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Poppy’s song, “This Wandering Day,”

Sung by Megan Richards, written by Bear McCreary

The sun is fast falling beneath trees of stone,

The light in the tower no longer my home,

Past eyes of pale fire, black sand for my bed,

I trade all I’ve known for the unknown ahead.

Call to me, call to me, lands far away,

For I must now wander this wandering day.

Away I must wander this wandering day.

Of drink I have little and food I have less,

My strength tells me no but the path demands yes,

My legs are so short and the way is so long,

I’ve no rest nor comfort, no comfort but song.

Sing to me, sing to me, lands far away,

Oh, rise up and guide me this wandering day.

Please promise to find me this wandering day.

At last comes their answer through cold and through frost,

That not all who wonder or wander are lost,

No matter the sorrow, no matter the cost,

That not all that wonder or wander are lost.

A key line in the song takes inspiration from one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most memorable lines from LotR The Fellowship of the Ring: “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.” This is from a poem included on a not left for Frodo by Gandalf confirming the identity of Strider and later repeated at the Council of Elrond.

Tolkien was fond of song-literature, having grown reading “the classics” such as the Homeric poems, the Norse sagas, and Middle English poetry. The songs, poems, and rhymes all ground the reader with the deep sense of history and culture of the different races of Middle-earth heightening the allusion to older stories and long forgotten legends.

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