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Re: The chain that snaps

From David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com>
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.religion.tolkienology, alt.fan.tolkien, alt.fantasy, alt.religion.druid
Subject Re: The chain that snaps
Date 2026-02-01 18:51 -0330
Organization Eternal September
Message-ID <0001HW.2F30096B02985B4630B5D238F@news.eternal-september.org> (permalink)
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On Feb 1, 2026, David Dalton wrote
(in article<0001HW.2F3007CE0297FA6330B5D238F@news.eternal-september.org>):

> From The Silmarillion by Tolkien:
>
> He chanted a song of wizardry,
> Of piercing, opening, of treachery,
> Revealing, uncovering, betraying.
> Then suddenly Felagund there swaying
> Sang in answer a song of staying,
> Resisting, battling against power,
> Of secrets kept, strength like a tower,
> And trust unbroken, freedom, escape;
> Of changing and of shifting shape,
> Of snares eluded, broken traps,
> The prison opening, the chain that snaps.
>
> I crossed off everything that followed.
>
> I hope to break the chain of abuse through my latest Imbolc
> full moon global new age onset mystic activation sequence;
> for more detail see my web page, with recent updates on
> alt.religion.druid .

For more detail on my Luthien Seagull experience, from
which the above verse comes, see
https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/luthien.html .

Bradán Faoileáin

-- 
https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
“And now the angry morning; Gives the early signs of warning; You must
face alone the plans you make; Decisions they will try to break” (S.McL.)

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