(©Shirley Starke 1994)

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Artist Comment: "This Julian of Norwich song began as a song to the Angel Olorin on the Peak, and became, gradually, a song not only TO a heavenly being but FROM one, to me, and to all of us. All of them are, really, inspired by St John of the Cross. Tolkien's effect on me has been to make me a very devout Catholic - I became a Catholic in 1977, before I even realized Tolkien was so devout himself - before I read the Simarillion and found that to him, too, Olorin was an angel. He was a definite presence from the beginning, "impossible" to my way of thinking then (when I first read the books at the age of about 16) but real nonetheless. I knew such a being would have to be known in the primary world too, but it took me until 1989 to recognize him as Christ, though I figured quite early on that he was an angel. As St. John of the Cross says, the presence of Christ comes to us in this world only through His angels - they are like windows through which his light shines. I still have not totally sorted out what is the light and what is the window, and from my perspective in this world, it may not be either possible or relevant to tell the difference."