Betza's funny notation ones. The notation is based on dividing moves that can be made on a board of squares into groups of symmetry-equivalent moves, the moves within a group differing only in the direction in which the step is taken. Each such group (referred to as "atom") is indicated by a capital, such as N for the 8 moves of the knight. The letter that represents the atom is usually the first letter of the simplest piece from current or historic chess variants that has this move, such as A and F for the alfil and ferz of shatranj (ancient Arabic/Persian chess).
All that is gold does not glitter realize that Strider (Aragorn) is the subject of the verse. The verse is repeated by Bilbo at the Council of Elrond. He whispers to Frodo that he wrote it many years before, when Aragorn first revealed who he was. In Peter Jackson's adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings" for film, the poem appears in "", when Arwen recites the last four lines of the poem as her father Elrond prepares to reforge the shards of Narsil for Aragorn. In the 1981 BBC radio dramatisation, the entire poem is heard in its original context, the letter left at Bree by