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The Lays of Beleriand
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p29
II …
BELEG …
⸤¶Long time alone …
⸤¶a hunter of …
⸤¶or Orcs, or …
p30
⸤¶there one by …
⸤¶around him rallied; …
⸤¶they were feared …
⸤¶For hot with …
⸤¶nor a friend …
⸤¶as he wandering …
⸤¶There Beleg the …
⸤¶they found and …
⸤¶and o’erborne by …
⸤¶till their captain …
⸤¶Afar from that …
⸤¶had taken Túrin …
⸤¶as they hastened …
⸤¶with the loot …
⸤¶Then soon was …
⸤¶they had tied …
⸤¶stared astonied on …
⸤¶of Beleg the …
⸤¶of whom he …
⸤¶and of bended …
⸤¶and the wild …
⸤¶when they blent …
⸤¶Then Túrin’s heart …
⸤¶and he bade …
⸤¶‘Now fare thou …
⸤¶if thy heart …
⸤¶never tell thou …
⸤¶an outlaw unloved …
⸤¶whom Thingol’s thanes …
⸤¶Betray not my …
⸤¶Then Beleg of …
⸤¶he had not …
⸤¶there kissed him …
⸤¶‘Lo! nought know …
⸤¶but outlawed or …
⸤¶the brother of …
⸤¶Yet little me …
⸤¶the life should …
⸤¶Are the grim …
⸤¶or the foes …
⸤¶that warlike Men …
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⸤¶Shall the foes …
⸤¶Betrayest thou thy …
⸤¶‘Nor of arméd …
⸤¶nor of any …
⸤¶O Beleg the …
⸤¶I count as …
⸤¶and friendless fate …
⸤¶‘Let the bow …
⸤¶and swearing death …
⸤¶let us suage …
⸤¶Our valour is …
⸤¶that once we …
⸤¶Thus hope in …
⸤¶awoke at those …
⸤¶of that band …
⸤¶Blodrin Bor’s son, …
⸤¶alone lusted, and …
⸤¶whom he robbed …
⸤¶were it Elf …
⸤¶the thoughts of …
⸤¶where the fires …
⸤¶of pine were …
⸤¶where glad men …
⸤¶as dusk fell …
⸤¶Then a song …
⸤¶and the trees …
⸤¶was raised of …
⸤¶of the need …
⸤¶of the fight …
⸤¶oath unbreakable. Then …
⸤¶‘That our vaunt …
⸤¶even such as …
⸤¶an oath let …
⸤¶as Tain-Gwethil’s towering …
⸤¶Their blades were …
⸤¶in the flame …
⸤¶As with one …
⸤¶and the oath …
⸤¶abide for ever, …
⸤¶and friendship in …
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⸤¶Thus war was …
⸤¶for the foes …
⸤¶and the fear …
⸤¶when the horn …
⸤¶that shook the …
⸤¶Blades were naked …
⸤¶and shafts from …
⸤¶and the sons …
⸤¶even in Angband …
⸤¶Then the word …
⸤¶that Túrin Thalion …
⸤¶and Thingol heard …
⸤¶to lead the …
⸤¶but his fate …
⸤¶Little gold they …
⸤¶but weary watches …
⸤¶nor on robber-raids …
⸤¶who fended from …
⸤¶But Blodrin Bor’s …
⸤¶for the loud …
⸤¶and meats unmeasured, …
⸤¶refilled and filled, …
⸤¶that went as …
⸤¶Now tales have …
⸤¶he was dragged …
⸤¶and in Nogrod …
⸤¶spite blood and …
⸤¶His heart hated …
⸤¶and the bowman …
⸤¶he fled their …
⸤¶to the merciless …
⸤¶cruel-curvéd blades to …
⸤¶than whose greed …
⸤¶save in hungry …
⸤¶He betrayed his …
⸤¶and the forest …
⸤¶he opened to …
⸤¶There they fought …
⸤¶by treachery trapped …
⸤¶when their fires …
⸤¶some wakened never, …
⸤¶nor cries nor …
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⸤¶swept as they …
⸤¶But Túrin they …
⸤¶at the Huntsman’s …
⸤¶as a bear …
⸤¶unheeding his hurts; …
