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Volume:
The Lays of Beleriand
Chapter:
The Lay of Leithian Recommenced
Pages: 331–348
Paragraph count:
674
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THE LAY OF …
I. OF THINGOL …
⸤¶A king there …
⸤¶ere Men yet …
⸤¶his power was …
⸤¶his hand was …
⸤¶Of leaves his …
⸤¶his silver lances …
⸤¶the starlight in …
⸤¶ere moon was …
⸤¶In after-days, when …
⸤¶of Middle-earth from …
⸤¶the Elven-hosts in …
⸤¶and banners flew …
⸤¶when kings of …
⸤¶in strength of …
⸤¶then still his …
⸤¶when sun was …
⸤¶Afar then in …
⸤¶in Doriath’s beleaguered …
⸤¶King Thingol sat …
⸤¶in many-pillared halls …
⸤¶there beryl, pearl, …
⸤¶and metal wrought …
⸤¶buckler and corslet, …
⸤¶and gleaming spears …
⸤¶all these he …
⸤¶for dearer than …
⸤¶and fairer than …
⸤¶a daughter had …
OF LÚTHIEN THE …
⸤¶Such lissom limbs …
⸤¶on the green …
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⸤¶so fair a …
⸤¶from dawn to …
⸤¶Her robe was …
⸤¶but grey as …
⸤¶her mantle sewn …
⸤¶but dark as …
⸤¶Her feet were …
⸤¶her laughter merry …
⸤¶the slender willow, …
⸤¶the fragrance of …
⸤¶the light upon …
⸤¶the voice of …
⸤¶her beauty was …
⸤¶her glory and …
⸤¶She dwelt in …
⸤¶while elven-might yet …
⸤¶the woven woods …
⸤¶none ever thither …
⸤¶unbidden, none the …
⸤¶dared pass, or …
⸤¶To North there …
⸤¶Dungorthin where all …
⸤¶in hills of …
⸤¶beyond was Deadly …
⸤¶in Taur-nu-Fuin’s fastness …
⸤¶where sun was …
⸤¶To South the …
⸤¶to West the …
⸤¶unsailed and shoreless, …
⸤¶to East in …
⸤¶in silence folded, …
⸤¶the mountains of …
⸤¶Thus Thingol in …
⸤¶amid the Thousand …
⸤¶of Menegroth as …
⸤¶to him there …
⸤¶Beside him sat …
⸤¶fair Melian, and …
⸤¶nets of enchantment …
⸤¶and spells were …
⸤¶sharp was his …
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⸤¶the king of …
⸤¶When grass was …
⸤¶when finch and …
⸤¶there under bough …
⸤¶in shadow and …
⸤¶fair Lúthien the …
⸤¶dancing in dell …
OF DAIRON MINSTREL …
⸤¶When sky was …
⸤¶then Dairon with …
⸤¶as daylight melted …
⸤¶a trembling music …
⸤¶on flutes of …
⸤¶for Lúthien, the …
⸤¶There mirth there …
⸤¶there eve was …
⸤¶there jewel gleamed …
⸤¶and red gold …
⸤¶and elanor and …
⸤¶bloomed in the …
⸤¶while the endless …
⸤¶rolled over far …
⸤¶until a day …
⸤¶as still the …
{} …
2. OF MORGOTH …
⸤¶Far in the …
⸤¶in caverns black …
⸤¶by flame encircled; …
⸤¶in coiling columns …
⸤¶the breath of …
⸤¶and gasping dungeons …
⸤¶to hopeless death …
⸤¶by doom beneath …
⸤¶A king there …
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⸤¶of all that …
⸤¶Than earth or …
⸤¶more ancient was …
⸤¶in mind abysmal …
⸤¶of Eldar or …
⸤¶of strength primeval; …
⸤¶was hewn to …
⸤¶he walked in …
⸤¶burned, as he …
⸤¶He ’twas that …
⸤¶the Blessed Realm …
⸤¶to Middle-earth anew …
⸤¶beneath the mountains …
⸤¶with misbegotten slaves …
⸤¶death’s shadow brooded …
⸤¶His hosts he …
⸤¶and brands of …
⸤¶the wolf walked …
⸤¶with lidless eyes. …
