Chapter 12: A Flight to the Ford  This post is mostly a retelling of the Creation Story of Eä (the Universe) and Arda (the planet) containing Middle-earth, focused in on how light moves through it. The content of this story can mostly be found in The Silmarillion, a collection of Tolkien’s writings published posthumously that paints a rich but unfinished and sometimes contradicting picture of world through which Frodo and the Fellowship journey.