Poems BY Tolkien

[Lomelinde]

I thought this little tidbit by Tolkien about the Istari was pretty neat; it's alliterative verse, which is difficult to write but cool to read:

Wilt thou learn the lore that was long secret
of the Five that came from a far country?
One only returned. Others never again
under Men's dominion Middle-earth shall seek
Until Dagor Dagoreth and the Doom cometh
How hast thou heard it: the hidden counsel
Of the Lords of the West in the land of Aman?
The long roads are lost that led thither
and to mortal Men Manwe speaks not
From the West-that-was a wind bore it
to the sleeper's ear in the silences
under night-shadow when news is brought
from lands forgotten and to lost ages
over seas of years to the searching thought
Not all are forgotten by the Elder King
Sauron he saw as a slow menace...

Have you tried reading the Lays of Beleriand? That's some really nifty poetry, too. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]