the plural form, and he closes out this opening passage with a reference to a girl wearing only one shoe.
Now, there might be many meanings to this, and the one on my mind might not be even one of them, but my mind instantly went to Elisabeth Shue, whose name I had just looked up yesterday and was left with the riddle of what do do with the last name that meant a shoe (just a single shoe) and for which I had no really good ideas.
And by Elisabeth Shue, I mean, of course, the Being who I had been thinking was represented by her in the form of Eowyn. In reading the line of the "Girl in the Sun", I think we might have an interesting clue verifying that this might be the right line of thinking. I thought this next part was interesting, at least.
At the end of the LOTR, in the chapter "The Steward and the King", is the account of Eowyn and Faramir meeting at the Houses of Healing. Eowyn's own healing would not ultimately take place until she understood her heart and decides to be married to Faramir. That healing was described with very specific Sun imagery, and it goes like this:
Then the heart of Eowyn changed, or else at last she understood it. And suddenly her winter passed, and the sun shone on her.
'I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun,' she said, ' and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, not take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren." And again she looked at Faramir. "No longer do I desire to be a queen," she said.
One might be in the Sun literally, or one might be in the sun as in its presence or under its shine, for instance outside, as a common English expression goes. This is Eowyn's moment of healing, and it is all Sun imagery in highlighting this. Further sun descriptions are used when they were said to kiss "under the sunlit sky.... and many indeed saw them and the light that shone about them as they came down from the walls and went hand in hand to the Houses of Healing."
The sun shone on Eowyn - she is 'in the sun' - and this was the beginning of a journey, at least as I see it, which would ultimately result in the present situation I believe she finds herself in now. She wanted to be a healer, and the story that she has to share, and which she departed from our world to go and find, I guess, is what will heal us, I believe, and bring some kind of restoration and redemption. At least that is what I imagine.
So, I am not sure exactly if that is why Elisabeth Shue's last name was something I thought to look into yesterday, but it seemed to fit with this notion of a "Girl in the Sun" wearing a single shoe, for whatever it's worth.
I am going to tackle this in two parts. For this post, I will give my guess as to the identity of the Couriers by their Elvish names. In a follow-up post I will give me guess as to their Book of Mormon names. It actually all ties back to the very beginning of this blog - pretty neatly, I think - so I am pretty happy with where this particular train-thought has taken me.
Gildor's name is already given as is in those words I've cited earlier, and I think that is exactly who that stands for. So, their isn't any riddle in the name, but if you look into the character, there are a few interesting things to point out.
Gildor, as I've mentioned earlier, is the very first elf that Frodo comes across as he sets out from the Shire. In fact, he hasn't even left the Shire entirely yet before he comes across him (or rather, Gildor and his band happen upon Frodo). It is he who will first name Frodo as "Elf-Friend".
We do not learn much more, if anything, about him after this encounter. Glorfindel (who I will get to in a second) mentions his group and their encounter with Frodo when he happens upon Aragorn and the Hobbits as they are trying to get to Rivendell following Frodo's wounding at Weathertop by the Nazgul. Gildor sent word to Elrond in Rivendell, and Elrond sent out any of his people who could stand against the Nine to go in search of the Hobbits. Glorfindel's mission was to take the Road, which is where he happened upon the Hobbits.
During this first encounter, however, Gildor introduces himself to Frodo, Sam, and Pippin as "Gildor Inglorion of the House of Finrod". Meaning he is a son of "Inglor", and this Inglor is of Finrod's House. There is a bit of a mystery in this name, however, as just who Inglor is, as well as Finrod, is not entirely clear, and it has to do with some confusion and changes Tolkien would make as just who was known by both Finrod and Inglor, as well as some potentially poor assumptions about who Gildor's parents could actually be.
Inglor was actually the original name for Finrod Felagund, who was the son of Finarfin. Inglor would ultimately be rejected by Tolkien in favor of Finrod. To further muddy the waters, Tolkien also had interpreted Inglor as another name for Finarfin himself, thus making both father and son the bearer of this name oat one point.
The name Inglor is said to mean something like "Heart of Gold", although the form of the name applied to Finarfin (and which was his mother-name, or what his mother called him) meant something like "Top Gold" or "First Gold". (Ingalaure)
Anyway, that name of Inglor pretty much vanished from later uses, not being applied to either Finrod or Finarfin, it seems. But the name survived on in the LOTR story with Gildor, who is clearly the son of an Inglor. Most people assume that this can't have been Finrod because Tolkien would end up deciding that Finrod had not married and had become separated from his lover Amarie when he followed the Exiles out of Aman (though previous story version had him marry Amarie and they did have at least one child: Gil-Galad). So, the consensus has been that Gildor is a a son of Inglor, just not a son of either Finarfin or Finrod Felagund. Some unknown Inglor.
