Lonely troll, I like that! Appreciate it mate!
Yeah, a table of contents would be nice too.
Thread: Tolkien's Poetry, Serialized
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Okay, I added a Table of Contents to the first post of this thread. (Without tabs and double spaces, it was very hard to make any semblance of columns but as I used to say, "Its good enough for gummint work!")
Not going to start Perry-the-Winkle as today decided to play 'Summer' and it is still too hot to do any kind of meticulous typing and proof reading. First time it has gotten above 85 F this year, so today it decided that 96 F would be a nice high.
At 6 PM it was still 94 F and nary a cloud; however, a breeze has just started and the weather person has forecast some of our more typical cloudy June weather for tomorrow with an expected high of about 76 F. 
Not going to start Perry-the-Winkle as today decided to play 'Summer' and it is still too hot to do any kind of meticulous typing and proof reading. First time it has gotten above 85 F this year, so today it decided that 96 F would be a nice high.
At 6 PM it was still 94 F and nary a cloud; however, a breeze has just started and the weather person has forecast some of our more typical cloudy June weather for tomorrow with an expected high of about 76 F. That hot eh? Drink plenty of water then, wouldn't want you to get dehydrated mate.
Nice table btw.
Nice table btw.
Summertime!
Nice table, Grondy, by the way. Well done!
Golly: hey there! Another reader!
Keep posting Grondy, doing great! 
Nice table, Grondy, by the way. Well done!
Golly: hey there! Another reader!
Keep posting Grondy, doing great! Perry-the-Winkle by JRR Tolkien ’ JRR Tolkien and taken from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil ’ George Allen & Unwin Ltd., found in Ninth Edition of The Tolkien Reader ’ Ballantine Books, Inc.
NOTE: The bulk of this posted poem has been edited to bring it closer to a 'fair usage' standard under the copyright laws.
Quote:
The Lonely Troll he sat on a stone
and sang a mournful lay:
'O why, O why must I live on my own
in the hills of Faraway?
My folks are gone beyond recall
and take no thought of me;
alone I'm left, the last of all
from Weathertop to the Sea'.
You can find the remainder of this poem continued in: "Perry-the-Winkle" available in The Tolkien Reader and also in Tales from the Perilous Realm.
The Lonely Troll he sat on a stone
and sang a mournful lay:
'O why, O why must I live on my own
in the hills of Faraway?
My folks are gone beyond recall
and take no thought of me;
alone I'm left, the last of all
from Weathertop to the Sea'.
You can find the remainder of this poem continued in: "Perry-the-Winkle" available in The Tolkien Reader and also in Tales from the Perilous Realm.
NOTE: The bulk of this posted poem has been edited to bring it closer to a 'fair usage' standard under the copyright laws.
Hi back Tommy! Yup, great thread, this!
Boo hoo! Poor troll.
Boo hoo! Poor troll.
Why has no one else discovered this yet? Strange...
How
that is...
How
that is... I like the Man in the Moon one a lot.
Tommy, I think others have been around and reading, just not saying much...that's what I've been doing, at least.
Tommy, I think others have been around and reading, just not saying much...that's what I've been doing, at least.
I added two more stanzas to Perry-the-Winkle today. 
Cheer up ladies, next time we get to more happier times.
Cheer up ladies, next time we get to more happier times.
You know, it's cases like this that break my heart. Poor troll. *sniff*Reminds of these cry-films I used to watch. *boohoo*
I know, sad isn't it?
*joins Tommy*
Boohooo!
*joins Tommy*
Boohooo!
Waaaah! It's even sadder! poor troll...*sniffle sniffle* 
Getting better? Getting worse, I'd say.
’[Edited on 19/6/2002 by TomBombadillo]
Yay! Three cheers for Perry-the-Winkle! Perry for President!
Hang on...you're not going to add a sad twist to the tale after this are you G? The troll eats Perry, then gets burned to death by an angry mob or something? Because that's how these tales usally end right? There's usually no happy endings for trolls...it's a conspiracy isn't it?
Just so you all know I have added a section under J.R.R. Tolkien called Poems where you can now find all of Grondy's hard work shared for those who don't bother to visit our cool forum.
Yay! A happy ending! Can it be?
