Poetry Meme (Re-revisited)

[kniedzw]

I really will attempt to put together some other content, but I've been awfully busy of late.

This time around, I'm pointing you to what I personally believe to be one of J. R. R. Tolkien's best pieces of fiction. I am not going to get into a long debate about how The Hobbit is a masterwork or how The Lord of the Rings was influential. Similarly

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[squishymeister]

nice. thanks for sharing!

[laurelwen]

Word.

Also, did you know that today, for the first time in ages, new Tolkien material is being released? Edited by Christopher again, this time it's the Children of Hurin.

Always a depressing read, but still good for all that!

[kniedzw]

Ah! Didn't know that. Is this the final book of The History of Middle Earth? I want to say I read that somewhere....

[mindstalk]

I thought HoME was done already, all 12 volumes of it. From the B&N link it looks more like a new Silmarillion, but who knows.

As for the poem you posted... I don't know. I *like* some of Tolkien's poetry/songs -- the Ring poem and Gimli's chant were the first things I ever memorized, and I've added Galadriel's lament, and I grew up with the Adventures of Tom Bombadil. But I couldn't get the meter on that one to work consistently for me, and even grammatical parsing seemed off. Maybe I need to hear someone else read it.

[d_c_m]

Ah Tolkien. :) My heart doth smile.

His new book is: The Children of Hurin - http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?ISBN=0618894640&z=y&cds2Pid=9481 - and so am I getting it.

Thanks for the love.