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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
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