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We Three Beings

Reposted (riposted?) and dated around the time of original publication to my social media stream from the before times. Dedicated to Adam Solove who said “Yes!”, “Oh, no!”, and “Please stop!” at all the right moments. For the record, I have dared Adam to tell the fates of the istari who went east and presumably communed with the dragon maiar who resisted Morgoth’s corruption.

We three beings of occident are
Vetran warriors ’gainst the fallen star
Stoked the ire
Of the eye of fire
Fighting for Telcontar

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Oh, istari azure, istari bright
And the istar of fauna’s might
Westward leading
Still proceeding
Guide us through IlĂșvatar’s night

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Five there were from Valinor
RĂłmestĂĄmo and Morinehtar
With Olorin
Aiwendil, all good friends
But for treasonous Cu’runír

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Saruman fell with Grima Wormtongue
Gandalf sailed to the isle of song
Still on Earth
For what it's worth
Radagast, Alatar, and Pa’llando

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We three beings of occident are
Guides from heaven teaching mortals afar
Mages of Zor’aster
Wizards none wiser
Not once kings but heralds of war

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Strange gifts gave ErĂș to beings mortal
Yea death, yet e’rlasting will
For ErĂș’s son
Three gifts were brung
In the light of EĂ€rendil

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Radagast went with the twelve tribes of men
Wandering conjurer through decades Roman
Sailed to Britain
A druid wiccan
Hid in the guise of wizard Merlin

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’Biding ’tween the Celts and the Church
There the brown wizard good folk did search
Found a thief
The poor’s relief
And lived for a time a friar as such

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’Neath the ice in halls of Morgoth
Melkor made the orcs of En’norath
Elves were tortured
Dragons nurtured
In the pits of the dark master’s wrath

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Then Aiwendil went with the will of the pope
To flush the tunnels of forgotten hope
Now in Angband
Elves with free hands
Live free of Utumno’s rope

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From the frozen boreal halls
A retired wizard visits Earth’s malls
Lord of children
Ever a deer friend
Now known as Santa Claus

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In the company of Saint Nick the red
Eight caribou he tied to a sled
Dasher Vixen
Donner Blitzen
And a reindeer named Rudolf led

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(Refrain once more to clear the room)