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Volume:
The Lays of Beleriand
Pages: 259–269
Paragraph count:
391
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2,508
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X …
⸤¶Songs have recalled …
⸤¶in old forgotten …
⸤¶how Lúthien and …
⸤¶by the banks …
⸤¶they filled with …
⸤¶passed by lightly, …
⸤¶Though winter hunted …
⸤¶still flowers lingered …
⸤¶Tinúviel! Tinúviel!¶⸥⸤⸥ …
⸤¶the birds are …
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⸤¶and sing beneath …
⸤¶where Beren and …
⸤¶The isle in …
⸤¶but there on …
⸤¶a green grave, …
⸤¶and there there …
⸤¶of Felagund, of …
⸤¶unless that land …
⸤¶or foundered in …
⸤¶while Felagund laughs …
⸤¶in Valinor, and …
⸤¶to this grey …
⸤¶To Nargothrond no …
⸤¶but thither swiftly …
⸤¶of their king …
⸤¶of the breaking …
⸤¶For many now …
⸤¶who long ago …
⸤¶and like a …
⸤¶Huan the hound, …
⸤¶or praise or …
⸤¶yet loyal he …
⸤¶The halls of …
⸤¶that vainly Celegorm …
⸤¶There men bewailed …
⸤¶crying that a …
⸤¶which sons of …
⸤¶‘Let us slay …
⸤¶the fickle folk …
⸤¶with Felagund who …
⸤¶Orodreth spake: ‘The …
⸤¶is mine alone. …
⸤¶no spilling of …
⸤¶But bread nor …
⸤¶these brothers who …
⸤¶the house of …
⸤¶Scornful, unbowed, and …
⸤¶stood Celegorm. In …
⸤¶a light of …
⸤¶smiled with his …
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⸤¶‘Be gone for …
⸤¶shall fall into …
⸤¶shall never lead …
⸤¶nor any son …
⸤¶nor ever after …
⸤¶of love twixt …
⸤¶‘We will remember …
⸤¶and turned upon …
⸤¶and took their …
⸤¶as still them …
⸤¶but sounded horns, …
⸤¶and went away …
⸤¶Towards Doriath the …
⸤¶were drawing nigh. …
⸤¶though cold the …
⸤¶through which the …
⸤¶they sang beneath …
⸤¶uplifted o’er them …
⸤¶They came to …
⸤¶that from the …
⸤¶by western borders …
⸤¶the spells of …
⸤¶King Thingol’s land, …
⸤¶to wind bewildered …
⸤¶There sudden sad …
⸤¶‘Alas, Tinúviel, here …
⸤¶and our brief …
⸤¶and sundered ways …
⸤¶‘Why part we …
⸤¶just at the …
⸤¶‘For safe thou’rt …
⸤¶o’er which in …
⸤¶of Melian thou …
⸤¶and find thy …
⸤¶‘My heart is …
⸤¶far off uprising …
⸤¶of Doriath inviolate.¶⸥⸤⸥ …
⸤¶Yet Doriath my …
⸤¶and Doriath my …
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⸤¶my home, my …
⸤¶on grass nor …
⸤¶without thee by …
⸤¶of Esgalduin the …
⸤¶Why there alone …
⸤¶by endless waters …
⸤¶must I then …
⸤¶and gaze at …
⸤¶in heartache and …
⸤¶‘For never more …
⸤¶can Beren find …
⸤¶though Thingol willed …
⸤¶for to thy …
⸤¶to come not …
⸤¶the quest of …
⸤¶and win by …
⸤¶“Not rock nor …
⸤¶nor all the …
⸤¶shall keep the …
⸤¶thus swore I …
⸤¶more fair than …
⸤¶My word, alas! …
⸤¶though sorrow pierce …
⸤¶‘Then Lúthien will …
⸤¶but weeping in …
⸤¶nor peril heed, …
⸤¶And if she …
⸤¶against thy will …
⸤¶she will pursue, …
⸤¶Beren and Lúthien, …
⸤¶on earth or …
⸤¶‘Nay, Lúthien, most …
⸤¶thou makest it …
⸤¶Thy love me …
⸤¶but never to …
⸤¶that darkest mansion …
