Best Poetry in LOTR - Page 2

NazgÃ»l Queen · 02-03-2002, 04:02 AM

I've only read LotR, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion, and out of them my favourite one is Galadriel's Song.
It's so beautiful!

I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew;
Of wind I sand, 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 Ilmaren 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 LÃ³rien! The winter comes, the bare and leafless Day;
The leaves are falling in the stream, the River flows away.
O LÃ³rien! 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 would sing, what ship would come to me,
What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?

noldorlord · 02-03-2002, 08:45 AM

It has to be "the fall of Gil Galad" its just so epic and emotive.

Renille · 02-03-2002, 12:47 PM

I need to have a selection of memorized poems (5-8 min. long total) by later this month! I really want to have LOTR ones...does anyone have any suggestions for a collection of that length which all follow a specific train of thought? (ie...all hobbit songs, something portraying some tangent of the book so that even non-readers can understand...)
Thanks in advance for your help!

Vanimdil · 02-03-2002, 05:27 PM

My favorite is Frodo's song of Gandalf, especially this part:

"A deadly sword, a healing hand,
a back that bent beneath its load;
a trumpet voice, a burning brand,
a weary pilgrim on the road."

I also love that part of "The Fall of Gilgalad" that Sam recited.

Another poem that is very expressive is that of Eomer:

"Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising
I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking:
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall."

It gives me chills both of sadness and triumph.

Another beautiful one is:

"A Elbereth Gilthoniel,
silivren penna miriel
o menel aglar elenath!
Na-chaered palan-diriel
o galadhremmin ennorath,
Fanuilos, le linnathon
nef aear, si nef aeoron!"

The first part of it often runs through my mind, proving that Elvish words do indeed remain graven in one's memory.

Araethirion · 02-03-2002, 09:17 PM

*ahem* The best poetry in LOTR is:

All that is gold does not glitter

All those who wander are not lost

The old that is strong does not wither

Deep roots are not reached by frost

From the ashes a fire shall be woken

From the shadows a light shall spring

Renewed shall a blade that was broken

The crownless shall again be king.

Hehe... I memorized it.

Strange-Looking Lurker · 02-04-2002, 03:32 PM

I like all of them!

Radagast · 02-04-2002, 03:53 PM

Got to be 'Namarie' hasn't it though?

Na-MAHR-i-eh

You know what Im talking about!

KGamgee · 02-04-2002, 08:15 PM

Sam's Song is the best!
Though here at journey's end I lie
In darkness buried deep
Beyond all towers strong and high
Beyond all mountains steep
Above all shadows rides the sun
The stars forever dwell
I will not say the day is done
Nor Bid the Stars farwell

Its so inspirational that Sam was in such an awful position, but still had hope. I have 4 poems memorized and thats one of them.
~KGamgee~

Wayfarer · 02-04-2002, 09:35 PM

Yes.

wahine · 01-03-2003, 01:07 AM

I like Bilbo's poem in Rivendell.

I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen
Of yellow flowers and butterfly's
In summers I have been.

Coul anyone possibly POSSIBLY give me that entire poem? I memorized it when I was a kid but that is all I can remember of it. I would like to refresh my memory.

**crickhollow** · 01-03-2003, 04:08 AM

I like the lament for Boromir. other favorites are The Man in the Moon, The Bath Song, and Legolas's song of Nimrodel.

olsonm · 01-03-2003, 04:29 AM

The Ent/Entwife song.

Blackboar · 01-03-2003, 06:12 AM

I like my old signature:

Ho, Ho, Ho, to the bottle I go,
To clear my heart and drown my woe,
Rain may fall and wind may blow,
And many miles be still to go,
But under a tall tree I will lie,
And let the clounds go sailing by.

It is actually a song but you know

Falagar · 01-03-2003, 07:44 AM

Perhaps 'I sang of leaves'...or maybe 'A Elbereth Gilthoniel'...

*thinks*
...
*thinks some more*

Gimli's song in Moria. Period.

RosieCotton · 01-03-2003, 10:02 AM

Sam's Song, or Bilbo's Song (I sit beside the fire and think...)
I also like The Fall of Gilgalad (the short part in Fellowship)

But I don't know. I sort of like
Three Rings for the Elven Kings
Under the Sky
Seven for the Dwarf Lord in their Halls of Stone
Nine for the Mortal Men, Doomed to die
One, for the Dark Lord, on his Dark Throne
In the Land of Mordor, where the Shadows lie
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them.
One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness, bind them.
In the Land of Mordor, where the Shadows lie.

