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10-04-2016, 05:13 AM | #1 | ||
Woman of Secret Shadow
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Hurt and Heal XI: Songs and Poems
Remember when we used to play Hurt and Heal all the time?
It was great fun (and also very exasperating and revealed bad things about your fellow Downers, such as unacceptable character preferences ) so I'd like to revive it. THE RULES:
The actual game:
I'd like to suggest songs and poems for the theme. Please use the first line of the poem as the title, and quote or (if it's very long) link to the full poem in your nomination post so that people can refresh their memories. (No need to keep doing it in subsequent posts though, one quote/link per poem is enough.) On the list: Nominated: The King beneath the mountains (see below) Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising (see below) The Shadows where the Mewlips dwell (link) Nominations / secondings: Agan 0/5 Please include the list of the nominees, as well as how many nominations people have left, when you nominate or second someone. Quote:
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Here are the previous rounds, in case you'd like to have a look: Hurt and Heal I (characters, winner: Boromir) Hurt and Heal II (Silmarillion characters, winner: Maedhros) Hurt and Heal III (characters, winner: Faramir) Hurt and Heal IV (hobbits, winner: Farmer Maggot) Hurt and Heal V (Ainur/non-Valar, winner: Melian) Hurt and Heal VI (weapons and other oddities, winner: Gurthang) Hurt and Heal VII (dwarves, winner: Gimli) Hurt and Heal VIII (elves, winner: Maedhros) Hurt and Heal IX (ladies, winner: Thuringwethil after a very long suspense) Hurt and Heal X (geography, winner: Hollin)
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Cold be hand and heart and bone (see below) Three Rings for the Elven-Kings under the sky (see below) Learn now the lore of living creatures (see below) Second: The King beneath the mountains Nominations/Secondings Agan 0/5 Boro 0/4 One the List The King beneath the mountains (2) Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising (1) The Shadows where the Mewlips dwell (1) Cold be hand and heart and bone (1) Three Rings for the Elven-Kings under the sky (1) Learn now the lore of living creatures (1) ---- Quote:
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10-04-2016, 08:34 AM | #3 |
Blossom of Dwimordene
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I nominate The Shadow Bride (There was a man who dwelt alone):
There was a man who dwelt alone, as day and night went past he sat as still as carven stone, and yet no shadow cast. The white owls perched upon his head beneath the winter moon; they wiped their beaks and thought him dead under the stars of June. There came a lady clad in grey in the twilight shining: one moment she would stand and stay, her hair with flowers entwining. He woke, as had he sprung of stone, and broke the spell that bound him; he clasped her fast, both flesh and bone, and wrapped her shadow round him. There never more she walks her ways by sun or moon or star she dwells below where neither days nor any nights there are. But once a year when caverns yawn and hidden things awake, They dance together then till dawn and a single shadow make.
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10-04-2016, 08:37 AM | #4 |
Blossom of Dwimordene
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Second Out of doubt.
Nominations/Secondings Agan 0/5 Boro 0/4 G55 2/4 On the List The King beneath the mountains (2) Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising (2) The Shadows where the Mewlips dwell (1) Cold be hand and heart and bone (1) Alive without breath (1) Learn now the lore of living creatures (1) The Shadow Bride (1)
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10-04-2016, 10:09 AM | #5 | |
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Anyway, Alive without breath should be replaced with "Three Rings for the Elven-kings...", unless someone else comes along and nominates Alive without Breath On the List The King beneath the mountains (2) Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising (2) The Shadows where the Mewlips dwell (1) Cold be hand and heart and bone (1) Three Rings for the Elven-Kings under the sky (1) Learn now the lore of living creatures (1) The Shadow Bride (1)
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10-04-2016, 10:44 AM | #6 | ||
A Voice That Gainsayeth
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Beautiful theme!
For now, seconding the Bride and the Ring-verse. Otherwise, I nominate The Wind on the Withered Heath, a beautiful gem often forgotten:
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and also nominate Lazy Lob and Crazy Cob, the reason why I was super-happy when I finally got my own copy of The Hobbit, so I could read it whenever I wanted, and spent the Christmas Eve reading it over and over: Quote:
Agan 0/5 Boro 0/4 G55 2/4 Legate 1/3 On the List The King beneath the mountains (2) Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising (2) The Shadows where the Mewlips dwell (1) Cold be hand and heart and bone (1) Three Rings for the Elven kings under the sky (2) Learn now the lore of living creatures (1) The Shadow Bride (2) Wind on the Withered Heath (1) Lazy Lob and Crazy Cob (1)
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10-04-2016, 02:13 PM | #7 |
Woman of Secret Shadow
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Awesome, thanks for your contributions! I second...
++the Shadow Bride ++the Barrow-Wight's poem ++Wind on the Withered Heath Legate's story about Lazy Lob and Crazy Cob was the cutest though. On the List: The Shadow Bride Nominations: The King beneath the mountains (2) Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising (2) The Shadows where the Mewlips dwell (1) Cold be hand and heart and bone (2) Three Rings for the Elven kings under the sky (2) Learn now the lore of living creatures (1) Wind on the Withered Heath (2) Lazy Lob and Crazy Cob (1) Nominations/Secondings: Agan 0/2 Boro 0/4 G55 2/4 Legate 1/3
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10-07-2016, 01:32 PM | #8 |
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Hmm. I thought a facebook post about this would have drawn in more people.
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10-09-2016, 02:23 PM | #9 | |
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I don't remember participating in this game before, but I will read through the thread tomorrow. |
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10-11-2016, 04:54 AM | #10 |
A Voice That Gainsayeth
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Has it already been tomorrow?
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10-11-2016, 05:06 AM | #11 |
Woman of Secret Shadow
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Last time we actually removed the nomination/seconding limits because there were so few people. We might want to consider it unless this picks up.
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10-11-2016, 08:59 AM | #12 | |
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Sorry for the inactivity. I went home for the weekend, which was the end of all things productive.
Second Wind on the Withered Heath. Nominate He Chanted A Song of Wizardry, quoted below. On the List: The Shadow Bride Wind on the Withered Heath Nominations: The King beneath the mountains (2) Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising (2) The Shadows where the Mewlips dwell (1) Cold be hand and heart and bone (2) Three Rings for the Elven kings under the sky (2) Learn now the lore of living creatures (1) Lazy Lob and Crazy Cob (1) He chanted a song of wizardry (1) Nominations/Secondings: Agan 0/2 Boro 0/4 G55 1/3 Legate 1/3 Quote:
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10-11-2016, 12:29 PM | #13 | ||
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I hope you don't mind the format of my nominations. I have included the first bit of the poem, as well as a link to the entire thing.
Anyways this seems promising, the songs and poems of Tolkien has always been very important to me, not only in the context of the books, but also in my personal life. Anyways, let me know if I have misunderstood something or made a mistake. Nominations: Quote:
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Cold be hand and heart and bone Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising On the List: The Shadow Bride Wind on the Withered Heath Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising Cold be hand and heart and bone Nominations: The King beneath the mountains (2) The Shadows where the Mewlips dwell (1) Three Rings for the Elven kings under the sky (2) Learn now the lore of living creatures (1) Lazy Lob and Crazy Cob (1) He chanted a song of wizardry (1) The world world was young, the mountains green (1) I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew (1) Nominations/Secondings: Agan 0/2 Boro 0/4 G55 1/3 Legate 1/3 Rune 1/3 |
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