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An attempt at the patterning of Tolkien's poem "Errantry", for Gimli and his valiant run across the plains to Rohan. The Burly Axegrinder - There was a burly axegrinder, A taxminder, a warrior He sought some orcs whose passengers Were passing for some couriers, Although they were no carriers, No ferriers of frippery, No ring of heavy golden shine Beholden midst their livery.
The orcs ploughed through topography No pause to breathe, so tauntingly They hauled their prey potato-sacked And cracked their whips most constantly The hunters three, persistantly (Consistent in their tracking feat) A leaf of Lorien they found, All pounded down in loam and peat.
The dwarf revelled in runabout, This turnabout of who's pursued. With friends he tracked, and puffing far For ruffians whose spoils accrued His feet pumped on through grassy plains, Swift passage, leagues of gasping toil To reclaim both lest handling rough Should shuffle off their mortal coil.
There came a troop of horseriders Their course beside the selfsame track With hoof and spear they hemmed them in By pennant green they waved them back. Pressed in and questioned to confess They jested not, stared merciless As those who know betrayal's jess And hood would fail their hawkeyed test.
The dwarf he gave a measured glace At dancing hoof and sharpened lance With his companions looking on He forsook all courtly variance; To their alarm he challenged them, And malleable his enmity By whether they'd free passage trade: Give Lady's due, or penalty!
Eomer gave an answer swift A gift of passage through the land But challenge of the Lady's grace... Through facing dwarvish axe at hand, He'd not agree that golden nets Weren't waiting yet in wooded cove. Though they'd slaughtered orcs and "child"less They'd piled the mess on flaming stove.
With a growling overture, The Dwarf turned back from man and horse To seek again his halflings' fate With unabating dwarvish force And barring any sophistory In history to put down his place Underneath his braided beard, Unfearing grin upon his face. |
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