Fangorn & The Loss of the Old Woods
Dec. 19th, 2009 10:04 pmThe ancient trees extend their limbs in creaking-whisper secrecy
As rustle-leaf and quiver-root absorb slow thoughts that lie unseen
Two for the trees - or really, for the Ents. The first is not only for Fangorn "Treebeard" himself, but for all of the Ents and the trees they shepherded. It is written in an Entish way with very long lines and multiple-descriptives.
With it is a much simpler couplet-style overview of the waning of the forests and of the Ents, their rising again in war and their loss in their dwindled numbers being beyond recovery.
Fangorn
( Deeping-eyes aglow come round, clear-watching all their wayward trees )
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The Loss of the Old Woods
( They hewed the trees and stacked the wood, and built their cities near beside )
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As rustle-leaf and quiver-root absorb slow thoughts that lie unseen
Two for the trees - or really, for the Ents. The first is not only for Fangorn "Treebeard" himself, but for all of the Ents and the trees they shepherded. It is written in an Entish way with very long lines and multiple-descriptives.
With it is a much simpler couplet-style overview of the waning of the forests and of the Ents, their rising again in war and their loss in their dwindled numbers being beyond recovery.
Fangorn
( Deeping-eyes aglow come round, clear-watching all their wayward trees )
-
The Loss of the Old Woods
( They hewed the trees and stacked the wood, and built their cities near beside )
-