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silneldor
Half-elven
Apr 22 2007, 4:44pm
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April Dawn
A silver flash.
Ever expanding rings,
Rippled dash.
Sun, the dawn brings.
Loons cry.
Illuminate horizon.
Echoes do not die
In the mind, never done.
Woodpecker’s rapid tap!
Enlivens Arda’s breath,
Sounds, in silence’s gap.
Night passing and thoughts of Elbereth.
Spider’s gossamer floating,
Water’s sparkling dance,
Mother bird on the wing doting.
Morn’s beauty doest, my heart lance.
April brings the migratory loons on their way north with destinations unknown. There were several pairs, swimming and diving and calling up and down the pond.
The water is incredibly clear and still. Several large bass lazily swim to and fro in front of the dock. This year there is a myriad of baby Yellow perch with their vertical stripes. Mama and papa, a foot long, seem to be herding them closer to the shore. My son peers down into the water and says, "Looks like they are on a field trip". A pair of wrens are doing an aerial ballet for the new flying insect presence doing a ballet of their own. I was looking for the otters early but they were not to be seen nor the beaver which made several visits last year for some reason up from the cove. The Serviceberry with it's delicate white blossoms have not ventured forth yet due to the lingering cold.
NOW, winter is gone. Now for some yardwork. Time to rally the troops again. Pump up the wheelbarrow tire first.
"Tolkien, like Lewis, believed that, through story, the real world would become a more magical place, full of meaning. We see its patterns and colors in a fresh way. The recovery of a true view of the world applies both to individual things, like hills and stones, and to the cosmic - the depths of space and time itself. For in sub-creation, in Tolkien's view, there is a "survey" of space and time. Reality is captured on a miniature scale. Through stories like The Lord of the Rings, a renewed view of things is given, illuminating the homely, the spiritial, the physical, and the moral dimensions of the world."
Tolkien and C.S. Lewis- The Gift of Friendship -Duriez
A little bit of Rivendell to warm the home
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Aunt Dora Baggins
Immortal
Apr 23 2007, 3:15pm
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I catch a glimpse of Goldberry, dancing between your ines somewhere. Thanks for a beautiful portrait of spring. (I don't think I've ever been so glad to see spring arrive as I was this year!) Your poem also reminds me a bit of some of the imagery in Bilbo's song "I sit beside the fire", and his poignant love of spring.
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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Chance Meeting at Rivendell: a Tolkien Fanfic
and some other stuff I wrote...
leleni at hotmail dot com
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a.s.
Valinor
Apr 23 2007, 9:54pm
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can you check your private messages?
a.s.
"an seileachan"
Some say they're going to a place called Glory, and I ain't saying it ain't a fact.
But I've heard that I'm on the road to Purgatory, and I don't like the sound of that!
I believe in love, and live my life accordingly,
And I choose: let the mystery be.
~~~~Iris DeMent
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Lossefalme
Gondor
Apr 28 2007, 12:43pm
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Wow! I can actually see it. It makes me think of Sunapee. Beautifully done, Sil.
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dernwyn
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May 7 2007, 4:32am
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Mmm, very nice, a taste of Spring morning!
Heh, a school of fish on a field trip? Lol!
Thank you for this glimpse of Nature in peace. 
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"And when Sam heard that he laughed aloud for sheer delight, and he stood up and cried: 'O great glory and splendour! And all my wishes have come true!'"
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Elven
Valinor
May 13 2007, 3:06pm
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Autumn is in full swing here ...
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so its so nice to hear Spring is underway where you are ... I hope last years visitors arrive again - theres nothing like seeing them knowing they are still around, and probably just as happy Spring has arrived, and that they are also safe and sound ... hopefully with some little ones in tow.
Thankyou for the poem!
 Elven
SILVERCHAIRS Daniel Johns gets the crowd going at the 'Big Day Out Festival' at Minas Tirith.
"Never wash your name in hot water Elvenesque - it shrinks!" said the Gaffer.
Tolkien was a Capricorn!
..All we are saying ..Is Give Pete A Chance" ...
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