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Volume:
The Lays of Beleriand
Pages: 294–299
Paragraph count:
180
Token count:
1,091
Citation Index
Page numbers refer to the setting used by all editions other than mass-market paperbacks.
p294
XIII …
⸤¶Into the vast …
⸤¶more dread than …
⸤¶in labyrinthine pyramid¶⸥⸤⸥ …
⸤¶where everlasting death …
⸤¶down awful corridors …
⸤¶down to a …
⸤¶down to the …
⸤¶devoured, tormented, bored …
⸤¶by seething vermin …
⸤¶down to the …
⸤¶The arch behind …
⸤¶they saw recede …
⸤¶the thunderous forges’ …
⸤¶a burning wind …
⸤¶foul vapours up …
p295
⸤¶Huge shapes there …
⸤¶enormous hewn of …
⸤¶to forms that …
⸤¶monstrous and menacing, …
⸤¶at every turn …
⸤¶in fitful glares …
⸤¶There hammers clanged, …
⸤¶with sound like …
⸤¶faint from far …
⸤¶amid the iron …
⸤¶voices of captives …
⸤¶Loud rose a …
⸤¶self-loathing yet without …
⸤¶loud came a …
⸤¶like swords of …
⸤¶Red was the …
⸤¶of firelight mirrored …
⸤¶and up the …
⸤¶to glooms unguessed, …
⸤¶swathed in wavering …
⸤¶stabbed with flickering …
⸤¶To Morgoth’s hall, …
⸤¶he held, and …
⸤¶and lives of …
⸤¶their eyes were …
⸤¶The pillars, reared …
⸤¶to bear earth’s …
⸤¶were devil-carven, shaped …
⸤¶such as unholy …
⸤¶they towered like …
⸤¶whose trunks are …
⸤¶whose shade is …
⸤¶whose boughs like …
⸤¶Beneath them ranged …
⸤¶stood Morgoth’s sable-armoured …
⸤¶the fire on …
⸤¶was red as …
⸤¶Beneath a monstrous …
⸤¶the throne of …
⸤¶and dying gasped …
⸤¶his hideous footstool, …
p296
⸤¶About him sat …
⸤¶the Balrog-lords with …
⸤¶redhanded, mouthed with …
⸤¶devouring wolves were …
⸤¶And o’er the …
⸤¶with a cold …
⸤¶the Silmarils, the …
⸤¶emprisoned in the …
⸤¶Lo! through the …
⸤¶sudden a shadow …
⸤¶and Beren gasped …
⸤¶with crawling belly …
⸤¶a form bat-wingéd, …
⸤¶where the huge …
⸤¶amid the smokes …
⸤¶And as on …
⸤¶a dim-felt shadow …
⸤¶to cloud of …
⸤¶foreboded, nameless, roll …
⸤¶upon the soul, …
⸤¶the voices fell, …
⸤¶slow to silence …
⸤¶A nameless doubt, …
⸤¶had entered in …
⸤¶and grew, and …
⸤¶hearing in heart …
⸤¶of gods forgotten. …
⸤¶and thunderous the …
⸤¶‘Shadow, descend! And …
⸤¶to cheat mine …
⸤¶from thy Lord’s …
⸤¶My will by …
⸤¶Hope nor escape …
⸤¶those that unbidden …
⸤¶Descend! ere anger …
⸤¶thou foolish, frail, …
⸤¶and yet not …
⸤¶Slow-wheeling o’er his …
⸤¶reluctantly, shivering and …
⸤¶Beren there saw …
⸤¶and droop before …
p297
⸤¶a weak and …
⸤¶And as thereon …
⸤¶his darkling gaze, …
⸤¶belly to earth, …
⸤¶upon his fell, …
⸤¶beneath the darkness …
⸤¶beneath the shadow …
⸤¶Tinúviel spake, a …
⸤¶piercing those silences …
⸤¶‘A lawful errand …
⸤¶from Thû’s dark …
⸤¶from Taur-na-Fuin’s shade …
⸤¶to stand before …
⸤¶‘Thy name, thou …
⸤¶Tidings enough from …
⸤¶but short while …
⸤¶Why send such …
⸤¶‘Thuringwethil I am, …
⸤¶a shadow o’er …
⸤¶of the sallow …
⸤¶of shivering Beleriand.’¶⸥⸤⸥ …
⸤¶‘Liar art thou, …
⸤¶deceit before mine …
⸤¶thy form and …
⸤¶revealed, and delivered …
⸤¶There came a …
⸤¶the batlike raiment …
⸤¶was loosed, and …
⸤¶quivering. She stood …
⸤¶About her slender …
⸤¶her shadowy hair, …
⸤¶her garment dark, …
⸤¶the starlight caught …
⸤¶Dim dreams and …
⸤¶fell softly thence, …
⸤¶an odour stole …
⸤¶from elven-dells where …
⸤¶drip softly through …
⸤¶and round there …
⸤¶dark shapes of …
p298
⸤¶With arms upraised …
⸤¶then softly she …
⸤¶a theme of …
⸤¶wandering, woven with …
⸤¶than songs wherewith …
⸤¶Melian did once …
⸤¶profound, and fathomless, …
⸤¶The fires of …
⸤¶smouldered into darkness; …
⸤¶and hollow halls …
⸤¶the shadows of …
⸤¶All movement stayed, …
⸤¶save vaporous breath …
⸤¶One fire in …
⸤¶the lidless eyes …
⸤¶one sound the …
⸤¶the mirthless voice …
{} …
p299
The Lay of …
⸤¶‘So Lúthien, so …
⸤¶a liar like …
⸤¶Yet welcome, welcome, …
⸤¶I have a …
⸤¶What news of …
⸤¶shy lurking like …
⸤¶What folly fresh …
⸤¶who cannot keep …
⸤¶from straying thus? …
⸤¶no better counsel …
⸤¶She wavered, and …
⸤¶‘The road,’ she …
⸤¶but Thingol sent …
⸤¶what way his …
⸤¶Yet every road …
⸤¶Northward at last, …
⸤¶I trembling come …
⸤¶and here before …
⸤¶for Lúthien hath …
⸤¶for solace sweet …
⸤¶‘And here of …
⸤¶now, Lúthien, in …
⸤¶or pain, the …