Disclaimer: The usual. It's all Professor Tolkien's.
Summary: Well, after 'The Wounded Hand' I was in an Elanor mood. :) Elanor
Gamgee falls asleep on the Hill above Bag End, and in a dream learns
the meaning of love.
Love
I lay upon a green
green hill,
a-staring at the sky
and sang a song of days
long past
as clouds went drifting
by.
The Sun went down, the
Moon arose
and stars flamed in the
sky—
I lay upon that green
green hill
as dreams went drifting
by.
The Moon sailed on
across the sky
but there before my
eyes
one dream there
stopped, and sat with me—
both beautiful and
wise.
He sat beside me on the
hill
with quiet eyes and
fair
I might have thought a
star had come
to me from heaven's
air.
I questioned him on
many things
in earth and sea and
skies
and all the ways that
folk must go
when shadow o'er them
lies.
Why the highest should
suffer most
and where the answer
lies
for sorrow in the tales
I love
and tears in Sam-dad's
eyes.
He looked at me and
said 'Dear child,
'tis love that
suffers so.
And love it is that
makes green fields
rise from out the
fallow.
Deep love it is that
takes the weight
that others fear to
bear,
and lights anew the
darkened sky
and makes all sorrows
fair.'
Then wondering I took
his hand
and marveled not to
find
that there were only
four fingers
with my own five
entwined.