Tolkien reads - The adventures of Tom Bombadil
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ค. 2017
- J.R.R. Tolkien Poems and song of Middle Earth
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Poems and songs of Middle Earth:
• J.R.R. Tolkien Poems a...
The Hobbit and the fellowship of the ring:
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The Two Towers and The Return of the King:
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Wonderful! I’m so glad to have found this on a golden spring day. Thank you!
Our crazy friend Tom Bombadil.
Good one
Thanks
♥️
Is it true that this poem was first published in a magazine in 1934?
Yes. I mean I wasn't alive for it. But it stated as much in the copy of the compilation book I had
Is this actually a recoding of Tolkien reading?!
Yes
It sure is and it's amazing. Hearing him speak elvish is also a treasure.
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He who has in himself abundantly the attributes (of the Tao) is like an infant. Poisonous insects will not sting him; fierce beasts
will not seize him; birds of prey will not strike him.
(The infant's) bones are weak and its sinews soft, but yet its grasp is firm. It knows not yet the union of male and female, and yet
its virile member may be excited;--showing the perfection of its physical essence. All day long it will cry without its throat
becoming hoarse;--showing the harmony (in its constitution).
To him by whom this harmony is known,
(The secret of) the unchanging (Tao) is shown,
And in the knowledge wisdom finds its throne.
All life-increasing arts to evil turn;
Where the mind makes the vital breath to burn,
(False) is the strength, (and o'er it we should mourn.)
When things have become strong, they (then) become old, which may be said to be contrary to the Tao. Whatever is contrary to the Tao
soon ends.
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Who thinks his great achievements poor
Shall find his vigour long endure.
Of greatest fulness, deemed a void,
Exhaustion ne'er shall stem the tide.
Do thou what's straight still crooked deem;
Thy greatest art still stupid seem,
And eloquence a stammering scream.
Constant action overcomes cold; being still overcomes heat. Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.
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Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly carry it into practice. Scholars of the middle class, when
they have heard about it, seem now to keep it and now to lose it. Scholars of the lowest class, when they have heard about it, laugh
greatly at it. If it were not (thus) laughed at, it would not be fit to be the Tao.
Therefore the sentence-makers have thus expressed themselves:--
'The Tao, when brightest seen, seems light to lack;
Who progress in it makes, seems drawing back;
Its even way is like a rugged track.
Its highest virtue from the vale doth rise;
Its greatest beauty seems to offend the eyes;
And he has most whose lot the least supplies.
Its firmest virtue seems but poor and low;
Its solid truth seems change to undergo;
Its largest square doth yet no corner show
A vessel great, it is the slowest made;
Loud is its sound, but never word it said;
A semblance great, the shadow of a shade.'
The Tao is hidden, and has no name; but it is the Tao which is skilful at imparting (to all things what they need) and making them
complete.
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When one is about to take an inspiration, he is sure to make a (previous) expiration; when he is going to weaken another, he will
first strengthen him; when he is going to overthrow another, he will first have raised him up; when he is going to despoil another, he will
first have made gifts to him:--this is called 'Hiding the light (of his procedure).'
The soft overcomes the hard; and the weak the strong.
Fishes should not be taken from the deep; instruments for the profit of a state should not be shown to the people.
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He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm; he who stretches his legs does not walk (easily). (So), he who displays himself does
not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged; he who is self-
conceited has no superiority allowed to him. Such conditions, viewed from the standpoint of the Tao, are like remnants of food, or a tumour
on the body, which all dislike. Hence those who pursue (the course) of the Tao do not adopt and allow them.
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Not to value and employ men of superior ability is the way to keep the people from rivalry among themselves; not to prize articles
which are difficult to procure is the way to keep them from becoming thieves; not to show them what is likely to excite their desires is
the way to keep their minds from disorder.
Therefore the sage, in the exercise of his government, empties their minds, fills their bellies, weakens their wills, and strengthens
their bones.
He constantly (tries to) keep them without knowledge and without desire, and where there are those who have knowledge, to keep them
from presuming to act (on it). When there is this abstinence from action, good order is universal.