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moveless;
nor sight nor sound his senses knew,
and wavering words he witless murmured,
'A! Beleg,' he whispered, 'my brother-in-arms.'
Though Flinding shook him, he felt it not:
had he comprehended he had cared little.
Then winds were wakened in wild dungeons
where thrumming thunders throbbed and rumbled; storm came striding with streaming banners
from the four corners of the fainting world;
1285
I 290
1295
1300
then the clouds were cloven with a crash of lightning, and slung like stones from slings uncounted
the hurtling hail came hissing earthward,
with a deluge dark of driving rain.
Now wafted high, now wavering far,
the cries of the Glamhoth called and hooted,
and the howl of wolves in the heavens' roaring was mingled mournful: they missed their paths, for swollen swept there swirling torrents
down the blackening slopes, and the slot was blind, so that blundering back up the beaten road
to the gates of gloom many goblins wildered
were drowned or drawn in Deadly Nightshade
to die in the dark; while dawn came not,
while the storm-riders strove and thundered
all the sunless day, and soaked and drenched
Flinding go-Fuilin with fear speechless
there crouched aquake; cold and lifeless
lay Beleg the bowman; brooding dumbly
Turin Thalion neath the tangled thorns
sat unseeing without sound or movement.
1305
1310
1315
1320:
1325
The dusty dunes of Dor-na-Fauglith
hissed and spouted. Huge rose the spires
of smoking vapour swathed and reeking,
thick-billowing clouds from thirst unquenched, and dawn was kindled dimly lurid
when a day and night had dragged away.
The Orcs had gone, their anger baffled,
o'er the weltering ways weary faring
to their hopeless halls in Hell's kingdom;
no thrall took they Turin Thalion --
a burden bore he than their bonds heavier,
in despair fettered with spirit empty
in mourning hopeless he remained behind.
1330
'335
*
NOTES.
617. Blodrin: Bauglir A, and B as typed. See line 618.
618. Bauglir Ban's son A, and B as typed (Bauglir > Blodrin 631.
636.
653.
661, 696.
711.
carefully-made early change, Ban > Bor hasty and later).
See lines 661, 696, 990.
Fangair A, Fangros B as typed.
Tengwethiel [sic] A, Tain-Gwethil B as typed. Cf. line 431.
Turin Thaliodrin A, and B as typed. Cf. lines I 15, 333, 720.
As at line 618.
Aiglir-angrin A, Aiglir Angrin B as typed, emended roughly in pencil to Eiglir Engrin; cf. line 1055. In the Tale of Turambar occurs Angorodin (the Iron Mountains), II.77.
711-14.
These lines read in A (and as typed in B, with of Hell is reared for of the Hells of Iron):
where Aiglir-angrin the Iron Hills lie
and Thangorodrim's thunderous mountain
o'er the hopeless halls of the Hells of iron
wrought at the roots of the ruthless hills.
718.
720.
780.
816.
818 -- 20.
826.
834.
0.
1055.
1098.
1137.
1147.
1198.
1214.
1324.
335.
Cf. Bilbo's second riddle to Gollum.
As at line 653.
Delimorgoth A, Delu-Morgoth B as typed, dark Morgoth a late pencilled emendation. At lines 11 and 51 Delu-Morgoth is an emendation of Delimorgoth in B.
Tun also in A; see lines 50, 430.
Against these lines my father wrote in the margin of B:
'Captured in battle at gates of Angband.'
o'er the black boulders of the Blasted Plain A (marked with query).
mercy: magic A, and B as typed; mercy in pencil and not quite certain.
Daideloth A emended at time of writing to Dor-na-Maiglos, Dor-na-Fauglith B as typed. In margin of A is written: 'a plateau from Dai "high", Deloth "plain"'; contrast II. 337, entry Dor-na-Dhaideloth.99
Blodrin Ban's son A, and B as typed; Ban's > Bor's later in B. At lines 617 -- 18, 661, 696 A, and B as typed, had Bauglir, changed to Blodrin in B.
Aiglir Angrin A, and B as typed; see line 711.
Bauglir A and B.
This line is emended in B, but the reading is uncertain: apparently Then his bow unbending Beleg asked him: In the margin of B is written r?, i.e. dreadly for deadly.
East: South A, and B as
nor sight nor sound his senses knew,
and wavering words he witless murmured,
'A! Beleg,' he whispered, 'my brother-in-arms.'
Though Flinding shook him, he felt it not:
had he comprehended he had cared little.
Then winds were wakened in wild dungeons
where thrumming thunders throbbed and rumbled; storm came striding with streaming banners
from the four corners of the fainting world;
1285
I 290
1295
1300
then the clouds were cloven with a crash of lightning, and slung like stones from slings uncounted
the hurtling hail came hissing earthward,
with a deluge dark of driving rain.
Now wafted high, now wavering far,
the cries of the Glamhoth called and hooted,
and the howl of wolves in the heavens' roaring was mingled mournful: they missed their paths, for swollen swept there swirling torrents
down the blackening slopes, and the slot was blind, so that blundering back up the beaten road
to the gates of gloom many goblins wildered
were drowned or drawn in Deadly Nightshade
to die in the dark; while dawn came not,
while the storm-riders strove and thundered
all the sunless day, and soaked and drenched
Flinding go-Fuilin with fear speechless
there crouched aquake; cold and lifeless
lay Beleg the bowman; brooding dumbly
Turin Thalion neath the tangled thorns
sat unseeing without sound or movement.
1305
1310
1315
1320:
1325
The dusty dunes of Dor-na-Fauglith
hissed and spouted. Huge rose the spires
of smoking vapour swathed and reeking,
thick-billowing clouds from thirst unquenched, and dawn was kindled dimly lurid
when a day and night had dragged away.
The Orcs had gone, their anger baffled,
o'er the weltering ways weary faring
to their hopeless halls in Hell's kingdom;
no thrall took they Turin Thalion --
a burden bore he than their bonds heavier,
in despair fettered with spirit empty
in mourning hopeless he remained behind.
1330
'335
*
NOTES.
617. Blodrin: Bauglir A, and B as typed. See line 618.
618. Bauglir Ban's son A, and B as typed (Bauglir > Blodrin 631.
636.
653.
661, 696.
711.
carefully-made early change, Ban > Bor hasty and later).
See lines 661, 696, 990.
Fangair A, Fangros B as typed.
Tengwethiel [sic] A, Tain-Gwethil B as typed. Cf. line 431.
Turin Thaliodrin A, and B as typed. Cf. lines I 15, 333, 720.
As at line 618.
Aiglir-angrin A, Aiglir Angrin B as typed, emended roughly in pencil to Eiglir Engrin; cf. line 1055. In the Tale of Turambar occurs Angorodin (the Iron Mountains), II.77.
711-14.
These lines read in A (and as typed in B, with of Hell is reared for of the Hells of Iron):
where Aiglir-angrin the Iron Hills lie
and Thangorodrim's thunderous mountain
o'er the hopeless halls of the Hells of iron
wrought at the roots of the ruthless hills.
718.
720.
780.
816.
818 -- 20.
826.
834.
0.
1055.
1098.
1137.
1147.
1198.
1214.
1324.
335.
Cf. Bilbo's second riddle to Gollum.
As at line 653.
Delimorgoth A, Delu-Morgoth B as typed, dark Morgoth a late pencilled emendation. At lines 11 and 51 Delu-Morgoth is an emendation of Delimorgoth in B.
Tun also in A; see lines 50, 430.
Against these lines my father wrote in the margin of B:
'Captured in battle at gates of Angband.'
o'er the black boulders of the Blasted Plain A (marked with query).
mercy: magic A, and B as typed; mercy in pencil and not quite certain.
Daideloth A emended at time of writing to Dor-na-Maiglos, Dor-na-Fauglith B as typed. In margin of A is written: 'a plateau from Dai "high", Deloth "plain"'; contrast II. 337, entry Dor-na-Dhaideloth.99
Blodrin Ban's son A, and B as typed; Ban's > Bor's later in B. At lines 617 -- 18, 661, 696 A, and B as typed, had Bauglir, changed to Blodrin in B.
Aiglir Angrin A, and B as typed; see line 711.
Bauglir A and B.
This line is emended in B, but the reading is uncertain: apparently Then his bow unbending Beleg asked him: In the margin of B is written r?, i.e. dreadly for deadly.
East: South A, and B as
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