⸤¶his ruinous legions, …
⸤¶in field and …
⸤¶Where long the …
⸤¶had gleamed amid …
⸤¶their banners black, …
⸤¶and harpers silver …
⸤¶now dark the …
⸤¶amid the reek, …
⸤¶the swords of …
⸤¶above the hewn …
⸤¶Slowly his shadow …
⸤¶rolled from the …
⸤¶that would not …
⸤¶to death or …
⸤¶all things he …
⸤¶lay cowed beneath …
⸤¶But still there …
⸤¶Bëor’s son, Barahir …
⸤¶of land bereaved …
⸤¶who once a …
⸤¶and now an …
⸤¶in the hard …
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OF THE SAVING …
⸤¶Twelve men beside …
⸤¶still faithful when …
⸤¶Their names are …
⸤¶remembered, though the …
⸤¶since doughty Dagnir …
⸤¶Radhruin, Dairuin and …
⸤¶Gorlim Unhappy, and …
⸤¶and Arthad and …
⸤¶since the black …
⸤¶took Belegund and …
⸤¶the mighty sons …
⸤¶since he whose …
⸤¶all tales of …
⸤¶fair Beren son …
⸤¶For these it …
⸤¶of Bëor’s house, …
⸤¶of reedy Serech …
⸤¶about King Inglor …
⸤¶of his defeat, …
⸤¶thus saved of …
⸤¶the fairest; and …
⸤¶And he escaping …
⸤¶to Nargothrond his …
⸤¶where still he …
⸤¶but they to …
⸤¶dauntless and few, …
⸤¶unconquered still, defying …
⸤¶pursued by Morgoth’s …
OF TARN AELUIN …
⸤¶Such deeds of …
⸤¶that soon the …
⸤¶at rumour of …
⸤¶Though price was …
⸤¶to match the …
⸤¶no soldier could …
⸤¶news even of …
⸤¶for where the …
⸤¶above the darkling …
⸤¶of steep Dorthonion …
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⸤¶and barren mountain-winds, …
⸤¶a tarn of …
⸤¶by night a …
⸤¶for stars of …
⸤¶above the world …
⸤¶Once hallowed, still …
⸤¶no shadow of …
⸤¶yet thither came; …
⸤¶of slender birches …
⸤¶stooped on its …
⸤¶a lonely moor, …
⸤¶of ancient Earth …
⸤¶thrust through the …
⸤¶and there by …
⸤¶the hunted lord …
⸤¶under the grey …
OF GORLIM UNHAPPY …
⸤¶Gorlim Unhappy, Angrim’s …
⸤¶as the tale …
⸤¶most fierce and …
⸤¶while fair was …
⸤¶took the white …
⸤¶dear love they …
⸤¶To war he …
⸤¶to find his …
⸤¶his house forsaken …
⸤¶empty amid the …
⸤¶and Eilinel, white …
⸤¶was taken whither …
⸤¶to death or …
⸤¶Black was the …
⸤¶for ever on …
⸤¶still gnawed him …
⸤¶in wilderness wandring, …
⸤¶oft sleepless, thinking …
⸤¶ere evil came …
⸤¶into the woods: …
⸤¶she lived, she …
⸤¶to seek him, …
⸤¶Therefore at whiles …
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⸤¶and secretly, alone, …
⸤¶and come to …
⸤¶broken and cold, …
⸤¶and naught but …
⸤¶watching and waiting …
⸤¶In vain, or …
⸤¶had Morgoth, many …
⸤¶well used to …
⸤¶and Gorlim’s coming …
⸤¶and would report. …
⸤¶when once more …
⸤¶down the deserted …
⸤¶at dusk of …
⸤¶and cold wind …
⸤¶at window fluttering …
⸤¶amazed he saw; …
⸤¶between faint hope …
⸤¶he looked within. …
⸤¶Though changed she …
⸤¶With grief and …
⸤¶her tresses tangled, …
⸤¶her gentle eyes …
⸤¶as soft she …
⸤¶Thou canst not …
⸤¶Then slain, alas! …
⸤¶And I must …
⸤¶and loveless as …
⸤¶One cry he …
⸤¶blew out, and …
⸤¶wolves howled; and …
⸤¶suddenly the griping …
⸤¶There Morgoth’s servants …
⸤¶and he was …
⸤¶to Sauron captain …
