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Volume:
The Lays of Beleriand
Pages: 104–118
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574
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II …
TÚRIN’S FOSTERING …
⸤¶Lo! the lady …
⸤¶waited in the …
⸤¶but he came …
⸤¶from that black …
⸤¶no tidings told …
⸤¶or lost in …
⸤¶Laid waste his …
⸤¶and men unmindful …
⸤¶in Dorlómin dwelling …
⸤¶with his wife …
⸤¶and a son …
⸤¶Túrin Thalion of …
⸤¶In days of …
⸤¶and named Nienor, …
⸤¶that in language …
⸤¶Then her thoughts …
⸤¶and Lúthien the …
⸤¶his daughter dear, …
⸤¶who Tinúviel was …
⸤¶the Star-mantled, still …
⸤¶who light as …
⸤¶had danced in …
⸤¶on the lawns …
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⸤¶while deftly was …
⸤¶with fingers fleet …
⸤¶The boldest of …
⸤¶to wife had …
⸤¶had vowed fellowship …
⸤¶with Húrin of …
⸤¶by the marge …
⸤¶Thus to her …
⸤¶our friends are …
⸤¶Thou must fare …
⸤¶where Thingol is …
⸤¶If he remember …
⸤¶he will foster …
⸤¶the trade he …
⸤¶that no slave …
⸤¶A! return my …
⸤¶remember thy mother …
⸤¶or when sorrows …
⸤¶for fears troubled …
⸤¶Heavy boded the …
⸤¶who unwitting of …
⸤¶yet weened her …
⸤¶and denied her …
⸤¶Lo! Mailrond and …
⸤¶were young of …
⸤¶and alone of …
⸤¶now steadfast in …
⸤¶now she bade …
⸤¶and the woods …
⸤¶though Túrin be …
⸤¶they must gird …
⸤¶but to doubt …
⸤¶of Morwen who …
⸤¶Came a day …
⸤¶of the towering …
⸤¶to murmurs moving …
⸤¶far and faintly; …
⸤¶sheen of silver …
⸤¶sudden sunbeams were …
⸤¶where winds came …
⸤¶warm through the …
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⸤¶Then Morwen stood, …
⸤¶by the gate …
⸤¶at her breast …
⸤¶crooning lowly to …
⸤¶a song of …
⸤¶lest she droop …
⸤¶and Halog hastened …
⸤¶and Mailrond the …
⸤¶her gallant Túrin, …
⸤¶with heart heavy …
⸤¶uncomprehending his coming …
⸤¶There he cried …
⸤¶‘Lo! quickly will …
⸤¶I will long …
⸤¶great tale of …
⸤¶He wist not …
⸤¶nor the sundering …
⸤¶as farewells they …
⸤¶The last kisses …
⸤¶are over and …
⸤¶in the dark …
⸤¶in trees entangled. …
⸤¶to woe’s knowledge …
⸤¶that he wept …
⸤¶sad resounding in …
⸤¶as he called: …
⸤¶O! Morwen my …
⸤¶The hills are …
⸤¶O! Morwen my …
⸤¶for grim are …
⸤¶And there came …
⸤¶down the dark …
⸤¶that one there …
⸤¶heard how the …
* * * …
⸤¶The ways were …
⸤¶o’er the hills …
⸤¶deep in the …
⸤¶and never ere …
⸤¶had children of …
⸤¶save Beren the …
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⸤¶to his wandering …
⸤¶or fells or …
⸤¶and few had …
⸤¶There was told …
⸤¶that in the …
⸤¶in linkéd words …
⸤¶of Beren Ermabwed, …
⸤¶how Lúthien the …
⸤¶in the enchanted …
⸤¶Tinúviel he named …
⸤¶more sweet her …
⸤¶and wavering wisps …
⸤¶shot with starlight, …
⸤¶she danced like …
⸤¶pale-twinkling pearls in …
⸤¶how for love …
⸤¶on that quest …
⸤¶thrust by Thingol …
⸤¶of the Lands …
⸤¶and Melian’s magic, …
⸤¶that after happened …
⸤¶and the flight …
⸤¶when Carcharoth the …
⸤¶the wolf-warden of …
⸤¶whose vitals fire …
⸤¶them hunted howling …
⸤¶he had bitten …
⸤¶the nameless wonder, …
⸤¶where light living …
⸤¶all hue’s essence. …
⸤¶and the woods …
⸤¶in his dreadful …