⸤¶yet living they …
⸤¶with hairy hands …
⸤¶Then Beleg was …
⸤¶as sorely wounded …
⸤¶and all was …
⸤¶The dawn over …
⸤¶saw Blodrin Bor’s …
⸤¶with throat thirléd …
⸤¶whose shaven shaft, …
⸤¶and feather-wingéd, was …
⸤¶He bargained the …
⸤¶thus his meed …
⸤¶by an orc-arrow …
⸤¶From the magic …
⸤¶they haled unhappy …
⸤¶lest he flee …
⸤¶and the leagues …
⸤¶over hill and …
⸤¶where the peaks …
⸤¶looming up lofty …
⸤¶and veiled in …
⸤¶where Eiglir Engrin, …
⸤¶o’er the hopeless …
⸤¶wrought at the …
⸤¶of Thangorodrim’s thunderous …
⸤¶Thither led they …
⸤¶but Beleg yet …
⸤¶aswoon, till the …
⸤¶and the eye …
⸤¶Then he woke …
⸤¶and to Túrin …
⸤¶that o’erborne in …
⸤¶Then he crawled …
⸤¶weary, wounded, too …
⸤¶So Thingol’s thanes …
⸤¶in the forest …
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⸤¶that he should …
⸤¶Thus they bore …
⸤¶his tidings to …
⸤¶of Thingol the …
⸤¶to be healéd …
⸤¶of Melian Mablui, …
⸤¶Ere a week …
⸤¶but his heart’s …
⸤¶nor soothed nor …
⸤¶he fared to …
⸤¶in his hopeless …
⸤¶he followed the …
⸤¶the dread daring, …
⸤¶that held the …
⸤¶and Doriath’s doughtiest …
⸤¶Unmatched among Men, …
⸤¶Elves, or hunters …
⸤¶or beasts of …
⸤¶was his craft …
⸤¶an unseen slot …
⸤¶foot-prints could find …
⸤¶that lightly on …
⸤¶long waned, and …
⸤¶The grim Glamhoth’s …
⸤¶go cunning-footed, but …
⸤¶to tread their …
⸤¶and the light …
⸤¶Never-dawning night was …
⸤¶in the black …
⸤¶oppressed by pungent …
⸤¶and drowsed with …
⸤¶he strayed steerless. …
⸤¶and the moon …
⸤¶in the gathering …
⸤¶(whose deep eyes …
⸤¶bewildered wandered, who …
⸤¶to grope in …
⸤¶of girth unguessed …
⸤¶the topless trunks …
⸤¶That fathomless fold …
⸤¶is Taur-na-Fuin, the …
⸤¶of Deadly Nightshade, …
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⸤¶Abandoned, beaten, there …
⸤¶to the wind …
⸤¶in bending boughs; …
⸤¶up high over …
⸤¶of the pluméd …
⸤¶in black foreboding. …
⸤¶in wit wildered, …
⸤¶he saw on …
⸤¶shine a-shimmering in …
⸤¶like a glow-worm’s …
⸤¶He marvelled what …
⸤¶for he knew …
⸤¶in the deep …
⸤¶Unmatched their magic …
⸤¶who jewels and …
⸤¶aforetime fashioned, when …
⸤¶now swinking slaves …
⸤¶in Angband’s smithies, …
⸤¶to wander away, …
⸤¶But little lanterns …
⸤¶and silver cold …
⸤¶they strangely fashioned, …
⸤¶burnt unblinking there …
⸤¶unquenched for ever. …
⸤¶was the jewel-makers’ …
⸤¶Not Morgoth’s might, …
⸤¶them vowed, availed …
⸤¶yet lights and …
⸤¶many and magical, …
⸤¶No dark could …
⸤¶whose lode they …
⸤¶in groundless grot, …
⸤¶’Twas a Gnome …
⸤¶of a pine-tree …
⸤¶he crept closer. …
⸤¶was loosed from …
⸤¶by his side …
⸤¶his fear-worn face …
⸤¶Lest in webs …
⸤¶spun round by …
⸤¶he lie forlorn …
⸤¶the Hunter hailed …
p36
⸤¶to the drowsy …
⸤¶fear ever-following came …
⸤¶as the lancing …
⸤¶full deeming that …
⸤¶Flinding go-Fuilin fleeing …
⸤¶from the mines …
⸤¶the ancient tongue …
⸤¶and Beleg the …
⸤¶and learnt his …
