"Under the Mountain dark and tallThe King has come unto his hall!His foe is dead,the Worm of Dread,And ever so his foes shall fall.The sword is sharp, ...

Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien ~












Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, pa...
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