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[lamentforhaldir]

"When winter first begins to bite
And stones crack in the frosty night,
When pools are black and trees are bare,
'tis evil in the wild to fare."
-J.R.R. Tolkien

Comments

[jplaj]

Where did that one come from? It doesn't sound like The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit.

[lamentforhaldir]

Actually, it is in Lord of the Rings. It's one of Bilbo's songs.

I have an excellent reading of it by Christopher Lee accompanied by the Tolkien Ensemble. It gives me chills!

[jplaj]

Hmm. Strange. I must be slacking off.
I was kind of hoping you had discovered one of his stand-alone works. You know, the stuff that's really good but is overshadowed by the hobbit-books so no one ever reads them?

Christopher Lee has one of those voices that you want to carry around with you in a bottle to use whenever you wanted. Him, James Earl Jones, and Adam West.