Forged in the Fires of Mordor

Forged in the fires of Mordor
O' ring of power,
You crux of the Great War;---
The meaning of World War I
Is found in your coercion.

Kings seeking to be Power,
To bring forth the blackened age
Of industry's might,
To burn what's green
And make what's violet
The color of ash.

The Sauron was crushed
By the Somme, and other such evil.
The Orcs were the raping Huns,
As war marched from the green
And battlefields turned blackened under war.
Yes, the meaning of World War I
Was Green in conflict with Black;---
The Green grasses, and the auburn rivers
Turned into ashen mud and oleaginous ducts.

It's the meaning I have never seen
Who a man like Tolkien
Suffering under the same sicknesses as me
Needed a meaning to the war he witnessed.
A war no man understands,
Nor rhyme or reason.
All he could see,---
The war was Green against Black;---
Nature against Industry
Sauron against the little Shirefolk of Hobbits
The Germans against peace loving Englishmen
Who did not wish to fight in a war.
Men who did not want adventure,
But adventure was forced upon them.

That is why The Lord of the Rings
Are the novels containing the meaning of World War I.