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Volume:
The Lays of Beleriand
Pages: 210–218
Paragraph count:
341
Token count:
2,169
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VI …
⸤¶When Morgoth in …
⸤¶had slain the …
⸤¶the shining land …
⸤¶there Fëanor and …
⸤¶the mighty oath …
⸤¶of tower-crownéd Tûn, …
⸤¶wrought wars and …
⸤¶From darkling seas …
⸤¶their blinding shadows …
⸤¶where Glingal once …
⸤¶and Belthil bore …
⸤¶The mists were …
⸤¶of the Elves’ …
⸤¶There countless torches …
⸤¶did start and …
⸤¶were gathered to …
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⸤¶and thronged the …
⸤¶that led to …
⸤¶There Fëanor mourned …
⸤¶the Silmarils he …
⸤¶his wild and …
⸤¶a great host …
⸤¶But all he …
⸤¶half truth and …
⸤¶that Morgoth sowed …
⸤¶in other songs …
⸤¶recorded is. He …
⸤¶from lands divine, …
⸤¶the pathless plains, …
⸤¶where ice-infested water …
⸤¶to follow Morgoth …
⸤¶leaving their dwellings …
⸤¶to go back …
⸤¶to wars and …
⸤¶they joined in …
⸤¶swearing beneath the …
⸤¶by Varda the …
⸤¶and bore them …
⸤¶and set them …
⸤¶Timbrenting’s holy height …
⸤¶whereon are built …
⸤¶of Manwë Lord …
⸤¶these names in …
⸤¶his oath, though …
⸤¶Curufin, Celegorm the …
⸤¶Damrod and Díriel …
⸤¶and Cranthir dark, …
⸤¶(whom after torment …
⸤¶and Maglor the …
⸤¶with deep voice …
⸤¶‘Be he friend …
⸤¶of Morgoth Bauglir, …
⸤¶that in after …
⸤¶no law, nor …
⸤¶not might of …
⸤¶shall him defend …
⸤¶of Fëanor’s sons, …
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⸤¶or finding keeps …
⸤¶the thrice-enchanted globes …
⸤¶that shine until …
⸤¶The wars and …
⸤¶this tale tells …
⸤¶they fought and …
⸤¶Fingon daring alone …
⸤¶and sought for …
⸤¶in torment terrible …
⸤¶his wrist in …
⸤¶from a sheer …
⸤¶the dizzy senses …
⸤¶from Thangorodrim’s stony …
⸤¶The song of …
⸤¶captain of armies, …
⸤¶who fell at …
⸤¶with his white …
⸤¶They sing how …
⸤¶and stayed the …
⸤¶between the children …
⸤¶Now joined once …
⸤¶even great Morgoth, …
⸤¶beleaguered Angband, till …
⸤¶no Orc nor …
⸤¶their leaguer break …
⸤¶Then days of …
⸤¶beneath the new-lit …
⸤¶was heard in …
⸤¶a young race, …
⸤¶That was the …
⸤¶the Siege of …
⸤¶the Gnomish swords …
⸤¶from Morgoth’s ruin, …
⸤¶of blossoming, of …
⸤¶but still there …
⸤¶and still the …
⸤¶in Angband’s darkly-dolven …
⸤¶An end there …
⸤¶and flames of …
⸤¶and all the …
⸤¶in secret in …
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⸤¶and poured across …
⸤¶and armies black …
⸤¶The leaguer of …
⸤¶his enemies in …
⸤¶were scattered, and …
⸤¶and slew, until …
⸤¶dripped from each …
⸤¶Then Barahir the …
⸤¶with mighty spear, …
⸤¶Felagund wounded. To …
⸤¶escaping, there they …
⸤¶and Felagund deeply …
⸤¶of friendship to …
⸤¶of love and …
⸤¶But there of …
⸤¶were Angrod slain …
⸤¶Felagund and Orodreth …
⸤¶gathered the remnant …
⸤¶their maidens and …
⸤¶forsaking war they …
⸤¶and cavernous hold …
⸤¶On Narog’s towering …
⸤¶was opened; which …
⸤¶and mighty doors, …
⸤¶till Túrin’s day …
⸤¶they built by …
⸤¶And with them …
⸤¶Curufin, and Celegorm …
⸤¶and a mighty …
⸤¶in Narog’s secret …
⸤¶Thus Felagund in …
⸤¶still reigned, a …
⸤¶was sworn to …
⸤¶And now his …
⸤¶wandered alone as …
⸤¶Esgalduin’s dark and …
⸤¶he followed, till …
⸤¶were joined to …
⸤¶pale silver water …
⸤¶rolling in splendour …
⸤¶Now Beren came …
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⸤¶wide shallow meres …
⸤¶his gathered tide …
⸤¶ere chafed and …
⸤¶of reedy banks …
⸤¶he feeds and …
⸤¶into vast chasms …
⸤¶where many miles …
⸤¶Umboth-Muilin, Twilight Meres, …
⸤¶those great wide …
⸤¶the Elves then …
⸤¶from thence across …
⸤¶the Hills of …
⸤¶with bare tops …
⸤¶by western winds; …
⸤¶of streaming rains …
⸤¶into the meres …
⸤¶beneath those hills …
⸤¶of Narog, and …
⸤¶of Felagund beside …
⸤¶of Ingwil tumbling …
⸤¶An everlasting watch …
⸤¶the Gnomes of …
