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XII (Fingolfin and Morgoth; the meeting with Carcharoth)
XIII (Beren and Lúthien in Angband)
XIV (Escape from Angband)
Unwritten Cantos
Appendix: Commentary by C. S. Lewis
IV THE LAY OF LEITHIAN RECOMMENCED
Note on the original submission of the Lay of Leithian and The Silmarillion in1937
Glossary of Obsolete, Archaic, and Rare Words and Meanings
Searchable Terms
Other books by J.R.R. Tolkien
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This third part of ‘The History of Middle-earth’ contains the two major poems by J. R. R. Tolkien concerned with the legends of the Elder Days: the Lay of the Children of Húrin in alliterative verse, and the Lay of Leithian in octosyllabic couplets. The alliterative poem was composed while my father held appointments at the University of Leeds (1920–5); he abandoned it for the Lay of Leithian at the end of that time, and never turned to it again. I have found no reference to it in any letter or other writing of his that has survived (other than the few words cited on ssss1), and I do not recollect his ever speaking of it. But this poem, which though extending to more than 2000 lines is only a fragment in relation to what he once planned, is the most sustained embodiment of his abiding love of the resonance and richness of sound that might be achieved in the ancient English metre. It marks also an important stage in the evolution of the Matter of the Elder Days, and contains passages that strongly illumine his imagination of Beleriand; it was, for example, in this poem that the great redoubt of Nargothrond arose from the primitive caves of the Rodothlim in the Lost Tales, and only in this poem was Nargothrond described. It exists in two versions, the second being a revision and enlargement that proceeds much less far into the story, and both are given in this book.