⸤¶the lord of …
⸤¶most foul and …
⸤¶at Morgoth’s throne. …
⸤¶on Gaurhoth Isle; …
⸤¶with strength abroad, …
⸤¶to find the …
⸤¶He sat in …
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⸤¶and thither his …
⸤¶There now in …
⸤¶with bond on …
⸤¶to bitter torment …
⸤¶to break his …
⸤¶to buy with …
⸤¶But naught to …
⸤¶of Barahir, nor …
⸤¶of faith that …
⸤¶until at last …
⸤¶and one came …
⸤¶a darkling form …
⸤¶to him of …
⸤¶‘Wouldst thou,’ he …
⸤¶who with few …
⸤¶for her, and …
⸤¶and dwell together …
⸤¶friends of the …
⸤¶And Gorlim, now …
⸤¶yearning to see …
⸤¶(whom well he …
⸤¶in Sauron’s net), …
⸤¶to grow, and …
⸤¶Then straight, half …
⸤¶they brought him …
⸤¶where Sauron sat. …
⸤¶before that dark …
⸤¶and Sauron said: …
⸤¶What do I …
⸤¶to barter with …
⸤¶What is thy …
⸤¶bowed down his …
⸤¶word on slow …
⸤¶that merciless and …
⸤¶that he might …
⸤¶again find Eilinel …
⸤¶and dwell with …
⸤¶against the King. …
⸤¶Then Sauron smiled, …
⸤¶The price thou …
⸤¶for treachery and …
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⸤¶I grant it …
⸤¶Come! Speak now …
⸤¶Then Gorlim wavered, …
⸤¶half back; but …
⸤¶there held him, …
⸤¶as he began, …
⸤¶from first false …
⸤¶he all must …
⸤¶betray his lord …
⸤¶and cease, and …
⸤¶Then Sauron laughed …
⸤¶thou cringing worm! …
⸤¶and hear me! …
⸤¶that I have …
⸤¶Thou fool: a …
⸤¶that I, I …
⸤¶thy lovesick wits. …
⸤¶Cold ’tis with …
⸤¶Thy Eilinel! She …
⸤¶dead, food of …
⸤¶And yet thy …
⸤¶to Eilinel thou …
⸤¶and lie in …
⸤¶of war – …
⸤¶And Gorlim then …
⸤¶and cruelly slew …
⸤¶in the dank …
⸤¶where Eilinel long …
⸤¶in the burned …
⸤¶Thus Gorlim died …
⸤¶and cursed himself …
⸤¶and Barahir at …
⸤¶in Morgoth’s snare; …
⸤¶by treason was …
⸤¶that guarded long …
⸤¶Tarn Aeluin: now …
⸤¶were secret paths …
{} …
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3. OF BEREN …
⸤¶Dark from the …
⸤¶the winds of …
⸤¶hissed in the …
⸤¶Aeluin’s mournful water …
⸤¶‘Son Beren’, then …
⸤¶‘Thou knowst the …
⸤¶of strength from …
⸤¶against us; and …
⸤¶On thee the …
⸤¶to go forth …
⸤¶what help thou …
⸤¶that feed us …
⸤¶to learn. Good …
⸤¶In speed return, …
⸤¶we spare thee …
⸤¶so small: and …
⸤¶is long astray …
⸤¶As Beren went, …
⸤¶resounded in his …
⸤¶the last of …
⸤¶Through moor and …
⸤¶he wandered far: …
⸤¶of Sauron’s camp, …
⸤¶of hunting Orc …
⸤¶and turning back, …
⸤¶benighted in the …
⸤¶In weariness he …
⸤¶fain in a …
⸤¶and yet he …
⸤¶nearby a marching …
⸤¶with clink of …
⸤¶up towards the …
⸤¶He slipped then …
⸤¶until, as man …
⸤¶strives upwards gasping, …
⸤¶he rose through …
⸤¶of sullen pool …
⸤¶Their livid boughs …
⸤¶trembled, and all …
⸤¶each leaf a …
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⸤¶whose neb a …
⸤¶He shuddered, struggling …
⸤¶through winding weeds, …
⸤¶he saw a …
⸤¶gliding across the …
⸤¶Slowly it came, …
⸤¶‘Gorlim I was, …
⸤¶of will defeated, …
⸤¶traitor betrayed. Go! …
⸤¶Awaken, son of …
⸤¶and haste! For …
⸤¶upon thy father’s …
