The Tolkien Coming of Age Club 2

[piosenniel]

Originally Posted by davem

Fake homes, fake lives, fake thoughts, fake scenes
Fake minds; dispatch.

Actually, it seemed right on, to me. And funny . . .

Thanks for the original poem, Lal -

. . . It's not their fault they often go
To Maidenhead

And talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars
And daren't look up and see the stars
But belch instead . . .

Even funnier and more pointed.

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Child

I think that Valimar was probably supposed to be Valimart - the Elvish equivalent of Walmart (I'm sure I recall this as mentioned in one of those much overlooked footnotes in Sauron Defeated.)

Bur REALLY --- there is a Valimar:

A name of the city of the Valar in Valinor, more commonly referred to as 'Valmar'; the city of many bells in the east of Valinor where many of the Valar dwelt. The Two Trees of Valinor grew nearby on the mound of Ezellohar.

Nessa, the wife of Tulkas and sister to Oromë often dances there --

". . . she also is lithe and fleetfooted. Deer she loves, and they follow her train whenever she goes in the wild; but she can outrun them, swift as an arrow with the wind in her hair. In dancing she delights, and she dances in Valimar on lawns of never-fading green."
--Valaquenta

~*~ Pio