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III …
FAILIVRIN …
⸤¶Flinding go-Fuilin faithful-hearted¶⸥⸤⸥ …
⸤¶the brand of …
⸤¶lifted with loathing …
⸤¶and hid it …
⸤¶then he turned …
⸤¶and softly said …
⸤¶unhappy-hearted, what helpeth …
⸤¶to sit thus …
⸤¶without hope or …
⸤¶by those words …
⸤¶‘I abide by …
⸤¶thou voice unfaithful. …
⸤¶O Death dark-handed, …
⸤¶if remorse may …
⸤¶crush me conquered …
⸤¶Flinding answered, and …
⸤¶for wrath and …
⸤¶Not thus unthinking …
⸤¶heights enchainéd did …
⸤¶‘Curse thy comfort! …
⸤¶If Death comes …
⸤¶I will seek …
⸤¶O cold and …
⸤¶murderer of thy …
⸤¶and slay me …
⸤¶‘Look not, luckless, …
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⸤¶nor sully anew …
⸤¶in the flesh …
⸤¶he fell by …
⸤¶Yea, think that …
⸤¶his wrongéd blade …
⸤¶its thirst cooling …
⸤¶blood of Bauglir’s …
⸤¶Is the feud …
⸤¶on thee laid, …
⸤¶Dream not that …
⸤¶or thy dirges …
⸤¶less would like …
⸤¶and vows of …
⸤¶though victory seldom …
⸤¶Then fiercely Túrin …
⸤¶cried new-crazéd: ‘Ye …
⸤¶why turn ye …
⸤¶when the son …
⸤¶in wrath await …
⸤¶here is vengeance …
⸤¶I will follow …
⸤¶of the angry …
⸤¶Fainting Flinding there …
⸤¶and words of …
⸤¶he breathless spake: …
⸤¶for need hast …
⸤¶and strength to …
⸤¶Who flees to …
⸤¶and vengeance delayed …
⸤¶The madness passed; …
⸤¶neath the tangled …
⸤¶brooding blackly on …
⸤¶till the dusk …
⸤¶and the early …
⸤¶Then Beleg’s burial …
⸤¶did Flinding fashion; …
⸤¶he left him …
⸤¶with long labour …
⸤¶But Túrin tearless …
⸤¶on the corse …
⸤¶cold and open, …
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⸤¶His bow laid …
⸤¶and words of …
⸤¶‘Now fare well, …
⸤¶neath Tengwethil in …
⸤¶where drink the …
⸤¶o’er the sea …
⸤¶but the tears …
⸤¶by the flames …
⸤¶His mind once …
⸤¶as heaped they …
⸤¶a mound of …
⸤¶Light lay the …
⸤¶heavy lay the …
⸤¶That grief was …
⸤¶on his face …
⸤¶and this was …
⸤¶Thence he wandered …
⸤¶but for Flinding …
⸤¶or been lost …
⸤¶Renewed in that …
⸤¶was heart and …
⸤¶that he guarded …
⸤¶with the light …
⸤¶and they hid …
⸤¶by darkness shrouded …
⸤¶The tale tells …
⸤¶how roamed their …
⸤¶whose beetling branches, …
⸤¶did greedy grope …
⸤¶to ensnare their …
⸤¶Yet west they …
⸤¶and haggard hunger, …
⸤¶and hiding in …
⸤¶by their fate …
⸤¶of Dor-na-Fauglith’s dusty …
⸤¶to a mighty …
⸤¶they came at …
⸤¶bedewed as by …
⸤¶‘A! green that …
⸤¶where sleep the …
⸤¶where the folk …
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⸤¶There was fought …
⸤¶Nirnaith Ornoth, Unnumbered …
⸤¶’Twas built with …
⸤¶neath moon nor …
⸤¶by Man nor …
⸤¶ever dare for …
⸤¶Thus Flinding faltered, …
⸤¶Túrin’s heaviness, that …
⸤¶toward Thangorodrim, and …
⸤¶the maker of …
⸤¶Thence later led …
⸤¶o’er the slender …
⸤¶not long had …
⸤¶from his shining …
⸤¶the Shadowy Mountains …
⸤¶there bend humbled …
⸤¶in mist mantled, …
⸤¶Here the Orcs …
⸤¶o’er Sirion swim, …
⸤¶through moor and …
⸤¶through caverns carven …
⸤¶of Earth far …
⸤¶and leagues untrodden, …
⸤¶fleeting floweth, with …
⸤¶in the songs …
⸤¶Thus reached they …
⸤¶of those hoary …
⸤¶the shaggy pinewoods …
⸤¶There the twain …
⸤¶and dim mazes …
⸤¶in Nan Dungorthin …
⸤¶have shrouded shrines …
⸤¶more old than …
⸤¶the golden Gods …
⸤¶But the ghostly …
⸤¶hindered nor hurt …
⸤¶with creeping flesh …
⸤¶Yet laughter at …
⸤¶as distant mockery …
⸤¶there harsh and …
⸤¶Flinding fancied, fell, …
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⸤¶as that leering …
⸤¶that rang in …
⸤¶of Beleg’s slaughter. …
⸤¶that dogs us …
⸤¶he shuddering thought; …
⸤¶and black foreboding …
⸤¶when they clomb …
⸤¶that walled that …
⸤¶and southward saw …
⸤¶more warm and …
⸤¶during the daylight …
⸤¶o’er mountain pasture, …
⸤¶over fell and …
⸤¶that slipped down …
⸤¶in his eastward …
⸤¶to the South, …
⸤¶After seven journeys …
⸤¶on a night …
⸤¶to those lands …
⸤¶Flinding aforetime. At …
⸤¶the white arrows …
⸤¶gazed down gladly …
⸤¶and smiling slopes …
⸤¶There builded boles …
⸤¶marched in majesty …
⸤¶of golden russet …
⸤¶in leaves translucent …
⸤¶their boughs up-bending …
⸤¶by the wings …
⸤¶o’er blossomy bent …
⸤¶to the wavering …
⸤¶There rush and …
⸤¶and leaves like …
⸤¶green with sunlight. …
⸤¶of Flinding the …
⸤¶there glimmered golden, …
⸤¶was washed with …
⸤¶Túrin Thalion, and …
⸤¶On Ivrin’s lake …
⸤¶Lo! cool and …
⸤¶she is fed …
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⸤¶by Ylmir the …
⸤¶wielder of waters, …
⸤¶From outmost Ocean …
⸤¶his message hither …
⸤¶the healing of …
⸤¶for foes of …
⸤¶who alone remembers …
⸤¶the need of …
⸤¶(that in tongue …
⸤¶are born, and …
⸤¶o’er the bents …
⸤¶swirl down southward …
⸤¶of Nargothrond by …
⸤¶that death and …
⸤¶of Nirnaith Ornoth, …
⸤¶escaped unscathed. Thence …
⸤¶the Hills of …
⸤¶and the Dancer …
⸤¶it winds and …
⸤¶Nan-Tathrin’s land, for …
⸤¶it journeys joyful …
⸤¶with Sirion in …
⸤¶where snipe and …
⸤¶first pipe and …
⸤¶sweeping soundless to …
⸤¶where the waters …
⸤¶murmurous mingle. A …
⸤¶there lies, all …
⸤¶there all day …
⸤¶and the sea-birds …
⸤¶whitewingéd hosts whistling …
⸤¶uncounted voices crying …
⸤¶There a shining …
⸤¶whose pebbles as …
⸤¶by spray and …
⸤¶in the moon …
⸤¶when the Dweller …
⸤¶the waters white …
⸤¶when the long-haired …
⸤¶with bit and …
⸤¶in wrack wreathéd …
⸤¶to the thunder …
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⸤¶Thus Flinding spake …
⸤¶of Ylmir the …
⸤¶which hale and …
⸤¶and foaming Narog, …
⸤¶Orc of Morgoth, …
⸤¶no plunderer passed. …
⸤¶to reach the …
⸤¶(nought yet knew …
⸤¶they harried o’er …
⸤¶that lay behind …
⸤¶the Shadowy Mountains …
⸤¶of the pools …
⸤¶Túrin hearkened to …
⸤¶the washing of …
⸤¶an echo as …
⸤¶in the abyss …
⸤¶was hope in …
⸤¶to the lake …
⸤¶arm it reaches …
⸤¶o’ergrown with green …
⸤¶at whose outer …
⸤¶a gap, a …
⸤¶whence thrusteth thin …
⸤¶newborn Narog, nineteen …
⸤¶o’er a flickering …
⸤¶and a glimmering …
⸤¶fountains fills he …
⸤¶in the cool …
⸤¶There deeply drank …
⸤¶Túrin the toilworn …
⸤¶hurt’s ease found …
⸤¶from the meshes …
⸤¶as they sat …
⸤¶and watched in …
⸤¶o’er the wall …
⸤¶whose peaks empurpled …
⸤¶Then it dropped …
⸤¶up the cliffs …
⸤¶the last beacons …
⸤¶To the stars …
⸤¶the mountains waited …
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⸤¶o’er the endless …
⸤¶dreaming deeply dim …
⸤¶their pallid faces. …
⸤¶woven, wordless, they …
⸤¶till cold breezes …
⸤¶clear and fragrant …
⸤¶then sought they …
⸤¶cove outcarven; there …
⸤¶that brightly blossomed …
⸤¶in flowers of …
⸤¶a slender smoke, …
⸤¶on the firelit …
⸤¶and wondering words …
⸤¶‘O Gnome, I …
⸤¶or father’s blood …
⸤¶to a witless …
⸤¶the bane of …
⸤¶Then Flinding fearful …
⸤¶should seize for …
⸤¶retold the tale …
⸤¶how the trackless …
⸤¶Deadly Nightshade, dreadly …
⸤¶of Beleg the …
⸤¶and that deed …
⸤¶that song has …
⸤¶of the fate …
⸤¶in the tangled …
⸤¶when Morgoth’s might …
⸤¶Then his voice …
⸤¶and lo! tears …
⸤¶till loosed at …
⸤¶of his whelming …
⸤¶soundless, shaken, the …
⸤¶with griping fingers …
⸤¶But Flinding the …
⸤¶no comfort cold …
⸤¶for sleep swept …
⸤¶There a singing …
⸤¶and he woke …
⸤¶the night was …
⸤¶but a song …
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⸤¶went strong and …
⸤¶’Twas Túrin that …
⸤¶up high o’er …
⸤¶now falling faintly, …
⸤¶a song of …
⸤¶the dirge of …
⸤¶There wondrous wove …
⸤¶that woods and …
⸤¶the rocks were …
⸤¶That song he …
⸤¶by Gnomes renewed …
⸤¶it widely has …
⸤¶to battle with …
⸤¶’Tis told that …
⸤¶and fared to …
⸤¶to sleep soundless …
⸤¶to the high …
⸤¶A vision he …
⸤¶of slumber roving: …
⸤¶up the bleak …
⸤¶to a cup …
⸤¶whose broken brink …
⸤¶by the North-wind’s …
⸤¶did fringe forbidding. …
⸤¶was a dark …
⸤¶with yews mingled …
⸤¶The leafless limbs …
⸤¶were blotched and …
⸤¶a lifeless remnant …
⸤¶charred chill fingers …
⸤¶to the cold …
⸤¶‘O Beleg, my …
⸤¶where is buried …
⸤¶and the echoes …
⸤¶yet a veiléd …
⸤¶he caught that …
⸤¶o’er the sea’s …
⸤¶My bow is …
⸤¶my grove is …
⸤¶here dread dwelleth, …
⸤¶this angry earth, …
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⸤¶none gain the …
⸤¶by this perilous …
⸤¶yet my life …
⸤¶in the halls …
⸤¶Courage be thy …
⸤¶Then he woke …
⸤¶courage him comforted, …
⸤¶Flinding go-Fuilin, to …
⸤¶There the sun …
⸤¶through the wild …
⸤¶roofed with a …
⸤¶‘Whither, O Flinding, …
⸤¶or dwell we …
⸤¶by the lake …
⸤¶‘To Nargothrond of …
⸤¶said Flinding, ‘my …
⸤¶that Celegorm and …
⸤¶of Fëanor founded …
⸤¶there built a …
⸤¶who live now …
⸤¶with those five …
⸤¶fell unflinching foes …
⸤¶Maidros whom Morgoth …
⸤¶is lord and …
⸤¶his sweeping sword; …
⸤¶there Damrod and …
⸤¶the seven seekers …
⸤¶Now Orodreth rules …
⸤¶the numbered hosts …
⸤¶There to woman’s …
⸤¶frail Finduilas the …
⸤¶his daughter dear, …
⸤¶a light, a …
⸤¶and yet love …
⸤¶Where Narog’s torrent …
⸤¶down his stream …
⸤¶swiftly southward they …
⸤¶and summer smiling …
⸤¶through day on …
⸤¶where birds blithely …
⸤¶thrilled and trembled …
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⸤¶No eyes them …
⸤¶till they gained …
⸤¶all glad and …
⸤¶There her gentler …
⸤¶and they glide …
⸤¶to the Hunters’ …
⸤¶uprear their rocks …
⸤¶There watchful waited …
⸤¶lest the need …
⸤¶for the sea …
⸤¶and eager Narog …
⸤¶Their treegirt towers …
⸤¶no light betrayed …
⸤¶no horns hooted …
⸤¶in loud alarm; …
⸤¶unseen, stealthy, beset …
⸤¶as of wild …
⸤¶then follow fleetly …
⸤¶their heedless prey …
⸤¶In this fashion …
⸤¶that wandering Orc …
⸤¶unheard harried, hemmed …
⸤¶The slain are …
⸤¶of the nimble …
⸤¶who word or …
⸤¶from their homes …
⸤¶was to Bauglir …
⸤¶and east over …
⸤¶no cause or …
⸤¶though of shield …
⸤¶of warriors wieldy …
⸤¶to power and …
⸤¶their scouts and …
⸤¶Thus the twain …
⸤¶and the river …
⸤¶in foam hastened …
⸤¶In a gloom …
⸤¶there his fate …
⸤¶Túrin Thalion – …
⸤¶of writhing roots …
⸤¶as he fell …
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⸤¶a shrill-shafted arrow …
⸤¶and trembled sudden …
⸤¶Then Flinding o’er …
⸤¶‘Who shoots unsure …
⸤¶Flinding go-Fuilin of …
⸤¶and the son …
⸤¶here flee to …
⸤¶His words in …
⸤¶no leaf there …
⸤¶there cracked, no …
⸤¶stirred the silence. …
⸤¶in the glades …
⸤¶Thus fared they …
⸤¶unseen saw them, …
⸤¶unheard hastened behind …
⸤¶till each shaken …
⸤¶they fled furtive …
⸤¶for thereafter was …
⸤¶and they came …
⸤¶through flowery frith …
⸤¶they fared, and …
⸤¶the leas and …
⸤¶the teeming tilth …
⸤¶twixt hills and …
⸤¶in the fields …
⸤¶in the long …
⸤¶every tree there …
⸤¶and eyed them …
⸤¶of the nodding …
⸤¶on land and …
⸤¶Never hall or …
⸤¶in the light …
⸤¶but a pathway …
⸤¶was broadly beaten. …
⸤¶Flinding go-Fuilin, whose …
⸤¶that white roadway. …
⸤¶to the acres’ …
⸤¶twixt wall and …
⸤¶to blossomy banks …
⸤¶A spuming torrent, …
⸤¶from the highest …
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⸤¶clove and crossed …
⸤¶with slim and …
⸤¶a bridge was …
⸤¶in the froth …
⸤¶that headlong hurried …
⸤¶Where it found …
⸤¶there steeply stood …
⸤¶of the hills, …
⸤¶there shrouded in …
⸤¶wide and winding, …
⸤¶was fashioned in …
⸤¶Doors there darkly …
⸤¶were hewn in …
⸤¶and their posts …
⸤¶They were shut …
⸤¶as a phantom …
⸤¶in the hill …
⸤¶a creaking portal …
⸤¶was flung, and …
⸤¶leaping lightly, lances …
⸤¶and swift encircling …
⸤¶the wanderers wayworn, …
⸤¶through the gaping …
⸤¶Ground and grumbled …
⸤¶the door gigantic; …
⸤¶it clanged and …
⸤¶and echoes awful …
⸤¶there ran and …
⸤¶the light was …
⸤¶down long and …
⸤¶their guards guiding …
⸤¶till the faint …
⸤¶flared before them; …
⸤¶as of many …
⸤¶they heard as …
⸤¶Round a sudden …
⸤¶and saw a …
⸤¶where hundreds hushed …
⸤¶neath distant domes …
⸤¶them wordless waited. …
⸤¶with washing echoes …
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⸤¶amid the multitude, …
⸤¶for fifty fathoms …
⸤¶and wavering wan, …
⸤¶flushed and flickering …
⸤¶it fell at …
⸤¶of a king …
⸤¶A voice they …
⸤¶and the king …
⸤¶from the North …
⸤¶a Gnome of …
⸤¶No welcome finds …
⸤¶save his wish …
⸤¶for those that …
⸤¶it boots not …
⸤¶Then Flinding go-Fuilin …
⸤¶‘Has the watch …
⸤¶since Orodreth ruled …
⸤¶Or how have …
⸤¶if the warders …
⸤¶or how hast …
⸤¶who shot his …
⸤¶there learned our …
⸤¶and knowing our …
⸤¶loosed no longer?’ …
⸤¶a murmur moved …
⸤¶and some were …
⸤¶the long looked-for, …
⸤¶the narrow path …
⸤¶who was born …
⸤¶and some were …
⸤¶was lost and …
⸤¶What sign or …
⸤¶have we heard …
⸤¶with back bended …
⸤¶the scout who …
⸤¶most far afield …
⸤¶‘That tale was …
⸤¶the Lord Orodreth, …
⸤¶That alone of …
⸤¶the Orcs of …
⸤¶have dragged to …
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⸤¶by grace or …
⸤¶what proof dost …
⸤¶that a Man, …
⸤¶should look and …
⸤¶Thus the curse …
⸤¶at the Swans’ …
⸤¶but Flinding go-Fuilin …
⸤¶‘Is the son …
⸤¶in a deathless …
⸤¶unknown, nameless, in …
⸤¶to fend from …
⸤¶Flinding the faithful, …
⸤¶though form and …
⸤¶and bitter bondage, …
⸤¶have seared and …
⸤¶had hoped in …
⸤¶that he dreamed …
⸤¶Are these deep …
⸤¶a lesser Angband …
⸤¶Thereat was wrath …
⸤¶and the muttering …
⸤¶and this and …
⸤¶when sweet and …
⸤¶a voice of …
⸤¶mounted in melody …
⸤¶with clear echoes …
⸤¶it filled, and …
⸤¶those words weaving …
⸤¶that the wayweary …
⸤¶since the Gnomes …
⸤¶Then hushed was …
⸤¶for long known …
⸤¶and Flinding knew …
⸤¶like stone graven …
⸤¶with heart laden; …
⸤¶was waked to …
⸤¶and searching the …
⸤¶the kingly throne, …
⸤¶a gleam, a …
⸤¶’Twas frail Finduilas, …
⸤¶to woman’s stature, …
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⸤¶now grown in …
⸤¶there raised in …
⸤¶Locked fast the …
⸤¶that in laughter …
⸤¶when in the …
⸤¶with fleet-footed Fuilin’s …
⸤¶No searing scars …
⸤¶could blind those …
⸤¶and wet with …
⸤¶at the grief …
⸤¶on the face …
⸤¶‘what dream of …
⸤¶’Tis Flinding go-Fuilin, …
⸤¶none dared to …
⸤¶mournful-fated Man beside …
⸤¶if his oath …
⸤¶of Húrin Thalion, …
⸤¶shall lack belief …
⸤¶But are none …
⸤¶that mighty of …
⸤¶to seek and …
⸤¶form and features? …
⸤¶not thus, methinks, …
⸤¶come without comrades, …
⸤¶thus grave and …
⸤¶Then did Túrin’s …
⸤¶at the sweet …
⸤¶of that tender …
⸤¶that years of …
⸤¶and Orodreth, whose …
⸤¶yet loved deeply …
⸤¶gave ear and …
⸤¶and his doubt …
⸤¶and his quick …
⸤¶No few were …
⸤¶where Finweg fell …
⸤¶and Húrin Thalion …
⸤¶the dark Glamhoth’s …
⸤¶and who called …
⸤¶‘'Tis the face …
⸤¶and his strong …
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⸤¶though such care …
⸤¶whose laughing eyes …
⸤¶at board or …
⸤¶Nor could lack …
⸤¶and faith of …
⸤¶and his father …
⸤¶Lo! sire and …
⸤¶neath trees entwining …
⸤¶at the dark …
⸤¶that Fuilin’s folk …
⸤¶and dwelt in …
⸤¶to the West …
⸤¶Of the four …
⸤¶the watchtowers’ lords, …
⸤¶and the guards …
⸤¶that was flung …
⸤¶from Fuilin’s children …
⸤¶most noble of …
⸤¶In those halls …
⸤¶mirth was mingled …
⸤¶for the unyielding …
⸤¶the form and …
⸤¶had changed and …
⸤¶that leapt once …
⸤¶Now in kindly …
⸤¶with song assuaged …
⸤¶the lights were …
⸤¶o’er the burdened …
⸤¶Túrin Thalion with …
⸤¶at the long …
⸤¶where dish and …
⸤¶wood well-waxéd, where …
⸤¶engraven glistened gold …
⸤¶Then Fuilin filled …
⸤¶dear-hoarded drink dark …
⸤¶a carven cup …
⸤¶by ancient art …
⸤¶fairly fashioned, filled …
⸤¶there gleamed and …
⸤¶the folk of …
⸤¶of the Blissful …
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⸤¶in garlands golden …
⸤¶in the wind …
⸤¶fitful flickering, on …
⸤¶the ancient Elves …
⸤¶danced undying in …
⸤¶of the gardens …
⸤¶and Bansil bloomed …
⸤¶mothwhite moonlight from …
⸤¶the hilltops of …
⸤¶were crowned by …
⸤¶town white-walléd where …
⸤¶with pale pinnacle …
⸤¶and its crystal …
⸤¶with slender shaft …
⸤¶Through wrack and …
⸤¶through weary wandering, …
⸤¶had come that …
⸤¶in woe hoarded, …
⸤¶when little was …
⸤¶Now Fuilin at …
⸤¶save in pledge …
⸤¶blithely bade he …
⸤¶for the sake …
⸤¶Túrin Thalion in …
⸤¶of a league …
⸤¶‘O Húrin’s child …
⸤¶with mourning marred, …
⸤¶thy heart uplift …
⸤¶nor fare thou …
⸤¶here deign to …
⸤¶thus dark-dolven dimly …
⸤¶displease thee not, …
⸤¶There deeply drank …
⸤¶Túrin Thalion and …
⸤¶in eager earnest, …
⸤¶with loud laughter …
⸤¶with mournful lay …
⸤¶of magic minstrels …
⸤¶did weave with …
⸤¶from black foreboding; …
⸤¶their guest was …
⸤¶the light and …
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⸤¶were quenched in …
⸤¶the sickle of …
⸤¶o’er the wan …
⸤¶nightshadowed Narog, the …
⸤¶In tall treetops …
⸤¶there hooted hollow …
⸤¶Thus fate it …
⸤¶the dark destiny …
⸤¶of Túrin the …
⸤¶with the folk …
⸤¶lore long forgotten …
⸤¶for light yet …
⸤¶and wisdom yet …
⸤¶whose minds yet …
⸤¶and the faces …
⸤¶more clear and …
⸤¶or Men unwitting …
⸤¶Thus Fuilin and …
⸤¶and their halls …
⸤¶waned to autumn …
⸤¶the leaves loosened …
⸤¶the feet of …
⸤¶and burnished brown …
⸤¶a restless rustle …
⸤¶sighed and whispered. …
⸤¶the sailing Moon …
⸤¶was filled with …
⸤¶whose hold had …
⸤¶whose shrouds were …
⸤¶uprising ruddy o’er …
⸤¶by the misty …
⸤¶Thus the months …
⸤¶in the forest …
⸤¶slumbering a season, …
⸤¶the lore learning …
⸤¶of the Gnomes …
⸤¶The ways of …
⸤¶and the land’s …
⸤¶by winter unhindered …
⸤¶whether snow or …
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⸤¶from glowering heavens …
⸤¶cold and cruel …
⸤¶till the floods …
⸤¶of sweeping Narog, …
⸤¶were filled with …
⸤¶passed in tumult; …
⸤¶ice-hung evening was …
⸤¶a dome of …
⸤¶of the windless …
⸤¶like frozen phantoms …
⸤¶By day or …
⸤¶he dared and …
⸤¶ever seeking unsated …
⸤¶yet as winter …
⸤¶and biting blizzards …
⸤¶lashed and tortured …
⸤¶and haggard hilltops, …
⸤¶was he found …
⸤¶and cunning there …
⸤¶and in subtle …
⸤¶and peerless poesy, …
⸤¶and wise woodcraft; …
⸤¶were told to …
⸤¶in those mansions …
⸤¶to the hearth …
⸤¶did those friends …
⸤¶for frail Finduilas …
⸤¶to his board …
⸤¶and it grudging …
⸤¶king deep-counselled – …
⸤¶his ruth unready, …
⸤¶yet fierce and …
⸤¶his breast was …
⸤¶(his son had …
⸤¶Halmir the hunter …
⸤¶and kinship therein …
⸤¶in his heart …
⸤¶dark and silent, …
⸤¶of anguish and …
⸤¶feud unsated. Thus …
⸤¶by the king …
