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Tolkien Tribute: Speak, Friend, and Enter

Some years ago I was active on a Tolkien-based site that featured writing and poetry contests. This was a dialogue-writing competition with set parameters: Characters: an elf and a dwarfSetting: outside Doors of MoriaTheme: Speak, Friend, and EnterI gave myself the added challenge of using the dialogue alone to show the scene and the action. …

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Tolkien Tribute: The Golden Wood

The leaves shine like gold in the long light of autumn, adrift upon the last breath of summer, sailing, like kites cut free, taking their own sweet time to come at last to rest.Years and seasons without number crunch in their layers beneath the feet that wander, among the grey-like-silver trees that stand and sigh …

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