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Voices of Middle-Earth  by Armariel 2 Review(s)
LarnerReviewed Chapter: 8 on 5/26/2005
And, so a small Hobbit has fallen in love with the semi-divine maiden intended for the love of the King who is the twin to his own heart and light. Again, imagery to lighten the soul.

Author Reply: Oh yes...I got the distinct impression from the book that he was smitten with her from the get-go, and I wanted to write a story about it, but it ended up being a poem instead. Seems that nearly always happens when I get a LotR story idea, it somehow winds up as a poem, whether because of innate laziness, a contrary Muse, or my own passion for shuffling words around and painstakingly fitting them like mosaic tiles into strange and lovely images, which you can't do so much of in prose, or all of the above.....

FarawynReviewed Chapter: 8 on 2/25/2005
Intoxicating
I could drink it in
'til I'm full to the brim
with beautiful words,
no,
not words,
gems,
shining
in the radiant light
of elven-glory,
in it's ripeness,
fullness,
I can taste the words,
the living stones.
pave my heart with them
build my soul with them
that I may see them,
bask in their glory
alway
for eternity
'til,
drunk with beauty,
staggering
with the load
of glory,
beauty,
placed upon me,
I fall,
into light.
endless light
never ending light,
a path,
paved with stones
made of words.

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