Friday, January 3, 2003

All Woods Must Fail Comments

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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:
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
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Sylva Portoian 22 February 2010

All woods must fail, I understood in a different way- That everyone will die, No one forever can stay! ! !

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Sara S 27 November 2009

micheal hockenbarger- don; t know about the allegory stuff but this poem was not 'uttered by an elf leaving middle earth' it was said by frodo in the Old Forest.

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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.

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Michael Hockenbarger 28 August 2007

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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Eluin Estel 03 April 2005

Why exactly? I thought he was against industry taking over...

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