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Into that realm did your feet dare?’<br />
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‘Only its borders did we dare.<br />
There reigns King Felagund the fair.’<br />
‘Then heard ye not that he is gone,<br />
that Celegorm sits his throne upon?’<br />
‘That is not true! If he is gone,<br />
then Orodreth sits his throne upon.’<br />
‘Sharp are your ears, swift have they got<br />
tidings of realms ye entered not!<br />
What are your names, O spearmen bold?<br />
Who your captain, ye have not told.’<br />
‘Nereb and Dungalef and warriors ten,<br />
so we are called, and dark our den<br />
under the mountains. Over the waste<br />
we march on an errand of need and haste.<br />
Boldog the captain awaits us there<br />
where fires from under smoke and flare.’<br />
‘Boldog, I heard, was lately slain<br />
warring on the borders of that domain<br />
where Robber Thingol and outlaw folk<br />
cringe and crawl beneath elm and oak<br />
in drear Doriath. Heard ye not then<br />
of that pretty fay, of Lúthien?<br />
Her body is fair, very white and fair.<br />
Morgoth would possess her in his lair.<br />
Boldog he sent, but Boldog was slain:<br />
strange ye were not in Boldog’s train.<br />
Nereb looks fierce, his frown is grim.<br />
Little Lúthien! What troubles him?<br />
Why laughs he not to think of his lord<br />
crushing a maiden in his hoard,<br />
that foul should be what once was clean,<br />
that dark should be where light has been?<br />
Whom do ye serve, Light or Mirk?<br />
Who is the maker of mightiest work?<br />
Who is the king of earthly kings,<br />
the greatest giver of gold and rings?<br />
Who is the master of the wide earth?<br />
Who despoiled them of their mirth,<br />
the greedy Gods! Repeat your vows,<br />
Orcs of Bauglir! Do not bend your brows!<br />
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