03 The Lays of Beleriand

Table of Contents

03.PR Preface

I. The Lay of the Children of Húrin

03.1.03 Verses associated with The Children of Húrin

II. Poems Early Abandoned

03.2.00 (Introduction)
03.2.01 The Flight of the Noldoli
03.2.02 Fragment of an alliterative Lay of Eärendel
03.2.03 The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin

III. The Lay of Leithian

03.3.00 (Introduction)
03.3.01 Canto I: Of Thingol
03.3.02 Canto II: Gorlim’s betrayal and Beren’s revenge
03.3.03 Canto III: Beren’s meeting with Lúthien
03.3.04 Canto IV: Beren before Thingol
03.3.05 Canto V: Lúthien’s captivity in Doriath
03.3.06 Canto VI: Beren in Nargothrond
03.3.07 Canto VII: Beren and Felagund before Thû
03.3.08 Canto VIII: Lúthien in Nargothrond
03.3.09 Canto IX: The defeat of Thû
03.3.10 Canto X: The attack by Celegorm and Curufin
03.3.11 Canto XI: The disguising of Beren and Lúthien and the journey to Angband
03.3.12 Canto XII: Fingolfin and Morgoth; the meeting with Carcharoth
03.3.13 Canto XIII: Beren and Lúthien in Angband
03.3.14 Canto XIV: Escape from Angband
03.3.UC Unwritten Cantos
03.3.AP Appendix: Commentary by C.S. Lewis

IV. The Lay of Leithian Recommenced

03.4 The Lay of Leithian Recommenced

03.NT Note on the original submission of the Lay of Leithian and The Silmarillion in 1937
03.GL Glossary of Obsolete, Archaic, and Rare Words and Meanings