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Perhaps I embellish

But I a little guy
With hairy feet

Can usually find hope to carry on
In my journeys

Though I generally am adverse to wearing rings

Beginning with my own trilogy of poems
[The bear trilogy]
Certainly no epic
But a first step
And this is but another
As my journey continues

In the shadow of Tolkien and his epic?

Digging up a dusty old journal
In a dungeon like flea market in the Bay of the North
And inspired by a long solitary walk
Up a dark foreboding mountain
Past an old convent
And thoughts of bears
I began my first poetry journal
And began to colour my own life with verse

Another journey began
Lo 30 yrs back
Truly away, from family and friends and home
Another reading of the Trilogy
And away… to teacher’s college

Did you know?
Tolkien colours his books throughout
With poetry and song?

Never to return to the table
Others joined and
Our fellowship continues
As we keep each other sane
As we fight our own good fight
Against our own foes and obsessions
Journeying yet onward in friendship

Yet all that glitters in not game

What would become an epic journey of friendship and refuge and Laughter and joy
A nearly 40 year journey yet on going

It would be a friendship more precious than any ring
And though we would all have our own side journeys
Our struggles and losses
Our joys and victories
And though some of us fell

Tolkien’s world again entering mine through the portal of education
I found others, a new fellowship
Creating our own worlds of imagination
Playing roles through many a character
Battling endless foes
In game and laughter
From Highschool to this day

Then to a history, read at a summer cottage - The Silmarilion
My love of fantasy blossomed and grew

It was in high school
A journey to fellowship of my own began
What was this Dungeons and Dragons
Played by other students in this dank highschool room I stumbled into
It seemed …… familiar

But first with my newly found love of reading and rereading of this epic journey
and all things Tolkien From amusement at Farmer Giles of Ham and the Father Christmas letters (yes they actually exist)
To true tears of joy reading “Leaf by Niggle” (I highly recommend)

Next to find the climax and resolutions when I returned with the King
To this epic conclusion
Leading finally to my finding of fellowship, then and soon to come

The Hobbit read joyfully in Gr 6 by a Mr Denome
A world of imagination, and inspiration to a young sensitive soul
Then hence a quest to a library free to the public
Tolkien discovered yet, twas a journey joined in progress
Finding myself initially at Two Towers
I longed for beginnings and an end