⸤¶shall thy most …
⸤¶‘Never, never!’ he …
⸤¶But even as …
⸤¶a sound came …
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⸤¶There Curufin and …
⸤¶in sudden tumult …
⸤¶rode up. The …
⸤¶loud on the …
⸤¶madly northward they …
⸤¶the path twixt …
⸤¶and the shadows …
⸤¶of Taur-na-Fuin. That …
⸤¶most swift to …
⸤¶in the east, …
⸤¶o’er Aglon’s gorge …
⸤¶They saw the …
⸤¶straight on them …
⸤¶as if neath …
⸤¶the lovers and …
⸤¶But as they …
⸤¶with nostrils wide …
⸤¶Curufin, stooping, to …
⸤¶with mighty arm …
⸤¶and laughed. Too …
⸤¶fiercer than tawny …
⸤¶maddened with arrows …
⸤¶greater than any …
⸤¶that hounded to …
⸤¶there Beren gave, …
⸤¶leaped on Curufin; …
⸤¶his arms entwined, …
⸤¶both horse and …
⸤¶and there they …
⸤¶Dazed in the …
⸤¶beneath bare branches …
⸤¶the Gnome felt …
⸤¶close on his …
⸤¶and out his …
⸤¶gasping from his …
⸤¶Up rode Celegorm …
⸤¶and bitter death …
⸤¶With elvish steel …
⸤¶whom Lúthien won …
⸤¶but baying Huan …
⸤¶before his master’s …
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⸤¶white-gleaming, and with …
⸤¶as if he …
⸤¶The horse in …
⸤¶and Celegorm in …
⸤¶‘Curse thee, thou …
⸤¶against thy master …
⸤¶But dog nor …
⸤¶would venture near …
⸤¶of mighty Huan …
⸤¶Red were his …
⸤¶and fearful eyed …
⸤¶nor sword nor …
⸤¶no dart of …
⸤¶master nor man …
⸤¶There Curufin had …
⸤¶had Lúthien not …
⸤¶Waking she rose …
⸤¶standing distressed at …
⸤¶‘Forbear thy anger …
⸤¶nor do the …
⸤¶for foes there …
⸤¶unnumbered, and they …
⸤¶while here we …
⸤¶distraught, and all …
⸤¶decays and crumbles. …
⸤¶Then Beren did …
⸤¶but took his …
⸤¶and took his …
⸤¶hanging sheathless, wrought …
⸤¶No flesh could …
⸤¶that point had …
⸤¶the dwarves had …
⸤¶enchantments, where their …
⸤¶in Nogrod ringing …
⸤¶Iron as tender …
⸤¶and sundered mail …
⸤¶But other hands …
⸤¶its master lay …
⸤¶Beren uplifting him, …
⸤¶and cried ‘Begone!’, …
⸤¶‘Begone! thou renegade …
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⸤¶and let thy …
⸤¶Arise and go, …
⸤¶like Morgoth’s slaves …
⸤¶and deal, proud …
⸤¶in deeds more …
⸤¶Then Beren led …
⸤¶while Huan still …
⸤¶‘Farewell,’ cried Celegorm …
⸤¶‘Far get you …
⸤¶to die forhungered …
⸤¶than wrath of …
⸤¶that yet may …
⸤¶No gem, nor …
⸤¶shall ever long …
⸤¶We curse thee …
⸤¶we curse thee …
⸤¶Farewell!’ He swift …
⸤¶his brother lifted …
⸤¶then bow of …
⸤¶he strung, and …
⸤¶as heedless hand …
⸤¶a dwarvish dart …
⸤¶They never turned …
⸤¶Loud bayed Huan, …
⸤¶the speeding arrow. …
⸤¶another followed deadly …
⸤¶but Beren had …
⸤¶defended Lúthien with …
⸤¶Deep sank the …
⸤¶He fell to …
⸤¶and laughing left …
⸤¶yet spurred like …
⸤¶of Huan’s pursuing …
⸤¶Though Curufin with …
⸤¶yet later of …
⸤¶was tale and …
⸤¶and Men remembered …
⸤¶and Morgoth’s will …
⸤¶Thereafter never hound …
⸤¶would follow horn …
⸤¶or Curufin. Though …
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⸤¶though all their …
