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| Finduilas' Song by Ellisande | 2 Review(s) |
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| Nerdanel | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 8/3/2004 |
| This poem is so deep and conveys such feeling, my words can't express it fully, so I can't say much. But I will use your words to express it: "I dreamed of ships to bear me home, far from the sentinels of stone that laugh and watch me die." Beautiful symbolism here. The Argonath: sentinels to keep watch over the Northern lands; have they also been keeping watch over Finduilas' heart? Have they overshadowed her hope and joy, the tall, looming dark towers of stone? They enshroud the ships that would bear her home. And a good use of anthropomorphism: how can stones laugh? And yet to Finduilas, withering in the stone Tower of Guard, they seem to laugh at her, and jeer. Wonderful lines. "ere morning killed the stars," Lovely metaphor. Morning does not kill the stars, it just blocks their light by an even greater light. But to Finduilas, it does not seem like a greater light. It seems light a great death lamp, perhaps, that slays the lovely stars. Her frailty and gentleness make her long to see the soft starlight, and hear the gentle ocean breezes, but in the tower of stone, both of those are slain. "I dreamed a dream of waters wide and gave my heart up to the tide that sailed my soul up high." Beautiful symbolism, again. In these lines, Finduilas is imagining the great sea that she loves, and to which she longs to return. But perhaps, without knowing it, this also symbolises her coming death. She longs to return to the waves: one day she will, in the bosom of death. Sorry this is so long, I was just over by the poetic beautiful and meaning in this poem. Nerdanel | |
| Lindorien | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 8/3/2004 |
| this is so poignant. I really like it, ellisande. | |