O! Wanderers in the shadowed land
despair not! For though dark they stand,
all woods there be must end at last,
and see the open sun go past:
the setting sun, the rising sun,
the day’s end, or the day begun.
For east and west all woods must fail…
LadyDeathMaggot
On Taking Over the World
Is this one of your own or is it taken from somewhere?
Honestly Corinne?
Not that Sarah’s poems aren’t- anyway, this is clearly the work of a higher power. Namely Tolkien.
Hobbits and woods don’t get along. They like the bits of shrubbery that they call “woods” well enough, but once you get south of the Branduin, they really start to fear woods, and get stifled in them. Notice also that like 65% of bad stuff that happens in Hobbit and LotR happens in the woods. There is magic in the trees, not the evil kind, but definitely not the good kind.
The sun, conversely, is the hobbits’ saving grace. Notice that the shire is described above all as being warm and sunny. The sun is constantly being threatened throughout Hobbit and LotR, first in the Hobbit with the caves (note Bilbo’s riddle: sun on the daisies, which almost beat Gollum) and the bats in the Battle of Five Armies blotting out the sun. Then in LotR, the sun is “defeated” by Saruman through Caradhras. It is not present in the thick fog of the Barrow-Wights, nor on Weathertop when they could have used it most. It is constantly being blotted out by Tolkien’s vague references to “darkness.” The entire book is culminating toward what I refer to as “breaking dawn” or “light of day.” There are mini-references to the concept throughout, but they are summarized by the victory over the darkness at the end.
And yes, I do read this blog. Keep up the posts, even if they’re just quoting someone else’s work without giving them credit.
Okay, so I’ve been a little behind on the reading I guess. haha. I’m usually pretty good about reading the poems and songs in Tolkien, so I don’t know why I didn’t catch that. Oh well. At least you got a nice compliment from me!
By the way, thanks for the information Cuff. That helps.
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