Harnkegger Games – 2018 Bronze Medalist

The heroic story of one of the unsung heroes of Middle  Earth, who may well have saved us all with his courage during the War of the Ring…

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Hama Stood

In darkest days, The Rohirrim were mired

                With Grima, Isengard conspired

A glamour cast on Thengel-Son

                Had led the Mark to brink of ruin, before waxing doom of Orodruin

With Dotage, heavy on our sire

                Until Hama let Mithrandir’s staff, cleanse his lord with secret fire 

 

Still with noble Theodred lost

                Amid cruel Orthanc’s unleashed host

And the Westfold feeling Dunland’s wrath

From Edoras we fled in haste, to Helm’s Deep’s stony cold embrace

There to brace with beam and post

And hunker down to hide in crystal caves what mattered most

 

And as the rain drew dark that night

                While evil enveloped the vale with blight

And terror that the onslaught wrought

                Spread thru parapets and towers, bought with lives, the precious hours

Creeping dawn’s reluctant light

                Found the Hornburg’s battered gates besieged in desperate plight

 

It was in that darkest hour that Hama stood

                Amidst the crumbled blocks and splintered wood

Alone he faced the snarling hordes

                And guarded as the final ward, the only door ‘tween death… and his Lord

Hama stood where none other would

                And no Uruk could move him, though death was understood

 

At the last, impossibly he’d borne

                The vital moments stealing to the morn

A door warden he was

And still remained, with thoughts of Leofred and Eorl he’d been sustained

But E’en as he fell, he heard Helm Hammerhand’s horn

Rohan had survived, though ever forlorn

And forevermore with Simbelmyne his grave was adorned

 

Hama, son of Leoforth

Door-Ward of uncommon worth

Of whose courage, the minstrels sing

With blood slicked back pressed ‘gainst the door, he did retreat not

One…

Step…

More.

Rising from his lowly birth,

Sacrificed, he bore the price, for Mark and King

and Middle Earth

 

Braag Son of Balin,  8/15/18