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Bjorn

  • The Silmarillion

    Why not? I just finished reading it again, so here we go. An excellent tale, and how everything is entwined with the fate of these three holy jewels makes it ...

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  • The Exiled (or something like that...)

    I've never given a 'title' to any un-ambitious, miniscule work, but if I'd have to name this poem, then I guess(these are on the spot) 'The Exiled', or just 'Exiled' ...

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  • My bits and Bobs, unrelating to the above styles, I think

    This is a piece of something I wrote today, and when and if the completed work is posted here, this poem will make the more sense, and perfect sense perchance. ...

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  • The Lord of the Rings/Tolkien's Written Works/His Myth

    Well, it was an inevitability with me here(that this topic should be made). I have seen here: Questions about LOTR, which died, and Harry Potter versus the LotR. I am ...

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  • Oh Aster in the Sky

    I of course am not the author, rather the sub-creative author(in other words, realistically-I wrote it, fantastically-The faithful Numenoreans sung it ) Oh Aster in the Sky Oh white aster ...

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  • Lost?

    Burning cold, Biting frost, The sky is falling; I am lost. A simple poem, it came to me as I was trudging through the snow and cold today...

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  • Snow...(flakes)

    Long ago I dreamt you falling,And in that moment had a longing:To watch your graceful shapes pass by,In white raiment, from the sky. I was thinking of a dream I ...

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  • Gandalf and The Balrog

    Tis a Petrarchan sonnet. Gandalf and the Balrog Thongs of fire lashed at Tharkûn the Great,On the narrow pass of the dwarven bridge.He struggled on that precarious ridge,And still could ...

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  • The Precariously Perched Pidgeon

    Behold, I finally finished the poem after a few months of neglect. The Precariously Perched Pidgeon It was precariously perched,That little pidgeon of mine.For were it standing out of reach,I'd ...

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  • Zadni Kralj Hrvatske-Peter

    The name pretty much sums it up. But then, I want peoples take on it. (Has anyone heard of the country mentioned, by-the-way? ) Peter Svacic On Peter's Mount,Svacic had ...

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  • The Curse of the Cross: A Heathen Fable

    Let's see. This is the first ever topic I made in the stories section, wow! That being said I am, of course, not new to writing. I've plently tales brewing ...

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  • Lord of Thunder

    Lord of Thunder Across the heavens he rides, In his chariot of gold; Rumbling over darkling clouds, He's fearless, steadfast and bold. Wielding his mighty hammer, Poised above his holy ...

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  • Tamburasac

    You've heard of pfifers and fiddlers, and poems relating to them, but what about a taburasac. Yes the Croatian tamburica(Tahm-Boo-Ree-Tza) is an interesting instrument, of the string family. The commo

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  • Eriol/Ottar Waefre/Aelfwine

    Well, this started out as a poem for the poetry contest for the 'Grande Re-Opening!', but when it was finished, I noticed I was some 56 lines over the limit! ...

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  • Bjorn's Free-Writes and Fragments

    Basically what the title implies-I'll be posting my free-writes and story fragments; and I suppose any other piece of writing, that perhaps don't deserve to waste space as seperate entities. ...

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  • A Heathenly Respite(FDWC)

    This is only half of the story, the rest will be coming tommorow I suppose. A Heathenly Respite You'd have heard or will hear that Pagans are barbaric and crude, ...

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  • The Communist Manifesto

    Today I read the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. I must say that my leaning towards this part of the Left over the past few years has ...

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  • The Moon

    Some of you may know this one already, and don't worry, a new poem or two or three shall be coming soon!(Or four!...Or five even if I've the inspiration enough...Right ...

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  • Beyond the Sea

    A little ditty I wrote some time back. Across the Western Ocean,Beyond the Misty Seas,Past Enchanted IslesAnd against the Eastward breeze:You'll come to lamplit quaysIn a twilight time,A harbour in ...

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  • War-Machine

    The War-Machine The whirling of the war-machineis deafening as itthunders over burning* fieldson an endless road to oblivion. Not so sure whether I should have posted it. I find it ...

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  • Essay - The Fall of the Proud and Mighty in The Idiot

    I received a fairly decent mark for this essay, within the range my conscious effort put in (an 80%). I lost most marks for MLA infractions, which there will be ...

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  • A Stormy Opera

    My first attempt at abstract poetry. I didn't bother recreating the placement of words and phrases from what I had on paper. Little droplets of water,Millions of them, Falling from ...

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  • Chthonic Mantra

    [A] Chthonic Mantra God of Wisdom, Lord of Death; Hornéd beast Of Earth and wealth Like thine roots In thy loam, Give me strength To ride this storm.

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  • The Crow

    I started this back in the Autumn of 2006. I finally finished it today! The Crow A crow alights atop a roof And cocks his head to look at me, ...

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  • Morskigrad

    If I may be so bold as to post one more poem in the same run... (Morskigrad is a fictional city I have envisioned) Morskigrad In Morskigrad by the sea, ...

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I cannot separate the aesthetic pleasure of seeing a butterfly and the scientific pleasure of knowing what it is.
— Vladmir Nabokov