Sam's song is SO good. I heard a version of it on an album once, and the tune stuck, thank God, so I have been singing it ever since, whenever I see stars "stuck" in bare treebranches... my backyard has a couple of young beech trees in it, and sometimes I go and stand under them and sing that song... "Or there, maybe 'tis couldless night, and swaying beeches bear the elven-stars like jewels white amid their branching hair. Though here at journey's end I lie..." Pure faith. ALL RIGHT, SAM!!!!! I think that's the best song in the whole trilogy, at least it means the most to me, and I've quoted it most.
I used to like "Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day's rising" the best, but... it's a bit on the hopeless side. Poor Eomer. Sam responded with greater hope, although if he had had to sing even when he still thought Frodo was dead, the song would have been darker, I guess.
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...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.
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