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Volume:
The Lays of Beleriand
Pages: 198–207
Paragraph count:
379
Token count:
2,499
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p198
V …
⸤¶So days drew …
⸤¶the curse of …
⸤¶on Doriath, though …
⸤¶and Lúthien’s singing …
⸤¶The murmurs soft …
⸤¶about the woods, …
⸤¶past the great …
⸤¶but no dancing …
⸤¶on turf or …
⸤¶where stumbled once, …
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⸤¶with longing on …
⸤¶had Beren sat …
⸤¶Esgalduin the dark …
⸤¶she sat and …
⸤¶‘Endless roll the …
⸤¶To this my …
⸤¶enchanted waters pitiless,¶⸥⸤⸥ …
⸤¶a heartache and …
⸤¶The summer turns. …
⸤¶she hears the …
⸤¶the windy tide …
⸤¶the creaking of …
⸤¶and longs unceasing …
⸤¶to hear one …
⸤¶the tender name …
⸤¶were called of …
⸤¶‘Tinúviel! Tinúviel!’¶⸥⸤⸥ …
⸤¶the memory is …
⸤¶a faint and …
⸤¶‘Tinúviel! Tinúviel!’ ¶⸥⸤1235⸥ …
⸤¶‘O mother Melian, …
⸤¶some part of …
⸤¶Tell of thy …
⸤¶are wandering! What …
⸤¶O mother, tell …
⸤¶treading the desert …
⸤¶Do sun and …
⸤¶do the rains …
⸤¶‘Nay, Lúthien my …
⸤¶he lives indeed …
⸤¶The Lord of …
⸤¶chains and enchantments …
⸤¶there trapped and …
⸤¶now Beren dreams …
⸤¶‘Then I alone …
⸤¶and dare the …
⸤¶for none there …
⸤¶in all the …
⸤¶whose only skill …
⸤¶and both have …
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⸤¶Then nought said …
⸤¶though wild the …
⸤¶and ran through …
⸤¶with her hair …
⸤¶Dairon she found …
⸤¶silently sitting on …
⸤¶On the earth …
⸤¶‘O Dairon, Dairon, …
⸤¶‘now pity for …
⸤¶Make me a …
⸤¶for heart’s despair, …
⸤¶for light gone …
⸤¶‘But for music …
⸤¶Dairon answered, and …
⸤¶his fingers clutched. …
⸤¶and sadly trembling …
⸤¶and all things …
⸤¶wailing in the …
⸤¶they listened, their …
⸤¶their hearts’ gladness …
⸤¶forgotten; and bird-voices …
⸤¶while Dairon’s flute …
⸤¶Lúthien wept not …
⸤¶and when he …
⸤¶‘My friend, I …
⸤¶as he who …
⸤¶and fears the …
⸤¶and look back …
⸤¶in windows he …
⸤¶in front, he …
⸤¶that far beyond …
⸤¶And thus of …
⸤¶and of her …
⸤¶to climb the …
⸤¶and ruin of …
⸤¶to dare, a …
⸤¶or sword, or …
⸤¶where magic founders …
⸤¶His aid she …
⸤¶and find the …
⸤¶if he would …
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⸤¶go by her …
⸤¶‘Wherefore,’ said he, …
⸤¶into direst peril …
⸤¶for the sake …
⸤¶his laughter and …
⸤¶for Beren son …
⸤¶nor weep for …
⸤¶who in this …
⸤¶heavy and dark. …
⸤¶I will defend …
⸤¶and deadly wandering …
⸤¶No more they …
⸤¶perceived not his …
⸤¶she thanked him, …
⸤¶A tree she …
⸤¶above the woods …
⸤¶and straining afar …
⸤¶the outline grey …
⸤¶of dizzy towers …
⸤¶the southern faces …
⸤¶in rocky pinnacle …
⸤¶of Shadowy Mountains …
⸤¶and wide the …
⸤¶But straightway Dairon …
⸤¶and told him …
⸤¶and how her …
⸤¶to ruin, unless …