⸤¶did shudder darkly …
⸤¶how the hound …
⸤¶to the hunt …
⸤¶and as dawn …
⸤¶was the slayer …
⸤¶there Beren bleeding …
⸤¶till the lips …
⸤¶awoke him to …
⸤¶to the long …
⸤¶the Elf-maiden, and …
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⸤¶her mother Mablui …
⸤¶that they dwell …
⸤¶and the grass …
⸤¶where East or …
⸤¶Then a song …
⸤¶a sudden sweetness …
⸤¶that is ‘Light …
⸤¶whose music of …
⸤¶yet in hearts …
⸤¶The grass was …
⸤¶The leaves of …
⸤¶The old tree-roots …
⸤¶And the early …
⸤¶There went her …
⸤¶And Dairon’s flute …
⸤¶As neath the …
⸤¶Tinúviel danced a-shimmering. …
⸤¶The pale moths …
⸤¶And daylight died …
⸤¶As Beren from …
⸤¶Came thither wayworn …
⸤¶He peered between …
⸤¶And watched in …
⸤¶Her dancing through …
⸤¶And the ghostly …
⸤¶There magic took …
⸤¶And he forgot …
⸤¶And out he …
⸤¶Where the moonbeams …
⸤¶Through the tangled …
⸤¶They fled on …
⸤¶And left him …
⸤¶In the silent …
⸤¶Still hearkening for …
⸤¶Of lissom feet …
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⸤¶For music welling …
⸤¶In the dim-lit …
⸤¶But withered are …
⸤¶And one by …
⸤¶Whispering fall the …
⸤¶In the dying …
⸤¶He sought her …
⸤¶Where the leaves …
⸤¶By winter moon …
⸤¶With shaken light …
⸤¶He found her …
⸤¶A silver wraith …
⸤¶And the mists …
⸤¶In moonlight palely …
⸤¶She danced upon …
⸤¶Whose grass unfading …
⸤¶While Dairon’s fingers …
⸤¶O’er his magic …
⸤¶And out he …
⸤¶In the moonlight …
⸤¶No impress found …
⸤¶That fled him …
⸤¶And longing filled …
⸤¶‘Tinúviel, Tinúviel,’¶⸥⸤⸥ …
⸤¶And longing sped …
⸤¶Behind her wayward …
⸤¶She heard as …
⸤¶His lonely voice …
⸤¶‘Tinúviel, Tinúviel’:¶⸥⸤⸥ …
⸤¶One moment paused …
⸤¶And Beren caught …
⸤¶And kissed her …
⸤¶Tinúviel whom love …
⸤¶In the woods …
⸤¶Till moonlight and …
⸤¶Shall Beren by …
⸤¶Dance in the …
⸤¶In the forest …
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⸤¶Wherever grass is …
⸤¶And the leaves …
⸤¶And ancient roots …
⸤¶As once they …
⸤¶Shall go their …
⸤¶But never Dairon’s …
⸤¶Be heard beneath …
⸤¶Since Beren came …
⸤¶This for hearts’ …
⸤¶as the frowning …
⸤¶and nethermost night …
⸤¶There Túrin and …
⸤¶and hunger and …
⸤¶from wolfriders and …
⸤¶and the things …
⸤¶There numbed and …
⸤¶cold and clinging, …
⸤¶summer had vanquished …
⸤¶a dismal dripping …
⸤¶ever splashed and …
⸤¶from rainy leaves, …
⸤¶greyly, grudgingly, gleaming …
⸤¶at drenching dawn. …
⸤¶in the magic …
⸤¶and strayed steerless, …
⸤¶and the sun …
⸤¶had the mountains …
⸤¶bewildered and wayworn …
⸤¶in despair and …
⸤¶Without bread or …
⸤¶and fainting strength …
⸤¶their death they …
⸤¶when they heard …
⸤¶and dogs baying. …
⸤¶and hushed hollows …
⸤¶and echoes answered …
⸤¶for Beleg the …
⸤¶who furthest fared …
⸤¶by hill and …
⸤¶careless of comrades …
⸤¶as light as …
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⸤¶as free and …
⸤¶He was great …
⸤¶and lithe of …
⸤¶his footsteps fell …
⸤¶all garbed in …
⸤¶‘Who are ye?’ …
⸤¶hiding, hunted, by …
⸤¶‘Nay, for famine …
⸤¶‘wayworn and wildered, …
⸤¶Or hast not …
⸤¶field tear-drenchéd where …
⸤¶Morgoth devoured the …
⸤¶of the hosts …
⸤¶The Thalion Erithámrod …
⸤¶there vanished from …
