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Do you love J.R.R. Tolkien?

Did you enjoy the poetry of the Rohirrim?

There's lots more alliterative verse where it came from!

Dorothy Nielse, "Tolkien's Revelation", in the Summer 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained

Bilbo, Gandalf and Beorn have to cross a river ... sounds like the start of a comedy routine.

Dawn Felagund, "Crossing Forest River", in the Summer 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained.

Gray-garbed sky gasps, glimmering; with waxed moon a westerly wind billows …

Lisa Cooper, "Rain in the Wood", in the Summer 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained.

Bilbo, Gandalf and Beorn have to cross a river ... sounds like the start of a comedy routine.

Dawn Felagund, "Crossing Forest River", in the Summer 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained.

Faramir appreciation time!

Matthew Dickerson, "A Good King", in the Summer 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained

Who knows what tales the Witch-Kings supporters told, to justify their loyalty?

Quincy Lehr, "From the Tale of the Sad King", in the Summer 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained

...But long winters, horrible highways, huge mosquitoes, and no mountains—these are not too high a price to pay for a place that’s got few rattlesnakes and is free of Orcs.

Joseph Mathias, "Middling Earth", Forgotten Ground Regained, Summer 2026

What do orcs dream of?

Cliff Jones, "Marching Orders", in the Summer 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained

A poem of mine I recently revised.

I wake without light – I sense, not alone; half-rise, reaching out, pulse rushing, ready for anything...

...In Sirion stand structures (or what of them remains), the posts striated by scorchmarks below the stratum of the years... Who knows what is hidden under the sea? (Especially in Tolkien's Middle Earth!)

...Beneath the barrow, In bones it dwells, The Draugr, dead with dreadful eyes...

Even wights have a backstory.

Chris Bolland, "The Wight", in the Summer 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained.

Their bright brands glanced on a gleaming coronet Which flashed in the flame like a subterranean star: And its rose-red ruby like a captive king Lay enfolded in flowers of molded mithril...

"The Song of Shadows" or: Avari elves encounter a proto-Ringwraith

..The lone spirit · lingers onward, often dwelling · on days gone by...

Nate Beeton, "Farewell to Bëor", in the Summer 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained

Of chants, somewhere, chimes far away, the wind whispers to my waiting ears. Silence soon swallows the soft-spoken words, but my heart hears them: homesick thoughts...

"The Star Enlaced: Gilraen in Imladris" by Nate Beeton. In Forgotten Ground Regained, Summer 2026.

... Flowers in fields · fresh now with spring, blossom on bough · brighter in town, now the cuckoo calls · clear in the woods ... "Earendil the Seafarer" by Himring, in the Summer 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained

...Hands raised upwards— rising silently · and wreathed lightly in cosmic gleam—cup a moonbeam...