“Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.”
“A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe”
“It is the darkness that makes the light visible, and not the other way around.”
“Fiery and sweet, all at the same time. A flame in the dark, lighting my way.”
“The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark.”
“In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness.”