⸤¶how thrust to …
⸤¶from the kindred …
⸤¶of the Gnomes …
⸤¶long years he …
⸤¶of the baleful …
⸤¶A tale he …
⸤¶o’er flaming fell …
⸤¶o’er the parchéd …
⸤¶till his heart …
⸤¶‘Then Taur-na-Fuin entangled …
⸤¶in its mazes …
⸤¶that I wandered …
⸤¶and beating the …
⸤¶in idle anger …
⸤¶They were camped …
⸤¶by mercy I …
⸤¶is beaten broad …
⸤¶by wizardry warded …
⸤¶but dread they …
⸤¶and in haste …
⸤¶Now cruel cries …
⸤¶awoke in the …
⸤¶from horny bows …
⸤¶and following feet, …
⸤¶were padding and …
⸤¶and hairy hands …
⸤¶in the glooms …
⸤¶till they cowering …
⸤¶beaten and bleeding, …
⸤¶they laughing led …
⸤¶with their spears …
⸤¶and countless captives …
⸤¶and Elfin maids …
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⸤¶But one they …
⸤¶was stern-visaged, strong, …
⸤¶as are Hithlum’s …
⸤¶Full length he …
⸤¶in baleful bonds, …
⸤¶his mouth no …
⸤¶but defied his …
⸤¶Then he called, …
⸤¶that hails his …
⸤¶on the name …
⸤¶but men unmindful …
⸤¶Húrin Thalion, who …
⸤¶the Unbending, for …
⸤¶and Morgoth’s might …
⸤¶he defies fearless, …
⸤¶of thunder-riven Thangorodrim.’¶⸥⸤⸥ …
⸤¶In eager anger …
⸤¶crying and calling, …
⸤¶‘O Túrin, Túrin, …
⸤¶to the brazen …
⸤¶and the darkling …
⸤¶‘Thou wilt join …
⸤¶O bowman crazéd, …
⸤¶to the Orcs …
⸤¶are keener whetted, …
⸤¶be a day …
⸤¶who knows if …
⸤¶that crept from …
⸤¶on belly cowering, …
⸤¶in deathly swoon …
⸤¶of their loathsome …
⸤¶and ye glorious …
⸤¶and their tongues …
⸤¶from their hungry …
⸤¶or sleep with …
⸤¶Thy lamp shall …
⸤¶and wise wood-craft!’ …
⸤¶thy words are …
⸤¶and wizardry ward …
⸤¶unerring their arrows; …
⸤¶of their curvéd …
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⸤¶the meshes of …
⸤¶those eyes are …
⸤¶the flesh freezes! …
⸤¶for fear fetters …
⸤¶better die in …
⸤¶than wilfully woo …
⸤¶I know not …
⸤¶of Flinding go-Fuilin? …
⸤¶thus show himself …
⸤¶who twice entrapped …
⸤¶Remember the might …
⸤¶the renown of …
⸤¶Thus Beleg the …
⸤¶but Flinding fought …
⸤¶and loosed the …
⸤¶now brighter burning. …
⸤¶enwound they wandered, …
⸤¶by the tall …
⸤¶oft barred and …
⸤¶over rock-fast roots …
⸤¶and drowsed with …
⸤¶till hope was …
⸤¶viewless voices vague …
⸤¶a muffled murmur …
⸤¶that are shod …
⸤¶‘No noise I …
⸤¶‘thy hope cheats …
⸤¶clinking, creaking, the …
⸤¶and wolves padding …
⸤¶I smell the …
⸤¶that are cruel …
⸤¶now, listen! louder …
⸤¶the hunter said. …
⸤¶quoth Flinding fearful. …
⸤¶with bended bow …
⸤¶‘my cunning rekindles, …
⸤¶thy lamp’s leading.’ …
⸤¶he shrank in …
⸤¶Flinding followed him, …
⸤¶and drowsy dimness …
⸤¶unfolding from them …
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⸤¶and its magic …
⸤¶they were brought …
⸤¶an archway opened. …
⸤¶it was framed …
⸤¶the lightning felled, …
⸤¶their lichen-leprous limbs …
⸤¶There shadowy bats …
⸤¶flew in and …
⸤¶as they swerved …
⸤¶faint filtered in, …
⸤¶they looked o’er …
⸤¶o’er the bleak …
