Song of Elthiron
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Anisha lies somewhere in the high Felsha Mountains, said to be an Earthmaster site of grand design and magnificent construction. Anisha was first discovered by the Sindarin, who avoided it as much as they could. The Song of Elthirion, which tells of an elf’s experience with Anisha, is one of a few dozen Sindarin poems to pass into human tradition and is known throughout Hârn.
- The Song of Elthirion
- Elthirion, O wretched youth,
- Thou, touched by tragic pain,
- All joy in Harn were lost to you,
- Thy roots to seek again.
- Thy lover slain, the fair Rynel
- Lost, on your nuptial eve,
- And vengeance hollow proved, anon
- The more to make thee grieve
- Wide lands thou roamed. Thou slew the beast
- That rent thy snowy maid.
- And more thou slew of beast’s foul kind
- And all that spawn unmade.
- But frost hath settled on thy soul
- Thy elven light be quelled;
- Thy grieving cythth might soothe thee not
- When vengeance seems compelled.
- Thou weapons made, and more had wrought.
- Thy kin thou left to walk
- Where none could touch thy heart again
- But fish and hind and hawk.
- Thou mad’st thy fated, dour way
- To Hârn’s most secret heart,
- Where, in those stark and aged peaks,
- Anisha lay, apart.
- By power of word, thou entrance made
- And sought what thou might see
- Enchanted arms thou laid aside
- And none thou took with thee.
- Then songs thou made of love's requite
- And sang a mighty spell,
- To cast thy soul through gate to seek
- Thy other-worldly Hell.
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Sources
- HârnPlayer: A Player’s Guide to HârnWorld. Columbia Games: 4201-HârnPlayer. 1994. pp. 69, 76.