I’ve just finished reading Abigail’s beautiful and moving meditation on the ocean and its analogous connection to love. In the midst of the depths to which she plunges, she mentions Legolas’ love for the sea, and this reminded me of Tolkien’s own love for the Sea, expressed in Ainulindalë, the Creation myth in The Silmarillion:

… but of all these water they most greatly praised. And it is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance else that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.