Morgul Vale
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written_leavesPale as sweet milk, yet rotted inside;
Luminous as the rising moonlight,
As the drying gleam of eyes newly dead.
This is a very dark piece, for me - the poisoned flowers of the Morgul Vale and the way they had been twisted from their natural purpose yet still bloomed. The underlying thought in this verse is that of children who are abused and kept in twisted situations until they believe it is 'normal' and go on to repeat those poisonous patterns and behaviours as they grow. Something or someone surrounded and steeped in distortion and deception will so often take it in simply for lack of anything whole or clean, a tragedy indeed.
Morgul Vale
"Wide flats lay on either bank, shadowy meads filled with pale white flowers. Luminous these were too, beautiful and yet horrible of shape, like the demented forms of an uneasy dream; and they gave forth a faint sickening charnel-smell; an odour of rottenness filled the air." - The Two Towers
Pale and beautiful, soft and fair;
A hideous reflection from a darkened mirror.
The beautiful flowers of the Morgul Vale
Breathe the poisonous reek and
Partake of the adulterated soil.
They trail their leaves and petals,
Waving like corpse fingers,
The water flows past them deadly cold.
Steaming with vaporous ill-will,
Pulled up into their thirsting roots,
Death courses through their veins.
Thus for lack of any clean thing,
To slake their thirst and fill their need
Will the innocent deeply partake of evil.
Thus an honest need wrongly filled
Warps and twists to dark purpose.
Pale as sweet milk, yet rotted inside;
Luminous as the rising moonlight,
As the drying gleam of eyes newly dead.
What nightmare is this
That they yet live and grow.
Ah, the heart cries -
It would have been a mercy
To grant them a swifter death.
It would have been a mercy
To grant them death at all.
Slow poisoning and perpetuation of evil:
If such perverted innocence could but perish
As a blossom picked, and wither
Rather than living on to become a mockery
Of their original beauty - mercy indeed.
Like a cancer, they grow and bloom.
The deadly flowering of the Morgul Vale.
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Luminous as the rising moonlight,
As the drying gleam of eyes newly dead.
This is a very dark piece, for me - the poisoned flowers of the Morgul Vale and the way they had been twisted from their natural purpose yet still bloomed. The underlying thought in this verse is that of children who are abused and kept in twisted situations until they believe it is 'normal' and go on to repeat those poisonous patterns and behaviours as they grow. Something or someone surrounded and steeped in distortion and deception will so often take it in simply for lack of anything whole or clean, a tragedy indeed.
Morgul Vale
"Wide flats lay on either bank, shadowy meads filled with pale white flowers. Luminous these were too, beautiful and yet horrible of shape, like the demented forms of an uneasy dream; and they gave forth a faint sickening charnel-smell; an odour of rottenness filled the air." - The Two Towers
Pale and beautiful, soft and fair;
A hideous reflection from a darkened mirror.
The beautiful flowers of the Morgul Vale
Breathe the poisonous reek and
Partake of the adulterated soil.
They trail their leaves and petals,
Waving like corpse fingers,
The water flows past them deadly cold.
Steaming with vaporous ill-will,
Pulled up into their thirsting roots,
Death courses through their veins.
Thus for lack of any clean thing,
To slake their thirst and fill their need
Will the innocent deeply partake of evil.
Thus an honest need wrongly filled
Warps and twists to dark purpose.
Pale as sweet milk, yet rotted inside;
Luminous as the rising moonlight,
As the drying gleam of eyes newly dead.
What nightmare is this
That they yet live and grow.
Ah, the heart cries -
It would have been a mercy
To grant them a swifter death.
It would have been a mercy
To grant them death at all.
Slow poisoning and perpetuation of evil:
If such perverted innocence could but perish
As a blossom picked, and wither
Rather than living on to become a mockery
Of their original beauty - mercy indeed.
Like a cancer, they grow and bloom.
The deadly flowering of the Morgul Vale.
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