Dreaming in the Misty Mountains
For the Shire: Coming Home Through Tolkien, Tarot and Jung12 Marras 2023

Dreaming in the Misty Mountains

Ten withered outstretched fingers
reaching into the darkness
palms searching for the pull of the Ring.
He waits in the dark
relentlessly holding on.
I lift my soft, sensitive, loving skin
to meet the ragged worn surface
of his hopeless hands.
At first he doesn’t notice the changing
force of palm to palm.
I wrap my fingers
around the gnarled mountains
of his knuckles. Cling to him
and the parts of me
that I have also cast adrift.

Meet us on the slopes of the Misty Mountains, get carried away in the slipstream and into the current of Dream.

We didn’t know where this episode would take us. But of course, we ended up in the liminal. The eagle flying between the solar light of consciousness and the first sliver of the young moon. The hairs on the back of necks rising in the space between the lifting fog and the starless sky. The hesitation between being repulsed and reaching out in awe.

We explore two dreams, one of Frodo’s and one of a listener’s.

We look for what is at threat of being lost. Where we can listen to inner guidance to point us to what we already know. How we can let our fingertips plunge ever deeper into the fertile soil of the Dreamworld.

You can listen to the Dream Nidra from Lothlorien here.

If you have a Dream you’d like to gift us… email fortheshire.pod@gmail.com or reach out on @fortheshire.pod on Instagram.


Co-hosted by Molly Davis and Libby Rose Waite.

Music by Steve Ernenwein, host and composter for The Dreams that Shape Us Podcast:

https://linktr.ee/dreamsthatshapeus

https://linktr.ee/aqthedreamwalker

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