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Old 03-10-2010, 07:30 AM   #2
Mithalwen
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To put it kindly, I am glad he turned to prose. I don't think poetry was his strongest suit -certainly not this sort. The good stuff in my opinion are the oneshe wrote for the LOTR battles.

Do you really want me to do a full prosodic analysis to explain why I don't think it is great? Or shall I just say that endless rhyming couplets are a bit tiresome
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