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[ OPAR ] From Tolkien's Removed Appendix

  
Familiar with legend and lore  
of the One Ring betraying Isildur?    
    
Yes, it loosed itself free from his finger    
was bringer about of the King's ruin    
only to be mired down in the River Anduin      
where he did drown    
     
twenty-five hundred years before      
having been acquired by Smeagol    
on of all days, his birthday!      
     
Or so the creature says;      
who kept the gold band for    
five hundred more  
 
until eventually uneventfully    
forgetting his original name    
     
And despite testimony from Bagginses      
of the trinket being won in a riddle game    
Gollum unwillingly "misplaced" it within      
his cavernous lair under Misty Mountains      
     
Looking back, Historians might hastily say    
what a string of poor choices on behalf    
of such a dark, lorded-over device . . .      
     
but the Silmarillion does not tell    
that Sauron's creation knew quite well    
where this burglar accompanying dwarves    
numbering thirteen was travelling . . .    
     
Erebor    
     
where it could as if a chameleon    
blend into the hoarded golden treasure    
the dragon Smaug slumbered upon    
and then be claimed in the end    
by Elf, Dwarf, Man, Orc, Eagle      
or even the massive beast himself    
     
or perhaps wait --- hibernate      
for a few more millenia    
resurfacing on the hand    
of an unsavory politician    
     
Now do you understand    
why it was so imperative    
to roust the great fire drake    
from his roost, even at the risk    
of Lake Town burning?    
     
Along with the necessity of Bilbo    
having to live with that awful tragedy    
turning the scenario over and over    
in his conscience?    
     
If we are not mindful of the factual    
actual Past, then History may      
become in the very least, repetative    
     
while Time goes by in the blinking    
of an eye, of little consequence    
to an altogether unthinking evil    
thing      
     
 
Written by JohnnyBlaze
Published | Edited 2nd Nov 2021
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