⸤¶went down, thereafter …
⸤¶Huan no more …
⸤¶but followed Lúthien, …
⸤¶Now sank she …
⸤¶of Beren, and …
⸤¶of welling blood …
⸤¶The raiment from …
⸤¶from shoulder plucked …
⸤¶his wound with …
⸤¶Then Huan came …
⸤¶of all the …
⸤¶that evergreen in …
⸤¶there grew with …
⸤¶The powers of …
⸤¶who wide did …
⸤¶Therewith the smart …
⸤¶while Lúthien murmuring …
⸤¶the staunching song, …
⸤¶long years had …
⸤¶of war and …
⸤¶The shadows fell …
⸤¶Then sprang about …
⸤¶the Sickle of …
⸤¶each star there …
⸤¶radiant, glistering cold …
⸤¶But on the …
⸤¶a spark of …
⸤¶under woven boughs …
⸤¶of crackling wood …
⸤¶there Beren lies …
⸤¶walking and wandering …
⸤¶Watchful bending o’er …
⸤¶a maiden fair; …
⸤¶his brow caresses, …
⸤¶a song more …
⸤¶or leeches’ lore …
⸤¶Slowly the nightly …
⸤¶The misty morning …
⸤¶from dusk to …
⸤¶Then Beren woke …
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⸤¶and rose and …
⸤¶in lands more …
⸤¶I wandered long, …
⸤¶to the deep …
⸤¶but ever a …
⸤¶like bells, like …
⸤¶like music moving …
⸤¶called me, called …
⸤¶enchanted drew me …
⸤¶Healed the wound, …
⸤¶Now are we …
⸤¶new journeys once …
⸤¶to perils whence …
⸤¶hardly for Beren; …
⸤¶a waiting in …
⸤¶beneath the trees …
⸤¶while ever follow …
⸤¶the echoes of …
⸤¶where hills are …
⸤¶‘Nay, now no …
⸤¶dark Morgoth only, …
⸤¶in wars and …
⸤¶thy quest is …
⸤¶for thee and …
⸤¶the end of …
⸤¶all this I …
⸤¶if thou go …
⸤¶and lay in …
⸤¶and flaming jewel, …
⸤¶never, never! A …
⸤¶Why turn we …
⸤¶beneath the trees …
⸤¶roofless, with all …
⸤¶over mountains, beside …
⸤¶in the sunlight, …
⸤¶Thus long they …
⸤¶and yet not …
⸤¶nor lissom arms, …
⸤¶as tremulous stars …
⸤¶nor tender lips, …
⸤¶his purpose bent …
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⸤¶Never to Doriath …
⸤¶save guarded fast …
⸤¶never to Nargothrond …
⸤¶with her, lest …
⸤¶and never would …
⸤¶to wander suffer …
⸤¶roofless and restless, …
⸤¶with love from …
⸤¶‘For Morgoth’s power …
⸤¶already hill and …
⸤¶the hunt is …
⸤¶a maiden lost, …
⸤¶Now Orcs and …
⸤¶from tree to …
⸤¶each shade and …
⸤¶At thought thereof …
⸤¶my heart is …
⸤¶I curse the …
⸤¶and snared thy …
⸤¶of flight and …
⸤¶Now let us …
⸤¶be fallen, take …
⸤¶till o’er the …
⸤¶beneath the beech …
⸤¶in Doriath, fair …
⸤¶whither no evil …
⸤¶powerless to pass …
⸤¶that droop upon …
⸤¶Then to his …
⸤¶Swiftly to Doriath …
⸤¶and crossed its …
⸤¶resting in deep …
⸤¶there lay they …
⸤¶under mighty beeches …
⸤¶and sang of …
⸤¶though earth be …
⸤¶and sundered here …
⸤¶shall meet upon …
⸤¶One morning as …
⸤¶upon the moss, …
⸤¶too bitter were …
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⸤¶to open in …
⸤¶Beren arose and …
⸤¶and wept, and …
⸤¶‘Good Huan,’ said …
⸤¶In leafless field …
⸤¶in thorny thicket …
⸤¶forlorn, so frail …
⸤¶Guard her from …
⸤¶from hands that …
⸤¶keep her from …
⸤¶for pride and …
⸤¶The horse he …
⸤¶nor dared to …
⸤¶with heart as …
⸤¶and took the …