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For #BookWormSat theme of the sea:
a 🧵 on one of my favorite #Tolkien's poems, The Sea-Bell (Frodos Dreme). First published on 18 January 1934 in The Oxford Magazine, it has themes like dream, mortality and alienation; beginning with a shell that emits the sound of the sea. 1/8
a 🧵 on one of my favorite #Tolkien's poems, The Sea-Bell (Frodos Dreme). First published on 18 January 1934 in The Oxford Magazine, it has themes like dream, mortality and alienation; beginning with a shell that emits the sound of the sea. 1/8
A stranger found a white shell on the beach. When he put it on his ears, he heard the distant sounds of harbors and the seas. He saw "a boat, silently float/on the night-tide, empty and grey." It took him to a strange land where the inhabitants fled upon seeing him. 2/8
He climbed a mound and made himself a king, but darkness descended upon him, turning him "blinded and bent." He dwelt in the forest "wandering in wit", growing old and weary. A year and a day later, the ship returned and he boarded it to his own land. 3/8
