[ArwenEvenstar]

When does Eowyn and Faramier meet??????????? We need more Eowyn!!!!!!!!!!!!! Although about half the Return of The King is about and of course Aragorn son of Arathorn and the Evenstar.

[Robbie]

Have you read the book? It's quite good, you know.

In the "House of Healing" in the White City (Minas Tirith).

[queenoftheshire]

Ok not to go off topic but did anybody hear they didnt put hte Eowyn/Faramir romance in the movie? Im really sad now and yet really angry

[ArwenEvenstar]

Did u make it up? (the poem) and what is it about??? Eowyn and Faramier?

[queenoftheshire]

Oh the poem is my signature and no I didn't make it up. In the apenices in the Return of the King Apendix A has a list of all these peoms used commonly in Middle Earth or something like that

[queenoftheshire]

I'm not quite sure what it's about. I though it was a nice peopm though. I could go back and check

[NancyBrooke]

Oh for Heaven's Sake! I must say I'm very surprised you use a poem as your signature you don't know the origin of and, knowing your ignorance, don't bother to look it up! And that you, ArwenE, don't recognize it. I echo Rob's question, have you read the books?

This poem is a variation of Bilbo's "Walking Song" which, in its initial form can be found in The Fellowship of The Ring, by J. R. R. Tolkien. It's in the chapter "Three is Company":

"Upon the hearth the fire is red
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe,
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell,
Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed!"


The version you quote is from The Return of the King; Frodo sings it to himself as he and Sam go together to the Grey Havens:

"Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate;
And though I oft have passed them by,
A day will come at last when I
Take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun."


For Frodo, that day has now come, so what was a song of opportunity and exploration has become a song of leavetaking. It's a bittersweet moment. Go! read it (again?).

N

I may apologize for my harshness but not the lesson. There may be a test later.

[queenoftheshire]

Hehe. I don't know I've been reading the apendices. I'm pretty sure I knew what it was about, I kinda forgot. Hehe. Yeah, that was it.
Little man inside of my head: Oh no it wasn't. You just read it, You liked it, end of story.

Yup. Right. Sorry