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_refugee_ · 3707 days ago · link · · parent · post: Today Is National Poetry Day! Let's Share Favorite Poems.
LOL I don't know who said that but LOL please please tell me it wasn't klein
Edit kleinbl00 please comment Did I ever tell you guys the first poem I ever memorized for school, at the tender age of "around 13," was the Lay of Luthien? "The leaves were long, the grass was green
the hemlock-umbels tall and fair
and in the glade a light was seen
of stars in shadow shimmering
Tinuviel was dancing there..."
user-inactivated · 3707 days ago · link ·
It's beautiful, start to finish. Though "Lay of Luthien" is a misconception -- "Leithian" doesn't mean that. The title actually translates "release (from bondage)," which I choose to interpret as Luthien being released from the bondage of immortality and being granted the Gift of Men. No comment on the other.