{"id":46165,"date":"2017-06-27T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/?p=46165"},"modified":"2017-06-21T19:32:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T23:32:17","slug":"poems-of-the-pine-the-black-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/2017\/06\/27\/poems-of-the-pine-the-black-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems of the Pine: The Black Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Pinesong-on-Stage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Pinesong-on-Stage-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-45722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Pinesong-on-Stage-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Pinesong-on-Stage-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Pinesong-on-Stage-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Pinesong-on-Stage.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What will we find at the Black Gate?<\/p>\n<h5>Book 8 &#8211; The Black Gate<\/h5>\n<blockquote><p>\nAt the edge of the Waste<br \/>\nOur wandering mind<br \/>\nDrifted to Frodo<br \/>\nAnd the fateful ring.<br \/>\nOur march was small<br \/>\nNext to Mordor\u2019s horde<br \/>\nBut perhaps the hobbits<br \/>\nWould be helped by our show.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nWe marched to the gate<br \/>\nAnd gathered our strength<br \/>\nThen demanded that Sauron<br \/>\nSurrender at once.<br \/>\nIn response, the Mouth<br \/>\nOf Mordor revealed<br \/>\nTokens of our friends<br \/>\nFrodo and Sam.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nHaving seen the signs<br \/>\nThat Sam and Frodo<br \/>\nWere taken and lost<br \/>\nIn the land of our foe.<br \/>\nWe chose to fight<br \/>\nAs the fell gate loosed<br \/>\nA host of orcs<br \/>\nWith hateful bent.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nWe defended the hills<br \/>\nAs our foes advanced<br \/>\nTo crush the cause of the west.<br \/>\nNo aid will come<br \/>\nTo rekindle our hope.<br \/>\nUnless our friends could fly.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re in a spot of trouble now.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pineleaf Needles<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What will we find at the Black Gate? Book 8 &#8211; The Black Gate At the edge of the Waste Our wandering mind Drifted to Frodo And the fateful ring. Our march was small Next to Mordor\u2019s horde But perhaps the hobbits Would be helped by our show. &nbsp; We marched to the gate And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":45722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,850,12],"tags":[168,686,720,336],"class_list":["post-46165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lore","category-lotro-poems","category-poems","tag-epic-story","tag-general","tag-poems","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Pinesong-on-Stage.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46166,"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46165\/revisions\/46166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}