⸤¶Thingol was wroth, …
⸤¶in wonder and …
⸤¶on Dairon, and …
⸤¶Now ever shall …
⸤¶while Doriath lasts; …
⸤¶thou art a …
⸤¶He sent for …
⸤¶‘O maiden fair, …
⸤¶to ponder madness …
⸤¶to wander to …
⸤¶from Doriath against …
⸤¶stealing like a …
⸤¶into the emptiness …
⸤¶‘The wisdom, father,’ …
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⸤¶nor would she …
⸤¶nor would she …
⸤¶her folly to …
⸤¶in Doriath her …
⸤¶This only vowed …
⸤¶that none but …
⸤¶no folk of …
⸤¶to break his …
⸤¶if go she …
⸤¶and friendless dare …
⸤¶In angry love …
⸤¶Thingol took counsel …
⸤¶to guard and …
⸤¶in caverns deep …
⸤¶sweet Lúthien, his …
⸤¶who robbed of …
⸤¶who ever must …
⸤¶and see the …
⸤¶But close unto …
⸤¶and grassy throne …
⸤¶of Hirilorn, the …
⸤¶Upon her triple …
⸤¶no break or …
⸤¶in a green …
⸤¶the mightiest vault …
⸤¶from world’s beginning …
⸤¶was flung above …
⸤¶and the long …
⸤¶Grey was the …
⸤¶and silken-smooth, and …
⸤¶to squirrels’ eyes …
⸤¶at her grey …
⸤¶Now Thingol made …
⸤¶in that great …
⸤¶their longest ladders, …
⸤¶an airy house; …
⸤¶a little dwelling …
⸤¶was made, and …
⸤¶above the first …
⸤¶it had and …
⸤¶and by three …
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⸤¶in the corners …
⸤¶There Lúthien was …
⸤¶until she was …
⸤¶of madness left …
⸤¶the long ladders …
⸤¶among the leaves, …
⸤¶she sang no …
⸤¶White glimmering in …
⸤¶and her little …
⸤¶The ladders were …
⸤¶her feet might …
⸤¶Thither at whiles …
⸤¶all things she …
⸤¶but death was …
⸤¶a ladder leave, …
⸤¶should set one …
⸤¶a guard was …
⸤¶about the grey …
⸤¶and Lúthien in …
⸤¶There Dairon grieving …
⸤¶in sorrow for …
⸤¶and melodies made …
⸤¶leaning against a …
⸤¶Lúthien would from …
⸤¶and see him …
⸤¶and she forgave …
⸤¶for the music …
⸤¶and only Dairon …
⸤¶across her threshold …
⸤¶Yet long the …
⸤¶and see the …
⸤¶in beechen leaves, …
⸤¶peep on clear …
⸤¶of beechen branches. …
⸤¶just ere the …
⸤¶a dream there …
⸤¶or Melian’s magic. …
⸤¶heard Beren’s voice …
⸤¶‘Tinúviel’ call, ‘Tinúviel.’¶⸥⸤⸥ …
⸤¶And her heart …
⸤¶to seek him …
p204
⸤¶She woke and …
⸤¶through the slim …
⸤¶upon her arms, …
⸤¶and there in …
⸤¶and yearned for …
⸤¶Now Lúthien doth …
⸤¶and Melian’s daughter …
⸤¶knew many things, …
⸤¶than then or …
⸤¶that glint and …
⸤¶She pondered long, …
⸤¶and faded, and …
⸤¶and the dawn …
⸤¶on her face …
⸤¶and watched the …
⸤¶then called to …
⸤¶And when one …
⸤¶that he would …
⸤¶of cold Esgalduin, …
⸤¶the clearest water …
⸤¶to draw for …
⸤¶she said, ‘in …
⸤¶it must be …
⸤¶with no word …
⸤¶Another she begged …
⸤¶in a jar …
⸤¶‘and singing let …
⸤¶at high noon, …
⸤¶Again she spake: …
⸤¶to Melian the …
⸤¶“thy daughter many …
⸤¶slow passing watches …
⸤¶a spinning-wheel she …
⸤¶Then Dairon she …
⸤¶climb up and …