My own view differs. I believe the "Finrod" whose House he mentions being a part of is none other than Finarfin (I forgot to mention that Finarfin had gone by Finrod before Tolkien took than name and give it to Finarfin's son Inglor), and thus the Inglor who Gildor is the son of is, in fact, none other than Finrod Felagund.
I hope that makes sense.
So, a pretty understated and disguised character in the story, and I think that it is he - the grandson of Finarfin and son of Felagund - who is our first identified Elf Courier and Usher. In other words, even though we know his name, I am making a bit of a guess as to his identity with respect to where Gildor fits within the Houses of the Eldar.
OK, so on to the second Courier.
In my words, he simply goes by the name of Hodnir. This is a disguised name for whoever this really is, and my guess, which I have already given away, is Glorfindel.
As to the name Hodnir, I actually think this is a case where it is possible I flipped the consonants dr when I wrote the name down. Meaning, this should be Hondir. I can actually make it work with either Hodnir or Hondir.
If Hondir, it would mean something like "Heart Friend". As in with the "Heart-language" that was used to describe or reference the promise that Eowyn and Faramir made prior to their separation, I take this to phrase to mean something like a Close Friend or potentially even meaning Friends who have been joined by a bond or oath in a similar fashion. I don't know for sure on that last part, but think it could be and if not, at the very least this is a dear friend.
Now if it really was Hodnir, you still have "Friend" (Nir means Friend as well), but Hod gets a bit more confusing or limited. You could use a variation of Hod to have Hoth, which would mean a Host or Army. Army Friend? That could work as well given who I think Glorfindel was in the Book of Mormon. But I do have to change the Hod to Hoth to get this, and I am not sure how that holds up.
But basically I am not too bent out of shape on whether it is Hodnir or Hondir (or both?) in this case. The most important thing we have here is that then name designates a "Friend". Just tuck that away for the follow-up post on the Book of Mormon connection.
In fact, thinking on this now, I think I will have to do that segment before the Glorfindel connection comes more into focus. It is that identity, along with a re-interpreting a dream I already shared, that gives me some confidence that Glorfindel is our guy. So, for now just know that my guess is Glorfindel and Gildor were the two "Elves" who were the Germans of the original trip with the Darkened Anor Stone to search for Joseph, Green Stones, Brass Plates, Tom's Study, and whatever else. They would also have been the ones to take on the roles of Couriers in transporting the Sawtooth Stone from Idaho to Tom's House in France. And they are the two that have been suggested to usher Faramir-Eonwe home.
By the way, both Glorfindel and Gildor join Tom Bombadil in having the honor of being completely cut from Peter Jackson's movies. No trace of Gildor or Tom were included, and Glorfindel's assistance to Aragorn and Frodo in the 'flight to the ford' was given to Arwen instead (and he was scratched from the Council of Elrond).
In my post yesterday called "East, West, and much ado about nothing", I corrected the story of who is talking and what they are referring to with respect to Beings who would usher a Being 'home' (presumably Faramir in this case). I had before thought this amounted to some kind of trick by Saruman or a similar Being, but I think it is pretty clear that the dialogue points to 2 Elvish Beings who will both know the way "East" to Tom Bombadil's House, but who also seem to be suggested as ushering Faramir-Eonwe even further, and bringing him home. As in, they would be on both the East and West legs of that journey.
That last part - the West ushering - was not fully formed in my mind yesterday (I had mostly been thinking about the East part of the trip, and the Beings' involvement with that), but I think this is so. They lead him East, and then accompany him West as ushers and companions.
This concept seems to be borne out in that dialogue around the Anor Stone, in which it was identified as the Liahona of the Book of Mormon. Here is the dialogue again, and I will pull out the relevant parts to demonstrate where my thinking is:
Feb 10 & 11, 2020:
Those of us who delivered that ball-instrument to Lehi's family;
a compass, yet not wholly so, sufficient to lead one across seas to lands promised.
A palantir it was - a globe of crystal, metallic-seeming royal ancient sunlight beaming
<asgwiliant>
Singing songs of heroes bold, yet some songs remain untold
Resonant it was, echoing thought commissary needful for instruction, eggs bearing
[Hodnil]
to learn from who irradescent, a welding link, hands made sickly stewards reward
[Gildor]
There are 3 words which I have bracketed as seeming like they were separate from the rest of the dialogue. Almost like a background or explanatory voice speaking this as the primary dialogue occurred. They are: Asgwiliant, Hodnil, and Gildor.
I have discussed the 2 words, Hodnil and Gildor, and guessed that they are names, and that these names belong to the Stone Couriers. The first word, asquiliant, I don't think I have touched on, primarily because I didn't really have a way to tie it in to anything or make sense of it until now.