I added the finial two stanzas to Perry-the-Winkle today.
Now I'll have to think about what to do next.
Now I'll have to think about what to do next.
Now I'm curious how this is going to end.
What a lovely happy ending! Thanks Grondy!!!!! It made my my day.
What other poems do you have then?
What other poems do you have then?
Thanks Ungoliant.
Even though it appears in FOTR, I think I will next do The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late as a lot of people have said they skipped over all the poetry in order to get on with the story. Bilbo's antics at the end of the poem, which he sang to the patrons of The Prancing Pony, caused Strider to quietly declare something like, "Well Mr. Baggins, you seem to have put your foot, or should I say, finger in it."
I have always had a soft spot for that poem, probably because Tolkien took the old nursery rhyme, Heigh-Diddle-Diddle and fleshed it out with many verses and turned it into a comic song.
What great sport! What!
Even though it appears in FOTR, I think I will next do The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late as a lot of people have said they skipped over all the poetry in order to get on with the story. Bilbo's antics at the end of the poem, which he sang to the patrons of The Prancing Pony, caused Strider to quietly declare something like, "Well Mr. Baggins, you seem to have put your foot, or should I say, finger in it."
I have always had a soft spot for that poem, probably because Tolkien took the old nursery rhyme, Heigh-Diddle-Diddle and fleshed it out with many verses and turned it into a comic song.
What great sport! What! Great ending, yeah!
Good idea, Grondy! I too like that poem!
Good idea, Grondy! I too like that poem!
The Riddle in Faramir's Dream by JRR Tolkien ’ JRR Tolkien and taken from The Lord of the Rings ’ George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
NOTE: The bulk of this posted poem has been edited to bring it closer to a 'fair usage' standard under the copyright laws.
Quote:
Seek for the Sword that was Broken:
In Imladris it dwells;
There shall be counsels taken
Stronger than Morgul-spells.
There shall be shown a token
That Doom is near at hand,
You can find the remainder of this poem continued in: "The Riddle in Faramir's Dream" available untitled in The Fellowship of the Ring.
Seek for the Sword that was Broken:
In Imladris it dwells;
There shall be counsels taken
Stronger than Morgul-spells.
There shall be shown a token
That Doom is near at hand,
You can find the remainder of this poem continued in: "The Riddle in Faramir's Dream" available untitled in The Fellowship of the Ring.
NOTE: The bulk of this posted poem has been edited to bring it closer to a 'fair usage' standard under the copyright laws.
Ah, nice one Grondy! Good request, tuesday!
btw do you have the full version of the Elbereth song (from 'Three Is Company', Chapter III, Book 1)? Or is the book version the complete one as we know it?
Roll on the Man on the Moon!
Er...I meant Man in the Moon. Ooops. 
Liked that dream one too, yeah. Stay tuned folks, Man in the moon ( 
) is coming up, I think. Go Grondy!
) is coming up, I think. Go Grondy! Quote:
btw do you have the full version of the Elbereth song (from 'Three Is Company', Chapter III, Book 1)? Or is the book version the complete one as we know it?
No the only bits to the O Elbereth song I know of, are Bilbo's translation as heard by him in 'Three Is Company'; the untranslated verse at the end of 'Many Meetings', Chapter 1, Book II; and finally the untranslated verse near the beginning of 'The Choices of Master Samwise', Chapter 10 of Book IV. The bits found near the end of 'The Grey Havens', Chapter 9, Book VI, are an amalgam of a couple of the previous ones.btw do you have the full version of the Elbereth song (from 'Three Is Company', Chapter III, Book 1)? Or is the book version the complete one as we know it?
That's ok then. Thanks for checking!
The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late by JRR Tolkien ’ JRR Tolkien and taken from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil ’ George Allen & Unwin Ltd., found in Ninth Edition of The Tolkien Reader ’ Ballantine Books, Inc.
NOTE: The bulk of this posted poem has been edited to bring it closer to a 'fair usage' standard under the copyright laws.
Quote:
There is an inn, a merry old inn
beneath an old grey hill,
And there they brew a beer so brown
That the Man in the Moon himself came down
one night to drink his fill.
