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"A voice had begun to sing. ... Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. There was hardly even a tune. But it was, beyond comparison, the most beautiful noise he had ever heard. It was so beautiful he could hardly bear it. ... Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by the other voices; more voices than you could possibly count. They were in harmony with it, but far higher up the scale: cold, tingling, silvery voices. The second wonder was that the blackness overhead, all at once, was blazing with stars. ... If you had seen and heard it ... you would have felt quite certain that it was the stars themselves which were singing, and that it was the First Voice, the deep one, which had made them appear and made them sing." -"The Magicians Nephew" Chapter 8, C.S. Lewis |
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"And he spoke to them, propounding to them themes of music; and they sang before him, and he was glad. ... Then the voices of the Ainur, like upto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashion the theme of Iluvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the Void, and it was not void. ... "But when they were come into the Void, Iluvatar said to them: 'Behold your Music!' and he showed to them a vision, giving to them sight where before was only hearing; and they saw a new World made visible before them." -"The Silmarillion" Chapter 1, J.R.R. Tolkien |
