Guessing Game!

[timepiececlock]

Poem!

The finest rockets ever seen:
they burst in stars of blue and green,
or after thunder golden showers
came falling like a rain of flowers.

Author?

Title? --or if there is no title, source/body of work?

NO GOOGLING! IT'S AN HONOR THING.

The prize is the satisfaction of winning. It should be quite satisfying.

Comments

[helga-b.livejournal.com]

Tolkien! Sam's verse of the Lament to Gandalf, in Lothlórien.

Tolkien geek? Me?

[vero-72.livejournal.com]

Sam! Talking of Gandalf, after his fall in Moria.

[clodia-risa.livejournal.com]

J.R.R. Tolkein - The Two Towers

Sam recites it as a continuation of the Elvish lament for Gandalf's death. He says that they should have mentioned the fireworks.

[spicedrum.livejournal.com]

Francis Scott Key?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Close! Actually, it's from the Fellowship. Though actually it was Sam's continuation of Frodo's song for Gandalf.

But you got Tolkein and you got Sam. You rock. :)

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

::laughs at your icon::











Nope! Want to try again? Don't scroll up.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

You win! And points for being first. :)

huzzah

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Y'all are so good it amazes me. This doesn't even have a single THING to indicate it's Tolkein by text alone, so that means my flist is full of fans of the books, not just the movie. there's a warm and fuzzy feeling.

[spicedrum.livejournal.com]

HA! No. I saw the answer, and there's now way I know because I skipped all the "poetry" in LotR. The story is amazing. The world he built is spectacular. The writing? It's EXTREMELY wordy.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Some of it I read, and some of it I skipped. All the elivish epic fairy tales I complete skipped. But Frodo's song for Gandalf (and Sam's verse right after it, seen here) is one of my favorite poems in the entire series. I even had it memorized once. My only other real favorite scene with poems/songs is from the Hobbit, when Bilbo is singing at the spiders in the trees to piss them off.