Talk:The Road Goes Ever On (song)

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[edit] Bilbo's Song?

I removed a sentence from the article saying that the walking song is sometimes referred to as "Bilbo's Song" - in fact, I think Bilbo's Song is the one seen here that starts "I sit beside the fire and think...". Maybe the term is also used for this song, but as I was not sure, I removed it from the article and left this note here. Carcharoth 20:05, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Or "Bilbo's Song" could be "Bilbo's Last Song", or it could just be an ambiguous term. If someone tries to revive that, let's ask for citations. - Lawrence King 02:10, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright violation

I believe it's copyright infringement to have the complete text of a poem on Wikipedia (or anywhere) without paying for it. Does anyone disagree? - Lawrence King 07:18, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

It is actually possible to quote an entire poem without infringing copyright. The copyright pertains to the whole book, and fairly large chunks of a book can be quoted as long as there is critical commentary. It could be argued that this is WP:OR (as Wikipedia is not the place to write original literary commentary), but I don't think this is copyright infringement. For other long quotes of poems, see Jabberwocky, though admittedly the copyright on that has expired. Carcharoth 21:52, 21 October 2006 (UTC)