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Volume:
The Lays of Beleriand
Pages: 235–243
Paragraph count:
329
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2,124
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VIII …
⸤¶Hounds there were …
⸤¶with silver collars. …
⸤¶the fox and …
⸤¶there in the …
⸤¶Oromë was the …
⸤¶of all those …
⸤¶went in his …
⸤¶The Gnomes anew …
⸤¶Tavros, the God …
⸤¶over the mountains …
⸤¶who alone of …
⸤¶before the banners …
⸤¶of Moon and …
⸤¶were his great …
⸤¶baying in woods …
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⸤¶of race immortal …
⸤¶grey and limber, …
⸤¶white with silken …
⸤¶brown and brindled, …
⸤¶as arrow from …
⸤¶their voices like …
⸤¶that ring in …
⸤¶their eyes like …
⸤¶like ruel-bone. As …
⸤¶they flashed and …
⸤¶for Tavros’ joy …
⸤¶In Tavros’ friths …
⸤¶had Huan once …
⸤¶He grew the …
⸤¶and Oromë gave …
⸤¶to Celegorm, who …
⸤¶the great God’s …
⸤¶Alone of hounds …
⸤¶when sons of …
⸤¶and came into …
⸤¶beside his master. …
⸤¶and every foray …
⸤¶and into mortal …
⸤¶Often he saved …
⸤¶from Orc and …
⸤¶A wolf-hound, tireless, …
⸤¶he grew; his …
⸤¶all shadows and …
⸤¶moons old he …
⸤¶through rustling leaves …
⸤¶all paths of …
⸤¶he knew. But …
⸤¶he loved to …
⸤¶their snarling lives …
⸤¶The packs of …
⸤¶No wizardry, nor …
⸤¶no fang, nor …
⸤¶could brew had …
⸤¶was woven. Yet …
⸤¶that fate decreed …
⸤¶before the mightiest …
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⸤¶before the mightiest …
⸤¶that ever was …
⸤¶Hark! afar in …
⸤¶far over Sirion …
⸤¶there are dim …
⸤¶and barking hounds …
⸤¶The hunt is …
⸤¶Who rides to-day? …
⸤¶that Celegorm and …
⸤¶have loosed their …
⸤¶they mounted ere …
⸤¶and took their …
⸤¶The wolves of …
⸤¶both far and …
⸤¶by night across …
⸤¶of Narog. Doth …
⸤¶perchance, of plots …
⸤¶of secrets that …
⸤¶of movements in …
⸤¶and errands under …
⸤¶Curufin spake: ‘Good …
⸤¶I like it …
⸤¶doth this portend? …
⸤¶we swift must …
⸤¶And more, ’twould …
⸤¶to hunt a …
⸤¶And then he …
⸤¶that Orodreth was …
⸤¶long time it …
⸤¶and rumour or …
⸤¶‘At least thy …
⸤¶to know whether …
⸤¶to gather thy …
⸤¶“I go to …
⸤¶and men will …
⸤¶ever thou heedest. …
⸤¶things may be …
⸤¶by some blind …
⸤¶his footsteps mad, …
⸤¶a Silmaril – …
⸤¶no more in …
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⸤¶is thine (and …
⸤¶another may be …
⸤¶The eldest blood …
⸤¶Celegorm listened. Nought …
⸤¶but forth a …
⸤¶and Huan leaped …
⸤¶the chief and …
⸤¶Three days they …
⸤¶the wolves of …
⸤¶and many a …
⸤¶they take, and …
⸤¶till nigh to …
⸤¶of Doriath a …
⸤¶There were dim …
⸤¶and barking dogs …
⸤¶The hunt was …
⸤¶and one there …
⸤¶and fear was …
⸤¶She knew not …
⸤¶Far from her …
⸤¶she flitted ghostlike …
⸤¶ever her heart …
⸤¶but her limbs …
⸤¶The eyes of …
⸤¶wavering, darting down …
⸤¶like a mist …
⸤¶and hasting fearfully …
⸤¶He bayed, and …
⸤¶to chase the …
⸤¶On terror’s wings, …
⸤¶pursued by a …
⸤¶she fluttered hither, …
⸤¶now poised, now …
⸤¶in vain. At …
⸤¶she leaned and …
⸤¶No word of …
⸤¶no elvish mystery …
⸤¶or had entwined …
⸤¶availed against that …
⸤¶whose old immortal …
⸤¶no spells could …
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⸤¶Huan alone that …
⸤¶she never in …
⸤¶nor bound with …
⸤¶and gentle voice …
⸤¶and eyes like …
⸤¶tamed him that …
⸤¶Lightly he lifted …
⸤¶his trembling burden. …
⸤¶had Celegorm beheld …
⸤¶‘What hast thou …
⸤¶Dark-elvish maid, or …
⸤¶Not such to …
⸤¶‘’Tis Lúthien of …
⸤¶the maiden spake. …
⸤¶far from the …
⸤¶she sadly winds, …
⸤¶and hope grows …
⸤¶down she let …
⸤¶and there she …
⸤¶Her starry jewels …
⸤¶in the risen …
⸤¶the lilies gold …
