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Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote his poem "The Kraken".
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I studied that poem in my final year and it was actually included in our exam. It is interesting that you mentioned;
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To my knowledge Tolkien NEVER wrote anything about 'a kraken' let alone 'The Kraken'
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I was wondering where The Kraken was in his books for I have never read anything about it in his books. I was about to leave this question out when I remember my metric year… but I got it right didn’t I? Anyway lets get back on Tolkien and not David Day (Sorry to ask but who is he?)and thank you for sharing with us [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]!
Niluial
P.S. Just for anyone who intrested here is Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem:
The Kraken
Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumber'd and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
[ October 04, 2003: Message edited by: Niluial ]