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''' | '''Princess Mee''' is a nonsense [[Hobbit]] poem that was among those written in the margins of the [[Red Book]].<ref>{{AB|Preface}}</ref> | ||
== | ==Poem== | ||
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==History== | ==History== | ||
The poem derives from ''[[The Princess Ní]]'', a poem Tolkien wrote in his youth, and one of those he refurbished and revised while preparing ''[[The Adventures of Tom Bombadil]]''.<ref>{{AB|Comm}}</ref> | The poem derives from ''[[The Princess Ní]]'', a poem Tolkien wrote in his youth, and one of those he refurbished and revised while preparing ''[[The Adventures of Tom Bombadil]]''.<ref>{{AB|Comm}}</ref> | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
* [[Index:Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien|Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien]] | * [[Index:Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien|Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien]] | ||
{{references}} | {{references}} | ||
[[Category:Poems in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil]] | [[Category:Poems in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil]] | ||
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[[fi:Prinsessa Mie (runo)]] | [[fi:Prinsessa Mie (runo)]] |
Latest revision as of 15:05, 28 July 2022
Princess Mee is a nonsense Hobbit poem that was among those written in the margins of the Red Book.[1]
Poem[edit | edit source]
Little Princess Mee
Lovely was she
As in elven-song is told:
She had pearls in hair
All threaded fair;
Of gossamer shot with gold
Was her kerchief made,
And a silver braid
Of stars above her throat.
Of moth-web light
All moonlit-white
She wore a woven coat,
And round her kirtle
Was bound a girdle
Sewn with diamond dew.
She walked by day
Under mantle grey
And hood of clouded blue;
But she went by night
All glittering bright
Under the starlit sky,
And her slippers frail
Of fishes' mail
Flashed as she went by
To her dancing-pool,
And on mirror cool
Of windless water played.
As a mist of light
In whirling flight
A glint like glass she made
Wherever her feet
Of silver fleet
Flicked the dancing-floor.
She looked on high
To the roofless sky
And she looked to the shadowy shore;
Then round she went,
And her eyes she bent
And saw beneath her go
A Princess Shee
As fair as Mee:
They were dancing toe to toe!
Shee was as light
As Mee, and as bright;
But Shee was, strange to tell,
Hanging down
With starry crown
Into a bottomless well!
Her gleaming eyes
In great surprise
Looked upon to the eyes of Mee:
A marvellous thing,
Head-down to swing
Above a starry sea!
Only their feet
Could ever meet;
For where the ways might lie
To find a land
Where they do not stand
But hang down in the sky
No one could tell
Nor learn in spell
In all the elven-lore.
So still on her own
An elf alone
Dancing as before
With pearls in hair
And kirtle fair
And slippers frail
Of fishes' mail went Mee:
Of fishes' mail
And slippers frail
And kirtle fair
With pearls in hair went Shee![2]
History[edit | edit source]
The poem derives from The Princess Ní, a poem Tolkien wrote in his youth, and one of those he refurbished and revised while preparing The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.[3]
See also[edit | edit source]
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, "Preface"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, "Little Princess Mee"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond (eds), The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, "Commentary"