You can find the remainder of this poem continued in: "The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late" available in The Tolkien Reader and also in Tales from the Perilous Realm. This comic poem also appears unnamed, in the FOTR, Book I, Chapter 9 entitled 'At the Sign of the Prancing Pony', where it is sung by one Mr. Underhill, with much accolade the first time around, but with some consternation and breakage of crockery the second.
There is an inn, a merry old inn
beneath an old grey hill,
And there they brew a beer so brown
That the Man in the Moon himself came down
one night to drink his fill.
You can find the remainder of this poem continued in: "The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late" available in The Tolkien Reader and also in Tales from the Perilous Realm. This comic poem also appears unnamed, in the FOTR, Book I, Chapter 9 entitled 'At the Sign of the Prancing Pony', where it is sung by one Mr. Underhill, with much accolade the first time around, but with some consternation and breakage of crockery the second.
NOTE: The bulk of this posted poem has been edited to bring it closer to a 'fair usage' standard under the copyright laws.
Love it, love it! More coming up then?
The Sea Bell by JRR Tolkien ’ JRR Tolkien and taken from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil ’ George Allen & Unwin Ltd., found in Ninth Edition of The Tolkien Reader ’ Ballantine Books, Inc.
NOTE: The bulk of this posted poem has been edited to bring it closer to a 'fair usage' standard under the copyright laws.
Quote:
I walked by the sea, and there came to me,
as a star-beam on the wet sand,
a white shell like a sea-bell;
trembling it lay in my wet hand.
In my fingers shaken I heard waken
a ding within, by a harbour bar
a bouy swinging, a call ringing
over endless seas, faint now and far.
You can find the remainder of this poem continued in: "The Sea Bell" available in The Tolkien Reader and also in Tales from the Perilous Realm.
I walked by the sea, and there came to me,
as a star-beam on the wet sand,
a white shell like a sea-bell;
trembling it lay in my wet hand.
In my fingers shaken I heard waken
a ding within, by a harbour bar
a bouy swinging, a call ringing
over endless seas, faint now and far.
You can find the remainder of this poem continued in: "The Sea Bell" available in The Tolkien Reader and also in Tales from the Perilous Realm.
NOTE: The bulk of this posted poem has been edited to bring it closer to a 'fair usage' standard under the copyright laws.
Quote:
I don't have to rhyme in every line just every other line....
Many of Tolkien's poems in his book The Adventures of Tom Bombadil have the second (rhyming) lines indented, which leads me to believe they were originally meant to be all on one line and the book's pages were just too narrow. As I was typing these in, I found the forum accepts neither indentations nor multiple spaces, so I went without and just wondered if I should maybe make them "one liners". I don't have to rhyme in every line just every other line....What do all you poets and readers think?
That one somehow reminds me of Edgar Allan Poe. Weird.
Today I finished The Sea Bell.
Stay tuned for an additional poem, coming to this forum sometime in the near future.
Stay tuned for an additional poem, coming to this forum sometime in the near future.
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I suppose it was the general feeling of melancholy and gloominess, yes, tuesday. I like Poe a lot though.
I finished Princess Mee today.
Should I consider doing The Hoard next, or has interest in reading these poems flagged?
Should I consider doing The Hoard next, or has interest in reading these poems flagged?
We're reading, we're reading! Honest!
See?
Please keep going G. Haven't been lurking around PT lately, but hopefully I'll be unemployed again next month & will be able to spend more time on this thread. Am getting sick and tired of working.
See?Please keep going G. Haven't been lurking around PT lately, but hopefully I'll be unemployed again next month & will be able to spend more time on this thread. Am getting sick and tired of working.
The Hoard by JRR Tolkien ’ JRR Tolkien and taken from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil ’ George Allen & Unwin Ltd., found in Ninth Edition of The Tolkien Reader ’ Ballantine Books, Inc.
NOTE: The bulk of this posted poem has been edited to bring it closer to a 'fair usage' standard under the copyright laws.
Quote:
When the moon was new and the sun young
of silver and gold the gods sung:
in green the grass they silver spilled,
and the white waters they with gold filled.
Ere the pit was dug or Hell yawned,
ere dwarf was bred or dragon spawned,
there were Elves of old, and strong spells
under green hills in hollow dells
they sang as they wrought many fair things,
and bright crowns of the Elf-Kings.
