The OTHER Lays of Beleriand by Aiwen

Bring the Dawn!

Bring the Dawn!

This night is dark.

The howls of wolves

Wreath the tower that once was ours,

In horror stark.

We long for dawn.

The wind is chill.

But for the wolves all lies still,

The world is thrawn.

There lies our King,

In darkness deep.

Yet still we sit and eat and sing,

Faith lies asleep.

Sleep we like stone?

Try not to hear

While evil in our name is done,

The time is near:

Nay, it is now!

To bring down

The tyrants we fools follow,

Our act brings dawn.

This song was rarely sung until after the fall of Nargothrond. Before then, the grief and guilt was yet too near. Under the rule of Celegorm and Curufin, it also earned anyone who sang it time in Nargothrond's makeshift and overcrowded dungeon.