Silmarillion: Poetry: Gross Reflections

Title: Gross Reflections
Fandom: Silmarillion, LotR
Challenge: Bury
Other prompt: 144 or "gross"; Bilbo's verse forms
Rating: G
Length: 144
Content notes: Catastrophic loss, grief
Author notes: Thanks go to Himring, Morgynleri & Runa for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Summary: 144 words on the Fifth Battle, patterned after Bilbo's 'I sit beside the fire and think'
( Gross Reflections )