The Lays of Beleriand (The History of Middle-Earth, Vol. 3) by J.R.R. Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien (Editor)

Author:J.R.R. Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien (Editor) [Tolkien, Christopher]
Language: spa
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780261102057
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Published: 2010-12-27T14:12:50.650000+00:00

far older, stronger than the stone no

the world is built of, than the fire

that burns within more fierce and dire;

and thoughts profound were in his heart:

a gloomy power that dwelt apart.

Unconquerable spears of steel 115

were at his nod. No ruth did feel

the legions of his marshalled hate,

on whom did wolf and raven wait;

and black the ravens sat and cried

upon their banners black, and wide 120

was heard their hideous chanting dread

above the reek and trampled dead.

With fire and sword his ruin red

on all that would not bow the head

like lightning fell. The Northern land 125

lay groaning neath his ghastly hand.

But still there lived in hiding cold

undaunted, Barahir the bold,

of land bereaved, of lordship shorn,

who once a prince of Men was born 130

and now an outlaw lurked and lay

in the hard heath and woodland grey,

THE LAY OF LEITHIAN 101

they [the Dwarves] made for Tinwelint, who yet had worn nought but a wreath of scarlet leaves.’

II

Far in the North neath hills of stone

in caverns black there was a throne 100

by fires illumined underground,

that winds of ice with moaning sound

made flare and flicker in dark smoke;

the wavering bitter coils did choke

the sunless airs of dungeons deep 105

where evil things did crouch and creep.

There sat a king: no Elfin race

nor mortal blood, nor kindly grace

of earth or heaven might he own,

far older, stronger than the stone no

the world is built of, than the fire

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