Three is Company
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with weary feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
The Fellowship of the Ring (1954); first of three volumes in The Lord of the Rings books by J. R. R. Tolkien.
What a vacation!
January 26th, 2007 11:20
“The Hobbit” is also very good !! It the prequel to The Lord of the Rings.
February 11th, 2007 14:20
This poem’s great. J.J. Tolkien’s very competent, poetically speaking…
I also like the intro one (which I could recite from memory):
Three rings for the elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for mortal men doomed to die,
One for the dark lord on his dark throne.
In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie,
One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them,
One ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them,
In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie.