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05-02-2002, 02:32 PM | #1 |
King of Nargothrond
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Finrod Felagund is the coolest Elven king (the one in the Silmarillion I mean)
FINROD FELAGUND
Thus the realm of Finrod was the greatest by far, though he was the youngest of the great lords of the Noldor. Felagund strove with Sauron in songs of power, and the power of the king was very great; but Sauron had the mastery as is told in the Lay of Leithian… Sauron 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 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 wite ship with their white sail 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. Thus King Finrod Felagund, fairest and most beloved of the house of Finwe fulfilled his oath. From Sirion’s Isle they passed away, But on the hill alone there lay A green grave, and a stone was set, And there there lie the white bones yet Of Finrod fair, Finarfin’s son Unless that land be changed and gone, Or foundered in unfathomed seas While Finrod walks beneath the trees In Eldamar and comes no more To the grey world of tears and war The green grave of Finrod Finarfin's son, fairest of all the princes of the elves, remained inviolate. But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.
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