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““A gentle messenger for bad news,” he said half aloud, as if talking to the fountain. It did not listen, but went on talking in its own silver tongue, and he listened to it a while.”

Such a neat premise. Really love the part where the characters more or less shit-talk the main character from the previous book (they don’t know he’s the main character…..yet…)

“Some there are who have seen her standing like a tree under heaven, crowned with the Sun; and from all its branches there spilled a golden dew upon the barren earth, and it grew green with corn; but the roots of the tree were in waters of Ulmo, and the winds of Manwë spoke in its leaves.”
I love semicolons&poetic prose💕 going to pick this up again after finals but I do love the mythology of it all so far.

I fear I am NOT going to reach my 2025 reading goal lads