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PostPosted: August 18th, 2005, 2:56 pm 
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me too. wait - here it is: :)

An elven-maid was there of old
a shining star by day
her mantle white was hemmed with gold
her shoes of silver-grey

a star was bound upon her brows
a light on her hair
a sun upon the boughs
in Lorien the fair

her hair was long, her limbs were white
and fair was she and free
and in wind she went as light
as leaf of hidden-tree

beside the falls of Nimrodel
by waters clear and cool
her voice as faloing silver fell
into the shining pool

where she now wanders none can tell
in sunlight or in shade
for lost of yore was Nimrodel
And in the mountains strayed

The elven-ship in haven grey
beneath the mountain lee
awaited her for many a day
beside the roaring sea.

A wind by night in northern lands
arose and loud it cried
And drove the ship from elven-strands
across the streaming tide.



and then it continues... it's both beautiful and sad. i'd love to hear the whole but i don't even know whether it's avaiable or not. :(

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PostPosted: August 18th, 2005, 3:24 pm 
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I like a Tom Bombadil poem that most people haven't heard;

Once Upon A Day

Once upon a day on the fields of May
there was snow in summer where the blossom lay:
the buttercups tall sent up their light
in a stream of gold, and wide and white
there opened in the green-grass skies
the earth-stars with their steady eyes
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watching the Sun climb up and down.
Goldberry was there with a wild-rose crown,
Goldberry was there in a lady-smock
blowing away a dandelion clock,
stooping over a lily-pool
2
and twiddling the water green and cool
to see it sparkle round her hand:
once upon a time in elvish land.

Once upon a night in the cockshut light
3
the grass was grey but the dew was white;
the shadows were dark, and the Sun was gone,
the earth-stars shut, but the high stars shone,
one to another winking their eyes
as they waited for the Moon to rise.
Up he came, and on leaf and grass
his white beams turned to twinkling glass,
and silver dripped from stem and stalk
down to where the lintips walk
4
through the grass-forests gathering dew.
Tom was there without boot or shoe,
with moonshine wetting his big, brown toes:
once upon a time, the story goes.

Once upon a moon on the brink of June
a-dewing the lintips went too soon.
Tom stopped and listened, and down he knelt:
Ha! little lads! So it was you I smelt?
What a mousy smell! Well, the dew is sweet,
so drink it up, but mind my feet!'
The lintips laughed and stole away,
but old Tom said: 'I wish they'd stay
The only things that won't talk to me
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say what they do or what they be.
I wonder what they have got to hide?
Down from the Moon maybe they slide,
or come in star-winks, I don't know':
Once upon a time and long ago.


Notes on the Poem

1. earth stars- similar to puff-balls
2. the lily motif as in LOTR
3. cockshut- twilight
4. lintips - beings appearing only in this poem, an invention of Tolkien's {cf. The Mewlips an altogether nastier invention in Poem 9 The Mewlips-The Adventures of Tom Bombadil}
5. The only things that won't talk to me. In FOTR - In The House of Tom Bombadil when Goldberry tells Frodo that Tom is Master she also says- in answer to a query from the Hobbit:

'The trees and grasses and all things growing or living in the land belong each to themselves.'

Of course, I also LOOOOOVE the Ring-poem and the Barrow-wight chant, and the Lays of Beleriand book...

There once, and long and long ago,
before the sun and moon we know
were lit to sail above the world,
when first the shaggy woods unfurled,
and shadowy shapes did stare and roam
beneath the dark and starry dome
that hung above the dawn of Earth,
the silences with silver mirth
were shaken; the rocks were ringing,
the birds of Melian were singing,
the first to sing in mortal lands,
the nightingales with her own hands
she fed, that fay of garments grey;
and dark and long her tresses lay
beneath her silver girdle's seat
and down unto her silver feet.

C.S. Lewis, of course, when editing those particular lines of Tolkien's wrote a poem of his own:

There was a time before the ancient sun
And swinging wheels of heaven had learned
to run
More certainly than dreams; for dreams
themselves
Had bodies then and filled the world with elves.
The starveling lusts whose walk is now
confined
To darkness and the cellarage of the mind,
And shudderings and despairs and shapes of sin
Then walked at large, and were not cooped
within.
Thought cast a shadow; brutes could speak:
and men
Get children on a star. For spirit then
Kneaded a fluid world and dreamed it new
Each moment. Nothing yet was false or true.

See how greatly their styles differed!


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PostPosted: September 10th, 2005, 10:39 am 
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^that one's from The Adventures of tom Bombadil?

hm i just caught a glance of the Kingsfoil song, translated into Quenya->

Lússë i Morë Hwesta súya
ar Qualmëo Huinë ëa
yontalta ar ilya calar autar,
Túla Asëa Aranion! Túla
Asëa Aranion! Cuina an i
firnalë Massë Arano Caitala!

At least I think that's it... :confused:

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all of tolkien's poems are so lovely! i especailly like all the hobbity poems and songs. :) they're so pretty and they can be really sad.

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