06:P13b
The Attack on Weathertop (b)

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Volume: The Return of the Shadow
Chapter: The Attack on Weathertop
Pages: 180–182
Paragraph count: 74
Token count: 561

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p180
The leaves were
The fall of
The tree-roots twisted
The rising moon
Her feet went
To the silver
Beneath the hemlock-umbels
Tinúviel was shimmering.
The noiseless moths
The light was
As Beren there
Came wandering and
He peered between
And saw in
Upon her mantle
And her hair
Enchantment took his
That over stone
And forth he
And grasped at
Through woven woods
They fled on
And left him
In the silent
He heard at
Of feet as
Or music welling
p181
In the hidden
But withered were
And one by
Whispering fell the
In the wintry
He sought her
Where leaves of
By light of
In frosty heavens
Her mantle glistened
As on a
She danced, and
A mist of
When winter passed
And her song
Like rising lark,
And melting water
There high and
And from him
No more he
Upon the grass
Again she fled,
Tinúviel, Tinúviel.
She halted by
And stood before
Her doom at
As in the
Tinúviel, Tinúviel,
In the arms
As Beren looked
Within the shadows
The trembling starlight
He saw there
Tinúviel! O elven-fair!
Immortal maiden elven-wise,
About him cast
And white her
Long was the
O’er stony mountains
p182
Through halls of
And woods of
The Sundering Seas
And yet at
And long ago
In the forest
He paused before
‘Lúthien was the