J.R.R. Tolkien; September 2, 1973 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Kitanna · 09-02-2013, 06:03 PM

This seems like the perfect time to jump into rereading LOTR and The Silmarillion.

*Raises tea cup in a toast*

Galadriel55 · 09-02-2013, 06:47 PM

"But grass came there and grew again upon that hill, alone in all the desert that Morgoth made; and no creature of Morgoth trod thereafter upon the earth beneathwhich the swords of the Eldar and the Edain crumbled into rust." ~Of the Fifth Battle, The Silmarillion

May the mound of the Professor be just as green as the ones of his heroes.

Bêthberry · 09-02-2013, 08:56 PM

And of green graves . . .

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Originally Posted by Appendix A

There at least when the mallorn-leaves were falling, but spring had not yet come, she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.

Pervinca Took · 09-03-2013, 03:39 PM

Forty winters!

May simbelmyne still bloom in his memory, four hundred years from now.

09-02-2013, 06:03 PM	#1
Kitanna Child of the West Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Watching President Fillmore ride a unicorn Posts: 2,132	This seems like the perfect time to jump into rereading LOTR and The Silmarillion. Raises tea cup in a toast __________________ "Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain

09-02-2013, 06:47 PM	#2
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,520	"But grass came there and grew again upon that hill, alone in all the desert that Morgoth made; and no creature of Morgoth trod thereafter upon the earth beneathwhich the swords of the Eldar and the Edain crumbled into rust." ~Of the Fifth Battle, The Silmarillion May the mound of the Professor be just as green as the ones of his heroes. __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera

09-03-2013, 03:39 PM	#4
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	Forty winters! May simbelmyne still bloom in his memory, four hundred years from now. __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always."