A Song of Aryador, called Án léoþ Éargedores in Old English, was a poem written by J.R.R. Tolkien "in an army camp near Lichfield on September 12th" in 1915. It is about the Shadow Folk in Aryador (Ilkorin: "land or place of shadow"). It was published in The Book of Lost Tales Part One.[1]
First stanza[]
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:
In other versions[]
The Pines of Aryador[]
The first version of the poem was called The Pines of Aryador. The word "she" in the third stanza was originally the word "he".
References[]
- ↑ The History of Middle-earth, Vol. I: The Book of Lost Tales Part One, V: "The Coming of the Elves and the Making of Kôr", "Notes and Commentary", pgs. 138-9