The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son by John Ronald Ruel Tolkien

Author:John Ronald Ruel Tolkien [Tolkien, John Ronald Ruel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dramaturgy

How these wheels do whine! They'll hear

the creak for miles away over mire and stone.

A longer pause in which no word is spoken.

Where first do we make for? Have we far to go?

The night is passing, and I'm near finished …

Say, Tída, Tída! is your tongue stricken?

Tíd.

I'm tired of talk. My tongue's resting.

"Where first" you say? A fool's question!

To Maldon and the monks, and then miles

onward to Ely and the abbey. It'll end sometime;

but the roads are bad in these ruinous days.

No rest for you yet! Were you reckoning on bed?

The best you'll get is the bottom of the cart

with his body for bolster.

Tor.

You're a brute, Tída.

Tíd.

It's only plain language. If a poet sang you:

"I bowed my head on his breast beloved,

and weary of weeping woeful slept I;

thus joined we journeyed, gentle master

and faithful servant, over fen and boulder

to his last resting and love's ending",

you'd not call it cruel. I have cares of my own

in my heart, Totta, and my head's weary.

I am sorry for you, and for myself also.

Sleep, lad, then! Sleep! The slain won't trouble

if your head be heavy, or the wheels grumble

He speaks to the horses.

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