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*Varda* · 03-22-2004, 03:28 PM

One I've always liked is this, from Of Beren and Luthien

Farewell sweet earth and northern sky
for ever blest, since here did lie
and here with lissom limbs did run
beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun,
Luthien Tinuviel
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 this -
the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea -
that Luthien for a time should be.

Saying this, I love just about all the poems in LotR and the Sil.

03-22-2004, 03:28 PM	#34
Varda Maiden of Tears Join Date: May 2002 Location: Valinor. Posts: 571	One I've always liked is this, from Of Beren and Luthien Farewell sweet earth and northern sky for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Luthien Tinuviel 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 this - the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea - that Luthien for a time should be. Saying this, I love just about all the poems in LotR and the Sil. __________________ 'It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them' ~Frodo "Life is hard. After all, it kills you." - Katharine Hepburn Last edited by Varda; 03-24-2004 at 04:59 PM.