The Fall of Arthur

• Ecthelion

  2014-07-31
  Very oddly he is the slayer of the Emperor Lucius, although less than 200 lines later Lucius is slain again by King Arthur.
• Ecthelion

  2014-07-29
  At the victorious end of the sea-battle, with Arthur on his ship off Romeril, gazing at his own land in doubt of his best course, my father ceased to work on The Fall of Arthur: in my view, one of the most grievous of his many abandonments.
• Ecthelion

  2014-07-25
  Dawn came dimly. On the dark facesof the old mountains eastward staringlight was kindled. The land shimmered.Sun came shining. Silver morningbathed in water bright ascendedthe bare heaven blue and lofty.Beams fell slantingthrough the boughs of treesglancing and glimmering in the grey forest;rain drops running from rustling leaveslike drops of glass dripped and glistened.No beast was stirring: the birds listened.