Hurt and Heal XI: Songs and Poems

[Galadriel55]

Sorry for the inactivity. I went home for the weekend, which was the end of all things productive.


Second Wind on the Withered Heath. Nominate He Chanted A Song of Wizardry, quoted below.

On the List:
The Shadow Bride
Wind on the Withered Heath

Nominations:
The King beneath the mountains (2)
Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising (2)
The Shadows where the Mewlips dwell (1)
Cold be hand and heart and bone (2)
Three Rings for the Elven kings under the sky (2)
Learn now the lore of living creatures (1)
Lazy Lob and Crazy Cob (1)
He chanted a song of wizardry (1)

Nominations/Secondings:
Agan 0/2
Boro 0/4
G55 1/3
Legate 1/3

He chanted a song of wizardry,
Of piercing, opening, of treachery,
Revealing, uncovering, betraying.
Then sudden Felagund there swaying
Sang in answer a song of staying,
Resisting, battling against power,
Of secrets kept, strength like a tower,
And trust unbroken, freedom, escape;
Of changing and of shifting shape
Of snares eluded, broken traps,
The prison opening, the chain that snaps.
Backwards and forwards swayed their song.
Reeling and foundering, as ever more strong
The chanting swelled, Felagund fought,
And all the magic and might he brought
Of Elvenesse into his words.
Softly in the gloom they heard the birds
Singing afar in Nargothrond,
The sighing of the Sea beyond,
Beyond the western world, on sand,
On sand of pearls in Elvenland.
Then the gloom gathered; darkness growing
In Valinor, the red blood flowing
Beside the Sea, where the Noldor slew
The Foamriders, and stealing drew
Their white ships with their white sails
From lamplit havens. The wind wails,
The wolf howls. The ravens flee.
The ice mutters in the mouths of the Sea.
The captives sad in Angband mourn.
Thunder rumbles, the fires burn —-
And Finrod fell before the throne.