⸤¶he was member …
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⸤¶and wild venture …
⸤¶he achieved renown …
⸤¶and fearless bowmen; …
⸤¶in secret ambush …
⸤¶where fell-tonguéd flew …
⸤¶their shafts envenomed, …
⸤¶he played his …
⸤¶who trusted to …
⸤¶whose hand was …
⸤¶but dared never …
⸤¶to draw or …
⸤¶though he wished …
⸤¶When tales were …
⸤¶of valour they …
⸤¶glory half-forgot, grief …
⸤¶then they bade …
⸤¶of deeds in …
⸤¶by the shadowy …
⸤¶where Esgalduin the …
⸤¶by root-fencéd pools …
⸤¶by deep eddies …
⸤¶flowed fleetly on …
⸤¶of the Thousand …
⸤¶the woodland ways …
⸤¶Beleg the bowman …
⸤¶by slade and …
⸤¶neath trees enchanted; …
⸤¶and his tale …
At Túrin’s sorrow …
⸤¶one marvelled and …
⸤¶the frail Finduilas …
⸤¶the glimmering sheen …
⸤¶of Ivrin’s lake …
⸤¶had named anew. …
⸤¶and by day …
⸤¶lay locked in …
⸤¶for the doom …
⸤¶on Beleg the …
⸤¶Túrin warded, nor …
⸤¶of Flinding the …
⸤¶in the waste …
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⸤¶for the form …
⸤¶for the bended …
⸤¶the wistful eyes …
⸤¶of Flinding the …
⸤¶with deepwelling pity …
⸤¶Grown old betimes …
⸤¶he was wise …
⸤¶with sight and …
⸤¶nor fiercely valiant, …
⸤¶his share he …
⸤¶in his heart …
⸤¶but he seldom …
⸤¶in his grave …
⸤¶Finduilas maybe faring …
⸤¶on the sward …
⸤¶a sheen of …
⸤¶Yet to Túrin …
⸤¶against will and …
⸤¶in dreams she …
⸤¶with love lightening, …
⸤¶in eyes new-kindled, …
⸤¶he eager spake, …
⸤¶they fared free-hearted …
⸤¶with hand in …
⸤¶of that land …
⸤¶by no moon …
⸤¶to the black …
⸤¶From woe unhealed …
⸤¶of Túrin the …
⸤¶Amazed and moved, …
⸤¶half-guessed, half-guarded, in …
⸤¶of night’s watches, …
⸤¶paths of pondering …
⸤¶he would lonely …
⸤¶shut fast and …
⸤¶in dreamless sleep, …
⸤¶where no echo …
⸤¶of waking worlds, …
⸤¶flower nor firelight …
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⸤¶a land illumined …
⸤¶‘O! hands unholy, …
⸤¶O! outlaw whose …
⸤¶wilt thou, troth-breaker, …
⸤¶to thy burden …
⸤¶Flinding go-Fuilin thus …
⸤¶who thy madness …
⸤¶to thy waters …
⸤¶did lead at …
⸤¶where his life …
⸤¶O! stainéd hands …
⸤¶Thus love was …
⸤¶and coldly clad …
⸤¶yet he would …
⸤¶in her gentle …
⸤¶her face watching …
⸤¶might mark his …
⸤¶Failivrin’s face, the …
⸤¶like sun through …
⸤¶over faded fields, …
⸤¶as Túrin passed; …
⸤¶his grave glances …
⸤¶his sighs in …
⸤¶Flinding go-Fuilin, who …
⸤¶and lost his …
⸤¶he watched and …
⸤¶and his heart …
⸤¶bewildered, weary, in …
⸤¶Then Finduilas, more …
⸤¶twixt olden love …
⸤¶and new refused, …
⸤¶and folk wondered …
⸤¶of the hands …
⸤¶on slender shoulders …
⸤¶the glory of …
⸤¶of secret thought …
⸤¶Many bosoms burdened …
⸤¶their glooms disowned …
⸤¶In song and …
⸤¶winter wore away; …
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⸤¶a year once …
⸤¶nor were leaves …
⸤¶the flowers less …
⸤¶no spring was …
⸤¶danger and dread …
⸤¶to their halls …
⸤¶came tale and …
⸤¶Orcs unnumbered to …
⸤¶roamed and ravened …
⸤¶the might of …
⸤¶No ambush stayed …
⸤¶each vale by …