⸤¶yet weeps in …
⸤¶Thou lookest on …
⸤¶and the Thalion’s …
⸤¶now wend at …
⸤¶Then Beleg bade …
⸤¶‘The Gods have …
⸤¶I have heard …
⸤¶and who hath …
⸤¶of Nirnaith Ornoth, …
⸤¶To that war …
⸤¶with the Orcs …
⸤¶smite oft unseen …
⸤¶I am the …
⸤¶the forest is …
⸤¶Then he bade …
⸤¶a flask of …
⸤¶that is bruised …
⸤¶the Gnome-folk know …
⸤¶by long ways …
⸤¶for the Elves …
⸤¶the vine-clad valleys …
⸤¶in the land …
⸤¶a fire, with …
⸤¶of wind-fallen wood …
⸤¶rotten, rain-sodden, to …
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⸤¶there coaxed and …
⸤¶there baked they …
⸤¶white wheaten bread …
⸤¶he haled from …
⸤¶and hope mounted, …
⸤¶by that wine …
⸤¶and they soundly …
⸤¶of the tall …
⸤¶Then they waked …
⸤¶and merry was …
⸤¶from the radiant …
⸤¶long leagues to …
⸤¶devious winding through …
⸤¶by slade and …
⸤¶through lonely days, …
⸤¶they fared unfaltering, …
⸤¶who but for …
⸤¶by the magic …
⸤¶To those shadowy …
⸤¶where stilly the …
⸤¶of the cavernous …
⸤¶Over the guarded …
⸤¶and thrice they …
⸤¶‘the Gods are …
⸤¶what the future …
⸤¶To the throne …
⸤¶there their speech …
⸤¶for Húrin of …
⸤¶whom Beren Ermabwed …
⸤¶and remembering Morwen, …
⸤¶he turned not …
⸤¶There clasped him …
⸤¶for Melian moved …
⸤¶and he said: …
⸤¶the light in …
⸤¶Húrin of Hithlum, …
⸤¶and here shalt …
⸤¶In these cavernous …
⸤¶thou shalt dwell …
⸤¶to remember thy …
⸤¶thou shalt wisdom …
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⸤¶and weapons shalt …
⸤¶nor slave in …
⸤¶There the twain …
⸤¶till their limbs …
⸤¶through dread and …
⸤¶so firm their …
⸤¶eld sat more …
⸤¶of Mailrond the …
⸤¶his might matched …
⸤¶than Halog he …
⸤¶Then sickness assailed …
⸤¶‘To Túrin I …
⸤¶he said and …
⸤¶but Halog hardened …
⸤¶An Elfin escort …
⸤¶and magics of …
⸤¶and a message …
⸤¶words of gladness …
⸤¶and Túrin taken …
⸤¶of the King …
⸤¶now Thingol called …
⸤¶to fare unfearing …
⸤¶there to sojourn …
⸤¶for Húrin of …
⸤¶and no might …
⸤¶Of the errand …
⸤¶the tale tells …
⸤¶to Morwen’s threshold. …
⸤¶was said where …
⸤¶but she dared …
⸤¶who Nienor her …
⸤¶would not leave …
⸤¶to adventure her …
⸤¶the pride of …
⸤¶had suffered her …
⸤¶when despair urged …
⸤¶an almsguest of …
⸤¶it little liked …
⸤¶a hope in …
⸤¶and the dwelling …
⸤¶at night she …
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⸤¶or a footstep …
⸤¶Thus she fared …
⸤¶Yet the thanes …
⸤¶nor her shame …
⸤¶to reward their …
⸤¶but gave them …
⸤¶that last lingered, …
⸤¶a helm of …
⸤¶when he battled …
⸤¶against ogres and …
⸤¶Grey-gleaming steel, with …
⸤¶wrights had wrought …
⸤¶of might and …
⸤¶and its wearer …
⸤¶whoso bore to …
⸤¶dire dragon-headed its …
⸤¶This Thingol she …
⸤¶Thus Halog her …
⸤¶but Thingol’s thanes …
⸤¶and girt them …
⸤¶enmeshed the mountains …
⸤¶for the hills …
⸤¶Lo! Morwen’s message …
⸤¶so speedy fared …
⸤¶For Morwen Melian …
⸤¶but courteously the …
⸤¶her golden gift, …
⸤¶who deeply delved …
⸤¶with elvish armouries …
⸤¶yet he handled …
⸤¶‘That head were …
⸤¶with the token …
⸤¶to Dorlómin dear, …
⸤¶that Thalion Erithámrod …
⸤¶oft bore into …
⸤¶Would that he …
⸤¶on that direst …
⸤¶Then a thought …
