Paul Deane
@rhunedhel.bsky.social
Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.
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Math Jones, "Tolkien Dreams", in the Summer 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained. alliteration.net/poetry/tolki... #tolkien #jrrtolkien #poem
Tolkien Dreams, an alliterative poem by Math Jones
Stories told, Tolkien dreams ...
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Dorothy Nielse, "Tolkien's Revelation", in the Summer 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained alliteration.net/poetry/tolki... #tolkien #jrrtolkien #alliterative #sonnet #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity
Tolkien's Revelation, an alliterative sonnet by Dorothy Nielsen
He saw the signs: the sneaking, growing greed, / a creeping shadow; saw the shocking birth / of men whose power-frenzy fuels a need / to dominate all denizens of earth ...
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Lisa Cooper, "Rain in the Wood", in the Summer 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained. alliteration.net/poetry/rain-... #alliterative #poetry #aliterativeverse #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets
Rain in the Wood
Gray-garbed sky gasps, glimmering; / with waxed moon a westerly wind / billows. Bucks leap as bullets / shot southward through strewn / branches ...
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My new poem in "Second Coming": "A Short Debate between Con-Man and Capitalist, with the poet as the con-man, and Google AI Search Overview as the Capitalist". secondcoming.substack.com/p/second-com... #poem #poetry #conman #capitalist #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity
Faramir appreciation time! Matthew Dickerson, "A Good King", in the Summer 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained alliteration.net/poetry/a-goo... #tolkien #jrrtolkien #fanfic #fanfiction #poem #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommnity #faramir
A Good King, a Tolkien fan poem by Matthew Dickerson
Stories often speak of stalwart heroes / men of the sword, merciless slayers, / fearless in battle, both fierce and bold ...
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Tolkien fan poetry by @dgplacenames.bsky.social. In Scots. In alliterative verse. alliteration.net/poetry/a-sel... #tolkien #jrrtolkien #fanfic #fanfiction #alliterative #Scots #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity
A Selcouth Tree, a Tolkien fan poem in modern Scots by Colin Mackenzie
Heich abune the unhamelt grun / 'mang the mony mithril brenches / leemin, gowden grew the flooers ...
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'Griffith has done a singular service to scholarship on The Battle of Maldon and on Old English verse more generally. This will no doubt be a standard edition for some time to come and is bound to stimulate much future work.' Read more about this book: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
The Battle of Maldon | Home
Mark Griffith is Fellow and Tutor in English Language and Literature, New College, Oxford. His previous publications include Judith (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies, 2001).
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University of Illinois Press@illinoispress.bsky.social · 2d agoDaniel Thomas reviews "The Battle of Maldon: A New Critical Edition" edited by Mark Griffith (@livunipress.bsky.social): "a singular service to scholarship." Check it out in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 125.2 @projectmuse.bsky.social. @ndiscenza1.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
It might be easy to think of a certain wannabe king in relation to this poem, with America rapidly becoming the ruins, but this poem is wise and tragic and we are living farce. Percy Bysshe Shelley, #botd in 1792. The poem was first published in 1818 in the London Examiner. #booksky #writers #poetry
Hwæt! A new edition of the Electronic Beowulf has been released by Kevin Kiernan (University of Kentucky). You can explore it here: ebeowulf.uky.edu Beowulf is one of our greatest literary treasures, and the unique manuscript is held at the British Library.
Electronic Beowulf 5th ed
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Who knows what tales the Witch-Kings supporters told, to justify their loyalty? Quincy Lehr, "From the Tale of the Sad King", in the Summer 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained alliteration.net/poetry/from-... #tolkien #jrrtolkien #middleearth #angmar #witch-king #fanfic #fanfiction #poem
From "The Tale of the Sad King"
The Sad King sailed from the sunset lands, / the Western winds whipping the masts / as the far shore fell into the foaming distance ...
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...But long winters, horrible highways, huge mosquitoes, and no mountains—these are not too high a price to pay for a place that’s got few rattlesnakes and is free of Orcs. Joseph Mathias, "Middling Earth", Forgotten Ground Regained, Summer 2026 alliteration.net/poetry/middling-earth/ #poetry
Middling Earth, a poem in alliterative verse by Joseph Matthias
West over the waters that whelmed the shores / of Atalante in ancient days, / where Valinor stood once in vast Aman, / now lies a newer, less noble land ...
