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Welcome to The Great Hall of Poets, our regular monthly feature showcasing the talent of Middle-earth fans. Each month we will feature a small selection of the poems submitted, but we hope you will read all of the poems that we have received here in our Great Hall of Poets<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So come and join us by the hearth and enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have a Tolkien\/Middle-earth inspired poem you\u2019d like to share, then send it to poetry@theonering.net<\/a>  One poem per person may be submitted each month. Please make sure to proofread your work before sending it in. TheOneRing.net is not responsible for poems posting with spelling or grammatical errors.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Whispered Doom<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by David McG.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barely audible over the silence of reason.
\nThe words, they slithered in.
\nFinding residence in the core of her being they settled to grow and spread.
\nChoking vines entwined around memory and spirit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erasing.
\nReplacing.
\nEnchanting.
\nAt the Hill of Spies she was spied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dragon smiled as only one of his kind could.
\nNo joy or humour was there in that maw of death.
\nJust malice and wicked intent for a revenge served hotter than his fiery breath.
\nHe knew of her, knew of her kin and the fate they all would bear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gazing
\nMesmerising
\nEradicating
\nLeaving her to a foretold fate to fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who she was and from whence she came the whispered doom said naught.
\nTil panic driven, naked and alone she was lost and forsaken.
\nNo longer mourning, she would become a maiden of tears.
\nFound though she was, by the kin she knew not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protecting
\nComforting
\nEmbracing
\nThough master of doom, by doom to be mastered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The whispered spell set her downfall in motion.
\nBy cruel fate or malicious, predetermined design the trap was set.
\nEnsnaring two to the curse of their father.
\nNo escape until the whisper became word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Encircling
Spiralling
Constricting
The whispered doom fulfilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wine on the Chesapeake Bay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by: Alexander R<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I stood there thinking, at the bar,
\nAnd wondered why the We, so far,
\nHad scattered, half an Earth away,
\nWere then just now? I might just stay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colonialism: movement, rest,
In my own land, I’m but a guest <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut it is not your own Shire,’ said Gildor. ‘Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more.” John Ronald Reul Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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