https://hubski.com/pub?id=68067 for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissome limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Lúthien Tinúviel more fair then mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world and were dissolved and backwards hurled unmade into the old abyss, yet were its making good, for this--- the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea--- that Lúthien for a time should be. That is from, of course, the poet who a certain someone referred to yesterday as "half the writer George RR Martin is."Farewell sweet earth and northern sky,
LOL I don't know who said that but LOL please please tell me it wasn't klein
Edit kleinbl00 please comment Did I ever tell you guys the first poem I ever memorized for school, at the tender age of "around 13," was the Lay of Luthien? "The leaves were long, the grass was green
the hemlock-umbels tall and fair
and in the glade a light was seen
of stars in shadow shimmering
Tinuviel was dancing there..."
It's beautiful, start to finish. Though "Lay of Luthien" is a misconception -- "Leithian" doesn't mean that. The title actually translates "release (from bondage)," which I choose to interpret as Luthien being released from the bondage of immortality and being granted the Gift of Men. No comment on the other.