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SONG AT THE GATE OF MORDOR [I]
(the words of a cave troll at the Black Gate of Mordor)
"A race of monstrous creatures found in caverns and dark places. They are known from an encounter with the Fellowship of the Ring as they passed through Moria, but were evidently found elsewhere in Middle-earth." (The Encyclopedia of Arda)
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When I looked out and saw the sky to the distant faraway north,
I did not understand the spectrum of colour, the rainbow of blue.
I rubbed my eyes and gazed again. At first I snarled and I spat.
Then I crouched and calmed myself, when no harm came of it.
I had only been brought up from down below to push the stone, in
the land of browns and greys, of smoke and choking liquid fumes,
We all were sniveling and agonised in the shadows of our doom.
My skin was coated by the ash. My senses sharp, harsh volcanic. |
