{"id":120322,"date":"2025-04-01T00:15:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T05:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=120322"},"modified":"2025-04-01T00:15:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T05:15:37","slug":"the-great-hall-of-poets-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2025\/04\/01\/120322-the-great-hall-of-poets-106\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Hall of Poets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Welcome to The Great Hall of Poets, our poetry feature showcasing the talent of Middle-earth fans. 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 Ride of Dernhelm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by: J Houdart<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across the sea of golden-grassed plain
Sails Windfola, swift, bearing two without name
In day yet darkened by menace unspoken
Gentler lies are soon to be broken
As on with the company, racing toward doom
At the walls of yon city, be-circled with gloom
Dernhelm the Silent keeps hidden his face
But hides not his passion, his strength and fell grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To War! beats his heart, to Death! sings his sword
But rides he in silence, without leave of his lord.
Cloak-hidden, shadow-ridden he takes all care to be
For the secret he keeps, his brothers must not see
That secret he holds and another he bears
Before him on Windfola: a small hobbit shares
His duty and destiny, to great deeds they are called
Upon Pelennor’s vast field before the prize thus high-walled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For there in that doom a dark Power lay,
waiting and coiled, whom no man can slay.
How then can this man, fierce and strong though he be
Strike true? End the terror? Make the walled city free?But that deed will soon come. Two wounds will be wrought
One by hobbit, brave and true, a man and yet not
And Dernhelm the Silent will give voice at last
Striking true, Death banished back into the Past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At great cost, that blow giv’n, yet hope will remain
For the hero to sing and ride out free again
But proud, hair unbound, laughter ringing and strong
For the secret is done, surprise mingled with song
As his helm is then moved, and his kinsmen find there
True hero yet no brother: Eowyn the Fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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by: A Plume Cox<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your shields break beneath our blade\u00a0
We invade your sacred home\u00a0
Prepare to be crushed by\u00a0our one crusade\u00a0
As we move along and roam.\u00a0
You call this\u00a0land\u00a0the southlands\u00a0
Now\u00a0hear\u00a0our\u00a0volcano roar\u00a0
In the end\u00a0you\u00a0will not stand\u00a0
In the new land Mordor.\u00a0
Here the orcs roam all free\u00a0
In the fiery dark land\u00a0
Any human, elf or dwarf\u00a0who enters\u00a0will have to flea\u00a0
Or be\u00a0scorched\u00a0by Sauron\u2019s hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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