All Woods Must Fail by JRR Tolkien

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All Woods Must Fail

O! Wanderers in the shadowed land
Despair not! For though dark they stand,
All woods there be must end at last,
And see the open sun go past:
The setting sun, the rising sun,
The day's end, or the day begun.
For east or west all woods must fail.

JRR Tolkien

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Qalame-Tire Misterres of Death Nat. Norville (5/1/2008 8:27:00 AM)
This poem is true because so many woods do fail. It does not matter that the poem came from one of Tolkien's works. It might have been written in a fictional world but can be used in this world in this time frame. It is a lovely peace of work.

Michael Hockenbarger (8/28/2007 10:50:00 AM)
You dig too deep. Poem uttered by an elf when leaving Middle Earth. Tolkien was not an allegorical writer. He wrote fiction to be exactly that: Fiction.

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