Narn I Chîn Húrin 1: Túrins Fostering

[Findegil]

NA-EX-22.4: I think we are in agreement in this case.

Respectfully
Findegil

[Arvegil145]

Is there a place here for the newly published rhyming couplet of the CoH (from 1931/2)?

It goes quite in depth in regards to Hurin's final stand - here's a portion of it, since I'm unsure of posting the whole thing here (it's 171 lines long):

Thus Húrin lord of Hithlum fought.
His brother Huor pierced to heart
there fell before a venomed dart
his men were reaped like ripened wheat
and trampled under ruthless feet;
but none gave way, till alone he stood
between the desert and the wood,
and cast his broken shield away.
His thirty thanes about him lay,
his banner sewn with leaves of trees
was torn from shaft, and to his knees
he seven times was beaten low,
and seven times against the foe
he rose renewed, and clove a path
two-handed like a scyther’s swath
through thronging ranks of bending grass:
not yet could Morgoth’s servants pass.
Behind him was a narrow way
between the hills that southward lay,
and thither Turgon made retreat
to the vales of Sirion the fleet,
and saved the last of Finwë’s folk.
In the green shadows of the oak,
and up beneath the pinewoods dim,
and over mountain passes grim
he vanished from the darkened land
and passed into Beleriand,
and never after search nor tale,
nor any spy by hill or dale,
found ever echo of their feet.
Thus Húrin guarded their retreat,
and ever songs of elves him praise,
his name has sounded down the days
uncounted; for he kept his troth,
for death nor torment broke his oath
and death in the mouth of hell defied
and saved a remnant of the pride
and glory of the elves, that yet
a hope of vengeance, and a threat
lurked in the shadows unexplored,
a dream unquiet, a hanging sword.

[Findegil]

I think yes. It can not go in unchanged, but that does not mean it shouldn't be used at all. E.g. the dart killing Huor does later pierce his eye and not his haert.

Raspectfuly
Findegil