It sort of sums everything up rather nicely.

BeardofPants · 01-03-2003, 02:45 PM

My favourites are actually from the BoLTs (Oh Kortirion!), and the Lays (part of which is technically in LOTR), but if pushed for a favourite (from LOTR), I guess I would go with the lament for Boromir.

Falagar · 01-03-2003, 02:51 PM

Quote:

My favourites are actually from the BoLTs (Oh Kortirion!), and the Lays (part of which is technically in LOTR), but if pushed for a favourite, I guess I would go with the lament for Boromir.

You mean Kortirion among the trees, right?

BeardofPants · 01-03-2003, 02:59 PM

I wasn't actually giving the title, I was just lamenting for Kortirion. And I don't actually mean that particular version, but the later one entitled, The Trees of Kortirion: AlalminÃ³rÃ«, Narquelion, HrÃ*vion, and MettanyÃ«.

Falagar · 01-03-2003, 05:02 PM

Ok...

Attalus · 01-03-2003, 05:51 PM

I like the one that Sam sang part of, "The Fall of Gil-Galad."

02-03-2002, 04:02 AM	#21
NazgÃ»l Queen Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Minas Morgul Posts: 400	I've only read LotR, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion, and out of them my favourite one is Galadriel's Song. It's so beautiful! I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew; Of wind I sand, 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 Ilmaren 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 LÃ³rien! The winter comes, the bare and leafless Day; The leaves are falling in the stream, the River flows away. O LÃ³rien! 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 would sing, what ship would come to me, What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea? __________________ Morauko Umrien, Queen of the NazgÃ»l and Lady of Mordor Mistress of the Night The NazgÃ»l Queen she was, the Ringwraith, the enemy's most terrible servant; darkness went with her and she cried with the voices of death. Can be found loitering at Fantasy Essentials or her livejournal...

02-03-2002, 08:45 AM	#22
noldorlord Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: derbyshire, england Posts: 42	It has to be "the fall of Gil Galad" its just so epic and emotive. __________________ "fly you fools" - Gandalf

02-03-2002, 12:47 PM	#23
Renille Elven Lady of Speed-posting Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the cheese state Posts: 988	I need to have a selection of memorized poems (5-8 min. long total) by later this month! I really want to have LOTR ones...does anyone have any suggestions for a collection of that length which all follow a specific train of thought? (ie...all hobbit songs, something portraying some tangent of the book so that even non-readers can understand...) Thanks in advance for your help! __________________ Oh the thinks you can think! Think and wonder and dream...far and wide as you dare! When your thinks have run dry, in the blink of an eye, there's another world there... (from Seussical the Musical. Listen to it...watch it...really.)

02-03-2002, 09:17 PM	#25
Araethirion Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Mirkwood! Ok, ok... California. What's the difference? Errr... nevermind. Posts: 35	ahem The best poetry in LOTR is: All that is gold does not glitter All those who wander are not lost The old that is strong does not wither Deep roots are not reached by frost From the ashes a fire shall be woken From the shadows a light shall spring Renewed shall a blade that was broken The crownless shall again be king. Hehe... I memorized it. __________________ ~Araethirion FRODO LIVES!!

02-04-2002, 03:32 PM	#26
Strange-Looking Lurker Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: OK, USA Posts: 213	I like all of them! __________________ <hr>Check out my site: www.christianjugglers.org

02-03-2002, 05:27 PM	#24
Vanimdil Enting Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 51	My favorite is Frodo's song of Gandalf, especially this part: "A deadly sword, a healing hand, a back that bent beneath its load; a trumpet voice, a burning brand, a weary pilgrim on the road." I also love that part of "The Fall of Gilgalad" that Sam recited. Another poem that is very expressive is that of Eomer: "Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall." It gives me chills both of sadness and triumph. Another beautiful one is: "A Elbereth Gilthoniel, silivren penna miriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-diriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, si nef aeoron!" The first part of it often runs through my mind, proving that Elvish words do indeed remain graven in one's memory.