Interestingly, in the previous times I have included this quote, I misspelled what I originally wrote down. I checked back on both my excel and word file, and I should have written asgwiliant, with the w instead of a u. I think I did it wrong the first time, and just copied and pasted my error into all subsequent posts.
I mention that because the proper translation will be based on that correct form, and if it had been a u originally then my guess would have been I sounded it out as such. But, that isn't a problem, because I spelled it correctly back in my notes, and the error occurred in these posts.
The translation for that word is pretty straightforward, and I have had it the way I am going to type below for awhile (but again, just not knowing how it all ties together). Here is my simple translation:
As: With
Gwil: to sail or fly
Iant: Bridge
So, "With to sail-fly bridge" as the crude interpretation, and there it has sat, though I thought it probably had something to do with the Anor Stone given that the main dialogue includes mention of sailing over seas.
But, I think if we pull this word out with the two names of who I believe are the Stone Couriers, I think these 3 words come together into a cohesive phrase that supports the notion that these Couriers will be with Faramir on the trip as these Ushers. The phrase would be something like (smoothing it out a bit): "to sail with Hodnil and Gildor [over] Bridge".
Thus the background commentary likely identifies the speakers of the main phrase, the "those of us who delivered that ball-instrument to Lehi's Family", who are Hodnil and Gildor, and mentions that they will be flying or sailing with who is being spoken to, which in this case I believe is Faramir.
This fits very will with the overall narrative of the Stone Couriers and their future role I guessed at yesterday, so I am feeling pretty good about this.
The question then becomes just who are Hodnil and Gildor. I have a guess on this (I may have actually touched on Gildor before, but I don't think Hodnil), and will get those down in a post and see how it goes.
The mural dream I've referenced in my last couple posts continued to work on me just a bit, so I am going to get some additional thoughts down.
Why was I a child in that dream looking at the mural? I have already suggested that the dream was through the eyes of Joseph, and provided my latest thinking that the specific star that was blotted out by my finger was Dairon-Brigham.
But what was the significance that I did this as a child in my dream?
I have my answer. I remembered that in Doug's Words of Them which have Slumbered, there is a specific scene involving Joseph (Dior-Ausir at this time in Doriath) and Dairon. For context, Thingol had been killed at this point, sabotaged in order to obtain the Silmaril. Standard tales, and Doug's account as well, have this being the sole work of the Dwarves who had worked on the Nauglamir. Readers of my blog will know, however, that I believe that Dairon was complicit in this betrayal. He would then go on to also betray Dior and Nimloth (Asenath) later, resulting in Dior-Joseph's death.
In the space and time between these two betrayals, Dairon comes back to Doriath. If he hoped to be welcomed back by Dior-Joseph, that didn't happen. Rather than welcome him, Dior takes the opportunity to completely disavow and disown Dairon, ultimately referring to him as 'not-kin'. Here is how it is conveyed:
And shooing him [Dairon], Pest away! Ausir bent down, and cursed Dorian [Dairon], to come never to his own father's house again,
For broken it was bodily, and in spirit
Wandered; Not though he hold again
In clasp immanent and ponderous,
His own sword, not til in his palm rested
Again this gem [the Silmaril], or one like unto it, kin;
More so than thou, not-kin, neither uncle,
Half; but stranger always. Begone, fly!
These are strong words, even stronger when we take into account who I believe Joseph is. He is one of the Fathers of the House of Light. My story involves the gathering of that Family, and Joseph here lets Dairon know that he is not part of it. He is not kin, in the ultimate sense of that sentiment.
In other words, it is important to understand what Joseph is saying here and why. Dairon will be a stranger - always. Never to be part of Joseph's Family.
But rather than frame what Joseph is saying here as important and something to be seriously considered, Doug (or whomever Doug is channeling in this writing) makes is seem that Joseph-Dior has no idea what he is saying, too filled with rage and anger to think clearly, and that Joseph's words and feelings of anger toward Dairon were a 'misunderstanding':
Alone sent Dairon away his [Dior-Joseph] wrath, in misunderstanding this child upbraideth him, one who sat on those shores [Cuivienen], and with Vanya-highest, gathered fish to eat, and water to consume.
Did you catch that? The author called Dior-Joseph a 'child', who did not understand apparently what he was doing or saying. Didn't he know who he was talking to? This was Dairon! One who had been there at the beginning with the Eldar at Cuivienen.
Whatever.
That child imagery is the link to my dream. Joseph-Dior was called a child for cursing Dairon and casting him from his House, telling him he can never return to the house of Joseph's Father, and that he would be a stranger always. And there I sat in my dream, in front of that mural of stars as a child, using my finger of accusation (and judgement) to blot out a star. Their future story among that Family was now dark and no more.
