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Old 07-15-2020, 01:21 PM   #104
Huinesoron
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Most points accepted, with the reason being "I didn't think of that". Cel'n'Cur are... well, according to the Gateway's timeline, they're probably pushing 2000 (assuming they were born between Finrod and Galadriel). So yeah, it's a touch silly.

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Originally Posted by Galadriel55 View Post
- Wait, we're solving this amicably?: I am pretty sure the Russian here refers to a parent's permission for the daughter's marriage, but I was laughing so much at the incredulity in your version. Oh Celegorm! Besides, Cur, don't you already have a kid and all? Don't get so excited!
Ha! I mean, I could change it, but the incredulity is such fun. In my text Cel was the one who started the fight in the first place, so his bafflement totally fits.

I've started the Renunciation, too, because it fits together with the Quarrel [Edit: And then I finished it]

Finrod's Renunciation of Nargothrond

FINROD:
Nargothrond, you have been loyal
Oaths are spoken I must fulfil
Not so easy to hear, I know
But I call you to arms, people!
Nargothrond, you have known no grief
As you feasted behind stone walls
I sought not for this doom that falls
But beyond the woods hear, horns call!
The day has come for my fair city
If your hearts are true - come and follow me!

CURUFIN:
Hold your horses, king, let's not be hasty
You will surely die at the Iron Gateway
Just a second, king, come back to your senses
You've no right to drag others through your messes!
You alone have sworn oaths to him
I am not his friend - nor his paladin.

FINROD:
You have sworn no vows unto me, Oathtaker
You've no love for mortals, you are not my servant
But no-one is free to to forswear his promise
Neither king nor prince, neither bards nor warriors
We're bound in Song, and in songs to be
If you love me still - come and follow me!

CELEGORM:
I have words to say on this matter also
How my House has suffered at the hands of Morgoth!
By the blood we've shed, you can trust in our word
And your army, king, is completely absurd!
FEANORIONS:
No, we cannot defeat this Foe
If you go with him - it's to death you'll go.

FINROD:
So be it then, if you've so decided
Stay in Nargothrond, keep your power hoarded

FEANORIONS:
We have sworn an Oath, on a shore half-frozen
On our Foe revenge, at a time we've chosen

CELEGORM:
Reap revenge, or be slain as untrue
FINROD:
I wish no revenge, I declare by Eru!
There's no blood on my hands, they're clear
Those who spilled it once - are possessed by fear

FEANORIONS:
That's the second time you have called us cowards
For your words you'll pay, and the price is ours

FINROD:
I will gladly pay, such a meagre fee
We could have been brothers in my time of need!

CURUFIN:
You are no Vala, so lay off the judgement

FINROD:
If you shared my faith, we could be triumphant
I bare my soul, I stand revealed
But I find no sword - nor an offered shield!

CURUFIN:
See now Nargothrond, how the king is raving

CELEGORM:
Will you call him back? he's in need of saving!

CURUFIN:
Has his thirst for wine become thirst for battle?

CELEGORM:
He abandons you for a homeless vassal!

FINROD:
Farewell to you, fair Nargothrond...

FEANORIONS:
If you live him still - won't you go along?

FINROD:
So I'm unwanted, my own people spurn me
I leave a beggar, as when I came here
Here I built a home, it's become my fetters
May you never see, by Eru's kindness!

BEREN:
Sire, I thank you for being true

FINROD:
Take my crown and throne - I leave both to you!


Swapping 'Nargothrond' in for 'Мой народ' works surprisingly well, actually. The one artistic liberty I've taken is giving Curufin the line 'You're not a Vala'. This foreshadows the way Sauron defeats him, and is straight from the end of Canto VI of the Lay of Leithian:

So would they not that angry day
King Felagund their lord obey,
But sullen murmured that Finrod [ie, Finarfin]
nor yet his son were as a god.


... which is close enough to the rhythm of this song that I keep trying to parse it and tripping over the missing syllables.

(I am, more and more, convinced the subtitles have Cel and Cur backwards in the 2014 version; they seem to consistently get the 'wrong' parts. But I prefer black-headed Curufin, so it stays.)

hS

Last edited by Huinesoron; 07-15-2020 at 02:37 PM. Reason: Completed the song.
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