within you without you

why bar the doors of Meduseld at all
what perils do you fear that there reside
the beerhall's not protected by its wall
if bolt and bar are accessed from outside
a grand design before the age of flue
where heroes join to brag and drink and sup
embellishing their feats of derring-do
did Brego mean to keep the drunks pent up?
some drunks are prone to wrath, and some to mirth
and architects ignore this to their cost
what Tolkien's words evoke of MiddleEarth
must conjure a whole mind-set that's been lost
great books provoke us all to seek and find
erecting structures wholly in your mind