02-04-2002, 03:53 PM	#27
Radagast Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Merry old England Posts: 413	Got to be 'Namarie' hasn't it though? Na-MAHR-i-eh You know what Im talking about! __________________ Take up the White Man's burden-- The savage wars of peace-- Fill full the mouth of Famine, And bid the sickness cease; And when your goal is nearest (The end for others sought) Watch sloth and heathen folly Bring all your hope to nought.

02-04-2002, 08:15 PM	#28
KGamgee Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 103	Sam's Song is the best! Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep Beyond all towers strong and high Beyond all mountains steep Above all shadows rides the sun The stars forever dwell I will not say the day is done Nor Bid the Stars farwell Its so inspirational that Sam was in such an awful position, but still had hope. I have 4 poems memorized and thats one of them. ~KGamgee~

02-04-2002, 09:35 PM	#29
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	Yes. __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

01-03-2003, 01:07 AM	#30
wahine The Original Amazonian Coconut Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Answering no questions, telling no lies. Posts: 753	I like Bilbo's poem in Rivendell. I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seen Of yellow flowers and butterfly's In summers I have been. Coul anyone possibly POSSIBLY give me that entire poem? I memorized it when I was a kid but that is all I can remember of it. I would like to refresh my memory. __________________ Hem, hem Last edited by wahine : 01-03-2003 at 01:08 AM.

01-03-2003, 04:08 AM	#31
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	I like the lament for Boromir. other favorites are The Man in the Moon, The Bath Song, and Legolas's song of Nimrodel. __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

01-03-2003, 04:29 AM	#32
olsonm Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: minneapolis MN Posts: 920	The Ent/Entwife song. __________________ Gandalf lives...oh and Frodo too. Haldir Lives!!!

01-03-2003, 06:12 AM	#33
Blackboar Legolas's beloved sister and Queen of the Wood Elves of Mirkwood Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Under the hill at Bag-end, Hobbiton the Shire Or Rivendell,I can't remember!!!!!!!!!! Posts: 1,086	I like my old signature: Ho, Ho, Ho, to the bottle I go, To clear my heart and drown my woe, Rain may fall and wind may blow, And many miles be still to go, But under a tall tree I will lie, And let the clounds go sailing by. It is actually a song but you know

01-03-2003, 07:44 AM	#34
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	Perhaps 'I sang of leaves'...or maybe 'A Elbereth Gilthoniel'... thinks ... thinks some more Gimli's song in Moria. Period. __________________ FÃ«anor - Innocence incarnated Still, AikanÃ¡ro 'till the Last battle.

01-03-2003, 10:02 AM	#35
RosieCotton Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Hobbiton...no wait.... Posts: 263	Sam's Song, or Bilbo's Song (I sit beside the fire and think...) I also like The Fall of Gilgalad (the short part in Fellowship) But I don't know. I sort of like Three Rings for the Elven Kings Under the Sky Seven for the Dwarf Lord in their Halls of Stone Nine for the Mortal Men, Doomed to die One, for the Dark Lord, on his Dark Throne In the Land of Mordor, where the Shadows lie One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them. One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness, bind them. In the Land of Mordor, where the Shadows lie. It sort of sums everything up rather nicely. __________________ Fortune rides like the Sun on high With the fox that makes the ravens fly Luck his sould, the lightning his eye He snatches the moons from out of the sky.

01-03-2003, 02:45 PM	#36
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	My favourites are actually from the BoLTs (Oh Kortirion!), and the Lays (part of which is technically in LOTR), but if pushed for a favourite (from LOTR), I guess I would go with the lament for Boromir. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords Last edited by BeardofPants : 01-03-2003 at 02:51 PM.

01-03-2003, 02:59 PM	#38
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	I wasn't actually giving the title, I was just lamenting for Kortirion. And I don't actually mean that particular version, but the later one entitled, The Trees of Kortirion: AlalminÃ³rÃ«, Narquelion, HrÃvion, and MettanyÃ«.* __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

01-03-2003, 05:02 PM	#39
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	Ok... __________________ FÃ«anor - Innocence incarnated Still, AikanÃ¡ro 'till the Last battle.

01-03-2003, 05:51 PM	#40
Attalus Swan-Knight of Dol Amroth Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: On the Bay of Belfalas Posts: 1,125	I like the one that Sam sang part of, "The Fall of Gil-Galad." __________________ "What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions are not beyond conjecture." - Sir Thomas Browne, Urn Burial.

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