Nowhere in the blue heaven or on the sunlit earth was there any foreshadowing of a catastrophe.

After a few seconds Eleanora appeared on the screen in front of him, a silver ovoid against the backdrop of stars and a sunlit earth.

And in that very hour Melkor and Ungoliant came hastening over the fields of Valinor, as the shadow of a black cloud upon the wind fleets over the sunlit earth; and they came before the green mound Ezellohar.

That if I let him contemplate the sunlit earth, and the people on it who were sometimes happy when I ruled them .