The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien;Christopher Tolkien;Tolkien;Ted Nasmith
Author:J. R. R. Tolkien;Christopher Tolkien;Tolkien;Ted Nasmith
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fiction, Middle Earth (Imagininary Place), Science Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, General, Literary, Fantasy, English, Epic
ISBN: 9780618391110
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1977-01-01T17:00:00+00:00
Lúthien Tinúviel
more fair than mortal tongue can tell.
Though all to ruin fell the world
and were dissolved and backward hurled
unmade into the old abyss,
yet were its making good, for thisâ
the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the seaâ
that Lúthien for a time should be.
And he sang aloud, caring not what ear should overhear him, for he was desperate and looked for no escape.
But Lúthien heard his song, and she sang in answer, as she came through the woods unlooked for. For Huan, consenting once more to be her steed, had borne her swiftly hard upon Berenâs trail. Long he had pondered in his heart what counsel he could devise for the lightening of the peril of these two whom he loved. He turned aside therefore at Sauronâs isle, as they ran northward again, and he took thence the ghastly wolf-hame of Draugluin, and the bat-fell of Thuringwethil. She was the messenger of Sauron, and was wont to fly in vampireâs form to Angband; and her great fingered wings were barbed at each jointâs end with an iron claw. Clad in these dreadful garments Huan and Lúthien ran through Taur-nu-Fuin, and all things fled before them.
Beren seeing their approach was dismayed; and he wondered, for he had heard the voice of Tinúviel, and he thought it now a phantom for his ensnaring. But they halted and cast aside their disguise, and Lúthien ran towards him. Thus Beren and Lúthien met again between the desert and the wood. For a while he was silent, and was glad; but after a space he strove once more to dissuade Lúthien from her journey.
âThrice now I curse my oath to Thingol,â he said, âand I would that he had slain me in Menegroth, rather than I should bring you under the shadow of Morgoth.â
Then for the second time Huan spoke with words; and he counselled Beren, saying: âFrom the shadow of death you can no longer save Lúthien, for by her love she is now subject to it. You can turn from your fate and lead her into exile, seeking peace in vain while your life lasts. But if you will not deny your doom, then either Lúthien, being forsaken, must assuredly die alone, or she must with you challenge the fate that lies before youâhopeless, yet not certain. Further counsel I cannot give, nor may I go further on your road. But my heart forebodes that what you find at the Gate I shall myself see. All else is dark to me; yet it may be that our three paths lead back to Doriath, and we may meet before the end.â
Then Beren perceived that Lúthien could not be divided from the doom that lay upon them both, and he sought no longer to dissuade her. By the counsel of Huan and the arts of Lúthien he was arrayed now in the hame of Draugluin, and she in the winged fell of Thuringwethil. Beren became in all things like a werewolf to look upon, save that in
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