TheBanyanTree: LOTRwulf

[Sachet]

Words and letters
ideas and thoughts
drifting together
just as they ought


I love the way you do what you do, MB. 'Tis fascinating to see your mind 
at work.

....Sachet

Mike Pingleton wrote:

>Inspired by the epic Beowulf, and John Hartford's classic song "I Would Not Be
>Here".  I only wrote out three verses because, well, it could go on for a long
>time.  I have to go to bed some time.
>
>now come hear the tale of a hobbit named Frodo 
>a halfling, a hero of epic proportions 
>who left his warm hobbit hole under the hillside 
>on account of a ring he received from his uncle 
>who found it one morning while under a mountain 
>he matched wits with Gollum and was rescued by riddles - 
> 
>now the going of Frodo was goaded by Gandalf 
>returned to the Shire to perceive the ring's purpose 
>revealed by the presence of fiery letters 
>that ran 'round the ring when retrieved from the embers 
>not even the wizard would whisper the words there 
>the doom of the Dark Lord not foolishly uttered - 
> 
>the sobered young halfling made ready to travel 
>on the road out his door that went on ever onward 
>with an eavesdropping gardener by name of Sam Gamgee 
>and two more hobytla named Merry and Pippin 
>and Fredegar Bolger, who served as a decoy 
>deceiving Dark Riders at the house in Crickhollow...
>
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