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Volume:
The Lays of Beleriand
Pages: 16–20
Paragraph count:
201
Token count:
1,459
Citation Index
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p16
⸤¶and no traveller …
⸤¶For those days …
⸤¶and the power …
⸤¶of the grim …
⸤¶till the lands …
⸤¶and they fell …
⸤¶who bent not …
⸤¶of dark Dorlómin …
⸤¶that Hithlum unhappy …
⸤¶There Morgoth shut …
⸤¶fenced them from …
⸤¶Even Beleg fared …
⸤¶as once was …
⸤¶with the armies …
⸤¶while murder walked …
⸤¶only mighty magic …
⸤¶yet held their …
⸤¶To assuage his …
⸤¶and hate of …
⸤¶then Húrin’s son …
⸤¶and weapons weighty …
⸤¶and went to …
⸤¶and far in …
⸤¶into black battle …
⸤¶Ere manhood’s measure …
⸤¶the Orcs of …
⸤¶that roamed and …
⸤¶There hard his …
⸤¶the wounds of …
⸤¶and his prowess …
⸤¶and beyond his …
⸤¶for by him …
⸤¶from Thingol’s folk, …
⸤¶Thû who was …
⸤¶neath Morgoth Bauglir; …
⸤¶‘Go ravage the …
⸤¶and mar the …
⸤¶Only one was …
⸤¶higher in honour …
⸤¶than Túrin son …
⸤¶even the huntsman …
p17
⸤¶the son of …
⸤¶(to bend whose …
⸤¶had none the …
⸤¶of the wood’s …
⸤¶He was leader …
⸤¶the scouts that …
⸤¶afar o’er the …
⸤¶and tales and …
⸤¶of camps and …
⸤¶all the movements …
⸤¶Thus Túrin, who …
⸤¶who was fain …
⸤¶and the banded …
⸤¶were snared seldom …
⸤¶Then the fame …
⸤¶were carried to …
⸤¶and tales of …
⸤¶and how Beleg …
⸤¶to the black-haired …
⸤¶Then the king …
⸤¶ever and anon …
⸤¶to rest them …
⸤¶the secret songs …
⸤¶On a time …
⸤¶there was laughter …
⸤¶of a countless …
⸤¶amid the wine …
⸤¶in their golden …
⸤¶there burdened the …
⸤¶set high in …
⸤¶There mirth fell …
⸤¶did sing to …
⸤¶neath Tain-Gwethil, towering …
⸤¶where the great …
⸤¶from the guarded …
⸤¶Then one sang …
⸤¶and the curse …
⸤¶all silent sat …
⸤¶and waited the …
⸤¶the Man among …
⸤¶Unheeding he heard …
p18
⸤¶or lay or …
⸤¶to a deep …
⸤¶and strained for …
⸤¶for voices that …
⸤¶He was lithe …
⸤¶and woodland weeds …
⸤¶and grey and …
⸤¶or golden trinket …
⸤¶An Elf there …
⸤¶that was lost …
⸤¶from the quiet …
⸤¶were made in …
⸤¶ere light was …
⸤¶but blood of …
⸤¶He was close …
⸤¶a hardy hunter …
⸤¶but loose his …
⸤¶and his pride …
⸤¶He was fain …
⸤¶and of gems …
⸤¶as found favour …
⸤¶Now costly clad …
⸤¶he sat on …
⸤¶near the king …
⸤¶When those twain …
⸤¶lightly with laughter, …
⸤¶his haggard raiment …
⸤¶but Túrin untroubled …
⸤¶nor wasted words …
⸤¶But this day …
⸤¶than of wont, …
⸤¶for of twelve …
⸤¶since on Morwin …
⸤¶he looked the …
⸤¶of the forest …
⸤¶and he answered …
⸤¶Then the fool’s …
⸤¶to a keener …
⸤¶at the clothes …
⸤¶of Túrin newcome …
⸤¶He drew forth …
p19
⸤¶a comb of …
⸤¶and tendered it …
⸤¶nor deigned to …
⸤¶who too deep …
⸤¶‘Nay, an thou …
⸤¶nor its use,’ …
⸤¶thy mother’s ministry, …
⸤¶that she teach …
⸤¶if the women …
⸤¶uncouth and unkempt …
⸤¶Then a fierce …
⸤¶was born of …
⸤¶his white wrath …
⸤¶for the women …
⸤¶and a heavy …
⸤¶with gold adorned …
⸤¶of his might …
⸤¶he seized and, …
⸤¶in the face …
⸤¶‘fill thy mouth …
⸤¶thus witless prate …
⸤¶but his face …
⸤¶and heavy his …
⸤¶of the floor …
⸤¶of the o’erturned …
⸤¶as clutching he …
⸤¶in death silent. …
⸤¶at bench and …
⸤¶they rose around …
⸤¶he gazed aghast …
⸤¶on his wine-stained …
⸤¶half-comprehending. On his …
⸤¶into the night …
⸤¶but some their …
⸤¶– they were …
⸤¶they dared not …
⸤¶stonefacéd stared on …
⸤¶and no sign …
⸤¶his hands laved …
⸤¶that strikes ’fore …
⸤¶‘Who has cast,’ …
p20
⸤¶for all I …
⸤¶in bitter banishment …
⸤¶of my fosterfather …
⸤¶nor look on …
⸤¶yea, his heart …
⸤¶but that road …
⸤¶of the Elves …
⸤¶should speed the …
⸤¶o’er the hills …
⸤¶lest a doom …
⸤¶be meted his …
⸤¶In the furthest …
⸤¶in the darkest …
⸤¶in haste he …
⸤¶and they found …
⸤¶the thanes of …
⸤¶sought him sorrowing, …
⸤¶with no purpose …
⸤¶of Thingol throned …
⸤¶He in council …
⸤¶to forget their …
⸤¶in that wilful …
⸤¶of Orgof the …
⸤¶that his soul …
⸤¶to the deep …
⸤¶there a thousand …
⸤¶in the gloom …
⸤¶ere he fare …
⸤¶Yet of his …
⸤¶and gifts ungrudging …
⸤¶to the sons …
⸤¶well deemed the …
⸤¶Túrin knew not, …
⸤¶the hands of …
⸤¶wandering the woodland …
⸤¶for his fate …
⸤¶should harbour longer …