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Volume:
The Lays of Beleriand
Pages: 95–101
Paragraph count:
250
Token count:
1,543
Citation Index
Page numbers refer to the setting used by all editions other than mass-market paperbacks.
p95
THE CHILDREN OF …
I …
⸤¶Ye Gods who …
⸤¶with moveless pinnacles, …
⸤¶o’er shrouded shores …
⸤¶of the Bay …
⸤¶Ye Men unmindful …
⸤¶wars and weeping …
⸤¶of Morgoth’s might …
⸤¶Lo! hear what …
⸤¶lingering forlorn in …
⸤¶fading faintly down …
⸤¶in shadowy isles …
p96
⸤¶sing still in …
⸤¶how his webs …
⸤¶with Níniel’s sorrow: …
⸤¶A! Húrin Thalion …
⸤¶was whelmed in …
⸤¶of the ruined …
⸤¶in blood beaten; …
⸤¶of Finweg fell …
⸤¶and his gleaming …
⸤¶shields were shaken, …
⸤¶in darkling tide …
⸤¶the cruel Glamhoth’s …
⸤¶were lost and …
⸤¶That field yet …
⸤¶Nirnaith Ornoth, Unnumbered …
⸤¶the seven chieftains …
⸤¶fled there and …
⸤¶betrayed with treason. …
⸤¶unmoved remembered in …
⸤¶Thalion Erithámrod and …
⸤¶Torn and trampled …
⸤¶of the house …
⸤¶In host upon …
⸤¶with hideous arms …
⸤¶enmeshed his might, …
⸤¶pulled down the …
⸤¶At Bauglir’s bidding …
⸤¶to the halls …
⸤¶to the Mountains …
⸤¶they led the …
⸤¶Húrin Thalion, to …
⸤¶in halls upheld …
⸤¶of black basalt. …
⸤¶worms and serpents …
⸤¶there Bauglir’s breast …
⸤¶with blazing rage, …
⸤¶from his trap …
⸤¶Fingolfin’s son; Fëanor’s …
⸤¶the makers of …
⸤¶For Húrin standing …
⸤¶unbent in battle, …
p97
⸤¶his axe wielded …
⸤¶the sound of …
⸤¶as livid lightning …
⸤¶as toppling trunks …
⸤¶his foes had …
⸤¶where blades were …
⸤¶the Men of …
⸤¶with sad remnant …
⸤¶of ruthless Orcs, …
⸤¶that Turgon the …
⸤¶a pathway clove …
⸤¶from swirling slaughter. …
⸤¶through the hosts …
⸤¶on the lea …
⸤¶goes sweeping scythe. …
⸤¶a countless company, …
⸤¶through darkened dales …
⸤¶out of ken …
⸤¶in the tale …
⸤¶thus to doubt …
⸤¶thus his mind …
⸤¶thoughts of darkness, …
⸤¶bound, unbending, in …
⸤¶Said the dread …
⸤¶stout steel-handed, stands …
⸤¶yet quick a …
⸤¶Then knows he …
⸤¶what hope he …
⸤¶The bale most …
⸤¶Then Húrin answered, …
⸤¶his shining eyes …
⸤¶in wrath were …
⸤¶by fear unfettered …
⸤¶nor dread thee …
⸤¶fiends and phantoms, …
⸤¶His dark tresses, …
⸤¶that fell o’er …
⸤¶in the eye …
⸤¶since that day …
⸤¶has no mortal …
⸤¶There the mind …
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⸤¶neath gaze unfathomed …
⸤¶yet his heart …
⸤¶But Lungorthin Lord …
⸤¶on the mouth …
⸤¶‘Nay, fear when …
⸤¶and the whistling …
⸤¶and wilting flesh …
⸤¶Then hung they …
⸤¶in chains by …
⸤¶that with fiery …
⸤¶yet loosed not …
⸤¶to pray for …
⸤¶on the sable …
⸤¶of far-off fires …
⸤¶down deep corridors …
⸤¶in the blind …
⸤¶there with mourning …
⸤¶the throb and …
⸤¶brazen clangour; belched …
⸤¶flaming furnaces; there …
⸤¶through the glooms …
⸤¶their captives herded …
⸤¶Many a hopeless …
⸤¶for his tearless …
