Uruk-Hai Mourning Song and Other Poems

by Osheen Nevoy

Apparently, it's my ambition to become the poet laureate of the Uruk-Hai. Collected here are the poems I've been composing in the early stages of a new project I'm just beginning: a revisionist account of the War of the Ring from the point of view of a band of Uruk-Hai

1. Chapter 1: Uruk-Hai Mourning Song

Uruk-Hai Mourning Song

Composed for the funeral of Uglúk, a captain of the Uruk-Hai of Isengard

Long howl the Wargs

Names of the never-returned

Long feast the birds

Thick on the fields of the slain.

Short are our days

Moments of triumph and love

Short be the time

Until I see you again.

Long may our names

Live at the end of our days

Short be my wait

Until you welcome me home.

Author's Note:

This is the first thing I have written in the very early stages of a new fan fiction project I'm just beginning: a revisionist account of the War of the Ring from the point of view of a band of Uruk-Hai. This mourning song will feature in the first story or chapter in those chronicles. How much of them I am likely to write, I don't know; I hope not to get completely caught up in this project, since I have two other novels currently in the works, in a different fandom. But these Chronicles of the Uruk-Hai are most definitely crying out to me to be written.