The Stars in our sky were said to be placed there by Varda herself, who of course was Joseph's mother in a time even before this world or creation. The Elves at Cuivienen woke up under those stars looking up at them, including Dairon, something that the author directly appeals to in asserting that Joseph misunderstood and made a mistake in his condemnation of Dairon.
I do not believe there was any mistake. Joseph spoke the truth, and Dairon from that time forward is not nor ever will be part of Joseph's Family.
This is what Joseph wished to convey or felt in that dream upon his departure. I believe he wanted to make sure that as part of the gathering of his Family, since this was going to be left to others to perform, that false stars - those who pretend to be of that Family but are not - be excluded. They are not numbered or counted, and will not return to the House of Joseph's Father - ever. And the first star he started with was Dairon, as conveyed in symbolism that ties my dream directly to his confrontation and dismissal of Dairon at Doriath.
In looking at my own posts, it is interesting to note that I understood this obviously long before I realized this message was to be found in that dream. So some part of me picked up that messaging, whether from that dream or from other thoughts, communications, words, etc. I mean, I dedicated quite a lot of real estate on this blog during the the month of August last year on laying out charges against Dairon and his various incarnations (e.g. Brigham). August was basically my first full month of writing on this blog, and a significant portion of it dealt with that Being. Thus, that message - the extended finger moving to cover up a pretended star, if you will - came out of me fairly quickly, at a time when I wanted to move on to happier and/ or more interesting topics to think about, but felt that we needed to at least get a framework out and some ideas across on how to approach and view that Being.
Anyway, riddle solved, I think, with respect to the symbols and intent of that dream, and I can move on.
I am in a 'correction' mood today, I guess, so I am following up my last post with a real quick one (hopefully) relative to something I wrote yesterday in my post about Joseph returning home that isn't sitting right with me and I have an idea or solution for.
And trust me, there are a lot of things I probably need to update, correct, think through more, etc. so me going through and updating the Faramir-East storyline and then this next thing aren't my signal that everything else is spot on. I don't believe that at all. This whole thing is me exploring and working through things, and part of that whole deal is getting things wrong. I just also have to prioritize my time and energy, since there are a lot of things going on in my mind and those two things are a limited resource.
So, if some major thing for the story is really off, or I think it might be, then it is probably worth revisiting. But if it isn't a major piece, or I don't quite know yet if something needs to be revisited and there are other story elements I am still exploring, then I am going to just let it be for a bit. Otherwise, I'd be correcting things into all sorts of different possibilities or variations, and I am sufficiently indecisive as it is that neither you nor I want a lot of that. For example, sometimes I toy with letting Tom Petty out of the penalty box - I have some reasons for doing so - but it doesn't seem super critical to decide on that right now relative to other things, so he's still sitting there until I figure out what to do about that. Just one example.
But this correction isn't about Tom Petty.
Rather, I discussed briefly some imagery in a dream relating to what I take to be Joseph of Egypt (Ausir-Dior) finally being rescued and leaving our world. At the end of that dialogue, Joseph expresses some concern about his Family once he agrees to leave with these Beings. In my story, many members of the Family of Light - Joseph's Family - are scattered on our world, which is also known as the Bed of Wheat and Tares. This Light Family is the Wheat. In leaving them, Joseph wants to know they will be OK. The Beings tell him not to worry.
At this time, or immediately after them saying this, the dream switched to a scene where I was a child sitting in front of a wall. Here is how I conveyed the dream:
I was suddenly a child, and sitting down in front of a wall. On the wall was something like a large mural of the night sky or space, complete with many stars. As I sat there, I reached up with my finger to cover one of the stars. The act of touching it, made the star disappear. As I did this, the Disciples responded with that phrase "Let us go, we can cover all of the stars later".
I believe those Stars represented Joseph's Family - the House of Joseph. Comprised of Stars, it is important to note that the Elves, of the Eldar, were known as the People of the Stars (that is the meaning of Eldar). Which I think is a double meaning for them being both Beings of Light, but also calling out where they originally came from - the Great Beyond.
So, all that still holds with respect to the imagery of the stars. The Family of Light. However, I then made the following assumption or interpretation:
The covering of the star in my dream I think signified Joseph's anxiety in losing or seeing just one of those Stars dimmed and ultimately lost.
Starting this morning, this wasn't sitting right with me. The symbolism doesn't make sense. It is Joseph (I believe who I am seeing from the perspective of in my dream) who uses his own finger to cover that Star. The act of touching it makes the Star disappear - it is no longer among the stars. In other words, Joseph himself made the Star disappear. How does that fit with my interpretation?
