Suilad mellyn! Ore nomo Elluindil.
If you're here to learn about alchemy, you came to the wrong place. But if Tsume, Toboye, Hige and Kiba mean anything to you, then you've found a special place, doubly so if you understand the italic text!
Doshte?
Why are some tales memorable and others are not? Why do some tales hold our thoughts for days, weeks (years) after? If you are like me at all, then you know that Wolf's Rain is a tale that is both enchanting and terrifying, beautiful and sad, "filled with the sadness of men" as the elves say. And if I am any judge of the comments I've seen on YouTube and other places, then it seems that the ending left most of us with a lot to ponder, perhaps more than we could comprehend.
Alright, admit it, you cried for three days after episode 30. Then you watched it all over again!
Well, after much discussion with my friend and mentor of many years, Melda Laure, we both decided that in light of the ancient current of story that runs through WR, and its "high moral vision" and the fact that it has touched so many in a deep and lasting way, that we should (must?) finish the Great Work, and square the circle and explain, as fully as possible, the subtle message of hope within it. But here we ran into a bit of a dilemma. BONES you see, wrote a lovely story that is altogether pagan, (%99.9) indeed, not unlike the work of Prof. Tolkien who although an extreme Roman Catholic wrote a story about the (post-atlantean, pre-Abrahamic) world where christianity had not yet come to pass (nor Islam, nor any other creed of any kind.) So what to do? "Elli, you may know every tale from the Inuit to terra do fuego, but nobody wants to hear about that. "
"Possibly, even probably, sensei, but if I make the discussion about one faith I will leave out %80 of those who actually are fit to learn something, and it would be an insult to the authors," I answered.
Well, like Kiba, and any patient teacher, ML said nothing for a long time before he finally gave me a clue: "As the three rings opposed Sauron, so also it is in WR, and remeber, Elli, it was the ring of fire that held the center in both stories" You call that help? Some friend! It took me about a week to figure that one out!
I had forgotten. You see, the three rings of the elves were also alchemical. Nobody remembers this anymore, as if anybody cares.
But just as Lord Darcia had his grandfather's alchemy, so too there is
Another Alchemy which opposes him, and it is this that gives the story its power and depth and glory. You see, I can tell you about Kiba, Toboye and Cheza and the lot in a metaphorical alchemical sort of way, and I hope, nobody is offended, and nobody is left out. Because of course WR is a story about the end of the 4th age, when the mother buffalo of destiny stands on one foot, wobbling, in chaos, instability and death. It is the perfect analogue and story for this dysfunctional and wretched age.
And yet, if you follow carefully, you will learn that there is within this tale, a message of incredible hope which
should have left you burning with such a fiery joy that it might just dry up all those tears (well most of them) and maybe even leave you laughing. Ok, this is getting too long...
Where will You go?
Now You've no Home?
Let the Rain wash away your last days.
Aw jeez! I just unplugged the bathtub! Here, have a tissue.
The actual truth of reality is that the above lines really apply more to the Nobles than they do to the wolves. Now about Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Jamie Dimon, Henry Blankfein, and Tim Geithner-
"Elli! Daro! No politics!"
"ok, nin heru"
"Enough already! I'm not your Lord, nor your sensei. dammit
cariad we're barely 1% different in age anymore!"
"You're still 915 years older than me."
"That's no excuse for poor grammar, lousy japanese, and even sloppier quenya! You're beginning to piss me off - go howl at the moon or something... And dont come back til the market closes."
