Poetry?

Steingerd · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:34 pm Post subject: Now it's nerd time!

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began,
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow if I can,

Pursuing it with weary feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet,
And whither then? I cannot say.

J R R Tolkien

Steingerd · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:42 pm Post subject: Also...

Troll sat alone on his seat of stone

Troll sat alone on his seat of stone,
And munched and mumbled a bare old bone;
For many a year he had gnawed it near,
For meat was hard to come by.
Done by! Gum by!
In a cave in the hills he dwelt alone,
And meat was hard to come by.

Up came Tom with his big boots on.
Said he to Troll: 'Pray, what is yon?
For it looks like the shin o' my nuncle Tim.
As should be a-lyin' in the graveyard.
Caveyard! Paveyard!
This many a year has Tim been gone,
And I thought he were lyin' in the graveyard.'

'My lad,' said Troll, 'this bone I stole.
But what be bones that lie in a hole?
Thy nuncle was dead as a lump o' lead,
Afore I found his shinbone.
Tinbone! Skinbone!
He can spare a share for a poor old troll,
For he don't need his shinbone.'

Said Tom: 'I don't see why the likes o' thee
Without axin' leave should go makin' free
With the shank or the shin o' my father's kin;
So hand the old bone over!
Rover! Trover!
Though dead he be, it belongs to he;
So hand the old bone over!'

'For a couple o' pins,' says Troll, and grins,
'I'll eat thee too, and gnaw thy shins.
A bit o' fresh meat will go down sweet!
I'll try my teeth on thee now.
Hee now! See now!
I'm tired o' gnawing old bones and skins;
I've a mind to dine on thee now.'

But just as he thought his dinner was caught,
He found his hands had hold of naught.
Before he could mind, Tom slipped behind
And gave him the boot to larn him.
Warn him! Darn him!
A bump o' the boot on the seat, Tom thought,
Would be the way to larn him.

But harder than stone is the flesh and bone
Of a troll that sits in the hills alone.
As well set your boot to the mountain's root,
For the seat of a troll don't feel it.
Peel it! Heal it!
Old Troll laughed, when he heard Tom groan,
And he knew his toes could feel it.

Tom's leg is game, since home he came,
And his bootless foot is lasting lame;
But Troll don't care, and he's still there
With the bone he boned from its owner.
Doner! Boner!
Troll's old seat is still the same,
And the bone he boned from its owner!

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

Funny, eh?

Saffron · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject:

Steingerd,
Yes, funny. Was a time I loved JRR Tolkien. Thank for the reminder.

Saffron

Steingerd · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject: Quite Rightly!

Is your screen name after the Donovan Song "Mellow Yellow?" GROOVY!!!!!!

Saffron · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject: Re: Quite Rightly!

DWill · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:31 pm Post subject:

Thank you both (Saffron and Steingerd) for setting me straight on the groovy Donovan song. I'm known for mishearing lyrics and thought the name used was Safflower.

Steingerd · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:57 pm Post subject: Sweety Darling...

I thought it would be after the song or the smart girl on the show "Absolutely Fabulous." Naming yourself Saffron after the spice is brilliant. Nobody would think of it in a million years. Steingerd is a name I yanked from a Viking saga about a viking named Cormac. I never read the whole thing, but I could see it influenced Tolkien a lot. It must have been a much bigger deal to have knowledge like that when he was an Oxford professor who probably painstakingly hand translated it in the Oxford library. Now it's on the net at our fingertips so that anyone can read it - even me. I love the net. Remember life before the net? If you wanted to know something, you had to go to the library, wait for weeks, maybe get a huge book with one tiny shred of the info you wanted, maybe they'd just have a magazine article that mentioned it in passing. I just love the net for everything from looking up all those obscure occult religions rock stars used to worship to cookie recipes. Now, if here was a demonic cookie recipe using saffron, we'd be cooking with gas.


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