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elvesofnoldor · 4 years
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#yolanda talks#im away from home atm and the biggest mood rn is that i wish i brought lay of beleriand with me#bc i wanna read it so SO MUCH right now smh i assume there was a pdf of the book in its entirety online#cause it was published forever ago. but no. only lay of leithian is online.#just read a passage abt maglor and uh gosh i love it i wanna read the lays#NOW!#'no other player has there been. no other lips or fingers seen. so skilled tis' said in elven lore. save maglor son of feanor'#'forgotten harper singer doomed. who young when laurelin yet bloomed'#'to endless lamentation passed. and in the tombless sea was cast'#AA AH A HA HSDF HS DF  > 1 1 DFJjd fjksd ???!!!#idk whats with me i dont even like lays. who likes epic narrative poems? they r just ok.#tfw when the end of each verses rhyme. my brain produces serotonin#also....passages abt maglor.....ummmmmmm yes#i can never decide if maglor is called the mighty singer cause he writes rly good songs or if hes just sing good#turns out hes called that cause he sings good. plays good too. very good. the best. like i expected#get a bit worried there cause i thought at the end of the passage its implied he drowned at sea?#like i was like did jirt intend for maglor to drown at sea in one of his first drafts? but no. i think he was described to be#'casting' his lamentations to the sea#i didnt bring it along cause the lays are tolkien's first draft. he was calling noldorin elves 'gnomes' in the poems#and i was like 'eh i dont need to read first drafts materials' but u know what actually i do#tbh the passage abt maglor is from...lay of leithian? so maybe i will just read that lay in its entirety maybe theres something abt mae too
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