It doesn't, and a better solution hit me this morning.
All of the Family of Light is numbered and will be counted. They will all be restored.
However, there are some Beings who have masqueraded as being part of that Family, and would wish to be numbered among them, even while doing that Family severe harm and destruction.
One such Being covered on this blog is that of Dairon-Brigham. You will recall that he was actually among those first Elves to awaken at Cuivienen - or at least, that is how the story goes. Regardless of the truth of it, my guess is that this Being is not of that Family, though in the past has appeared to be so (and represented as such in stories and accounts).
My interpretation now of that dream image is that Joseph, by his own hand, covered up the Star of Dairon-Brigham and he was now made, in fact, Dark. He was no longer counted among that Family of Light, and it is the knowledge of Joseph, and perhaps the Story that he has to share, that will make this so definitively. And of course with everything that Being has done to Joseph and his Family, that would be the first star that Joseph would cover, I imagine. That Being is also a major reason for Joseph's Sickness. All the Dark doings of Beings will be revealed and shouted upon rooftops.
And my guess is there are a few more Stars that Joseph's story will also blot out, but the Disciples told Joseph to let that whole thing go for now. At that time, it was time to go home, all of that would be taken care of later. Dairon-Brigham and other imposters would not be counted among the stars and gathered with them, and he didn't need to worry about it.
Anyway, my earlier interpretation wasn't sitting right with me, and this idea came along and seemed to make more sense of things.
In earlier posts, I had made a big deal about which way Beings and symbols were facings: East vs. West. Going all the way back to the boy in Run, Boy, Run, and continuing on to figures like Ben Stiller on the movie art for Walter Mitty, I became convinced that there was meaning in their symbols, but that they were facing the wrong way.
This was partly based on this West vs. East travel story, and interpreting Left = West and Right = East. But it was also partly driven by the thought that there were some words that I believed were being spoken to Faramir-Eonwe that seemed to be telling him to go East, but "knowing" that West was the way to go, or ultimately the path that one would take in finding and following the road home. Those were the primary drivers for this assumption.
Because things got pretty strange for me in the final weeks and months in the spring of 2020, and there is at least one known instance of me writing something that came from something fairly strange (what I call the Finwe Letter... don't ask, trust me), it was possible that at least some of these later words and dialogues were coming from questionable sources, or at least some of them reflected that. It is with this reasoning that I developed the theory that these references to travelling East must have been a trick, like I assumed this Finwe Letter was. Meaning, whereas before I was hearing or listening in on Friends or Good Beings, I would have been hearing some of these words from other Beings (i.e., Saruman) in trying to convince Faramir to go a different direction and thus get lost.
It is an interesting take, but I now think I was completely wrong! Like, really badly so.
The first cracks in that story actually started occurring for me when Orion-Menelmacar worked his way into our story. If you take a look at Orion in the sky, you will notice something about his pose:
Yeah, he is facing to the right, and he travels to the right. Yet, Orion travels to the West through the sky. This completely shatters that first, simple (and completely wrong) assumption I made that Right = East. No, it doesn't, and Orion shows us this. We view him from the North looking to the South (at least where I live), and so him travelling to the right in the sky means he is going West. It is just a matter of perspective.
Thus, bringing back Ben Stiller and his Sky Walk imagery, it is entirely consistent with Orion's own travels for Stiller to be walking to the West (straight on past the Empire State Building, by the way).
So, that aspect of my interpreting some of these symbols as being partly corrupted falls apart, at least based on that bad assumption. That means some of the other things I looked into too deeply also fall apart (such as the influence of Tim in that specific imagery, which just isn't so).
And what about that - the influence of Saruman in that whole "Tempting Farmir to travel to the East" scenario? Yeah, I think that falls about pretty badly as well. France, and the notion of important things being located there, pretty much put a nail in the coffin for how I was both interpreting these symbols as well as translating and interpreting my words from the Spring of 2020 relative to who was speaking and what their intent was.
In at least two instances, a speaker is telling another that they will come back to the East. Because my understanding is that West is the way that this Sky Walking path will lead, I couldn't reconcile East with this view. I assumed this must be Saruman, or some other Being with bad or incorrect intentions, telling Faramir (the person being spoken to) he should follow them to the East, and then Faramir would be lost. I even invoked Lehi's dream journey as an example of when this had happened - when a Being (the mane in the White Robe) led Lehi out into a dark abyss and left him. This would have been a similar scenario, or at least that is how I imagined it.
However, this doesn't work for me anymore, and I was wrong in assuming this, all because I couldn't reconcile the East reference with the West destination (as I understand it).