⸤¶and every hill …
⸤¶where wardens sleepless …
⸤¶guarding the plain …
⸤¶between Narog swift …
⸤¶and archers whose …
⸤¶there range the …
⸤¶all who creep …
⸤¶Yet now he …
⸤¶bearing the gleaming …
⸤¶of Felagund, and …
⸤¶‘Here comes no …
⸤¶but Beren son …
⸤¶who once to …
⸤¶So ere he …
⸤¶of Narog, that …
⸤¶o’er boulders black, …
⸤¶came round him. …
⸤¶they bowed before …
⸤¶was poor and …
⸤¶they led him …
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⸤¶nor bridge was …
⸤¶before the gates …
⸤¶and friend nor …
⸤¶To northward, where …
⸤¶more slender flowed, …
⸤¶of foam-splashed land …
⸤¶when her brief …
⸤¶and joins the …
⸤¶Now swiftest journey …
⸤¶to Nargothrond’s sheer …
⸤¶and dim gigantic …
⸤¶They came beneath …
⸤¶to doors there …
⸤¶with posts and …
⸤¶and timbers huge. …
⸤¶were gaping gates, …
⸤¶where Felagund on …
⸤¶Fair were the …
⸤¶to Beren, and …
⸤¶and all his …
⸤¶recounted soon. Behind …
⸤¶they sat, while …
⸤¶of Doriath; and …
⸤¶recalling Lúthien dancing …
⸤¶with wild white …
⸤¶remembering her elven …
⸤¶while stars in …
⸤¶He spake of …
⸤¶by enchantment lit, …
⸤¶and ever the …
⸤¶to Melian and …
⸤¶The quest he …
⸤¶in scorn on …
⸤¶more fair than …
⸤¶of Tinúviel, of …
⸤¶he must essay …
⸤¶and doubtless death …
⸤¶This Felagund in …
⸤¶and heavily spake …
⸤¶‘It seems that …
⸤¶thy death. The …
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⸤¶of those enchanted …
⸤¶is cursed with …
⸤¶and Fëanor’s sons …
⸤¶are lords and …
⸤¶He cannot hope …
⸤¶to keep this …
⸤¶of all the …
⸤¶And yet thou …
⸤¶can thy return …
⸤¶be purchased? Many …
⸤¶in sooth there …
⸤¶and after Morgoth, …
⸤¶untiring hate, as …
⸤¶would hunt thee …
⸤¶Fëanor’s sons would, …
⸤¶slay thee or …
⸤¶or laid in …
⸤¶or gained at …
⸤¶Lo! Celegorm and …
⸤¶here dwell this …
⸤¶and even though …
⸤¶am king, a …
⸤¶and many of …
⸤¶Friendship to me …
⸤¶they yet have …
⸤¶that to Beren …
⸤¶mercy or love …
⸤¶if once thy …
⸤¶True words he …
⸤¶to all his …
⸤¶and spake of …
⸤¶and how that …
⸤¶had saved them …
⸤¶on Northern battlefields …
⸤¶then many were …
⸤¶once more to …
⸤¶amid the throng, …
⸤¶for hearing, one …
⸤¶proud Celegorm with …
⸤¶and shining sword. …
⸤¶upon his stern …
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⸤¶and a great …
⸤¶‘Be he friend …
⸤¶of Morgoth, Elf, …
⸤¶or any that …
⸤¶no law, nor …
⸤¶no might of …
⸤¶shall him defend …
⸤¶of Fëanor’s sons, …
⸤¶or finding keep …
⸤¶These we alone …
⸤¶our thrice enchanted …
⸤¶Many wild and …
⸤¶and as before …
⸤¶his father’s voice …
⸤¶so now dark …
⸤¶he cast on …
⸤¶of friend with …
⸤¶their minds imagined …
⸤¶in Nargothrond about …
⸤¶did Narog’s host …
⸤¶or haply battle, …
⸤¶in Doriath where …
⸤¶if Fëanor’s fatal …
⸤¶And even such …
⸤¶to Felagund his …
⸤¶and thought with …
⸤¶of seeking Morgoth …
⸤¶with force or …
⸤¶when his brother …
⸤¶more to impress …
⸤¶and such a …
⸤¶that never again …
⸤¶would Gnome of …
⸤¶of open battle …
⸤¶With secrecy, ambush, …
⸤¶of wizardry, with …
⸤¶of wild things …
⸤¶of phantom hunters, …
⸤¶and unseen stealthy …
⸤¶with padding hatred …
⸤¶with feet of …
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⸤¶followed remorseless out …
⸤¶and slew it …
⸤¶thus they defended …
⸤¶and forgot their …
⸤¶for dread of …
⸤¶of Curufin set …
⸤¶So would they …
⸤¶King Felagund their …
⸤¶but sullen murmured …
⸤¶nor yet his …
⸤¶Then Felagund took …
⸤¶and at his …
⸤¶the silver helm …
⸤¶‘Yours ye may …
⸤¶must keep, and …
⸤¶If hearts here …
⸤¶or that to …
⸤¶then I at …
⸤¶to go with …
⸤¶rejected beggar scorn …
⸤¶turned from my …
⸤¶my people, and …
⸤¶Hearing these words …
⸤¶beside him ten …
⸤¶men of his …
⸤¶wherever his banners …
⸤¶One stooped and …
⸤¶and said: ‘O …
⸤¶is now our …
⸤¶thy rightful lordship. …
⸤¶one to be …
⸤¶Then Felagund upon …
⸤¶of Orodreth set …
⸤¶till I return …
⸤¶Then Celegorm no …
⸤¶and Curufin smiled …