⸤¶your trysts, your …
⸤¶Then he revealed …
⸤¶in which he …
⸤¶begging forgiveness, wept, …
⸤¶out into darkness. …
⸤¶leapt up as …
⸤¶with fire of …
⸤¶and sword he …
⸤¶hotfoot o’er rock …
⸤¶before the dawn. …
⸤¶to Aeluin at …
⸤¶as the red …
⸤¶but Aeluin was …
⸤¶red were the …
⸤¶Black in the …
⸤¶the raven and …
⸤¶wet were their …
⸤¶that dripped beneath …
⸤¶One croaked: ‘Ha, …
⸤¶‘Ha, ha!’ they …
⸤¶There Beren laid …
⸤¶in haste beneath …
⸤¶no graven rune …
⸤¶o’er Barahir, but …
⸤¶the topmost stone, …
⸤¶he cried his …
⸤¶‘I will avenge. …
⸤¶should lead at …
⸤¶And then he …
⸤¶too dark his …
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⸤¶Out into night, …
⸤¶loveless, friendless, he …
⸤¶Of hunter’s lore …
⸤¶the trail to …
⸤¶his ruthless foe, …
⸤¶marched north away …
⸤¶of brazen horns …
⸤¶trampling the earth …
⸤¶Behind them bold …
⸤¶now Beren, swift …
⸤¶until beside a …
⸤¶where Rivil rises …
⸤¶down into Serech’s …
⸤¶he found the …
⸤¶From hiding on …
⸤¶he marked them …
⸤¶too many for …
⸤¶to slay alone. …
⸤¶as snake in …
⸤¶There many weary …
⸤¶but captains, sprawling …
⸤¶drank and from …
⸤¶their booty, grudging …
⸤¶raped from dead …
⸤¶held up, and …
⸤¶‘here’s mine! And …
⸤¶though few be …
⸤¶For I ’twas …
⸤¶of that same …
⸤¶the robber-knave. If …
⸤¶he had it …
⸤¶for the rogue-service …
⸤¶No help it …
⸤¶They’re parlous, elvish …
⸤¶still for the …
⸤¶and so eke …
⸤¶Old Sauron bade …
⸤¶and yet, methinks, …
⸤¶of weightier treasures …
⸤¶the greater the …
⸤¶So mark ye, …
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⸤¶the hand of …
⸤¶And as he …
⸤¶from tree behind, …
⸤¶choking he fell …
⸤¶with leering face …
⸤¶Forth, then as …
⸤¶Beren among them. …
⸤¶aside with sword; …
⸤¶slew one who …
⸤¶back into shadow …
⸤¶before their yells …
⸤¶of ambush in …
⸤¶Then after him …
⸤¶howling and cursing, …
⸤¶hewing and bursting …
⸤¶shooting wild arrows, …
⸤¶at trembling shade …
⸤¶In fateful hour …
⸤¶he laughed at …
⸤¶fleetest of foot …
⸤¶tireless on fell …
⸤¶elf-wise in wood, …
⸤¶defended by his …
⸤¶of dwarvish craft …
⸤¶where hammers rang …
⸤¶As fearless Beren …
⸤¶when men most …
⸤¶were reckoned folk …
⸤¶foretelling that his …
⸤¶would even golden …
⸤¶or Barahir and …
⸤¶but sorrow now …
⸤¶to fierce despair, …
⸤¶in hope of …
⸤¶but seeking so …
⸤¶only that Morgoth …
⸤¶the sting of …
⸤¶ere death he …
⸤¶his only fear …
⸤¶Danger he sought …
⸤¶and thus escaped …
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⸤¶and deeds of …
⸤¶alone, of which …
⸤¶new hope to …
⸤¶They whispered ‘Beren’, …
⸤¶in secret swords …
⸤¶by shrouded hearths …
⸤¶songs they would …
⸤¶of Dagmor his …
⸤¶silent to camps …
⸤¶or trapped in …
⸤¶would slip away, …
⸤¶by mist or …
⸤¶of open day …
⸤¶Of hunters hunted, …
⸤¶they sang, of …
⸤¶of ambush in …
⸤¶of thirty in …
⸤¶of wolves that …
⸤¶yea, Sauron himself …
⸤¶Thus one alone …
⸤¶with fear and …
⸤¶his comrades were …
⸤¶who failed him …
⸤¶with fur and …
⸤¶that silent wander, …