⸤¶and dusty drouth …
⸤¶o’er that Thirsty …
⸤¶now glimpséd grey …
⸤¶of the marching …
⸤¶and faint and …
⸤¶the thunderous towers …
⸤¶But backward broad …
⸤¶from that darkling …
⸤¶the ancient Orc-road; …
⸤¶the silence suddenly …
⸤¶was shaken behind …
⸤¶from afar came …
⸤¶trappings tinkling; and …
⸤¶of viewless voices …
⸤¶came near and …
⸤¶said Flinding fearful; …
⸤¶from hate and …
⸤¶from fiery eyes …
⸤¶Ah! woe that …
⸤¶Then beat in …
⸤¶with dread unwonted …
⸤¶of Beleg the …
⸤¶in faded fern …
⸤¶of brown bracken …
⸤¶where dank and …
⸤¶on the wood’s …
⸤¶dripping down to …
⸤¶Yet hardly were …
⸤¶round a dark …
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⸤¶came swinging sudden …
⸤¶of feet after …
⸤¶In rank on …
⸤¶that war-host went; …
⸤¶countless captives, cruelly …
⸤¶with bloodstained booty, …
⸤¶they haled behind …
⸤¶by the wolf-riders …
⸤¶Their road of …
⸤¶many a hall …
⸤¶of Gnomish lords …
⸤¶their o’ermastering might …
⸤¶and fair things …
⸤¶with the bravest …
⸤¶To an army …
⸤¶that Blodrin Bor’s …
⸤¶to the wood-marches, …
⸤¶homeward hurrying to …
⸤¶swiftly swollen to …
⸤¶Like a throbbing …
⸤¶of cavernous clouds …
⸤¶now swelled on …
⸤¶and their hellward …
⸤¶flung from the …
⸤¶who viewed mid …
⸤¶the threefold peaks …
⸤¶it rolled rearward, …
⸤¶like drums in …
⸤¶Then a werewolf …
⸤¶like steel on …
⸤¶their spears and …
⸤¶as the wild …
⸤¶with points that …
⸤¶As by wind …
⸤¶and bowed, as …
⸤¶moved on mirthless …
⸤¶from the topless …
⸤¶neath the leprous …
⸤¶Then Beleg the …
⸤¶on the loathly …
⸤¶saw Túrin the …
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⸤¶neath the whips …
⸤¶and rage arose …
⸤¶and piercing pity …
⸤¶The hymn was …
⸤¶down the hellward …
⸤¶and silence sank …
⸤¶round the trunks …
⸤¶and nethermost night …
⸤¶‘Follow me, Flinding, …
⸤¶Let us haste …
⸤¶or to death …
⸤¶and Beleg bounded …
⸤¶like a deer …
⸤¶from his hiding …
⸤¶and Flinding followed …
⸤¶neath the yawning …
⸤¶through bogs and …
⸤¶till they reached …
⸤¶and friendless fells …
⸤¶to the dusty …
⸤¶In a cup …
⸤¶whose broken brink …
⸤¶with bended bushes …
⸤¶from the North-wind’s …
⸤¶the feasting camp …
⸤¶the fiery flare …
⸤¶and black bodies …
⸤¶crossing countlessly, and …
⸤¶and the hollow …
⸤¶Then a moon …
⸤¶and the keen …
⸤¶the shadows sharpened …
⸤¶and slashed the …
⸤¶in wreaths uprising …
⸤¶was touched to …
⸤¶Then the fires …
⸤¶in a sleep …
⸤¶nor guards them …
⸤¶to watch wakeful …
⸤¶neath Eiglir Engrin, …
⸤¶gazed unclosing from …
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⸤¶Did not werewolves’ …
⸤¶in the wan …
⸤¶that sit in …
⸤¶round camp or …
⸤¶Then was Beleg …
⸤¶nigh chilled his …
⸤¶in fear unfathomed, …
⸤¶by a boulder …
⸤¶surged up like …
⸤¶and the sheen …
⸤¶the wind came …
⸤¶and the heath …
⸤¶and the moans …
⸤¶in the camp …
⸤¶as he found …
⸤¶hard horn-pointed, by …
⸤¶of black yew …
⸤¶it was stoutly …
⸤¶had nor Man …
