"And the glory of it's beginning...

...and the splendour of it's end amazed the Ainur,

so that they bowed before Iluvatar, and were silent."

- The Silmarillion

Here Iluvatar's theme is purposed to the ainur and maia. In contrasat to the previous image in all it's "glory",  the "splendour" of this image rests in the intricacies of Iluvatar, to which all things have sprouted.

Here the final light of his thoughts no longer erupt forth in blazing blasts into the heavens...but ripple and sparkle forth from within Him.

You can just make out the faint visages of the Ainur in the background...moved to silence by their awe and wonder of what Iluvatar has put before them.

To capture the final abstract thoughts of Iluvatar, I have used images of fountains and waves, as well as a delicate spash caused by a single water droplet. The energy spiral in the center is accentuated by butterfly wings.

I thought the challenge of showing silence amid such sound, that the other images strived to showcase, was going to be a challenge. I finallly used the faces of classic greek statues. The gods and goddesses of ancient greece stand as representations of the ainur and maia...their faces, a reflection of beauty and silence...silent as the stone from which they are cut from.