France holds the key, however, and WanderingGondola, who comments on this blog occasionally, had a jump on the right way to reconcile East vs. West in this story. At that time, France had not yet fully entered into this story in the way it has now. I had identified it as the place where Tom's House is, and where the Stone Couriers had gone to, but hadn't yet marked it as a potential travel destination for other Beings in the future, for whatever reason. In a comment on the post "Wagon's East!"... or was that supposed to be West?, WanderingGondola said:
Following your assumption this is about "Faramir", did you previously suggest he's currently on Earth in some capacity? If so, perhaps "East" is merely relative to his geographical location at whatever time this stuff is happening.
Yes, this is the answer, I think. She nailed it, at least with respect to the first leg of any trip, and France solidified this in my mind.
The things that will ultimately enable a Sky Walk to the West are found in the East relative to Faramir. So it is first East, and then West. This way, that way. as the song went. If we assume that he is on this Earth, then the invitation to come East is an invitation to come to Tom's House in France, which will be a trip to the East from Faramir's geographic location.
That trip East is not the same thing as the Sky Walk back to the West, to be clear, but it does solve the riddle about why an invitation to travel that way is mentioned
This makes sense to to me. At the time I was trying to reconcile East and West, the whole concept of a Study or Room of Records to which Beings might go and find certain things like Stones, Plates, and whatever else, and that this was found at the same location of Tom's House in France, hadn't even entered into my mind. France has the Key, and so is to France one must go in order to find that Key. This was the missing puzzle piece, and without it, I had to assume that at least some of these strange words were corrupted in the latter part of that Spring. But, not so.
Not only does that make sense, but it is also reassuring that I don't have to try and delineate those 2019 and 2020 words and try to parse through which came from friendly vs. unfriendly sources, and the narrative becomes clearer.
For instance, in one of the instances that Faramir is told about going East, we hear about 2 Beings who will usher him. Here is the text:
March 22, 2020
Jewel zimel link
Back and east to come it profit your house
Them dual iskwendi to know
Suggest ushertoward home a story to tell
A visceral glow
A stone binding two ways center-heart
tell me where the good men go
I've brought this up before in previous posts, one where we examined the interesting instance of Usher cruising around a Black Hole on roller skates, and also in the original "Wagon's East" post linked above where I first surmised that perhaps Saruman was the one offering to take Faramir to the East and ditch him out in the middle of the void, or something.
This is about as far off as I could have been!
The clue here that I didn't key off of is that the third line, the one that goes "Them dual iskwendi to know". Now, I could be very wrong on this new interpretation as well - entirely possible, so keep that in mind - but I now see here a reference to our Stone Couriers. There were two of them, I've guessed, and we of course have the word "dual", meaning two.
What threw me for a loop initially is that I interpreted "Iskwendi" as meaning Elvish assemblies, or groups of Beings, and that there were two of them. This may still be the correct interpretation, or we've seen plenty of double meanings, so I'm not ruling it out (I've been off enough to hedge!), but I see a simpler story.
The speaker here is telling Faramir that he will will come back and East. This is both a return (to come back) and a direction (to the East). So, wherever it is, is a place that he has been before, and lies to his East. Tom's House fits with the first criteria, since recall that I have both Eowyn and Faramir at least in one instance being at Tom's House prior to their separation. This story actually seems to be referenced in the later lines of a "Stone binding two ways center-heart" (the heart-language mentioned earlier), as well as in the song that is alluded to in that last line (Heaven Knows, by Five for Fighting).
Since we are already assuming France for Tom's House, then the East is more dependent on wherever Faramir is, so this isn't necessarily a criteria for that House, but more of indicative of where he would be found if this interpretation is true. And in this way, it would be a similar path as the Stone Couriers took. They started off in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho, and took an Eastward journey to finally arrive at Tom's House in France.
And this then gets to the identity of meaning of these "dual iskwendi". I think this translates as "Two Elfs", pretty cleanly, actually. Kwendi does mean Elvish people, but 1s is a pronoun for an individual person, so basically "Person of the Elves". And the speaker says that these two Beings will 'know', meaning they will know how to get to Tom's House. This interpretation makes complete sense with the next line "suggest to usher toward home a story to tell".
Because the Stone Couriers will know the location ("to know", as in something still in the future as of 2020 since the Couriers will not deliver the Stone until 2021), the speaker suggests to Faramir that these two Beings also be the ones to escort him there. The word "usher", again, was likely chosen for specific reasons I outlined before. That all still holds.
OK, so this all makes much more sense to me, and I feel better about it. Rather than Saruman hopping in and trying to trick Faramir into going East, and all of the various stories I created around this being the case, this actually never happened. So scratch previous writings that emphasize this or try to make sense of it.
