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The Lost Road (Opening Chapters)

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Volume: The Lost Road and other writings
Chapter: The Lost Road
Pages: 36–53
Paragraph count: 155
Token count: 7,201

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Page numbers refer to the setting used by all editions other than mass-market paperbacks.

p36
Chapter I
A Step Forward.
‘Alboin! Alboin!’
There was no
‘Alboin!’ Oswin Errol
‘Yes?’
‘Where are you?’
‘Here!’
‘Where is “here”?’
‘Here: up on
Oswin sprang down
‘So there you
‘Not before the
p36–37
‘Well, you must
p37
‘I am sorry,
‘What about?’
‘Oh, lots of
‘Alboin?’
‘Yes. I wondered
‘You look rather
‘But it is
‘Of course not.
They remained talking
‘I don’t like
‘Well, really mother
‘No-o,’ said Alboin
p37–38
‘Well, I might
p38
But Alboin looked
‘They look like
Some of these
But as he
p38–39
‘Dark Alboin,’ he
p39
Then he fell
Also he learned
But Alboin liked
p39–40
One day, when
p40
Alboin was trying
‘Of course, I
‘Yes,’ said Alboin;
‘It depends how
‘Would you?’ said
‘Anyway you can’t
‘Good idea,’ said
p41
‘Well, you can
‘I wish Latin
‘Don’t go putting
‘Of course not!’
‘Well, you did
‘Oh, I haven’t
‘It isn’t getting
‘Not lately. Too
‘Good Lord!’ said
p41–42
‘I do. I
p42
As a matter
Alboin in the
Away west the
He found his
p43
Chapter II
Alboin and Audoin
Long afterwards Alboin
Rather disconcertingly the
He remembered one
‘How’s the Eressëan
‘Oddly enough,’ he
The old man
‘As a matter
‘Tell me a
p43–44
‘Westra lage wegas
p44
‘Thus cwæth Ælfwine
Fela bith on
wundra and wihta,
eardgeard elfa, and
Lýt ǽnig wát
thám the eftsíthes
His father looked
‘Thus said Ælfwine
He suddenly regretted
Damn it –
On the whole
p44–45
He was, perhaps,
p45
And the Dreams.
But nothing could
p46
He had called
‘I like Aud,’
Alboin had scattered
Anyway, happy thought,
There came a
Sleep would not
p47
Then there had
There were one
Alboin felt restless.
‘They look like
‘I wish there
p48
The clouds overcame
In a wide
‘Elendil!’ it said.
‘Who are you?’
A tall figure
‘I am with
‘What desire?’
‘The long-hidden and
‘But that cannot
‘It is against
‘But are there
‘Rules may be
‘I would.’
‘You ask not:
‘I do not
p48–49
‘That the road
p49
‘Then you do
‘I do not
‘But I do
‘You must, if
‘But I can
‘He would say
‘And when can
‘When you have
The figure ascended
He sat silent
‘You look glum,
‘Yes – well
‘Oh, I say!’
‘Anything on?’
‘No, nothing special
p50
‘Well, what about
The boy’s face
After a while
‘Yes,’ said Alboin
‘Well, you said
‘Did I?’ said
Soon after breakfast
He wandered about
In the late
p50–51
‘But I cannot
p51
‘But it is
He was climbing
‘I have chosen,’
Then he lay
‘You have chosen,’
Then Alboin seemed
He was poised;
‘Whither?’ He perceived
‘To whatever place
‘Waiting. The motion
‘Let us move!’
p52
Audoin tramped on,
‘So disappointing,’ he
He tramped on.
Darkness began to
He found his
Audoin was creeping
p52–53
He was used
p53
‘Good night!’ said
‘Dreaming,’ thought Audoin.
And he went