Middle-earth Poetry (Silmarillion version) by Zdenka

A Lost Song

Spoken by descendants of the first Men to enter Beleriand (as told in in "The Coming of Men Into the West" from the Silmarillion). (Tanka.)

The song of Finrod
that he sang to our fathers,
does the sea hold it?
When Beleriand was drowned,
did the waves catch its echo?

Chapter End Notes

Written for Back to Middle-earth Month 2012. Prompts O70: "Poetic Forms: tanka" and "Book Titles: Dead Poets Society."