12-18-2004, 08:57 AM | #61 |
Elentári
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Elemmire, that's my favourite also (check first post) It is stunning!
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12-22-2004, 01:10 PM | #62 |
The Lovely Hobbit-Lass
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I have lots of favourites. I like the Lay of Luthien, especially the beginning where Luthien is being described. Great imagery throughout the lay.
In LotR, I like Bilbo's song about sitting by the fire: I sit by the fire and think Of times that were before. I listen for returning feet And voices at the door. I also like the little song about the troll that Sam made up, and the song of the sea that Legolas sings (To the Sea, to the Sea, the White gulls are crying...), and the song Galadriel sings when the Fellowship leaves Lorien. However, my favourite poem of Tolkien's is probably the Lament for Boromir, sung by Aragorn and Legolas. I've learnt it by heart, and one of these days I'd like to set a tune to it. It's so sad, and the last lines O Boromir, the tower of guard shall ever northward gaze/ To Rauros, golden Rauros falls until the end of days have a great ring to them.
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It's New Years Day, just like the day before; Same old skies of grey, same empty bottles on the floor. Another year's gone by, and I was thinking once again, How can I take this losing hand and somehow win? Just give me One Good Year To get my feet back on the ground. I've been chasing grace; Grace ain't so easily found One bad hand can devil a man, chase him and carry him down. I've got to get out of here, just give me One Good Year! |
12-25-2004, 10:08 AM | #63 | |
Elentári
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Beren just died ( ):
(Children of Hurin, p 58) Quote:
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12-30-2004, 10:05 AM | #64 |
Elentári
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I just finished Children of Hurin and it's a real bummer that it isn't finished I think i'm going to search for Tolkien Reader now, I need more poetry!
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01-19-2005, 02:24 PM | #65 |
Elentári
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Yo, if anyone knows of a stunning quote from one of his poems, Please feel free to share it!
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01-19-2005, 05:27 PM | #66 |
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I'm getting the Lays of Beleriand before the 14th of Feb so I will have more favourites then.
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Then Huor spoke and said: "Yet if it stands but a little while, then out of your house shall come the hope of Elves and Men. This I say to you, lord, with the eyes of death: though we part here for ever, and I shall not look on your white walls again, from you and me a new star shall arise. Farewell!" The Silmarillion, Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Page 230 |
01-19-2005, 05:55 PM | #67 |
Elentári
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Oh enjoy it! I'm starting to wonder if I didn't enjoy it just as much as Silm (=my favourite book).
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04-01-2005, 03:56 PM | #68 |
Elentári
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C'mon poeple. There are many poems to choose from. Does no one have another thing to add? *looks at you with puppy eyes*
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04-14-2005, 11:39 AM | #69 | |
Enting
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Quote:
According to The Annotated Hobbit by Douglas A. Anderson, the first review of the first American edition of The Hobbit was by May Lamberton Becker in the New York Herald Tribune, and the reviewer thought that “its style is not like Lewis Carroll’s; it is much more like Dunsany’s”. |
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07-17-2009, 12:51 AM | #70 | |
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Quote:
Ever my favorite...
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" ...But the Exiles on the shores of the sea, if they turned towards the West in the desire of their hearts, spoke of Mar-nu-Falmar that was whelmed in the waves, Akallabêth the Downfallen, Atalantë in the Eldarin tongue." "Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient, Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman's devotion, List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest ... " ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline Last edited by Voronwen : 07-17-2009 at 12:55 AM. |
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