Warriors Beyond Imagination

World where magic swells
fantasy claims the air,
enchanted beings dwell with humans,
mortals struggling along side elves and hobbits
facing titan dark forces
battling across a terrain
where death and ice are dual enemies of their cause,
but lurking in the shadows
are the potent forces of darkness.

Moments tug at ever heart
strange alliances forged
weak and strong bonding together being single of purpose,
to end the reign of evil's night.

Tolkien's pen sculpting his epic
from the faces of World War 2 haunting his mind,
how often he summoned the images
of that sprawling Axis wickedness
spreading across Europe's landscape
in order to give metaphor in dramatic essence
unto his stunning creation.

Adding to his tale of good verses evil
the brilliance of his linguistic skills
shaping a whole culture and other language
giving his characters such deep and personality.

In the end, heroes of righteous prevail,
love is claimed as its own reward,
embraced in the sunset of one black alliances plots,
feeling the residue of the victors' sense of survival.

Faith in overcoming the impossible
told a thread to weave over the mind,
spirit of defiance reaffirmed
as we take the hand of a hobbit or other being
seeing some of our selves in their lives,
celebrating the subtle reality
that you don't have to be perfect or courageous
to stand against what threatens in life.