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Tolkien R.J.J
Rivendell
Jun 6 2018, 7:40pm
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Bilbo's Last Song
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Is this all their is to Bilbo's Last Song?
Day is ended, dim my eyes,
but journey long before me lies.
Farewell, friends! I hear the call.
The ship's beside the stony wall.
Foam is white and waves are grey;
beyond the sunset leads my way.
Foam is salt, the wind is free;
I hear the rising of the Sea.
Farewell, friends! The sails are set,
the wind is east, the moorings fret.
Shadows long before me lie,
beneath the ever-bending sky,
but islands lie behind the Sun
that I shall raise ere all is done;
lands there are to west of West,
where night is quiet and sleep is rest.
Guided by the Lonely Star,
beyond the utmost harbour-bar,
I'll find the heavens fair and free,
and beaches of the Starlit Sea.
Ship, my ship! I seek the West,
and fields and mountains ever blest.
Farewell to Middle-earth at last.
I see the Star above my mast!
“I am a Christian, that fact can be deduced from my stories.”
-J.R.R Tolkien
“I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humour (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late.”
J.R.R Tolkien
“Tolkien was a lifelong enemy of big government in every form, not just the harsher forms we find in soviet communism, German Nazism, or Italian fascism, but also as it manifested itself in British democratic socialism and the mongol state capitalism in other parts of the west.”
-Jonathan Witt and Jay W The Hobbit Party: The vision of freedom that Tolkien got and the west forgot
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Asger
Rivendell
Jun 6 2018, 8:58pm
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Seems like it. I once saw the poster by Pauline Baynes but never bought it. Googling just showed the three verses.
"Don't take life seriously, it ain't nohow permanent!" Pogo
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Tolkien R.J.J
Rivendell
Jun 6 2018, 10:21pm
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Seems like it. I once saw the poster by Pauline Baynes but never bought it. Googling just showed the three verses.
I was looking at getting a copy of the book it was 32 pages. So if this is it, i am left very confused.
“I am a Christian, that fact can be deduced from my stories.”
-J.R.R Tolkien
“I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humour (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late.”
J.R.R Tolkien
“Tolkien was a lifelong enemy of big government in every form, not just the harsher forms we find in soviet communism, German Nazism, or Italian fascism, but also as it manifested itself in British democratic socialism and the mongol state capitalism in other parts of the west.”
-Jonathan Witt and Jay W The Hobbit Party: The vision of freedom that Tolkien got and the west forgot
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Tolkien R.J.J
Rivendell
Jun 7 2018, 12:53am
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All the reviews I've seen focus on Baynes' artwork, which take up the 32 pages. The verse is secondary - not really Tolkien's best poetry, which is saying something. I imagine each page has no more than a couplet or two of text.
Thanks for clarifying.
“I am a Christian, that fact can be deduced from my stories.”
-J.R.R Tolkien
“I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humour (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late.”
J.R.R Tolkien
“Tolkien was a lifelong enemy of big government in every form, not just the harsher forms we find in soviet communism, German Nazism, or Italian fascism, but also as it manifested itself in British democratic socialism and the mongol state capitalism in other parts of the west.”
-Jonathan Witt and Jay W The Hobbit Party: The vision of freedom that Tolkien got and the west forgot
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N.E. Brigand
Half-elven
Jun 7 2018, 2:38am
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Treason doth neuer prosper? What's the Reason?
for if it prosper none dare call it treason.
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Greenwood Hobbit
Valinor
Jun 22 2018, 5:30pm
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it is a little gem. Two lines on the left page, with illustrations; illustrations on each facing page. At the back of the book, notes about the illustrations.
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