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Old 07-10-2020, 08:49 AM   #49
Huinesoron
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Huinesoron is battling Black Riders on Weathertop.Huinesoron is battling Black Riders on Weathertop.
I, um... I got bored.

Truth (Finrod's Last Song)

An arrow set in flight
Its feathers white and gleaming
Who lay in arrow's sight?
Who knew its rise and falling?
Whose fingers fair
Chose its course through the air
And sped it to its target?
What the archer's whispered prayer
When took he his aim there
And set his bowstring singing?

Truth, you soar high above despair, singing
Chase shadows out as an arrow piercing
In Land of shadows, on thy threshold are my feet
But death and fate together, aren't so strong as thee

Forsaking home and kin
Forsaking my own soul
I hear your whispered call
Across the mountains tall
Here, abandoned in the snow
A thrall to any foe
My path a mystery
I sought for only thee
To learn what holy fires
Are blazing in the eyes
Of Secondborn inheritors!

Ah! To read the flight of birds
Is in my gifted powers
But mysterious still
Is the secret heart of mortals.
There, blind death beats within
A war no-one can win
Unbeatable, unreasoning.
But, in one moment that blinds
Obey your heart and find
A blazing understanding!

A golden dust is shining in the heights
Sky-ships are burning in the sunset light
The curséd Silmarils are blazing far away
But there's a fire that shines brighter e'en than they!

Do not close up your gates - take me in
While I can see you, Truth - here within
Fulfilled my part at last, without knowing the price
I thank your mercy, Truth, in showing me the light!


The hardest line was that 'Whose fingers fair' right at the beginning; as far as I can tell, it needs to be four syllables and rhyme with the next line. A lot of rejected version there.

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