Dictated

[treeshepherd]

[Let it never be said that Treebeard was hasty.  Two weeks after his arrival in the woods near the castle, and he had finally started to consider some of the oddities of the situation.  Today the residents of the castle will be greeted with a rumbling voice musing to himself very, very slowly.]

Very odd.  Most odd.  So many peoples here who do not belong to the old lists.  Many, many long years there has been no need to change them.  Must more lines be added?  

[He trails off, mumbling to himself, and finally begins humming an old chant.]

 Learn now the lore of Living Creatures!
First name the five, the free peoples:
Eldest of all, the elf-children;
Dwarf the delver, dark are his houses;
Ent the earthborn, old as mountains;
Man the mortal, master of horses:
and hungry as hunters, the hobbit children,
the laughing folk, the little people. 

No it does not fit.  So many do not fit in there anywhere.

Comments

[lifeandpride]

That was quite lovely.

As for the state of things here, perhaps one can simply think - a friend is a friend no matter what they are.

[treeshepherd]

It is one of the teaching songs I learned when I was young. But that was a very, very long time ago.

That's all very well to say, but it is still very odd indeed to meet so many peoples who were left out of the old lists.

[lifeandpride]

Lots of things here are odd to many, so you are not alone.

[treeshepherd]

No, I am not at that.