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Volume:
The Lays of Beleriand
Pages: 300–303
Paragraph count:
159
Token count:
1,032
Citation Index
Page numbers refer to the setting used by all editions other than mass-market paperbacks.
p300
⸤¶for rebel, thief, …
⸤¶Why should ye …
⸤¶of woe and …
⸤¶to slender limb …
⸤¶breaking torment? Of …
⸤¶here dost thou …
⸤¶and foolish laughter? …
⸤¶are at my …
⸤¶a respite brief, …
⸤¶a little while, …
⸤¶to Lúthien the …
⸤¶a pretty toy …
⸤¶In slothful gardens …
⸤¶like thee the …
⸤¶honey-sweet to kiss, …
⸤¶their fragrance loosing, …
⸤¶But here we …
⸤¶amid our labours …
⸤¶from godlike idleness …
⸤¶And who would …
⸤¶lying to lips, …
⸤¶the soft cool …
⸤¶easing like gods …
⸤¶A! curse the …
⸤¶O blinding thirst’s …
⸤¶One moment shall …
⸤¶your sting with …
⸤¶In his eyes …
⸤¶and forth he …
⸤¶Lúthien as shadow …
⸤¶‘Not thus, O …
⸤¶‘do great lords …
⸤¶For every minstrel …
⸤¶and some are …
⸤¶and each would …
⸤¶and each a …
⸤¶though rude the …
⸤¶But Lúthien hath …
⸤¶for solace sweet …
⸤¶Now hearken!’ And …
⸤¶then deftly up, …
p301
⸤¶slipped from his …
⸤¶fluttering before his …
⸤¶a mazy-wingéd dance, …
⸤¶about his iron-crownéd …
⸤¶Suddenly her song …
⸤¶and soft came …
⸤¶down from on …
⸤¶her voice bewildering, …
⸤¶and grew to …
⸤¶pale falling in …
⸤¶She let her …
⸤¶enmeshed with woven …
⸤¶as round the …
⸤¶From wall to …
⸤¶in dance such …
⸤¶before devised, nor …
⸤¶than swallow swifter, …
⸤¶in dying light …
⸤¶more silken-soft, more …
⸤¶than sylphine maidens …
⸤¶whose wings in …
⸤¶in rhythmic movement …
⸤¶Down crumpled Orc, …
⸤¶all eyes were …
⸤¶the fires of …
⸤¶and ever like …
⸤¶above a lightless …
⸤¶in ecstasy enchanted …
⸤¶All eyes were …
⸤¶in Morgoth’s lowering …
⸤¶in slowly wandering …
⸤¶and slow were …
⸤¶Their will wavered, …
⸤¶and as beneath …
⸤¶the Silmarils like …
⸤¶that in the …
⸤¶escaping upwards clear …
⸤¶glistening marvellous in …
⸤¶Then flaring suddenly …
⸤¶down, down upon …
⸤¶The dark and …
p302
⸤¶like mountain-top beneath …
⸤¶the shoulders foundered, …
⸤¶crashed, as in …
⸤¶huge cliffs in …
⸤¶and prone lay …
⸤¶His crown there …
⸤¶a wheel of …
⸤¶died, and a …
⸤¶as were the …
⸤¶Beneath the vast …
⸤¶the adders lay …
⸤¶the wolves like …
⸤¶and there lay …
⸤¶no thought, no …
⸤¶moved in the …
⸤¶‘Come forth, come …
⸤¶and Angband’s mighty …
⸤¶Awake, awake! For …
⸤¶alone before the …
⸤¶This voice came …
⸤¶where he lay …
⸤¶a hand flower-soft …
⸤¶passed o’er his …
⸤¶of slumber quivered. …
⸤¶his mind to …
⸤¶The wolvish fell …
⸤¶and sprang unto …
⸤¶staring amid the …
⸤¶he gasped as …
⸤¶There to his …
⸤¶felt Lúthien now …
⸤¶her strength and …
⸤¶and swift his …
⸤¶Before his feet …
⸤¶the gems of …
⸤¶with white fire …
⸤¶of Morgoth’s might …
⸤¶To move that …
⸤¶no strength he …
⸤¶he strove with …
⸤¶the guerdon of …
p303
⸤¶till in his …
⸤¶of that cold …
⸤¶with Curufin; then …
⸤¶the sheathless knife …
⸤¶and tried its …
⸤¶o’er which in …
⸤¶of dwarvish armourers …
⸤¶to hammer-music long …
⸤¶Iron as tender …
⸤¶and mail as …
⸤¶The claws of …
⸤¶it bit them …
⸤¶a Silmaril he …
⸤¶and the pure …
⸤¶red glowing through …
⸤¶Again he stooped …
⸤¶one more of …
⸤¶that Fëanor wrought …
⸤¶But round those …
⸤¶not yet should …
⸤¶The dwarvish steel …
⸤¶by treacherous smiths …
⸤¶snapped; then ringing …
⸤¶in twain it …
⸤¶or errant shaft …
⸤¶of Morgoth’s sleeping …
⸤¶their hearts with …
⸤¶with voice entombed, …
⸤¶in hollow caverns …
⸤¶There came a …
⸤¶moved through the …
⸤¶turned in their …
⸤¶in sleep uneasy …
⸤¶and far above …
⸤¶an echo that …
⸤¶a wolvish howling …