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'''Shadow-Bride''' is a poem written by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] which was published in ''[[The Adventures of Tom Bombadil]]''.
'''Shadow-Bride''' is a nonsense [[Hobbit]] poem that was among those written in the margins of the [[Red Book]].<ref>{{AB|Preface}}</ref>


SHADOW-BRIDE
It was published in ''[[The Adventures of Tom Bombadil]]''.<ref>{{AB|Bride}}</ref>
There was a man who dwelt alone,
as day and night went past
he sat as still as carven stone,
and yet no shadow cast.
The white owls perched upon his head
beneath the winter moon;
they wiped their beaks and thought him dead
under the stars in June.


There came a lady clad in grey
An earlier version of the poem, entitled "'''The Shadow Man'''", was published in the [[Annual of Our Lady's School (1936)|''Annual'' of Our Lady's School (1936)]].<ref>{{webcite|author=[[Wayne Hammond]], [[Christina Scull]]|articleurl=http://wayneandchristina.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/tolkien-notes-8/|articlename=Tolkien Notes 8|dated=16 June 2013|website=[http://wayneandchristina.wordpress.com/ Wayneandchristina.wordpress.com]|accessed=16 June 2013}}</ref>
in the twilight shinning:
one moment she would stand and stay,
her hair with flowers entwining.
He woke, as had he sprung from stone,
and broke the spell that bound him;
he clasped her fast, both flesh and bone,
and wrapped her shadow round him.


There never more she walks her ways
==See also==
by sun or moon or star;
* [[Index:Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien|Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien]]
she dwells below where neither days
nor any nights there are.
But once a year when caverns yawn
and hidden things awake,
they dance together then till dawn
and a single shadow make.
 
[[Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien]]


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Revision as of 21:53, 16 June 2013

Shadow-Bride is a nonsense Hobbit poem that was among those written in the margins of the Red Book.[1]

It was published in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.[2]

An earlier version of the poem, entitled "The Shadow Man", was published in the Annual of Our Lady's School (1936).[3]

See also

References