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All That is Gold Does Not Glitter
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All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does .........
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JRR Tolkien
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Lorraine Margueritte Gasrel Black (9/11/2008 9:47:00 PM)
I realy like this poem a great deal.It's so full of hope. |
Vivian Griffiths (8/23/2008 5:50:00 PM)
being uncertain of what the author means leaves a fabulous ambiguity about these lines, your opinion as my own are just opinions! |
Sarah Mustang (8/17/2008 7:09:00 PM)
All that glisters is not gold- one of my favorate sayings. This is an excellent poem. |
Nikka Bianca Remulla (7/13/2008 1:51:00 AM)
nice... the things that have the highest value (like gold) does not glitter... in the sense that sometimes we tend not to see that the most important things in our life like family and friends... we get dumbstruck by all the material things that surrounds us... |
Lucy Anonymus (6/7/2008 10:34:00 AM)
It`s one of my favorite poems, and I wonder how many people tried to turn it into music yet...? ? ? |
Sean Andrews (4/29/2008 10:31:00 PM)
Bingo, the couple folks who mentioned “Golden hearts” and the like I believe have it right, Gold being a reference for something good/valuable doesn’t have to glitter i.e. the metal, it can be found in many other places/forms. Some people “wander” merely to look and see what they see, fairly self-evident. “old that is strong…deep roots” if founded on good morals and established and maintained with those original ideals in place then “does not wither…not reached by frost” I’m thinking personally of the church, but it can be applied to many things countries, constitutions, any system where good principals go into the founding, and those ideals are maintained throughout will weather storms and not die. “ashes…shadows” “fire…light” broken blade, renewed all these seem to say no matter how dark it gets hope, light, renewal, will come back…I hate to quote the movie but as it does come from Mr Tolkien “this too shall pass.” As far as the last line I too believe he was speaking of Christ, hence my first thought above being of the church…taken in context the entire poem could potentially be one big reference to the second coming of Christ, maybe those faithful who remain in faith are the gold? Likely though its meant to be a little more encompassing and vague for that reason. |
James Weber (1/4/2008 3:10:00 PM)
Mr. Zoomorphic
you claim the J.R.R. Tolkien was racist against 'islam terrorists'
I find two problems with this claim
1. your grammar, The basic definition of Racism means it's impossible to be racist against a religion such as Islam, In fact Islam has many members of different Ethnic groups, it is not specific to one Ethnic group. A more accurate statement may be something like ' he was racist against Arab' or 'he was creedist against Islamics'
2. Your blatant hypocrisy, again as you said your opinion is that J.R.R. Tolkien is 'racist against Islam terrorist. However you seem to think all Islamics are Terrorists, which is a very creedist comment. so as you see it's a case of the Pot calling the Kettle Black. |
D S (10/30/2007 6:13:00 AM)
Good God, some of you people have serious issues. Besides, you can't be racist against a religion. If you're going to make wildly inaccurate accusations, at least have the decency to properly phrase your questions. |
D S (10/30/2007 6:12:00 AM)
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Naveed Akram (8/27/2007 3:49:00 PM)
Gold is a topic of wonder, and it looks wonderful to write of it in poetic mannerism. The glittering is claimed to be most likely gold, with the obvious alliteration. Then the people who wander, namely the rangers and paladins, will be lost in the quest for gold. The gold is lost to those who are lost. They are either lost or lost with gold, that is even magically without gold. Even though golden objects are being indicated, the golden nature of such magic items are supposed to glitter in their supremacy. They have ruled the whole world. The nature of the world is that it is old, ancient and strong, always with the reason that makes the world strong, and that is probably and naturally magic and sorcery. The strong does not wither, and the roots are deep - they are not deep but too deep. Fire does not stir until power has been reached in the world. Gold is like fire, yet power is like fire, thus gold is powerful especially when it has glittered magically!
It will wake from the ashes naturally, combining nature and the world of power that is magic and sorcery. That is how “light from the shadows shall spring”, and this is due to the world being a world of darkness as well. The blade must be ambiguity for grass, such as the ashes, or sword for the wars fought. Crowns are always fought for in this world and with magic at the forefront: the blade is supposed to be renewed. The cycle is everlasting. The king is a ghostly figure with a gold-like crown. |
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