kanafiinwe:

Aule // Valaquenta

He is a smith and a master of all crafts, and he delights in works of skill, however small, as much as in the mighty building of old. His are the gems that lie deep in the Earth and the gold that is fair in the hand, no less than the walls of the mountains and the basins of the sea

Silmarillion poster series (5/?)

radioactive-earthshine:

Aule never stopped loving Mairon, even after all that he had done and dealt, even after his fall and perversion of the craft he had taught him. Though he wanted to be able to hate him and purge him from his thoughts he just could not. Mairon was his favorite most bright student, a son to him, he could never wholly divorce his relationship with him even when he thought it was best.

Aule hated his deeds and who he became, but he always loved him and never referred to him as the abhorred one.