Words beneath a dappled sky

Three for Helms Deep and just after

For the Battle of Helms Deep I really have very little, but this first one notes Gimli's astonishment at the unacknowledged treasure that the Rohirrim were using as wartime storerooms. The second is a short verse for the uprising of the trees when they set the leftover orcs to better work as fertilizer. Not top quality works, but still worth a quick read.

With them I'm tucking a favorite piece for Theoden and Merry, which happened at Dunharrow rather than Helms Deep but followed shortly after. Their relationship always touched me. Anyone with a passing familiarity with Yeats will recognize it began as an adaptation from "When You are Old and Grey".

Glittering Caves
( Wand'ring blind through paradise )
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Huorns
( Roaring and silent )
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Theoden
( Like a father you were, to him, - for a little while )

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Shakespearian sonnets adapted for Elrond, Legolas and Haldir, plus Treebeard and his trees.

( Elrond Halfelven: Hidden Might )
( Legolas: I Shall Remember )
( Haldir: The Dwarf Breathes Loudly )
( Treebeard: A Thousand Winters )
( For the Trees: No Longer Mourn )

O come two Boffins, Bolger and Proudfoot,
And excavate the pantry to the root

Christmas brings out all sorts of odd things, as anyone who has ever written a yuletide fic, poem or song well knows. This is my own addition to that burgeoning category out there of the adapted Christmas carol - though most are merely using the tunes more than being about Christmas by the time I was done with them.

( O Sackville! )
( Are These Trees Here My Trees? )
( Ferny Bills )
( Eagles on a Midnight Clear )
( Have a Mossy Tossy Huorn )