{"id":98817,"date":"2015-07-27T21:36:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T02:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?page_id=98817"},"modified":"2015-07-27T21:36:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T02:36:49","slug":"the-great-hall-of-poets-july-2015","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/the-great-hall-of-poets\/the-great-hall-of-poets-july-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Hall of Poets &#8211; July 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"intro\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">MEMORIES<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>by: Bracegirdle<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I sit before the keyboard<br \/>\nand ponder long-gone youth,<br \/>\nWhen clouds were shaped like Oliphaunts<br \/>\nor even Wargs forsooth.<br \/>\nWith innocence we\u2019d whirl \u2018til tipsy<br \/>\nand dance our Springle-ring,<br \/>\nOr jostle and joust atop Erebor<br \/>\nto be the Mountain\u2019s King.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Upon our Egladil we\u2019d rest<br \/>\nand heed the songbird\u2019s trill:<br \/>\nHere Angle\u2019s End waved meadow-grass<br \/>\nand pale-green Niphredil.<br \/>\nThen: \u201cTag! You\u2019re it!\u201d was a delight,<br \/>\nbut moreso Hide-n-Seek:<br \/>\nWe\u2019d duck behind a Mallorn Tree<br \/>\nor crouch in Cavern Deep.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As I sit before the keyboard<br \/>\nI relive my Bagshot Row:<br \/>\nWe\u2019d climb up Old Man Willow<br \/>\nand watch the Big Folk down below.<br \/>\nFrom the branches of our Ent-house<br \/>\nwe held Councils of the Wise,<br \/>\nWhile the Master of the Hall held forth<br \/>\nGreat Music we\u2019d devise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Alone we\u2019d play \u2018til dusk each day,<br \/>\nour Gammers had no Dragon-fear:<br \/>\nThen Varda\u2019s Lights would shimmer bright<br \/>\nwhile E\u00e4rendil above shone clear.<br \/>\nAt twilight blossomed fireflies,<br \/>\nthey\u2019d flitter to-and-fro;<br \/>\nBewitched with Crystal Phial-full<br \/>\nwe\u2019d watch the Elven-glow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We thought those Free Fair days would last,<br \/>\nforesaw no Gift of Men.<br \/>\nYet fate on life\u2019s Great Journey<br \/>\ntakes trails we cannot ken:<br \/>\nAnd our Wandering Days of growth<br \/>\nbring new friends of great worth,<br \/>\nAs those Hidden Paths have brought us<br \/>\nFellowship in Middle-earth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~~ * ~~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 MEMORIES by: Bracegirdle I sit before the keyboard and ponder long-gone youth, When clouds were shaped like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"parent":80298,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-98817","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1tLoH-pHP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98817","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=98817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98818,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98817\/revisions\/98818"}],"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=98817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}