03:P7o§XIV
The Lay of Leithian (§XIV)

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Volume: The Lays of Beleriand
Chapter: The Lay of Leithian (Canto XIV: Escape from Angband)
Pages: 306–308
Paragraph count: 49
Token count: 304

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p306
XIV
⸤¶Up through the
⸤¶as ghosts from
⸤¶up from the
⸤¶and the vast
⸤¶their limbs aquake
p307
⸤¶terror in eyes,
⸤¶together fled they,
⸤¶affrighted of their
⸤¶At last before
⸤¶they saw the
⸤¶the mighty archway
⸤¶and there a
⸤¶Upon the threshold,
⸤¶his eyes new-kindled
⸤¶towered Carcharoth, a
⸤¶his jaws were
⸤¶his teeth were
⸤¶aroused he watched
⸤¶no flitting shade
⸤¶seeking from Angband
⸤¶Now past that
⸤¶could thrust from
⸤¶He heard afar
⸤¶he snuffed an
⸤¶he smelled their
⸤¶they marked the
⸤¶His limbs he
⸤¶then stood at
⸤¶upon them as
⸤¶and his howling
⸤¶Too swift for
⸤¶too swift for
⸤¶and Beren desperate
⸤¶thrust Lúthien, and
⸤¶unarmed, defenceless to
⸤¶Tinúviel until the
⸤¶With left he
⸤¶with right hand
⸤¶his right, from
⸤¶of the holy
⸤¶As gleam of
⸤¶the fangs of
⸤¶together like a
⸤¶the hand about
⸤¶through brittle bone
⸤¶devouring the frail
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⸤¶and in that
⸤¶engulfed the jewel’s