A very lovely collection of poems compiled by J. R. R. Tolkien in memory of his closest friend Geoffrey Bache Smith. Both and onions and garlicbelong to the alliums family, and they all have a long growing season. If you don’t plant in the fall, you would have to wait until the winter to be able to eat if you tried to wait until the spring to plant them.

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If you love J. R. R. Tolkien's poems and works, go ahead, grab this book and read it! You will realize that Tolkien's works contain some Smith ideas or feelings that are represented in the poems of this book, this might be because the author of those poems, G. B. Smith was one of the first Tolkienites. Spring gardening may seem like a lot of work with sowing seeds, cleaning debris, and sheltering the plants that need it, but if you plan ahead and have proper supplies, you can enjoy each part of the process. If you’re searching for an ideal overwinter allium, consider growing Egyptian onion that produces clusters of baby onions that take roots.If you continue to plant cabbage in the same area, you increase the risk of diseases passing from one year’s crop to the next. Try Winter Gardening Varieties such as ‘Autumn King’ or ‘Sytan’ can be sown in late summer for harvesting in spring. Perpetual Spinach (Leaf Beet) Inspired by the new Tolkien movie, I decided to read this collection of poems that Tolkien's best friend, Geoffrey Bache Smith, wrote and which Tolkien put together for him posthumously. While I was not smitten with every poem I did find a few that held great weight and power. Such as "Dark is the World our Fathers Left Us," in which the lines,

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The way the poems appear in the book is very interesting, as it seems as if they were following a narration, not a story, but as if the reader was walking through the path of life: the imagination (creation), growing up (represented in nature theme poems), and death (in those that were about war).

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The book begins with some beautifully styled Arthurian legend, lovely, lovely words and thoughts such as these: I must say, as rather a large quantity of you must have, I have been drawn to his poems after seeing the film, Tolkien. My heart ached after seeing this film, I had merely a vague thought that there was some kind of unrequited love from Geoffrey to Tolkien, I thought to myself that maybe I was mistaken, but after reading some other comments I can see it clearly, I wasn't, and after reading some of his poems, it has come to my mind, how can such pure love be created? in my life, god punishes me if I may lie, but I have never experience that kind of altruism, his love was purely light, it was gentle to the touch, and every word he wrote..., it diminished me to ashes, I can always be mistaken, but curse my tongue if I am now, for I say, when I read the poems that were especially focused on their friendship, I couldn't fell other sensation but the purest embodiment of what is truly to love someone, fiercely, without a doubt. This was a really lovely and easy read, holding my attention even though I’m not usually one for poetry books. There were a handful of poems here that really resonated with me, particularly those written by a Smith during his time at war, shortly before his death. One poem, in particular, that I found myself highlighting and rereading over and over, was titled Memories and goes like this: Like all os uf here, I think, I knew about Geoffrey Bache Smith because of his connection with J.R.R. Tolkien and the letter he wrote to him saying "may you say things that I have tried to say long after I am not there to say them" (seriously, that letter brought down to tears the first time I read it, it's like he was already seeing the future).