Into the Land of Mordor

I.

Clothed in tattered grey a wise old fool was sent to teach the beings of Middle-Earth
how to defeat Lord Sauron's rule—but instead he played with Hobbits in their mirth.
Oh! But Gandalf knew a secret thing, a strange fact about these halfling kind,
one had found Lord Sauron's ring forged to rule all and in the darkness bind...

II.

Unyielding to the ring's corruptive magic

the simple Hobbit-folk had much to bring
going into Mordor could be tragic

but only they could ever bear the ring.

Frodo ascended to the call of fate

Gandalf assembled others to assist
the mission grave—the peril would be great

could halflings, dwarf and elf and men persist?

Attacked by vile Nazgûl from the sky

and vicious Wargs upon a rocky plain
and nasty bands of Orcs and Uruk-hai

into the mount they fled Lord Sauron's bane.

They killed a deadly Ogre in a room

beset by goblins deep in catacombs,
and at the stone-hewn bridge of Khazad-dûm, 

a Balrog from the realm where no man roams;

For Gandalf with the power in his staff 

rebuked the fiery demon with his spell
and broke the ancient rocky bridge in half 

and sent the creature plummeting to hell.

Its whip of fire caught old Gandalf's knee 

and as he hung upon the crumbling stone
"fly, you fools" he wailed for them to flee 

he'd have to fight this demon on his own.

And as he fell, the world around him ceased, 

he drew Glamdring, his elven sword, to fight
and thrust it deep into the nether beast 

unleashing all its power and its might.

And falling through into a frozen land 

the beast struck back and dealt a fatal blow
its death however sealed by Gandalf's hand 

they both died in the regions down below.

Morose the fellowship moved on in gloom,

to cast the ring into the magma flow,

the miasmatic lava of Mount Doom—
would they succeed, alas! they didn't know.

<sub>This poem covers events of the first two books: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.

Part III. will cover the rest of the story.</sub>

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