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Poetic Forms card, B15, Alliterative Verse: Hail Now the Horse-Lords
Challenge: Poetic Forms card, B15, Alliterative Verse
Author: Azalais
Title: Hail Now the Horse-Lords
Characters: Cirion, Eorl the Young, Elladan, Elrohir
Rating: PG-ish
Warning: bit of battle gore
Format: poem
Summary: "In the forefront of the charge they saw two great horsemen, clad in grey, unlike all the others, and the Orcs fled before them; but when the battle was won they could not be found, and none knew whence they came or whither they went. But in Rivendell it was recorded that these were the sons of Elrond, Elladan and Elrohir."
For the Battle of the Field of Celebrant, seeThe Return of the King, LoTR Appendix A, Annals of the Kings and Rulers: Gondor and the Heirs of Anárion. The possible presence of Elladan and Elrohir (the original "horse-lord", of course) at that battle quoted in the Summary comes fromThe Peoples of Middle-Earth, HoME Vol 12, Part 1, Ch 9, The Making of Appendix A: The House of Eorl.
Author: Azalais
Title: Hail Now the Horse-Lords
Characters: Cirion, Eorl the Young, Elladan, Elrohir
Rating: PG-ish
Warning: bit of battle gore
Format: poem
Summary: "In the forefront of the charge they saw two great horsemen, clad in grey, unlike all the others, and the Orcs fled before them; but when the battle was won they could not be found, and none knew whence they came or whither they went. But in Rivendell it was recorded that these were the sons of Elrond, Elladan and Elrohir."
Hail Now The Horse-Lords
Hark now: a tale that is ripe for the telling,
Recited in Rohan at feast and fireside.
Hail now the horse-lords, the Stoningland saved...
So: with Cirion cut off at Celebrant,
Battling Balchoth, by Orc-hordes oppressed,
Hemmed in helpless, hope fast fading,
New from the North came a legion unlooked-for;
Eorl’s Éothéod, charging in challenge.
Routed the rearguard, scattered them savagely;
Slew the slaughterers, turning the tide.
At the head of the horsemen, grey-clad and grim-faced,
Two fair and fell beyond measure of men;
Howling the hordes foundered before them,
Bright blades bled the flesh of their foes.
Victorious, they vanished; Men knew never
Whence they came nor whither they went;
Saluted still in song and story,
Elladan and Elrohir; Elrond’s sons.
~~~
Recited in Rohan at feast and fireside.
Hail now the horse-lords, the Stoningland saved...
So: with Cirion cut off at Celebrant,
Battling Balchoth, by Orc-hordes oppressed,
Hemmed in helpless, hope fast fading,
New from the North came a legion unlooked-for;
Eorl’s Éothéod, charging in challenge.
Routed the rearguard, scattered them savagely;
Slew the slaughterers, turning the tide.
At the head of the horsemen, grey-clad and grim-faced,
Two fair and fell beyond measure of men;
Howling the hordes foundered before them,
Bright blades bled the flesh of their foes.
Victorious, they vanished; Men knew never
Whence they came nor whither they went;
Saluted still in song and story,
Elladan and Elrohir; Elrond’s sons.
~~~
For the Battle of the Field of Celebrant, seeThe Return of the King, LoTR Appendix A, Annals of the Kings and Rulers: Gondor and the Heirs of Anárion. The possible presence of Elladan and Elrohir (the original "horse-lord", of course) at that battle quoted in the Summary comes fromThe Peoples of Middle-Earth, HoME Vol 12, Part 1, Ch 9, The Making of Appendix A: The House of Eorl.