I found another example of magical, creative singing in FotR - Galadriel sings in 'Farewell to Lórien':
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I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew:
Of wind I sang, a wind there came and in the branches blew.
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The closing lines are poignant, as if the magic now failed:
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But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,
What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth..
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