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GLOSSARY This glossary contains words (including forms and meanings of words differing from modern usage) that seemed to me liable to give difficulty. The content of such a list as this cannot of course be systematic, deriving from some external standard. an if, 45, 52, 80, 82, etc. bent open place covered with grass, 144 bid offered, 241 chase hunting ground, 181 clomb old past tense of climb, 202 corse corpse, 193 croft small plot of land, 122 drouth dryness, 125 entreat treat, 60, 65; [modern sense] 61, 83 envermined full of noxious creatures, 186. This word seems not to be otherwise recorded. fell hide, 72, 101, 146, 153–4, 185–8, etc. flittermouse bat, 210 forhungered starved, 173 frith wood, woodland, 143 frore very cold, 113 glamoury magic, enchantment, 125 haggard (of hills) wild, 177 haply perhaps, 45, 96, 118 hem and hedge enclose and fence off, 101 howe burial mound, barrow, 234 inane empty, 190 lave wash, 55 leeches physicians, 173, 176 let hinder, 124: their going let ‘hinder their passing’
like please, 88 (in doth it like thee?) limber supple, 143 march borderland, 178, 195 neb beak, bill, 97, 265–6 nesh soft, tender, 215 opes opens, 198 parlous dangerous, 268 pled old past tense of plead, 170 quook old past tense of quake, 192 rede counsel, 48, 59 rove past tense of rive ‘rend, tear apart, cleave’, 213 ruel-bone ivory, 143 runagate deserter, renegade, 48 scullion kitchen drudge, 51 shores supports, 203 sigaldry sorcery, 125 slot track of an animal, 83–4 spoor the same as slot, 84 sprite spirit, 49 sylphine of the nature of a sylph (a spirit inhabiting the air), 210. This adjective is not recorded. swath (space left after passage of a mower) track, trace, 127 tarn a small mountain lake, 258 thews bodily strength, 76 thrall a slave, one who is in bondage (thraldom), 20, 47–9, 59, 69, 73, etc. trammelled hampered, impeded, 151 unkempt uncombed, 51 viol a stringed instrument played with a bow, 158, 176 weft woven fabric, 173 weird fate, 144, 177 weregild (Old English) the price set upon a man in accordance with his rank, 258 whin gorse, 259
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Contents Cover Title Page Copyright
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PREFACE After the publication of Th
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Lastly, I will cite another of my p
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NOTES ON THE ELDER DAYS The depth i
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That country came afterwards to be
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BEREN AND LÚTHIEN
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The Tale of Tinúviel in its rewrit
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of the white moths that flew in the
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Valinor. Melian was a fay. In the g
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Iron Mountains until he reached the
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quest, and indeed there was little,
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Now Gwendeling laughed not, for in
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towards Palisor, and there plays su
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Tinúviel was robed in her robe of
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ears, for they twitch already.’ B
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for Tevildo’s wrath was terrible,
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and Melko gazed on enchanted, but h
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him, saying it would be folly to be
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to cutting it open, but Huan licks
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A PASSAGE FROM THE ‘SKETCH OF THE
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A PASSAGE EXTRACTED FROM THE LAY OF
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he found the servants of the king a
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traitor betrayed, now stands! Nor f
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Yet seldom well an outlaw ends, and
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THE QUENTA NOLDORINWA After the Ske
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that burning, and the fumes of it w
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A SECOND EXTRACT FROM THE LAY OF LE
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An everlasting watch they hold, the
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that to Beren son of Barahir mercy
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is now our fate, but not to lose th
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they took; and loathing each him cl
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Foreboding evil weights their mind,
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Death to light, to law, to love! Cu
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and blood flowing they would smell.
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any who could capture her. Each wol
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Doriath. Then the heart of Thingol
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as arrow from a bow of yew; their v
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Curufin spake: ‘Good brother mine
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The perfume of her flower-twined ha
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her eager questions. Out of mind, i
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The others lived no more, but bare
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slim fingers flute and viol seize b
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and each was seized, and there were
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and vanquished betrayed his master
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and there there lie the white bones
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‘For never more to Doriath can Be
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There Curufin had left his life, ha
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long years had sung in those sad li
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eneath the beech and oak we stand,
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and dream thee back in Valinor, whe
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would Huan make, of flowing pace: t
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singing until the midnight hour. Sw
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Fingolfin there: ‘Come, open wide
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Thus Bauglir earned the furrowed sc
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and ever wild their voices rolled i
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eyes shining grim with evil mood, u
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Page 134 and 135: time return. But the sons of Men di
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Page 140 and 141: tree and boulder do the brown Elves
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Page 159 and 160: FOOTNOTES Preface * ‘The Lost Tal
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