⸤¶in hill and …
⸤¶watched o’er his …
⸤¶Yet seldom well …
⸤¶and Morgoth was …
⸤¶than all the …
⸤¶recorded: dark athwart …
⸤¶reached out the …
⸤¶at each recoil …
⸤¶two more were …
⸤¶New hope was …
⸤¶quenched were the …
⸤¶tree felled, heath …
⸤¶marched the black …
⸤¶Almost they closed …
⸤¶round Beren; hard …
⸤¶now trod their …
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⸤¶of all aid …
⸤¶of death at …
⸤¶and knew that …
⸤¶or flee the …
⸤¶his land beloved. …
⸤¶beneath a heap …
⸤¶must crumble those …
⸤¶forsaken by both …
⸤¶bewailed by reeds …
⸤¶In winter’s night …
⸤¶he left behind, …
⸤¶the leaguer of …
⸤¶he passed – …
⸤¶a swirl of …
⸤¶the ruin of …
⸤¶Tarn Aeluin and …
⸤¶never again to …
⸤¶No more shall …
⸤¶no more his …
⸤¶no more his …
⸤¶upon the heath …
⸤¶The Northern stars, …
⸤¶of old Men …
⸤¶were set behind …
⸤¶o’er land forsaken: …
⸤¶Southward he turned, …
⸤¶his long and …
⸤¶while ever loomed …
⸤¶the dreadful peaks …
⸤¶Never had foot …
⸤¶yet trod those …
⸤¶nor climbed upon …
⸤¶whence, sickened, eyes …
⸤¶to see their …
⸤¶in rocky pinnacle …
⸤¶down into shadows …
⸤¶before the sun …
⸤¶In valleys woven …
⸤¶and washed with …
⸤¶dark magic lurked …
⸤¶but out away …
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⸤¶of mortal sight …
⸤¶from dizzy towers …
⸤¶might grey and …
⸤¶as sheen on …
⸤¶Beleriand, Beleriand,¶⸥⸤⸥ …
⸤¶the borders of …
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4. OF THE …
⸤¶There long ago …
⸤¶ere voice was …
⸤¶the haunt of …
⸤¶in starlit dusk …
⸤¶In Elder-days that …
⸤¶a light amid …
⸤¶a voice was …
⸤¶the sudden singing …
⸤¶There Melian came, …
⸤¶and dark and …
⸤¶beneath her silver …
⸤¶and down unto …
⸤¶The nightingales with …
⸤¶to whom their …
⸤¶who sweet upon …
⸤¶had sung in …
⸤¶Thence wayward wandering …
⸤¶from Lórien she …
⸤¶the everlasting mountain-wall¶⸥⸤⸥ …
⸤¶of Valinor, at …
⸤¶the surges of …
⸤¶Out away she …
⸤¶to gardens of …
⸤¶returning, but on …
⸤¶a glimmer ere …
⸤¶singing her spells …
⸤¶A bird in …
⸤¶trilled, and to …
⸤¶amazed; then far …
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⸤¶a voice more …
⸤¶a voice as …
⸤¶as thread of …
Here the manuscript …
⸤¶Of folk and …
⸤¶of errand that …
⸤¶from Cuiviénen far …
⸤¶of lands beyond …
⸤¶no more he …
⸤¶drawn only by …
⸤¶till deep in …
⸤¶lost and beyond …
⸤¶And there he …
⸤¶Ar-Melian, the Lady …
⸤¶as silent as …
⸤¶standing with mist …
⸤¶and in her …
⸤¶of Lórien glimmered …
⸤¶No word she …
⸤¶a halting shadow, …
⸤¶forth walked the …
⸤¶tall Elu Thingol. …
⸤¶of waiting trees …
⸤¶One moment face …
⸤¶alone, beneath the …
⸤¶while starlit years …
⸤¶and in Nan …
⸤¶grow dark and …
⸤¶rising and falling …
⸤¶and Ulmo’s horn …
⸤¶But long his …
⸤¶their lord, till …
⸤¶and then in …
⸤¶leaving the woods. …
⸤¶upon the western …
⸤¶long shore of …
⸤¶and thence were …
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⸤¶in Aman, the …
⸤¶by evergreen Ezellohar¶⸥⸤⸥ …
⸤¶in Valinor, in …