Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Mainly Mania, 17



(obsession doggerel)

Web of Wonder: arachnomania

The spiders there in Middle-Earth
Suggest arachnomania,
Perhaps, was present at the birth
Of J. R. R. Tolkien—
Of fantasy, the reigning dean.

They were of such colossal size
(Remember Shelob? Oh, so huge!)
Well, she came from the mind and eyes
Of J. R. R. Tolkien—
Of fantasy, the reigning dean.

Miss Muffet—could that lass have been
An ancestor? Here’s what I mean:
Did she bequeath from way back then
That spider thing of old Tolkien?
(Of fantasy, the reigning dean.)

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