{"id":101237,"date":"2016-07-25T02:08:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T07:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?page_id=101237"},"modified":"2016-07-25T02:08:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T07:08:21","slug":"the-great-hall-of-poets-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/the-great-hall-of-poets\/the-great-hall-of-poets-july-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Hall of Poets &#8211; July 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Fate Of the Trees<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"intro\"><em>By: Ross W.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nTree of silver, tree of gold<br \/>\nOf their beauty much is told<br \/>\nYavanna, goddess of growth<br \/>\nCreated and did plant them both<br \/>\nTelperion, the elder, shone<br \/>\nIn silver hues across the lawns<br \/>\nAnd Laurelin of golden leaves<br \/>\nDid light the world and darkness cleave<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The lights of the trees did wax and wane<br \/>\nAnd thus began the count of days<br \/>\nFrom them came the sun and moon<br \/>\nBut fate had already decided their doom<br \/>\nFor Morgoth, dark enemy of the light<br \/>\nSort their destruction with all his might<br \/>\nBut all that was yet to come<br \/>\nIn the days of the trees before the sun<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For the Valar dwelt, the gods on earth<br \/>\nIn Valinor and all was well<br \/>\nAnd in the light of the two trees<br \/>\nThe elves dwelt also from across the sea<br \/>\nAnd so came a time of celebration<br \/>\nAnd a feast was held for all the nation<br \/>\nBut Morgoth had now crept from hiding<br \/>\nAnd in the shadows his time was biding<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He knew the trees would have no guard<br \/>\nSo drew his spear and stabbed it hard<br \/>\nTheir light then faded, the world was still<br \/>\nWhile Ungoliant drank her fill &#8211;<br \/>\nThe foul spider in Morgoths train.<br \/>\nThe Valar cried out, but it was vain<br \/>\nFor by Ungoliants foul breath<br \/>\nThe sacred trees did meet their death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~~ * ~~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fate Of the Trees By: Ross W. Tree of silver, tree of gold Of their beauty much&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"parent":80298,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-101237","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1tLoH-qkR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101238,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101237\/revisions\/101238"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}