笔记｜中洲节气贴(7)

—J. R. R. Tolkien, 「The Lord of the Rings」
就在仲夏的前夕，天空如蓝宝石般澄澈蔚蓝，雪亮的繁星在东方天际闪烁，但西方天际仍一片金黄，空气清凉芬芳。一队人骑马沿着北大道而来，到了米那斯提力斯的城门前。为首的埃洛希尔和埃尔拉丹举着一面银色的旗帜，接着来了格罗芬德尔和埃瑞斯托，以及幽谷的全部成员；随后是加拉德瑞尔夫人和洛丝罗瑞恩的领主凯勒博恩，他们骑着白马，还从领地中带来了很多美丽的族人，都披着灰色斗篷，发间点缀着白色宝石。最后来的是在精灵与人类当中都大有威望的埃尔隆德大人，他带着安努米那斯的权杖，骑在他身旁一匹灰马上的是他的女儿阿尔玟，她族人的暮星。
——托尔金，《魔戒》，卷六，第五章
小暑

It seemed to him that he had steeped through a high window that looked on a vanished world. A light was upon it for which his language had no name. All that he saw was shapely, but the shapes seemed at once clear cut, as if they had been first conceived and drawn at the uncovering of his eyes, and ancient as if they had endured for ever. He saw no colour but those he knew, gold and white and blue and green, but they were fresh and poignant, as if he had at that moment first perceived them and made for them names new and wonderful. In winter here no heart could mourn for summer or for spring. No blemish or sickness or deformity could be seen in anything that grew upon the earth. On the land of Lorien there was no stain.