Board Thread:Lore Texts/@comment-32150364-20170530042756



 #title Gondolin: A Memory

 #author Tuor

 #types lindon, rivendell, eregion



 Forth came the Elves upon their horses shining

 Down from the mount of loss, a shelter

 For Turgon and his band come pining.

 Ulmo guides their swords against The Melter.



 Far away, the hidden valley north of the Sirion

 Gondolin lay, a secret in building

 The city rose up out of the dust, near half a million

 Souls lived on beneath the Peaks mounting.



 Twenty Score years the city bustled

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);"> Untouched by the scourges beyond

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);"> The wars raged and the peaces settled.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);"> But trouble lurks and was not kept abroad.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);">

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);"> Maeglin the betrayer was captured

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);"> Deep within his mining halls

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);"> Son of the dark one, Eol Corrupted.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);"> Orcs brought him low and made him crawl.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);">

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);"> Morgoth the Defiler raged at the gate

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);"> Over the mountains came the army

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);"> Of Balrogs, Orcs, and Dragons to sate.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);"> Machines of Fire crawled without pity

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);">

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);"> The City in ruins, its heroes fallen to fog:

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);"> Turgon, King of the Tower,

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);"> Ecthelion, defeater of Gothmog,

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);"> Glorfindel, dragged down by great power.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);">

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);"> Idril and I escaped, and led the refugees.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);"> Escaped to the mouths of the Sirion Wide,

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);"> Lost to the wind, carrying seeds

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);"> Of Lost Elven Heritage on the edge of the tide.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);">

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);">

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:14.7px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(33,33,33);"> Please give commentary on my poetry, it probably has errors. <ac_metadata title="Gondolin: A Memory"> </ac_metadata>