Pete Clark

@peteclark.bsky.social

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Tolkien fan, occasional folk singer. Some of my songs and poems are at https://apoolofsong.wordpress.com/

An adult horse is telling a story to its foal: "and Snowmane bore him up like a Mearh of old, even as Nahar the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young..."
Brother Cadfael (played by Sir Derek Jacobi) looks round quizzically.
A selfie photo with Laser and Pete.
A photograph of a woodland scene. At the sides and in the distance are trees in new spring leaves. A horse chestnut also has blossom. In the centre is a clearing filled with cow parsley (hemlock), tall green plants with white flowers.
A cover of The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula Le Guin. The wizard Ged tries to open a locked door. A huge hollow eyed gaping mouthed stone face looks over him.
Anyone who is recently arrived from the Frankish lands is rougher in character than those who have become acclimated and have frequented the company of Muslims. Here is an instance of their rough character (may God abominate them!): Whenever I went to visit the holy sites in Jerusalem, I would go in and make my way up to the al-Aqsa Mosque,beside which stood a small mosque that the Franks had converted into a church. When I went into the al-Aqsa Mosque – where the Templars, who are my friends, were ....
Merlin is addressing King Arthur and his knights on a firelit hillside, he concludes "for it is the doom of men that they forget". Nicol Williamson in Excalibur (1981).
The graphic is a short poem called "Travail": I forge in fire and darkness, while my land Still calls me with the voice of my own heart The woods and fields of fair Beleriand - The loom of music, and the hearth of art. My longing wanders, but my flesh is bound In dark and rusty pits to labour long In flowerless hell beneath the wasted ground Bereft of starlight and the Springs of Song. But dare I flee from all my toil and pain By crawling out across the Thirsty Plain? What weapon could I forge to batter down The dungeon-door and win the Iron Crown With hate in my hand - and what would be the cost? Should ever I regain the land I lost?