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Laurelad
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on: December 29, 2006 08:30
Ok, first of all, is it weird that a teenage american girl likes to stay up late reading long poems in verse?
Also, who else here has read "The Lays of Beleriand"? Personaly, I loved them. What do all you other Tolkien fans think?
Thanks,
Laurelad
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on: December 29, 2006 08:43
Hey, back when I was a teenager (long before you were born) I stayed up late reding long poetry. Whether or not it was weird I can't say, but I don't regret any of it. This was before the Lays of Beleriand (which I also love) or even the Silmarillion, I read things like Beowulf. Be happy that you know who you are and what you like and don't need to follow along with what the "in crowd" does.
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on: December 29, 2006 09:43
I also loved the Lays of Beleriand. I has been a while since I read the book, but I do plan to read it again soon.
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on: December 29, 2006 01:37
I love the Lays! :heart: Being a bit of a poet myself I'm always amazed at Tolkiens skill and down right perseverance to create those.

hehe, you're not wierd, Laurelad (at least not around here! )
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on: December 29, 2006 03:25
Oh, good. Thanks RiverWoman and Griffin, I was a little worried . Yes, I love the Lays so much, and I only recently started them! :heart: Is there a book discussion on them anywhere? If not, can we start one?
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on: December 30, 2006 04:35
Start away

I love them too, they really are beautiful.
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on: December 31, 2006 04:33
"And thus in anguish Beren paid
for that great doom upon him laid,
the deathless love of Lúthien,
too fair for love of mortal Men;
and in his doom was Lúthien snared
the deathless in his dying shared;
and Fate them forged a binding chain
of living love and mortal pain."

:love:

Does anyone else have a favorite part?
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on: January 01, 2007 08:32
The Oath of Fëanor in poetic form, in Poems Early Abandoned:

Be he friend or foe or foul offspring
of Morgoth Bauglir, be he mortal dark
that in after days on earth shall dwell,
shall no law nor love nor league of Gods,
no might nor mercy, not moveless fate,
defend him for ever for the fierce vengeance
of the sons of Fëanor, whoso seize or steal
or finding keep the fair enchanted
globes of crystal whose glory dies not,
the Silmarils. We have sworn for ever!

Quite powerful, isn't it?
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on: January 01, 2007 02:06
I have so many favorite parts, but this is one of them. :love: It is the piece that is in the Silmarillion, and its kinda long, so i won't put all of it, but you know what i mean.

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, strengh 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....
Oh! That is soo hard to edit! :cry:
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on: January 01, 2007 02:50
I can't help but cringe when ever I hear Fëanor's Oath. It is very powerful though!

That is a really good part, Laurelad! :love: Finrod :love:
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Post RE: Lays of Beleriand
on: January 02, 2007 02:24
Agreed. It makes my blood run cold ... just as Gollum's oath to the preciouss does. They don't know what they're doing ... and there is no turning back.
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on: January 02, 2007 10:45
I admit it . . . I'm one of those teenagers who stays up late reading poetry! As for a favorite part . . . .

Thrice was Fingolfin with great blows
to his knees beaten, thrice he rose
still leaping up beneath the cloud
aloft to hold star-shining, proud,
his stricken shield, his sundered helm,
that dark nor might could overwhelm
till all the earth was burst and rent
in pits about him. He was spent.

I cry every time I read that. :cry:
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on: January 02, 2007 11:56
The Oath of Fëanor in poetic form, in Poems Early Abandoned:

Be he friend or foe or foul offspring
of Morgoth Bauglir, be he mortal dark
that in after days on earth shall dwell,
shall no law nor love nor league of Gods,
no might nor mercy, not moveless fate,
defend him for ever for the fierce vengeance
of the sons of Fëanor, whoso seize or steal
or finding keep the fair enchanted
globes of crystal whose glory dies not,
the Silmarils. We have sworn for ever!

Quite powerful, isn't it?


I agree with Morwin here!
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on: January 02, 2007 01:15
Thrice was Fingolfin with great blows
to his knees beaten, thrice he rose
still leaping up beneath the cloud
aloft to hold star-shining, proud,
his stricken shield, his sundered helm,
that dark nor might could overwhelm
till all the earth was burst and rent
in pits about him. He was spent.

I cry every time I read that. :cry:


That part makes me cry too, Strider_is_the_cats_MEOW:cry: I love Fingolfin! :love:
I really like this thread, it is turning out quite well. thank you all for posting, I love hearing the thoughts of others.
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Post RE: Lays of Beleriand
on: January 05, 2007 12:04
No more? None? :cry:
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Post RE: Lays of Beleriand
on: February 09, 2007 07:30
The Lay of Leithian is absolutely one of my favorite things from Tolkien's writing. My favorite parts are Canto X (where Finrod dies and Luthien takes down Tol Sirion - so painful and so uplifting) and Luthien yelling at Beren for trying to leave her behind in Canto XI:

Not thus do those of elven race
Forsake the love that they embrace.
A love is mine, as great a power
as thine, to shake the gate and tower
of death with challenge weak and frail
that yet endures, and will not fail
nor yield, unvanquished were it hurled
beneath the foundations of the world.
Beloved fool! escape to seek
from such pursuit; in might so weak
to trust not, thinking it well to save
from love thy loved, who welcomes grave
and torment sooner than in guard
of kind intent to languish, barred,
wingless and helpless him to aid,
for whose support her love was made!
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on: February 12, 2007 03:57
Yea... :cry:. That one too. But for a happy one, I like the part (I don't rember what canto, I or II) where Thingol meets Melian. The inagry is so pure and beautiful. :love:
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on: February 13, 2007 04:21




























































How about that hero Beleg Strongbow when he and Flindling entered the camp of orcs to rescue Turin?

to his ear drew it. The air whistled,
and the tingling string twanged behind it,
soundless a sentinel sank before it--
there was one of the wolves that awaked no more.
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Post RE: Lays of Beleriand
on: February 14, 2007 09:45
Yea! But then, I just generally love Beleg and Gwindor (Flinding) :love: :heart: :disco: Lol
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Post RE: Lays of Beleriand
on: February 15, 2007 01:29
Ok, first of all, is it weird that a teenage american girl likes to stay up late reading long poems in verse?
Also, who else here has read "The Lays of Beleriand"? Personaly, I loved them. What do all you other Tolkien fans think?
Thanks,
Laurelad


I don't think it's strange and I've never read it,
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Post RE: Lays of Beleriand
on: February 27, 2007 04:21
I picked up this book about a year ago, and I constantly go back to it...it's too bad Tolkien never finished them, I would have loved to read more. (yes, I'm also a teenage girl living in America, no matter what my user info suggests)

I think the Silmarillion is better told in verse... Plus there are just events that happen there that's omitted in the published Silmarillion.

This part rocks...
""A vision he viewed in the vast spaces
of slumber roving: it seemed he roamed
up the bleak boulders of a bare hillside
to a cup outcarven in a cruel hollow,
whose broken brink bushes limb-wracked
by the North-wind's kinfe in knotted anguish
did fringe forbidding. There black unfriendly
was a dark thicket, a dell of thorn-trees
with yews mingled that the years had fretted.
The leafless limbs they lifted hopeless
were blotched and blackened, barkless, naked,
a lifeless remnant of the levin's flame,
charred chill fingers changeless pointing
to the cold twilight. There called he in longing:
'O Beleg, my brother, O Beleg, tell me
where is buried thy body in these bitter regions?'" (75)

I even drew it!
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Post RE: Lays of Beleriand
on: March 09, 2007 04:54
Yeah, that's good one. You drew it? That's awesome! Is it on CoE?
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