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Odysseus819 Tolkien is Not Yeats 07-25-2001, 11:59 AM

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Elven-Maiden OK, I'm insulted!!! Pipin's... 02-03-2002, 06:45 PM

The Mirrorball Man Of course Tolkien was no... 02-04-2002, 06:15 AM

Birdland Hmmm, sounds like a bad case... 02-04-2002, 07:18 AM

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh Whether or not poetry is... 02-04-2002, 08:44 AM

Guest For my money, Tolkien is a... 03-25-2002, 07:03 PM

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Bêthberry Gee, for a moment I thought... 02-19-2003, 09:45 AM

Frodo Baggins You are SUCH a riot... 02-19-2003, 10:50 AM

littlemanpoet Cup o' mead for now, set the... 02-19-2003, 08:55 PM

Lush Wait, so Tchaikovsky wasn't a... 02-19-2003, 09:29 PM

Diamond18 Funny. Tolkien's poetry... 02-19-2003, 11:51 PM

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh We can't have that. Here's my... 02-20-2003, 02:06 PM

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The Squatter of Amon Rûdh Memphis Belle, by any chance?... 02-20-2003, 04:17 PM

Dain Lots of the "poems" in... 02-20-2003, 06:18 PM

The Saucepan Man Personally, I think that... 02-20-2003, 06:35 PM

Diamond18 Quite so, that is the movie. ... 02-20-2003, 10:00 PM

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh Squatter wanders blithely... 02-21-2003, 12:09 PM

Faenaduial Yes Yeats is a great poet but... 02-21-2003, 12:44 PM

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh Verb sap It is always a good... 02-21-2003, 01:59 PM

Bill Ferny Squatter... all threads start... 02-21-2003, 03:52 PM

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littlemanpoet I would quote, but my... 02-22-2003, 05:39 AM

Bill Ferny Poet, When I work at the... 02-22-2003, 11:38 AM

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh Just for the record, I... 02-22-2003, 06:19 PM

Kuruharan He would probably think this... 02-22-2003, 07:13 PM

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Iarwain Very funny article, the... 02-22-2003, 08:19 PM

Bill Ferny Squatter, I can’t comment... 02-22-2003, 08:23 PM

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07-25-2001, 11:59 AM	#1
Odysseus819 Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 699	Tolkien is Not Yeats <font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ghost-Prince of Cardolan Posts: 594</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> Today's (July 25) Slate magazine (www.slate.com) has a short article that disses Tolkien's poetry and Tom Bombadil's in particular. Any comment? I know some of you are big TB fans. <font size = "-2"> [i] Listen! the mighty Being is awake / And doth with his eternal motion make / A sound like thunder--everlastingly.</p>