But their doom fell, and their song waned,
by iron hewn and by steel chained.
You can find the remainder of this poem continued in: "The Hoard" available in The Tolkien Reader and also in Tales from the Perilous Realm.
When the moon was new and the sun young
of silver and gold the gods sung:
in green the grass they silver spilled,
and the white waters they with gold filled.
Ere the pit was dug or Hell yawned,
ere dwarf was bred or dragon spawned,
there were Elves of old, and strong spells
under green hills in hollow dells
they sang as they wrought many fair things,
and bright crowns of the Elf-Kings.
But their doom fell, and their song waned,
by iron hewn and by steel chained.
You can find the remainder of this poem continued in: "The Hoard" available in The Tolkien Reader and also in Tales from the Perilous Realm.
NOTE: The bulk of this posted poem has been edited to bring it closer to a 'fair usage' standard under the copyright laws.
You shouldn't thank me, I'm only the middle man; thank Professor Tolkien instead.
I added more lines to The Hoard today.
Next time will finish it.
Next time will finish it.
Loverly! Something to read again!
read:And the moral of the story is: Spend it all.
Good poem though G. I've forwarded it to my mom.
I finished The Hoard today.
Stay tuned for an additional poem, coming to this forum sometime in the near future.
Ungoliant: Sounds like both you and Taz have copied a poem before it was complete.
Should I refrain from adding the icon until a poem is complete so people who don't read the accompanying comment can get an idea of when it is complete. Maybe I should also remove all the intermediate 'edited on's when it is finished. Got any ideas?
[Edited on 16/8/2002 by Grondmaster]
Stay tuned for an additional poem, coming to this forum sometime in the near future.
Ungoliant: Sounds like both you and Taz have copied a poem before it was complete.
Should I refrain from adding the
icon until a poem is complete so people who don't read the accompanying comment can get an idea of when it is complete. Maybe I should also remove all the intermediate 'edited on's when it is finished. Got any ideas?[Edited on 16/8/2002 by Grondmaster]
Don't worry G, I knew that it was incomplete. I just liked it as it was.
Don't think you need to do anything to warn readers G. After the first couple of poems, I'm sure most would have learnt to scrool down to check see if the poem is complete. Your method is fine the way it is.
Great poem though. Hmm. I didn't quite like the ending though - I think it would have been better without the last paragraph? stanza? (or whatever it is that poems use to organise themselves). As you can see, I'm no poet, and have no artistic/romantic bone in my body.
Don't think you need to do anything to warn readers G. After the first couple of poems, I'm sure most would have learnt to scrool down to check see if the poem is complete. Your method is fine the way it is.
Great poem though. Hmm. I didn't quite like the ending though - I think it would have been better without the last paragraph? stanza? (or whatever it is that poems use to organise themselves). As you can see, I'm no poet, and have no artistic/romantic bone in my body.Quote:
As you can see, I ... have no artistic/romantic bone in my body.
That, I believe, is because arachnids have an external skeleton. As you can see, I ... have no artistic/romantic bone in my body.
Okay, I won't change my method of presentation.
The Mewlips by JRR Tolkien ’ JRR Tolkien and taken from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil ’ George Allen & Unwin Ltd., found in Ninth Edition of The Tolkien Reader ’ Ballantine Books, Inc.
NOTE: The bulk of this posted poem has been edited to bring it closer to a 'fair usage' standard under the copyright laws.
Quote:
The shadows where the Mewlips dwell
Are dark and wet as ink,
And slow and softly rings their bell,
As in the slime you sink.
You can find the remainder of this poem continued in: "The Mewlips" available in The Tolkien Reader and also in Tales from the Perilous Realm.
The shadows where the Mewlips dwell
Are dark and wet as ink,
And slow and softly rings their bell,
As in the slime you sink.
You can find the remainder of this poem continued in: "The Mewlips" available in The Tolkien Reader and also in Tales from the Perilous Realm.
NOTE: The bulk of this posted poem has been edited to bring it closer to a 'fair usage' standard under the copyright laws.
I finished The Mewlips today.
Stay tuned for an additional poem, coming to this forum sometime in the near future.
Stay tuned for an additional poem, coming to this forum sometime in the near future.