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What do orcs dream of? Cliff Jones, "Marching Orders", in the Summer 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained alliteration.net/poetry/march... #tolkien #jrrtolkien #fanfic #fanfiction #poem #alliterative #poetry #alliterativeverse #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #orc #lotr #silmarillion
Marching Orders, a Tolkien fan poem by Cliff Jones Jr.
My captain says "March!" My company does. / Our maker commands that our minds be subdued. / But who is my maker? And how was I formed? ...
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A poem I recently revised ... alliteration.net/poetry/house... #alliterative #poem #poetry #alliterativeverse #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets
Housebreaker: A poem in alliterative verse by Paul Deane
I woke without light – / I sensed, not alone; / half-rose, reaching out, / pulse rushing ...
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Who knows what is hidden under the sea? (Especially in Tolkien's Middle Earth!) alliteration.net/poetry/the-a... #tolkien #jrrtolkien #fanfic #fanfiction #poem #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #doggerland #beleriand #silmarillion #archeology
The Archeology of Doggerland and Old Beleriand Alike, a Tolkien fan poem by Savannah Horrell
The dredgers drag along the floor, / siphon silt to spew upon the lee / to reinforce the eastern shore / from ice eroding far to the north ...
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Even wights have a backstory. Chris Bolland, "The Wight", in the Summer 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained. alliteration.net/poetry/the-w... #tolkien #jrrtolkien #fanfic #fanfiction #poem #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity
The Wight, a pome in alliterative verse by Chris Bolland
Hark! And hear of / He who journed far / Through winter pale and water cold. / A fiend who fought with /
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"The Song of Shadows" or: Avari elves encounter a proto-Ringwraith, in the Summer 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained alliteration.net/poetry/the-s... #tolkien #jrrtolkien #silmarillion #avari #elves #ringwrait #lotr #fanfic #fanfiction #poem #alliterative #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity
The Song of Shadows: An Alliterative Fanfic Epic Set in the East of Middle Earth
... Their bright brands glanced on a gleaming coronet / Which flashed in the flame like a subterranean star: / And its rose-red ruby like a captive king / Lay enfolded in flowers of molded mithril ...
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Nate Beeton, "Farewell to Bëor", a Tolkien fan poem in the Summer issue of Forgotten Ground Regained. alliteration.net/poetry/farew... #tolkien #jrrtolkien #fanfic #fanfiction #silmarillion #beor #alliterative #poem #alliteration #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommnity
Farewell to Bëor, a Tolkien fan poem by Nate Beeton
Among the banished Beor won fame; / oath he offered to Earwen's son, / loyalty unlooked-for ...
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Yesteday, July 28th was the birthday of Gerard Manley Hopkins. A poet par excellence. alliteration.net/poetry/pied-...
Pied Beauty -- An alliterating poem in sprung rhythm, by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Glory be to God for dappled things ... Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings ...
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"The Star Enlaced: Gilraen in Imladris" alliteration.net/poetry/the-s... A Tolkien fan poem in alliterative verse, by Nate Beeton, in the Summer 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained. #tolkien #jrrtolkien #fanfic #fanfiction #poem #alliterative #poetry #alliteration #poetrysky #poetrylovers
The Star Enlaced, a Tolkien fan poem by Nate Beeton
Of chants, somewhere, chimes far away, / the wind whispers to my waiting ears. / Silence soon swallows the soft-spoken words ...
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"Earendil the Seafarer" by Himring, in the Summer 2026 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained alliteration.net/poetry/earen... #tolkien #jrrtolkien #fanfic #fanfiction #poem #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #earendil #elwing #silmarillion
Ëarendil the Seafarer, a Tolkien fan poem by Himring
Flowers in fields fresh now with spring, / blossom on bough brighter in town, / now the cuckoo calls clear in the woods, / at last on land life quickens ...
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But Pat Masson's best poem is probably her long poem, "A Lay of Saint Boniface", which tells the tale of an audacious Christian missionary to the pagan Germans -- from the point of view of a willing sacrifice to the sacred oak he dared to cut down. alliteration.net/poetry/a-lay...
A Lay of St. Boniface: A Poem in Alliterative Verse by Patricia Masson
Now we stood stone-still, and in stark horror / gazed into that gap ‧ where our god had been steadfast / since middle-earth’s making,
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A small diversion, formally and topically, but I wrote some Yukari/Yuyuko Touhou fanfiction:
A Cherry Blossom Crown by Thaliarchus
High-effort low-wordcount fanfic.
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