All that is gold does not glitter... yet! - Mateunio's Alpha Male 6 journal

[Mystic Pymp]

From the ashes a fire shall be woken
A light from the shadows shall spring
Renewed shall be blade that was broken
The crownless again shall be King

Stage 1 Day 13

Oh wow, I've just read my update from yesterday and it's awful! I wrote it half decent and it did describe my feelings well, but it's more pessimistic and apocalyptic than emo chick in the middle of razor session. World does seem void nowadays, so so did more often than not for the last 6 years probably and it's almost natural for me. I've learnt to live with it and to cope with it. It doesn't hurt me any more than brushing teeth or going out to buy some bread does. Not to mention even in the voidest of void there is always glimmer of hope on the horizon. It's hard to see it sometimes, but it's there.

@blue42
Smelting sound bad, it denotes destroying the old to create something new. Unless old was flawed beyond repair smelting is act of barbarism. That's why elves didn't smelted shards of Narsil to create Andúril, they only reforged it. In fire and flame and hardened manifold, of course, but sword essentially remained what it was. And so do I.