Delight & Doom by Narulothwen
Delight & Doom – a poem from a hobbit
In one fair countenance I have met
Both my delight and my doom.
Love first flowered without let,
And in my heart will ever bloom.
To Elven grace, in Elven eyes,
My heart was lost; unasked-for, given.
The mortal doom now realized,
The Firstborn’s path from mine was riven.
Delight and Doom – a reply from an elf
In one small countenance I have met
Both my delight and my doom.
Love’s red flower, without let,
In my heart will ever bloom.
With elf-like grace, in Mirkwood eyes,
My heart is there, freely given.
Though life and death now realized,
The path of friends cannot be riven.
5 Comments
OMG!! This is AMAZING!!! So incredibly beautiful, and an elf and a hobbit – what an awesome theme!! If you ever get the time PM me and let me know what inspired this poem, and who you had in mind for the characters! I would love to know more!!
HUmm, nice. Stinks that Elves live forever huh? Everything would be settled if they didn’t huh? Well, the love side of things anyway. But then, the whole mystique of Elves would be gone if the didn’t live forever. But then again…..Wait, I’m rambling, bye!
Yes, it’s rough that they live forever, but Legolas, for all his years, is SO innocent! I don’t think he understood death or really lived life until the Fellowship.
Narulothwen got to be a part of that! A hobbit who worked for Bilbo in the Shire & Rivendell, learned the bow & to speak elvish. It’s all part of my story. The poem is my one & only shot at verse. It wrote itself, really. Legolas’ answer came later. I thought others with (hopeless) crushes on elves might relate. I recited my part of it for Gimli to help him explain to others about his feelings for Galadriel. Thank you for sharing a piece of my world! ->Naru
(rises from chair clapping hands)
Bravo!!!!!! Excellent! I’m impressed! Lovely, lovely poem!
“Though life and death now realized” …is that the one I missed? Hmmmmmm. (thinks).
Both of those poems are lovely. Thanks for posting them for us to read. Hope to see more poems.