What's your favourite verse?

I hope this hasn't been done before, but what's everyone's favourite Tolkien poem?

Mine would have to be Galadriel's:

'I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew:

Of wind I sang, a wind there came and in the brances blew.

Beyond the Sun, beyond the Moon, the foam was on the Sea,

And by the strands of Ilmarin there grew a golden Tree.

Beneath the stars of Ever-eve in Eldamar it shone,

In Eldamar beside the walls of Elven Tirion

There long the golden leaves have grown upon the branching years,

While here beyond the Sundering Seas now fall the Elven-tears.

Oh Lorien! The Winter comes, the bare and leafless Day;

The leaves are falling in the stream, the River flows away.

Oh Lorien! Too long I have dwelt upon this Hither Shore

And in a fading crown have twined the golden elanor.

But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,

What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?

I think this poem is beautiful in that it portrays Galdriel's longing to return over the West to her homeland, as well as the fading of Lorien - 'And in a fading crown have twined the golden elanor'.

Oh well I'll stop babbling! What's everyone else's favourite poem?

[ April 15, 2002: Message edited by: nimphel ]