What we actually have here is the speaker (who is Good) telling Faramir about something that will happen in the future. He will go to France (in the East), and it is probably wise to allow the Stone Couriers to usher him there since they know the way. It is framed as a suggestion, but my guess is it is a really good suggestion. At Tom's House are stories that will need to be told, some of them found on Stones, and others found on Plates, and it seems that following events there a Sky Walk heading to the West is made possible.
So, that is my story, and I'm sticking to it... for now.
Rather than leading up to it in the search through my words and the various exploits of The Germans, I am going to jump right to the day I think Joseph of Egypt was finally brought home in the search and rescue effort, and we can work backwards from there.
First, however, I think The Germans consists of the Stone Couriers (of which there are likely two Beings) plus Thingol-John. At least initially. My current guess is that, sometimes toward the end, they are joined by the Three Disciples. I am not completely sure on that last point, but it seems to make sense given interactions once Joseph is returned safely to Tirion.
And again, The Germans are, among other things, searching for Joseph so that they can bring him home. For whatever reason, this seems particularly important to do prior to the confrontation between Asenath and the Balrog in Idaho. Recall that I have Asenath telling her brother Faramir that she intends to 'pluck him', but the first priority is to get Joseph.
With all of that being said, I think the Joseph is escorted home on March 5, 2020. On that day, I have the following words (I have added speaker designations, one for Joseph and an X those speaking to Joseph, based on my guess):
March 5, 2020
[X] Every word described was brilliant [Joseph] I’ve been sick [X] I can hear you becoming [X] Have you been coming often? [Joseph] You all set? [X] Do not worry not too late [Joseph] So do it [X] We will depart wealth creation [X] Are you coming? [Joseph] Yes. Family? [X] Do not worry [X]Let us go we can cover all of the stars later Aqua (akwa?) road [seen as a cave-like entrance into something that looked like a gift-shop]
It is a strange dialogue, and it seems to pick up mid-conversation.
A voice is first heard telling Joseph that every word described was brilliant. I believe this is a reference to the Sawtooth Stone, said to be "brighter than the sun", and thus brilliant. Joseph put words onto that Stone a long, long time ago in some form (however he 'described' them). As the Sawtooth Stone will not be recovered until May, they are not talking about it in this instance, per se, but rather I take it as these are Beings who were either present for this (and can remember) or were shown this after the fact. In other words, they are telling Joseph about what he had done in a time he could no longer recall.
This is either Thingol speaking, or one of the 3 Disciples, and I lean toward the Disciples at this point. That is just how I currently imagine it, however, and that view could radically change.
Joseph replies that he is sick, and I think this comment ties back to the Sawtooth Stone and its absence from him. In a previous post I indicated my guess is that Joseph's separation from the Stone and the Vision on it is a, if not the, source of his Sickness, and thus his response to hearing about the Brilliant Words that he apparently placed on that Stone make complete sense. He can no longer remember those Words or that Vision, and is thus Sick.
The next lines are strange, but it seems that at one point Joseph is asking the group (whether Thingol, Disciples, and/ or the other Germans) whether they are 'all set', which I take by the answers means are they all ready to go and depart for 'home'.
The reply is also confusing as if saying there isn't any rush, it isn't too late, etc., but Joseph responds rather curtly and says "So do it". Get going then, basically.
The Disciples reply that they will depart, and then use the curiose phrase "Wealth Creation". I've gone back and forth on what this means. Is Wealth Creation what they called Joseph? Is the place they are departing to? I am not sure. One argument in favor it being the name they are calling Joseph is one of Joseph's names, Ausir, literally means "Wealthy", but I don't have a good answer for how Creation fits in. Perhaps it is a place, and means the Place that Wealth [Joseph] Created?
Suffice it to say, they convince Joseph to come with them, but he is still concerned about his "Family". I take this to mean the Family of Light on our world, dressed up in the bodies of Men. The same family that Asenath yearns to be fully restored with her and Joseph at home. Joseph is concerned what will happen if he leaves - how will they be restored? The reply is for him not to worry.
But he does continue to worry, and I know this by the dream-vision I had after the Disciples told him not to worry.
I was suddenly a child, and sitting down in front of a wall. On the wall was something like a large mural of the night sky or space, complete with many stars. As I sat there, I reached up with my finger to cover one of the stars. The act of touching it, made the star disappear. As I did this, the Disciples responded with that phrase "Let us go, we can cover all of the stars later".
I believe those Stars represented Joseph's Family - the House of Joseph. Comprised of Stars, it is important to note that the Elves, of the Eldar, were known as the People of the Stars (that is the meaning of Eldar). Which I think is a double meaning for them being both Beings of Light, but also calling out where they originally came from - the Great Beyond.
The covering of the star in my dream I think signified Joseph's anxiety in losing or seeing just one of those Stars dimmed and ultimately lost.
