From Sword to Verse: Rivendell's Healing Power in 'Many Meetings'

When you are broken, you need to be remade. Reforged like the shards of Narsil.

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Reading the chapter “Many Meetings” in The Lord of the Rings was, in some ways, anticlimactic. After the high-adrenaline, pulse-racing, breakneck escape from the Rings-wraiths, we find Aragorn helping Bilbo write a poem about Eärendil. What?

Apparently, Strider was not bad at poetry at all — the Elves couldn’t tell which lines were written …