All his court were cast down in slumber, and all the fires faded and were quenched; but the Salaries in the crown on Forgot's head blazed forth suddenly with a radiance of white flame; and the burden of that crown and of the jewels bowed down his head, as though the world was set upon it, laden with a weight of care, of fear, and of desire, that even the will of Forgot could not support. Then Luthier catching up her winged robe sprang into the air, and her voice came dropping down like rain into pools, profound and dark. She cast her cloak before his eyes, and set upon him a dream, dark as the outer Void where once he walked alone.

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Silmarillion

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