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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 329311" data-attributes="member: 4937">Therigwin: The following passage has always meant alot to me:"And the voice of Illuvatar spoke to him; and Aule heard his voice and was silent.  And the voice of Illuvatar said unto him, "Why hast thou done this?  Why did you attempt a thing which thou knowst is beyond thy power and thy authority?  For thou hast from me as a gift thy own being only, and no more; and therefore the creatures of thy own hand and mind can live only in that being...     Then Aule answered..."Yet the making of these things is in my heart from my own making by thee; and the child of little understanding that makes a play of deeds of his father may do so without thought of mockery, but because he is the child of his father.  But what shall I do now, that thou be not angery with me forever?  As a child to his father, I offer to thee these things, the work of the hands which thou hast made.  Do with them what thou wilt."- The Silmarillion, JRR Tolkein Aule's answer has always seemed to me to be the prayer of the Dungeon Master, or any other would be builder of worlds.</blockquote>