[Sir Kohran]

I was going to type up something big, moving, long, inspiring and touching...but then I realized there was no need; this thread, and the wonderful scenes accompanying it, create all those bittersweet, moving emotions by themselves. All I'll say is thank you, to Peter Jackson for creating one of the greatest movies in history, to John Ronald Reuel Tolkien for creating the greatest literary epic in history, to all the others who contributed some of the greatest posts in history, and to alatar for creating the greatest discussion of all of the above in history.
Thanks, everyone.




I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen,
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been;

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.

I sit besides the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall ever see.

For there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood and every spring
there is a different green.

I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago,
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.

But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before,
I listen for running feet
and voices at the door.


- Bilbo