⸤¶Lo! Morgoth remembered …
⸤¶the weird of …
⸤¶in ruin and …
⸤¶of mortal Men …
⸤¶that treason alone …
⸤¶should master the …
⸤¶the children of …
⸤¶from defeat fending …
⸤¶Turgon the terrible, …
⸤¶the sons of …
⸤¶homes hid darkly …
⸤¶where Thingol was …
⸤¶Then the Lord …
⸤¶to where Húrin …
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⸤¶and the Balrogs …
⸤¶with flails of …
⸤¶there laughed as …
⸤¶but Bauglir said: …
⸤¶’tis fate unfitting …
⸤¶warrior warfain that …
⸤¶his sword he …
⸤¶to free him …
⸤¶While shrinking in …
⸤¶in the hungry …
⸤¶their league belying, …
⸤¶he by evil …
⸤¶dungeons droopeth doomed …
⸤¶and anguish endless. …
⸤¶I had fainer …
⸤¶or axe with …
⸤¶wield in warfare …
⸤¶the banners of …
⸤¶in my sounding …
⸤¶of glowing steel …
⸤¶be forged and …
⸤¶and mail unmatched …
⸤¶my mercy waiving …
⸤¶neath the brazen …
⸤¶who art worthy …
⸤¶as a captain …
⸤¶and shields are …
⸤¶of their foes …
⸤¶Lo! receive my …
⸤¶ancient enmity thus …
⸤¶I am a …
⸤¶his servants’ deeds. …
⸤¶thy hand should …
⸤¶as Bauglir’s champion, …
⸤¶to lead o’er …
⸤¶whose royal array …
⸤¶on Turgon the …
⸤¶and left thee …
⸤¶in waterless wastes …
⸤¶my wrath to …
⸤¶robber-Gnomes, rebels, and …
⸤¶that forlorn witless …
p100
⸤¶defy in their …
⸤¶I will bid …
⸤¶Go follow their …
⸤¶with thy sword …
⸤¶when in triumph …
⸤¶I have hoards …
⸤¶suffered no longer …
⸤¶through clenchéd teeth …
⸤¶‘O accursed king’, …
⸤¶‘thy hopes build …
⸤¶no tool am …
⸤¶who tryst nor …
⸤¶seek traitors elsewhere.’¶⸥⸤⸥ …
Then returned answer …
⸤¶Morgoth amazed his …
⸤¶‘Nay, madness holds …
⸤¶my measureless hoards …
⸤¶in places secret …
⸤¶agelong unopened; Elfin …
⸤¶and gold in …
⸤¶the gems and …
⸤¶in the mansions …
⸤¶are mine, and …
⸤¶of wealth to …
⸤¶Then Húrin, hanging, …
⸤¶‘Canst not learn …
⸤¶O Bauglir unblest? …
⸤¶of the things …
⸤¶In hate I …
⸤¶and thy might …
⸤¶and cruel counsels …
⸤¶must wait, on …
⸤¶To the hosts …
⸤¶‘Let thy foul …
⸤¶ye Balrogs and …
⸤¶go seek the …
⸤¶Through the dismal …
⸤¶like startled starlings …
⸤¶Minions miserable of …
⸤¶your doom dread …
⸤¶The tide shall …
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⸤¶and victory shall …
⸤¶the wrath of …
⸤¶Then tumult awoke, …
⸤¶in rage roaring …
⸤¶consuming madness seized …
⸤¶yet with lowered …
⸤¶thus Thalion Erithámrod …
⸤¶‘Thou hast said …
⸤¶shall march to …
⸤¶nor thy aid …
⸤¶mortal mightless. I …
⸤¶on my deeds …
⸤¶Yet if little …
⸤¶helpless to hinder …
⸤¶and thy lidless …
⸤¶shall not shut …
⸤¶like the Gods …
⸤¶on the might …
⸤¶to fools who …
⸤¶To Thangorodrim was …
⸤¶that mountain that …
⸤¶on high over …
⸤¶blackly brooding on …
⸤¶There stretched on …
⸤¶in bonds unbreakable …
⸤¶there the lord …
⸤¶there cursed him …
⸤¶that should walk …
⸤¶to a doom …
⸤¶There the mighty …
⸤¶but unveiled was …
⸤¶with eyes enchanted …
⸤¶and the weird …
⸤¶that fell on …