“The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light. In that hour was made a Darkness that seemed not lack but a thing with being of its own: for it was indeed made by malice out of Light, and it had power to pierce the eye, and to enter heart and mind, and strangle the very will.” John Ronald Reuel Tolkien book The Silmarillion Source: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion