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Old 05-08-2010, 05:42 PM   #1242
Pitchwife
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OK, so that this thread doesn't become stagnant and fall prey to You-Know-Who, I'll hazard a guess:

The speaker is Laurelin, and her lover Telperion.

Out of time, out of place,
- in Aman
Gold my hair and green my face. - gold her fruits and blossoms, green her leaves;

Maiden-like I fenced me in;
He loved me and I loved him.
- well, yes... don't know exactly how to make that fit...

Though we quarreled by and by, - they climaxed (er...) at different times, leading to the mingling of the lights, etc.?
For my sake he left to die. - ???

My guards left me, fair and fresh; - presumably gone to the festival on Taniquetil;
They arrived and fouled my flesh. - Morgoth and Ungolianth.

When at last we met again, - her last fruit and his last blossom, the Sun and Moon?
Both our selves all scarred with pain, - sunspots and moon craters?

To my horror I could see
He no more belonged to me.
- their orbits out of sync with each other

He left me under another--
Where shall I find such a lover?
- Hmmm...yes, well, where indeed?

Doesn't fit too well, and since you said Urwen was 'close' with Nimrodel, it's probably far off the mark... I've got another idea, but that needs more thinking.
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