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Volume:
The Lays of Beleriand
Pages: 224–232
Paragraph count:
315
Token count:
2,022
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p224
VII …
⸤¶Thus twelve alone …
⸤¶from Nargothrond, and …
⸤¶they turned their …
⸤¶and vanished in …
⸤¶No trumpet sounds, …
⸤¶as robed in …
⸤¶now blackened dark …
⸤¶and sombre cloaks …
⸤¶Far-journeying Narog’s leaping …
⸤¶they followed till …
⸤¶the flickering falls, …
⸤¶a glimmering goblet …
⸤¶with crystal waters …
⸤¶and quiver down …
⸤¶from Ivrin’s mere …
⸤¶the pallid faces …
⸤¶of Shadowy Mountains …
⸤¶Now far beyond …
⸤¶from Orc and …
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⸤¶of Morgoth’s might …
⸤¶In woods o’ershadowed …
⸤¶they watched and …
⸤¶till on a …
⸤¶did moon and …
⸤¶and winds of …
⸤¶soughed in the …
⸤¶down the dark …
⸤¶they heard a …
⸤¶from far, a …
⸤¶now louder; now …
⸤¶of hideous stamping …
⸤¶the weary earth. …
⸤¶of sullen red …
⸤¶swinging, and glistening …
⸤¶and scimitar. There …
⸤¶they saw a …
⸤¶with goblin-faces swart …
⸤¶Bats were about …
⸤¶the ghostly forsaken …
⸤¶from trees above. …
⸤¶the laughter like …
⸤¶passed and faded. …
⸤¶the Elves and …
⸤¶than foxes stealing …
⸤¶in search of …
⸤¶lit by flickering …
⸤¶they stole, and …
⸤¶full thirty Orcs …
⸤¶of burning wood. …
⸤¶they one by …
⸤¶each in the …
⸤¶each slowly, grimly, …
⸤¶bent then his …
⸤¶Hark! how they …
⸤¶when Felagund lets …
⸤¶and twelve Orcs …
⸤¶Then forth they …
⸤¶Out their bright …
⸤¶The stricken Orcs …
⸤¶as lost things …
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⸤¶Battle there is …
⸤¶bitter and swift; …
⸤¶there left their …
⸤¶and stained no …
⸤¶with rape and …
⸤¶of joy, or …
⸤¶the Elves there …
⸤¶they were, for …
⸤¶so small an …
⸤¶Swiftly the raiment …
⸤¶and cast the …
⸤¶This desperate counsel …
⸤¶of Felagund for …
⸤¶as Orcs his …
⸤¶The poisoned spears, …
⸤¶the crooked swords …
⸤¶they took; and …
⸤¶in Angband’s raiment …
⸤¶They smeared their …
⸤¶with pigment dark; …
⸤¶all lank and …
⸤¶they shore, and …
⸤¶with Gnomish skill. …
⸤¶at each dismayed, …
⸤¶he hangs it …
⸤¶Then Felagund a …
⸤¶of changing and …
⸤¶their ears grew …
⸤¶their mouths did …
⸤¶each tooth became, …
⸤¶Their Gnomish raiment …
⸤¶and one by …
⸤¶behind a foul …
⸤¶that once was …
⸤¶Northward they went; …
⸤¶who passed, nor …
⸤¶but hailed them …
⸤¶they grew as …
⸤¶At length they …
⸤¶beyond Beleriand. They …
⸤¶young waters, rippling, …
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⸤¶of Sirion hurrying …
⸤¶where Taur-na-Fuin, Deadly …
⸤¶the trackless forest’s …
⸤¶falls dark forbidding …
⸤¶upon the east, …
⸤¶the northward-bending Mountains …
⸤¶and bar the …
⸤¶An isléd hill …
⸤¶amid the valley, …
⸤¶rolled from the …
⸤¶when giants in …
⸤¶Around its feet …
⸤¶a stream divided, …
⸤¶the hanging edges …
⸤¶There briefly shuddered …
⸤¶and ran to …
⸤¶An elven watchtower …
⸤¶and strong it …
⸤¶but now did …
⸤¶one way to …
⸤¶the other to …
⸤¶beyond the valley’s …
⸤¶Thence could be …
⸤¶the dusty dunes, …
⸤¶and further far …
⸤¶the brooding cloud …
⸤¶on Thangorodrim’s thunderous …
⸤¶Now in that …
⸤¶of one most …
⸤¶that from Beleriand …
⸤¶he watched with …
⸤¶(From the North …
⸤¶save east where …
⸤¶and that dark …
⸤¶which only in …
⸤¶through Deadly Nightshade’s …
⸤¶where Taur-na-Fuin’s branches …
⸤¶and Aglon led …
⸤¶and Fëanor’s sons …
⸤¶Men called him …
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⸤¶in after days …
⸤¶bewildered bowed to …
⸤¶his ghastly temples …
⸤¶Not yet by …
⸤¶now was he …
⸤¶Master of Wolves, …
⸤¶for ever echoed …
⸤¶enchantments and dark …
⸤¶did weave and …
⸤¶that necromancer held …