⸤¶And sitting at …
⸤¶she said: ‘My …
⸤¶beside thy music, …
⸤¶and many a …
⸤¶to fashion with …
⸤¶if thou wouldst …
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⸤¶to stand in …
⸤¶My idle fingers …
⸤¶a pattern of …
⸤¶of sun and …
⸤¶amid the beech-leaves …
⸤¶This Dairon did …
⸤¶‘O Lúthien, O …
⸤¶What wilt thou …
⸤¶‘A marvellous thread, …
⸤¶a potent magic, …
⸤¶I will weave …
⸤¶nor all the …
⸤¶Then Dairon wondered, …
⸤¶no word to …
⸤¶feared the dark …
⸤¶And Lúthien now …
⸤¶A magic song …
⸤¶she sang, and …
⸤¶with water mingled …
⸤¶and as in …
⸤¶she sang a …
⸤¶and as they …
⸤¶another song she …
⸤¶and darkness without …
⸤¶uplifted to the …
⸤¶and freedom. And …
⸤¶tallest and longest …
⸤¶the locks of …
⸤¶of Draugluin the …
⸤¶the body of …
⸤¶the vast upsoaring …
⸤¶above the fires …
⸤¶the chain Angainor …
⸤¶for Morgoth shall …
⸤¶of steel and …
⸤¶and sang of …
⸤¶of Gilim the …
⸤¶and last and …
⸤¶the endless hair …
⸤¶the Lady of …
⸤¶through all the …
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⸤¶Then did she …
⸤¶a theme of …
⸤¶profound and fathomless …
⸤¶as Lúthien’s shadowy …
⸤¶each thread was …
⸤¶than threads of …
⸤¶in filmy web …
⸤¶and closing flowers …
⸤¶Now long and …
⸤¶and fell to …
⸤¶like pools of …
⸤¶Then Lúthien in …
⸤¶was laid upon …
⸤¶till morning through …
⸤¶thinly and faint. …
⸤¶and the room …
⸤¶and with an …
⸤¶she lay thereunder …
⸤¶Behold! her hair …
⸤¶in morning airs, …
⸤¶waving about the …
⸤¶of Hirilorn at …
⸤¶Then groping she …
⸤¶and cut the …
⸤¶and close she …
⸤¶enchanted tresses, thread …
⸤¶Thereafter grew they …
⸤¶yet darker than …
⸤¶And now was …
⸤¶long was she …
⸤¶and though with …
⸤¶long was her …
⸤¶to call her, …
⸤¶‘Nothing I need,’ …
⸤¶I would keep …
⸤¶I now desire, …
⸤¶Then Dairon feared, …
⸤¶he called from …
⸤¶she answered not. …
⸤¶she wove a …
⸤¶of moonless night, …
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⸤¶a robe as …
⸤¶beneath great trees, …
⸤¶that all was …
⸤¶enchanted with a …
⸤¶than Melian’s raiment …
⸤¶wherein of yore …
⸤¶beneath the dark …
⸤¶that hung above …
⸤¶And now this …
⸤¶and veiled her …
⸤¶her mantle blue …
⸤¶like crystal stars, …
⸤¶were wrapped and …
⸤¶dim dreams and …
⸤¶falling about her, …
⸤¶through all the …
⸤¶the threads unused; …
⸤¶a slender rope …
⸤¶yet long and …
⸤¶she makes it …
⸤¶of Hirilorn. Now, …
⸤¶and labour ended, …
⸤¶from her little …
⸤¶Already the sunlight …
⸤¶is drooping red, …
⸤¶come softly along …
⸤¶and now she …
⸤¶Now chanting clearer …
⸤¶her long hair, …
⸤¶from her window …
⸤¶Men far beneath …
⸤¶but the slumbrous …
⸤¶above her guards. …
⸤¶they listened to …
⸤¶suddenly beneath a …
⸤¶Now clad as …
⸤¶now down her …
⸤¶as light as …
⸤¶away, she danced, …
⸤¶what paths she …
⸤¶no impress made …