Thursday, October 2, 2014

Luthien Tinuviel

Luthien Tinuviel

"The leaves were long, the grass was green,
The hemlock-umbels tall and fair,
And in the glade a light was seen
Of stars in shadow shimmering.
Tinuviel was dancing there
To music of a pipe unseen,
And light of stars was in her hair,
And in her raiment glimmering.

There Beren came from mountains cold.
And lost he wandered under leaves,
And where the Elven-river rolled
He walked alone and sorrowing.
He peered between the hemlock-leaves
And saw in wonder flowers of gold
Upon her mantle and her sleeves,
And her hair like shadow following.

Enchantment healed his weary feet
That over hills were doomed to roam;
And forth he hastened, strong and fleet,
And grasped at moonbeams glistening.
Through woven woods in Elvenhome
She lightly fled on dancing feet,
And left him lonely still to roam
In the silent forest listening.

He heard there oft the flying sound
Of feet as light as linden-leaves,
Or music welling underground,
In hidden hollows quavering.
Now withered lay the hemlock-sheaves,
And one by one with sighing sound
Whispering fell the beachen leaves
In wintry woodland wavering.

He sought her ever, wandering far
Where leaves of years were thickly strewn,
By light of moon and ray of star
In frosty heavens shivering.
Her mantle glinted in the moon,
As on a hill-top high and far
She danced, and at her feet was strewn
A mist of silver quivering.

When winter passed, she came again,
And her song released the sudden spring,
Like rising lark, and falling rain,
And melting water bubbling.
He saw the elven-flowers spring
About her feet, and healed again
He longed by her to dance and sing
Upon the grass untroubling.

Again she fled, but swift he came,
Tinuviel! Tinuviel!
He called her by her elvish name;
And there she halted listening.
One moment stood she, and a spell
His voice laid on her: Beren came,
And doom fell on Tinuviel
That in his arms lay glistening.

As Beren looked into her eyes
Within the shadows of her hair,
The trembling starlight of the skies
He saw there mirrored shimmering.
Tinuviel the elven-fair,
Immortal maiden elven-wise,
About him cast her shadowy hair
And arms like silver glimmering.

Long was the way that fate them bore,
O'er stony mountains cold and grey,
Through halls of iron and darkling door,
And woods of nightshade morrowless.
The Sundering Seas between them lay,
And yet at last they met once more,
And long ago they passed away
In the forest singing sorrowless."


-J.R.R. Tolkien


A little Tolkien for you in honor of National Poetry Day.

Morgan

4 comments:

  1. I love Luthien, I love Tolkien, I love poetry. All of them together is like Christmas come early :)

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    1. Yeah, I noticed that it was National Poetry Day, and I didn't know what to post about, so I figured nothing could go wrong with Tolkien. :)

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  2. YOU'RE BAAAAAAAACK!! It's so good to hear from you again, Morgan -- I missed reading your posts! :)

    Anyway... Happy National Poetry Day! I love this poem -- the story of Beren and Luthien always gives me the feels. I cried while reading their chapter in the Silmarillion... :')

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    1. Yeah, I didn't mean to not post for such a long period of time, but you have seen how that worked out... Now I'm done with my really busy summer so I have more time now so that should help with the posts.

      Also, my computer hard drive crashing didn't help with getting any pictures on the blog since they were all on my computer or had to be put on my computer so I could put them on Blogger. But now I have my computer back so I have a lot of catching up to do. ;)

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