⸤¶of phantoms and …
⸤¶of misbegotten or …
⸤¶monsters that about …
⸤¶working his bidding …
⸤¶the werewolves of …
⸤¶From Thû their …
⸤¶and though beneath …
⸤¶of the forest’s …
⸤¶he saw them …
⸤¶‘Go! fetch me …
⸤¶‘that fare thus …
⸤¶and do not …
⸤¶and are commanded, …
⸤¶of all their …
⸤¶From his tower …
⸤¶suspicion and a …
⸤¶waiting, leering, till …
⸤¶Now ringed about …
⸤¶and fear their …
⸤¶the land of …
⸤¶Foreboding evil weights …
⸤¶as downcast, halting, …
⸤¶and cross the …
⸤¶to Wizard’s Isle, …
⸤¶there fashioned of …
⸤¶‘Where have ye …
⸤¶‘In Elfinesse; and …
⸤¶the fire blowing …
⸤¶these have we …
⸤¶Thirty we slew …
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⸤¶in a dark …
⸤¶and the owl …
⸤¶‘Come, tell me …
⸤¶what then in …
⸤¶What of Nargothrond? …
⸤¶Into that realm …
⸤¶‘Only its borders …
⸤¶There reigns King …
⸤¶‘Then heard ye …
⸤¶that Celegorm sits …
⸤¶‘That is not …
⸤¶then Orodreth sits …
⸤¶‘Sharp are your …
⸤¶tidings of realms …
⸤¶What are your …
⸤¶Who your captain, …
⸤¶‘Nereb and Dungalef …
⸤¶so we are …
⸤¶under the mountains. …
⸤¶we march on …
⸤¶Boldog the captain …
⸤¶where fires from …
⸤¶‘Boldog, I heard, …
⸤¶warring on the …
⸤¶where Robber Thingol …
⸤¶cringe and crawl …
⸤¶in drear Doriath. …
⸤¶of that pretty …
⸤¶Her body is …
⸤¶Morgoth would possess …
⸤¶Boldog he sent, …
⸤¶strange ye were …
⸤¶Nereb looks fierce, …
⸤¶Little Lúthien! What …
⸤¶Why laughs he …
⸤¶crushing a maiden …
⸤¶that foul should …
⸤¶that dark should …
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⸤¶Whom do ye …
⸤¶Who is the …
⸤¶Who is the …
⸤¶the greatest giver …
⸤¶Who is the …
⸤¶Who despoiled them …
⸤¶the greedy Gods? …
⸤¶Orcs of Bauglir! …
⸤¶Death to light, …
⸤¶Cursed be moon …
⸤¶May darkness everlasting …
⸤¶that waits outside …
⸤¶drown Manwë, Varda, …
⸤¶May all in …
⸤¶and all in …
⸤¶in the moaning …
⸤¶But no true …
⸤¶would ever speak …
⸤¶and Beren muttered: …
⸤¶to hinder work …
⸤¶Him we serve …
⸤¶obeisance, and we …
⸤¶Thû laughed: ‘Patience! …
⸤¶shall ye abide. …
⸤¶I will sing …
⸤¶Then his flaming …
⸤¶and darkness black …
⸤¶Only they saw …
⸤¶of eddying smoke …
⸤¶in which their …
⸤¶He chanted a …
⸤¶of piercing, opening, …
⸤¶revealing, uncovering, betraying. …
⸤¶Then sudden Felagund …
⸤¶sang in answer …
⸤¶resisting, battling against …
⸤¶of secrets kept, …
⸤¶and trust unbroken, …
⸤¶of changing and …
⸤¶of snares eluded, …
⸤¶the prison opening, …
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⸤¶Backwards and forwards …
⸤¶Reeling and foundering, …
⸤¶Thû’s chanting swelled, …
⸤¶and all the …
⸤¶of Elfinesse into …
⸤¶Softly in the …
⸤¶singing afar in …
⸤¶the sighing of …
⸤¶beyond the western …
⸤¶on sand of …
⸤¶Then the gloom …
⸤¶in Valinor, the …
⸤¶beside the sea, …
⸤¶the Foamriders, and …
⸤¶their white ships …
⸤¶from lamplit havens. …
⸤¶The wolf howls. …
⸤¶The ice mutters …
⸤¶The captives sad …
⸤¶Thunder rumbles, the …
⸤¶a vast smoke …
⸤¶and Felagund swoons …
⸤¶Behold! they are …
⸤¶fairskinned, brighteyed. No …
⸤¶Orclike their mouths; …
⸤¶betrayed into the …
⸤¶Thus came they …
⸤¶to dungeons no …
⸤¶where chained in …
⸤¶and woven in …
⸤¶they lay forgotten, …
⸤¶Yet not all …
⸤¶the spells of …
⸤¶neither their names …
⸤¶These much he …
⸤¶and in their …
⸤¶and threatened all …
⸤¶if one would …
⸤¶reveal this knowledge. …
⸤¶and slow devour …
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⸤¶before the others’ …
⸤¶should one alone …
⸤¶then in a …
⸤¶with anguish should …
⸤¶in the bowels …
⸤¶endlessly, cruelly, put …
⸤¶and torment, till …
⸤¶Even as he …
⸤¶From time to …
⸤¶two eyes would …
⸤¶to frightful cries, …
⸤¶of rending, a …
⸤¶and blood flowing …
⸤¶But none would …