⸤¶gleamed and glistened. …
⸤¶on that fair …
⸤¶Long did Curufin …
⸤¶The perfume of …
⸤¶her lissom limbs, …
⸤¶smote to his …
⸤¶enchained he stood. …
⸤¶O lady fair, …
⸤¶and lonely journey …
⸤¶What tidings dread …
⸤¶In Doriath have …
⸤¶For fortune thee …
⸤¶friends thou hast …
⸤¶and gazed upon …
⸤¶In his heart …
⸤¶he knew in …
⸤¶of guile upon …
⸤¶‘Who are ye …
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⸤¶that follow in …
⸤¶she asked; and …
⸤¶they gave. ‘Thy …
⸤¶lords of Nargothrond …
⸤¶and beg that …
⸤¶back to their …
⸤¶a season, seeking …
⸤¶And now to …
⸤¶So Lúthien tells …
⸤¶in northern lands, …
⸤¶to Doriath, of …
⸤¶the dreadful errand …
⸤¶decreed for Beren. …
⸤¶the brothers gave …
⸤¶that touched them …
⸤¶and the marvellous …
⸤¶she lightly tells, …
⸤¶recalling sunlight in …
⸤¶moonlight, starlight in …
⸤¶ere Beren took …
⸤¶‘Need, too, my …
⸤¶No time in …
⸤¶For days are …
⸤¶Melian whose heart …
⸤¶looking afar me …
⸤¶that Beren lived …
⸤¶The Lord of …
⸤¶chains and enchantments …
⸤¶and there entrapped …
⸤¶doth Beren lie …
⸤¶hath not brought …
⸤¶then gasping woe …
⸤¶To Celegorm said …
⸤¶apart and low: …
⸤¶of Felagund, and …
⸤¶wherefore Thû’s creatures …
⸤¶and other whispered …
⸤¶and showed him …
⸤¶‘Lady,’ said Celegorm, …
⸤¶we go a-hunting …
⸤¶and though our …
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⸤¶’tis ill prepared …
⸤¶and island fortress …
⸤¶Deem not our …
⸤¶Lo! here our …
⸤¶and home our …
⸤¶counsel and aid …
⸤¶for Beren that …
⸤¶To Nargothrond they …
⸤¶Lúthien, whose heart …
⸤¶Delay she feared; …
⸤¶upon her spirit, …
⸤¶they rode not …
⸤¶Ahead leaped Huan …
⸤¶and ever looking …
⸤¶was troubled. What …
⸤¶and why he …
⸤¶why Curufin looked …
⸤¶on Lúthien, he …
⸤¶and felt some …
⸤¶of ancient curse …
⸤¶His heart was …
⸤¶of Beren bold, …
⸤¶and Felagund who …
⸤¶In Nargothrond the …
⸤¶and feast and …
⸤¶Lúthien feasted not …
⸤¶Her ways were …
⸤¶she might not …
⸤¶was hidden, and …
⸤¶was heeded, nor …
⸤¶her eager questions. …
⸤¶it seemed, were …
⸤¶in anguish and …
⸤¶in prison and …
⸤¶Too late she …
⸤¶It was not …
⸤¶that Fëanor’s sons …
⸤¶who Beren heeded …
⸤¶had little cause …
⸤¶the king they …
⸤¶old vows of …
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⸤¶had roused from …
⸤¶the purpose dark …
⸤¶King Felagund to …
⸤¶and with King …
⸤¶the house of …
⸤¶or treaty. But …
⸤¶he had no …
⸤¶the brothers had …
⸤¶and all yet …
⸤¶Orodreth’s counsel no …
⸤¶their shame they …
⸤¶the tale of …
⸤¶At Lúthien’s feet …
⸤¶and at night …
⸤¶Huan the hound …
⸤¶and words she …
⸤¶‘O Huan, Huan, …
⸤¶that ever ran …
⸤¶what evil doth …
⸤¶to heed no …
⸤¶Once Barahir all …
⸤¶good hounds did …
⸤¶once Beren in …
⸤¶when outlaw wild …
⸤¶had friends unfailing …
⸤¶with fur and …
⸤¶and among the …
⸤¶in mountains old …
⸤¶still dwell. But …
⸤¶none save the …
⸤¶remembers him who …
⸤¶and never to …
⸤¶Nought said Huan; …
⸤¶thereafter never near …
⸤¶to Lúthien, nor …
⸤¶but shrank from …
⸤¶Then on a …
⸤¶was swathed about …
⸤¶of the wan …
⸤¶were flying seen …
⸤¶of racing cloud, …
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⸤¶already wound in …
⸤¶lo! Huan was …
⸤¶fearing new wrong, …
⸤¶when all is …
⸤¶and shapeless fears …
⸤¶a shadow came …
⸤¶Then something let …
⸤¶her magic cloak …
⸤¶Trembling she saw …
⸤¶beside her, heard …
⸤¶as from a …
⸤¶Thus Huan spake, …
⸤¶had uttered words, …
⸤¶did speak in …
⸤¶‘Lady beloved, whom …
⸤¶whom Elfinesse, and …
⸤¶with fur and …
⸤¶should serve and …
⸤¶Put on thy …
⸤¶comes over Nargothrond …
⸤¶to Northern perils, …
⸤¶And ere he …
⸤¶for achievement of …
⸤¶There Lúthien listened …
⸤¶and softly on …
⸤¶Her arms about …
⸤¶in friendship that …