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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
Citation Index
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 …