A Song of Aryador is a poem written by J.R.R. Tolkien on September 12th, 1915. The poem bears upon the matter of the shadow-folk (referring to Lost Elves) in Aryador (Ilkorin: "land or place of shadow", Hithlum). It was published in The Book of Lost Tales Part One.[1]
Poem excerpt
In the vales of Aryador
By the wooded inland shore
Green the lakeward bents and meads
Sloping down to murmurous reeds
That whisper in the dusk o'er Aryador:
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References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part One, "V. The Coming of the Elves and the Making of Kôr": "Notes and Commentary", pp. 138-139