⸤¶that Beleg the …
⸤¶No arrows of …
⸤¶as his shaven …
⸤¶that was seen …
⸤¶Then Dailir he …
⸤¶howso far fared …
⸤¶unsought he found …
⸤¶and barbs unbroken …
⸤¶and fleet bade …
⸤¶snaketonguéd shaft, as …
⸤¶in the notch …
⸤¶to his ear …
⸤¶and the tingling …
⸤¶soundless a sentinel …
⸤¶there was one …
⸤¶Now arrows after …
⸤¶that missed not …
⸤¶death in the …
⸤¶till three of …
⸤¶and four had …
⸤¶arrows a-quivering in …
⸤¶Then great was …
⸤¶and Beleg his …
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⸤¶‘Wilt come to …
⸤¶or await me …
⸤¶thou might win …
⸤¶to Thingol the …
⸤¶how Túrin the …
⸤¶how Beleg the …
⸤¶Then Flinding fiercely, …
⸤¶‘I have followed …
⸤¶nor will leave …
⸤¶Then both bow …
⸤¶with his belt …
⸤¶of a dark …
⸤¶and Flinding there …
⸤¶and his nailéd …
⸤¶he kept, that …
⸤¶Thus those brave …
⸤¶towards the camp …
⸤¶and dared that …
⸤¶whose glory has …
⸤¶and songs have …
⸤¶wherever the Elves …
⸤¶had light or …
⸤¶With breath bated …
⸤¶they stood and …
⸤¶till they saw …
⸤¶was broken; with …
⸤¶they passed the …
⸤¶the wolves weltered …
⸤¶unseen smitten; as …
⸤¶they slipped silent …
⸤¶as shadowy wraiths …
⸤¶from gloom to …
⸤¶and the craft …
⸤¶to Túrin the …
⸤¶with face downward …
⸤¶and his feet …
⸤¶anguish enchained his …
⸤¶There he slept …
⸤¶by drugs of …
⸤¶he heard not …
⸤¶nor the deep …
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⸤¶to awake his …
⸤¶No blade would …
⸤¶though Flinding felt …
⸤¶of dwarfen steel, …
⸤¶that at waist …
⸤¶whose edge would …
⸤¶as a clod …
⸤¶It was wrought …
⸤¶in black Belegost, …
⸤¶of troth unmindful; …
⸤¶from its sheath …
⸤¶and roughhewn rocks …
⸤¶‘We must bear …
⸤¶said Beleg, bending …
⸤¶Then the head …
⸤¶and Flinding go-Fuilin …
⸤¶and doughty that …
⸤¶though Men were …
⸤¶ere the earth’s …
⸤¶though the Elfin …
⸤¶were of might …
⸤¶faintly fading as …
⸤¶in places unpeopled, …
⸤¶in bone and …
⸤¶and Túrin was …
⸤¶that in Hithlum’s …
⸤¶Like a log …
⸤¶and straining staggered …
⸤¶with bodies bending …
⸤¶from the cruel …
⸤¶where spearmen drowsed …
⸤¶by their moon-blades …
⸤¶mid their shaven …
⸤¶Now Beleg the …
⸤¶but his foot …
⸤¶with Túrin atop …
⸤¶Flinding forward; there …
⸤¶long while they …
⸤¶for hue and …
⸤¶but unbroken the …
⸤¶as darkness deepened …
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⸤¶and the lifeless …
⸤¶oft sheds the …
⸤¶Then dared their …
⸤¶and they found …
⸤¶and bent they …
⸤¶to their task …
⸤¶There the huntsman’s …
⸤¶as he groped …
⸤¶’twas Dailir his …
⸤¶he had found …
⸤¶and with barbs …
⸤¶neath his body …
⸤¶As in dim …
⸤¶they won their …
⸤¶foot by footstep, …
⸤¶the leaguer at …
⸤¶and their burden …
⸤¶on bare-bosméd earth, …
⸤¶ere by winding …
⸤¶up the slanting …
⸤¶with spended strength …
⸤¶in the darkling …
⸤¶Then sought his …
⸤¶o’er its eager …
⸤¶there Beleg murmured, …
⸤¶the lamp of …
⸤¶There wondrous wove …
⸤¶and the names …
