Hurt and Heal XI: Songs and Poems

[Aganzir]

Awesome, thanks for your contributions! I second...
++the Shadow Bride
++the Barrow-Wight's poem
++Wind on the Withered Heath

Legate's story about Lazy Lob and Crazy Cob was the cutest though.

On the List:
The Shadow Bride

Nominations:
The King beneath the mountains (2)
Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising (2)
The Shadows where the Mewlips dwell (1)
Cold be hand and heart and bone (2)
Three Rings for the Elven kings under the sky (2)
Learn now the lore of living creatures (1)
Wind on the Withered Heath (2)
Lazy Lob and Crazy Cob (1)

Nominations/Secondings:
Agan 0/2
Boro 0/4
G55 2/4
Legate 1/3

[Aganzir]

Hmm. I thought a facebook post about this would have drawn in more people.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

Hmm. I thought a facebook post about this would have drawn in more people.

It reminded me that I had to visits the downs.

I don't remember participating in this game before, but I will read through the thread tomorrow.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

It reminded me that I had to visits the downs.

I don't remember participating in this game before, but I will read through the thread tomorrow.

Has it already been tomorrow?

[Aganzir]

Last time we actually removed the nomination/seconding limits because there were so few people. We might want to consider it unless this picks up.

[Galadriel55]

Sorry for the inactivity. I went home for the weekend, which was the end of all things productive.


Second Wind on the Withered Heath. Nominate He Chanted A Song of Wizardry, quoted below.

On the List:
The Shadow Bride
Wind on the Withered Heath

Nominations:
The King beneath the mountains (2)
Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising (2)
The Shadows where the Mewlips dwell (1)
Cold be hand and heart and bone (2)
Three Rings for the Elven kings under the sky (2)
Learn now the lore of living creatures (1)
Lazy Lob and Crazy Cob (1)
He chanted a song of wizardry (1)

Nominations/Secondings:
Agan 0/2
Boro 0/4
G55 1/3
Legate 1/3

He chanted a song of wizardry,
Of piercing, opening, of treachery,
Revealing, uncovering, betraying.
Then sudden Felagund there swaying
Sang in answer a song of staying,
Resisting, battling against power,
Of secrets kept, strength like a tower,
And trust unbroken, freedom, escape;
Of changing and of shifting shape
Of snares eluded, broken traps,
The prison opening, the chain that snaps.
Backwards and forwards swayed their song.
Reeling and foundering, as ever more strong
The chanting swelled, Felagund fought,
And all the magic and might he brought
Of Elvenesse into his words.
Softly in the gloom they heard the birds
Singing afar in Nargothrond,
The sighing of the Sea beyond,
Beyond the western world, on sand,
On sand of pearls in Elvenland.
Then the gloom gathered; darkness growing
In Valinor, the red blood flowing
Beside the Sea, where the Noldor slew
The Foamriders, and stealing drew
Their white ships with their white sails
From lamplit havens. The wind wails,
The wolf howls. The ravens flee.
The ice mutters in the mouths of the Sea.
The captives sad in Angband mourn.
Thunder rumbles, the fires burn —-
And Finrod fell before the throne.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I hope you don't mind the format of my nominations. I have included the first bit of the poem, as well as a link to the entire thing.

Anyways this seems promising, the songs and poems of Tolkien has always been very important to me, not only in the context of the books, but also in my personal life.

Anyways, let me know if I have misunderstood something or made a mistake.


Nominations:

I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew:
Of wind I sang, a wind there came and in the branches blew.
Beyond the Sun, beyond the Moon, the foam was on the Sea,
And by the strand of Ilmarin there grew a golden Tree.
Beneath the stars of Ever-eve in Eldamar it shone,
In Eldamar beside the walls of Elven Tirion.
There long the golden leaves have grown upon the branching years,
While here beyond the Sundering Seas now fall the Elven-tears.
O Lórien! The Winter comes, the bare and leafless Day;
The leaves are falling in the stream, the River flows away.
O Lórien! Too long I have dwelt upon this Hither Shore
And in a fading crown have twined the golden elanor.
But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,
What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?

The world world was young, the mountains green,
No stain yet on the Moon was seen,
No words were laid on stream or stone,
When Durin woke and walked alone.
He named the nameless hills and dells;
He drank from yet untasted wells;
He stooped and looked in Mirrormere,
And saw a crown of stars appear,
As gems upon a silver thread,
Above the shadow of his head.

Seconding:
Cold be hand and heart and bone
Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising

On the List:
The Shadow Bride
Wind on the Withered Heath
Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising
Cold be hand and heart and bone

Nominations:
The King beneath the mountains (2)
The Shadows where the Mewlips dwell (1)
Three Rings for the Elven kings under the sky (2)
Learn now the lore of living creatures (1)
Lazy Lob and Crazy Cob (1)
He chanted a song of wizardry (1)
The world world was young, the mountains green (1)
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew (1)

Nominations/Secondings:
Agan 0/2
Boro 0/4
G55 1/3
Legate 1/3
Rune 1/3