Ok I'm gonna give a two part post on Fantasy and the beauty I see in it. This first part will just be a poem by J.R.R. Tolkien called "Goblin Feet"

"Goblin Feet"

I am off down the road
Where the fairy lanterns glowed
And the little pretty flitter-mice are flying:
A slender band of gray
It runs creepily away
And the hedges and the grasses are a-sighing.
The air is full of wings
And of blundery beetle-things
That warn you with their whirring and their humming.
O! I hear the tiny horns
Of enchanted leprechauns
And the padded feet of many gnomes a-coming!
O! the lights! O! the gleams! O! the little tinkly sounds!
O! the rustle of their noiseless little robes!
O! their swinging lamps in little starlit globes.
I must follow in their train
Down the crooked fairy lane
Where the coney-rabbits long ago have gone,
And where silvery they sing
In a moving moonlit ring
All a-twinkle with the jewels they have on.
They are fading round the turn
Where the glow-worms palely burn
And the echo of their of their padding feet is dying!
O! it's knocking at my heart--
Let me go! O! let me start!
For the little magic hours are all a-flying.
O! the warmth! O! the hum! O! the colors in the dark!
O! the gauzy wings of golden honey-flies!
O! the music of their feet--of their dancing goblin feet!
O! the magic! O! the sorrow when it dies.

Read this again and just picture the beautiful enchantment Tolkien paints with his words.

Today's song is "Into the West". It is the song from the end of the Return of the King soundtrack.

Brett