⸤¶he uttered o’er …
⸤¶and the glaive …
⸤¶did rive the …
⸤¶the sword of …
⸤¶of the enchanted …
⸤¶in their deep …
⸤¶the knife of …
⸤¶the sweeping sickle …
⸤¶the lambent lightning’s …
⸤¶even Celeg Aithorn …
⸤¶Then whistling whirled …
⸤¶and three times …
⸤¶till flame was …
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⸤¶like licking firelight …
⸤¶blue and baleful …
⸤¶Lo! a leering …
⸤¶by the wind …
⸤¶their limbs were …
⸤¶they fancied the …
⸤¶for the horns …
⸤¶in the rustling …
⸤¶Then quickly curtained …
⸤¶was the lantern’s …
⸤¶with his sword …
⸤¶on wrist and …
⸤¶so strong that …
⸤¶entangled still lay …
⸤¶For the feet’s …
⸤¶Beleg blundering with …
⸤¶unwary wounded the …
⸤¶of wayworn foot, …
⸤¶bedewed his hand …
⸤¶that sleep profound …
⸤¶in fear woke …
⸤¶o’er his body …
⸤¶His death or …
⸤¶for oft had …
⸤¶him goaded gleeful …
⸤¶that they cast …
⸤¶Lo! the bonds …
⸤¶his cry of …
⸤¶he flung him …
⸤¶and Beleg falling …
⸤¶was crushed beneath …
⸤¶then seized that …
⸤¶to his hand …
⸤¶at the throat …
⸤¶that the blood …
⸤¶ere Flinding knew …
⸤¶all was over. …
⸤¶he bade the …
⸤¶or sup on …
⸤¶is freed from …
⸤¶in the camps …
⸤¶Flight he sought …
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⸤¶with his last …
⸤¶amid foes imagined; …
⸤¶there stricken with …
⸤¶cried: ‘Magic of …
⸤¶with friends thou …
⸤¶the lamp o’erturned …
⸤¶that its light …
⸤¶with its flickering …
⸤¶Than the boles …
⸤¶stone-faced he stood …
⸤¶on that dreadful …
⸤¶wildeyed he gazed …
⸤¶as in endless …
⸤¶So fearful his …
⸤¶and watched him, …
⸤¶dark, remorseless, dreadly …
⸤¶by the might …
⸤¶and for Beleg, …
⸤¶his black yew-wood …
⸤¶his life had …
⸤¶in the halls …
⸤¶Hark! he heard …
⸤¶no ghostly laughter …
⸤¶no wraithlike feet …
⸤¶the Orcs were …
⸤¶the cries of …
⸤¶their lust was …
⸤¶of night were …
⸤¶in hoarse whisper …
⸤¶he told his …
⸤¶with limbs loosened …
⸤¶crouching crumpled by …
⸤¶nor sight nor …
⸤¶and wavering words …
⸤¶‘A! Beleg,’ he …
⸤¶Though Flinding shook …
⸤¶had he comprehended …
⸤¶Then winds were …
⸤¶where thrumming thunders …
⸤¶storm came striding …
⸤¶from the four …
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⸤¶then the clouds …
⸤¶and slung like …
⸤¶the hurtling hail …
⸤¶with a deluge …
⸤¶Now wafted high, …
⸤¶the cries of …
⸤¶and the howl …
⸤¶was mingled mournful: …
⸤¶for swollen swept …
⸤¶down the blackening …
⸤¶so that blundering …
⸤¶to the gates …
⸤¶were drowned or …
⸤¶to die in …
⸤¶while the storm-riders …
⸤¶all the sunless …
⸤¶Flinding go-Fuilin with …
⸤¶there crouched aquake; …
⸤¶lay Beleg the …
⸤¶Túrin Thalion neath …
⸤¶sat unseeing without …
⸤¶The dusty dunes …
⸤¶hissed and spouted. …
⸤¶of smoking vapour …
⸤¶thick-billowing clouds from …
⸤¶and dawn was …
⸤¶when a day …
⸤¶The Orcs had …
⸤¶o’er the weltering …
⸤¶to their hopeless …
⸤¶no thrall took …
⸤¶a burden bore …
⸤¶in despair fettered …
⸤¶in mourning hopeless …