12-05-2004, 02:55 PM | #41 |
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Wow! Great quote, Lenya. I have GOT to buy the Lays of Beleriand some time!
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12-09-2004, 03:19 PM | #42 |
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You have got to buy it now! It is really a stunning book to add to a Tolkien collection, if you like collecting books. ( I love it! ) By the way, Lay of Lethian is part of the history of ME vol III , The Lays of Beleriand. It is a must have.
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12-09-2004, 03:47 PM | #43 |
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wow! I'm stunned. when do you find all of this magnificent poetry? Lays of Beleriand?
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12-09-2004, 03:52 PM | #44 |
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Most of it, yes. Lays of Lethian. I think it is the crown of Tolkien's works.
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12-09-2004, 03:55 PM | #45 |
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Alright! know what to whis for Xmas
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12-09-2004, 04:02 PM | #46 |
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Good wish. I had to buy mine with my own money.
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12-09-2004, 05:10 PM | #47 |
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In my nearest book store they said I could get all 12 of the HoME books for £150. So I decided to get people to buy them for me for Christmas!
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12-10-2004, 03:40 PM | #48 |
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That's so cool. No book store had the book, so I had to order it over internet. I have only ever seen 4 volumes in any bookstore.
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My favourite poem... something from the Lays. Parts VI & VII of the Lay of Leithian, I suppose. It's something of a... love/hate relationship...
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12-10-2004, 04:05 PM | #50 |
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I always liked this one from 'The Ring goes South':
I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seen, Of meadow-flowers and butterflies In summers that have been; Of yellow leaves and gossamer In autumns that there were, With morning mist and silver sun And wind upon my hair. I sit beside the fire and think Of how the world will be When winter comes without a spring That I shall ever see. For still there are so many things That I have never seen: In every wood in every spring There is a different green. I sit beside the fire and think Of people long ago, And people who shall see a world That I shall never know. But all the while I sit and think Of times that were before, I listen for returning feet And voices at the door.
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12-10-2004, 04:11 PM | #51 |
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That is a sad poem. Especially: And people who shall see a world
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12-10-2004, 04:22 PM | #52 |
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I like sad poems. That was very nice, Valandil. I always liked the last version of the Walking Song (enough to put it in my senior quote last year ):
Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate; And though I oft have passed them by, A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun. And I think I like all of Galadriel's songs and poems, especially the ones about Valinor (go figure ): I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew: Of wind I sang, a wind there came and in the branches blew, Beyond the Sun, beyond the Moon, the foam was on the Sea, And by the strand of Ilmarin there grew a golden Tree. Beneath the stars of Ever-eve in Eldamar it shone, In Eldamar beside the walls of Elven Tirion. There long the golden leaves have grown upon the branching years, While here beyond the Sundering Seas now fall the Elven-tears. O Lórien! The Winter comes, the bare and leafless Day; The leaves are falling in the stream, the River flows away. O Lórien! Too long I have dwelt upon this Hither Shore And in a fading crown have twined the golden elanor. But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me, What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea? Hey... how can anyone who truly loves Elves for what they are, rather than just their beauty not love sad songs?
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Here's another stunning quote:
(Lay of the Children of Hurin p.47 ln. 1301 - 1304) Quote:
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12-16-2004, 10:19 PM | #55 |
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Yes.
This one is from memory, so sorry if I've got part of it wrong... He chanted a song of wizardry Of piercing, opening, of treachery Revealing, uncovering, betraying Then sudden Felagund there swaying Sang in answer a song of staying Resisting, battling against power Of secrets kept, strength like a tower And trust unbroken, freedom, escape Of changing and of shifting shape Of snares eluded, broken traps The prison opening, the chain that snaps Backwards and forwards swayed their song Reeling and foundering as ever more strong The chanting swelled, Felagund fought And all the magic and might he brought Of Elvenesse into his words Softly in the gloom they heard the birds Singing afar in Nargothrond The sighing of the sea beyond Beyond the Western World on sand On sand of pearls in Elvenland The gloom gathered, darkness growing In Valinor, the red blood flowing Beside the sea where the Noldor slew The Foamriders and stealing drew Their white ships with their white sails From lamplit havens, the wind wails The wolf howls, the ravens flee The ice mutters in the mouth of the sea The captives sad in Angband mourn Thunder rumbles and fires burn A vast smoke gushes out - a roar And Felagund swoons upon the floor In the Silmarillion, the last two lines are replaced by "And Finrod fell before the throne," but I liked the Lays of Beleriand version better, even though I don't think I've memorised it completely right yet... I wonder why I would have chosen a poem like that...
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One of my favorite poems of JRR Tolkiens in his whole Middle-earth thingy is the one in BOLT1, I think, about Aryador, I have no idea what the words are, and all my books are currently headed across the atlantic ocean (whoop whoop) in an effort to get to America from Deutschland, so I cant write it here. But I do know that the beat or whatever is something like the verses of "takin care of business" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive, *ahem*,
You get up every morning from alarm clocks warning take the eight fifteen into the city theres a whistle up above and people pushin', people shovin' and the girls, theyre tryin to look pretty
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I love that one, Elemmire! I wrote part of it out in Tengwar.
Beor - how funny! You're absolutely right, it has that beat! Here's a bit from it : Quote:
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Of course, I wrote Galadriel's "Ai, laurie lassi lantar surinen..." out in Tengwar at least once...
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I must vote for the bombadil stuff in the reader... There's lots of sadness in the world, but wonder and happiness are rare jewels...
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12-17-2004, 11:13 PM | #60 |
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Most of his stuff doesnt really come off as sad, though, it seems to me more like longing, or a fond memory of something lost. Sad, but with happy roots. His stuff usually cheers me up pretty well.
I also really dig the one about the Man in the Moon in Fellowship of the Ring and in The Tolkien Reader, or something, I could be wrong, it is within the adventures of Tom B. Its fun.
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