The Disciples response (as conveyed) is a pun on "cover". When you discuss a topic, you are sometimes said to cover it. I believe the Disciples were saying that they understood Joseph's concern, but that they would cover it later. Now was the time to leave.
This seems supported by that final phrase: Aqua road. Aqua means water, of course, and these Beings will return Joseph to Tirion through Space, or the Great Waters. Thus, the Road through the Waters, or Aqua Road. This phrase was not spoken like the others, which is why I think it is a summary of the action they took following the discussion. Rather, I saw it in a dream scene as noted above, in which the words were shown as a sign above an entrance into a gift-shop type store. I myself didn't get close to it in terms of my dream perspective, so that is just what it looked like from a distance.
OK, so with that, I think Joseph returns home, escorated by at least the Disciples, I believe, as well as maybe Thingol, but I am not certain. Definitely the original plan was for Thingol to escort Joseph home, but it is unclear if that remained how it actually happened. I guess this was the original plan because it seems to be mentioned back on January 19, when it seems Asenath gives a specific instruction or request that Joseph depart with Thingol:
January 19, 2020
Benu au doriel mit Thingol luke elanor
This is an interesting phrase because we once again have reference to El-Anor (the Anor Stone), and the word "Luke" again. Luke (the e is pronounced here, so it doesn't sound like the name Luke if spoken that way) describes El-Anor in this case, and that it was enchanted or had a spell. In my story, El-Anor is smoked or darkened, but it seems that Asenath may have done some things with it afterward but prior to it coming across the Many Waters to our world that would make it accurately described as enchanted or magical.
In any case, the full phrase seems to say:
Husband away [from?] Daughter-Land with Thingol [and] enchanted El-Anor.
So, the plan is for El-Anor to assist Joseph in finding his way back home, accompanied by Thingol. At least that is my guess. As we learn in those other words regarding El-Anor or the Liahona, it is "sufficient to lead one across seas to lands promised". This was the reason El-Anor was darkened and brought to our world - to be given into the sickly hands of Joseph, who would use it to return home.
This didn't happen on January 19th, though. In a follow up conversation the next day, I found myself talking to a Being who portrayed themselves as Yoda, from Star Wars. Yeah, I know. This is another reason why I think of the "Luke" reference and character as pointing toward Joseph. In that conversation, it seems Joseph now wishes to depart after having heard that invitation to come home. But Yoda (who I believe is actually John here), tells him that he can't yet - he is still blind:
January 20, 2020
Luke-Joseph: We have conversations I want to depart Yoda-John-Thingol: You are still blind one thing lack you yet
Seguendo o mit sil She would go away
The Elvish words that follow I have as still being spoken by Thingol, but it transitioned to a more 'normal' voice... the theatrics of the staged Star Wars, Luke-Yoda conversation had gone away. These words might represent the answer to what Joseph is told Joseph lacks: the Dead.
Seguendo o mit sil I can translate into something like "In like manner the dead folk away with crystal (El-Anor)". Basically, it isn't just Joseph who is being evacuated here back home, but apparently at least some of the Dead, and they are going to hitch a ride - whatever that looks like - with Joseph as he uses El-Anor to return home.
Strange, I know, but that is where my head is. This will also explain Beings I view as the Dead being gathered or lead to a spot prior to Joseph's departure and remarking that there are no Holy Places (seemingly looking around our world). I will get into that in another post, though.
There is one other invitation for Joseph to come home on February 5. This would still pre-date the Dead, though, being led somewhere, so I don't know if this is an invitation that is extended through impatience or just letting him know the way is open to come home? I am not sure. Here is that invitation:
February 5, 2020
Star-way they explained
Domno dorno away
Come my darling homeward bound
Given the language, I think this must be Asenath speaking again to Joseph. As a parent with young kids, I also noted that the final phrase seems to be ripped directly from the Disney movie "Frozen II". That movie also involved a character - Elsa - having to cross an ocean (the Dark Sea), which may be representative of Joseph needing to make the crossing over the Dark Sea that separates us from these other worlds.
Domno Dorno can mean something like the "Dark land below", and what he is asking to depart away from (i.e., our world).
Lastly, it seems that the 6 days of travel hold up in this example of Joseph and the 3 Disciples travelling back to Tirion. They leave on March 5, and on March 10, I record the account where I believe Asenath is greeting the 3 Disciples to Tirion, and asking them to do a rapid return back to our world, which they do literally the next day on March 11 once they understand the situation.
March 10
[Asenath] Ai’marao,
[Asenath] Power come bed
[Asenath?] Redondo return [Disciples] We go [Asenath] Urge on [Disciples] You keeping your cool? [Disciples?] We reading rock