⸤¶and Túrin was …
⸤¶that his mother …
⸤¶had sent to …
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⸤¶o’er-written with runes …
⸤¶in dark dwarfland …
⸤¶ere Men to …
⸤¶o’er the world …
⸤¶by the father …
⸤¶whose sire Gumlin …
⸤¶ere his soul …
⸤¶‘’Tis Telchar’s work …
⸤¶its wearer warded …
⸤¶from glaive guarded …
⸤¶Now Húrin’s helm …
⸤¶to battle bids …
⸤¶go wear it …
⸤¶did Túrin touch …
⸤¶too weak to …
⸤¶and his mind …
⸤¶was mazed and …
⸤¶Thus many a …
⸤¶it came to …
⸤¶for twelve years …
⸤¶But seven winters …
⸤¶on the son …
⸤¶came glad and …
⸤¶nine years followed …
⸤¶and his lot …
⸤¶from faring folk …
⸤¶and tidings were …
⸤¶how Morwen his …
⸤¶and easement of …
⸤¶all Nienor named …
⸤¶the slender maiden …
⸤¶now graceful growing. …
⸤¶and hope yet …
⸤¶He waxed and …
⸤¶in all lands …
⸤¶for his stoutness …
⸤¶Much lore he …
⸤¶but fortune followed …
⸤¶oft wrong and …
⸤¶what he loved …
⸤¶and full friendship …
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⸤¶nor was lightly …
⸤¶he was gloomy-hearted …
⸤¶for the sundering …
⸤¶On manhood’s threshold …
⸤¶in the wielding …
⸤¶he had a …
⸤¶for he mourned …
⸤¶Yet greater his …
⸤¶when from Hithlum’s …
⸤¶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 was …
⸤¶There Morgoth shut …
⸤¶fenced them from …
⸤¶Even Beleg fared …
⸤¶as once was …
⸤¶with the armies …
⸤¶and murder walked …
⸤¶only the mighty …
⸤¶yet held their …
⸤¶To assuage his …
⸤¶for his heart …
⸤¶then Húrin’s son …
⸤¶and weapons weighty …
⸤¶and he went …
⸤¶and far in …
⸤¶into black battle …
⸤¶Ere manhood’s measure …
⸤¶Orcs of Angband …
⸤¶that roamed and …
⸤¶There hard his …
⸤¶the wounds of …
⸤¶of the sickle …
⸤¶the bloodfain blades …
⸤¶in Angband smithied, …
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⸤¶unfey, fearless, and …
⸤¶Thus his prowess …
⸤¶and beyond his …
⸤¶for by him …
⸤¶from Thingol’s folk, …
⸤¶and wide wandered …
⸤¶‘Lo! we deemed …
⸤¶but high o’er …
⸤¶its wings are …
⸤¶and the flame …
⸤¶Or is Húrin …
⸤¶And Thû who …
⸤¶neath Morgoth Bauglir, …
⸤¶‘go ravage the …
⸤¶and mar the …
⸤¶even Thû feared …
⸤¶One only was …
⸤¶more high in …
⸤¶than Túrin son …
⸤¶even the hunter …
⸤¶whose father was …
⸤¶to bend whose …
⸤¶that the black …
⸤¶had none the …
⸤¶of the woods’ …
⸤¶He was leader …
⸤¶all garbed in …
⸤¶the archers arrowfleet …
⸤¶the scouts that …
⸤¶afar o’er the …
⸤¶and tales and …
⸤¶of camps and …
⸤¶all the movements …
⸤¶Thus Túrin, who …
⸤¶who was fain …
⸤¶where shining swords …
⸤¶and his corslet-clad …
⸤¶were snared seldom …
⸤¶Then the fame …
⸤¶was carried to …
⸤¶and tales of …
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⸤¶of the bond …
⸤¶with the blackhaired …
⸤¶Then the king …
⸤¶did Orc-raids lessen …
⸤¶ever and often …
⸤¶to rest them …
⸤¶in songs and …
⸤¶the memory of …
⸤¶when the mountains …
⸤¶On a time …
⸤¶and Thingol thanked …
⸤¶there was laughter …
⸤¶of a countless …
⸤¶and the wine …
⸤¶in their golden …
⸤¶there burdened the …
⸤¶in those high …
⸤¶There mirth fell …
⸤¶did sing them …
⸤¶that Taingwethil towering …
⸤¶o’ershadowed sheerly, of …
⸤¶where the great …
⸤¶from the guarded …
⸤¶One sang of …
⸤¶and the curse …