Showing posts with label Celariel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Celariel. Show all posts
The Song of Shevarash
I will not kill nor hunt for you
my honor will remain
You may drain my life's blood from me
this I will not do
There is no life in death for you
on my soul will journey.
These are the words the archer spoke
when standing before the spider.
Then you'll know a death most unkind
and be left in the dark
No soul can find its rest from here
no songs will be sung
So you will be food for the worms
no soaring in the night.
These are the words the spider spoke
when lording over the archer.
So slay on you twice cursed whore
but hear my promise first
For no matter what wood you find
you will not know a peace
By the ancestral tree I swear
your death I ever seek
These are the words black archer spoke
when his breath sighed up its sighing.
The Song of Elebrin Liothiel
Elebrin was a planter
and a keeper of the seeds
they called him that old farmer
and a minder of the weeds
Elebrin how's your Garden
Elebrin how's your root
Elebrin of the Orchard
Elebrin how's your fruit
Elebrin was no hunter
nor a chaser of the prey
they called him that old dodger
and the lazy one in gray
Elebrin how's your Garden
Elebrin how's your root
Elebrin of the Orchard
Elebrin how's your fruit
Elebrin did not fall ill
when the famine days grew fat
they called him from their deathbeds
when their children dined on rat
Elebrin how's your Garden
Elebrin how's your root
Elebrin of the Orchard
Elebrin how's your fruit
The Song of Ye'Cind
The fire is dying now
but embers still burn bright
and songs for softly singing
will be sung tonight.
A song brought forth the forge
and lit the lanterns light
a song made Erenth grow
made all things aright.
Ye'Cind took up a reed
to play the old songs true
playing for the Rane
with Llor that he knew
The song of the leaves
is heard by precious few
none but Ye'Cind
find music in the dew
but embers still burn bright
and songs for softly singing
will be sung tonight.
A song brought forth the forge
and lit the lanterns light
a song made Erenth grow
made all things aright.
Ye'Cind took up a reed
to play the old songs true
playing for the Rane
with Llor that he knew
The song of the leaves
is heard by precious few
none but Ye'Cind
find music in the dew
The Seldarine
The Seldarine or The People of Tales is the name given collectively to the Mightiest Elves from the First Age to the present. It is a mistake to think that all the Seldarine are good or noble. They are merely noteworthy and they may be noteworthy for their counter example, as much as for their example. Among the Elves these sorts of songs and records are kept by the Curates, who are famous for not passing judgment, but merely recording facts as they have occurred.
The Elves consider themselves to be children of Corellon Larethian, a servant of the Ere of All. Larethian is often called Llordein, or Master of Magic, and to some the Lord of Making. For the Elves, magic use and the singing of songs are much the same thing. For the human listener, translation of the songs is a difficult process. All of them tend to evoke great emotional content and a strange affinity for the singer, and often act as a sort of lullaby to boot.
The question may arise as to when or how an Elf becomes regarded among the Seldarine. There is no vote or formal process which puts them there. Simply, some Elf will write a song about another Elf and the popularity of its subject matter will either add it to the status of those most requested and performed, or not. The following list of songs has the benefit of being regarded highly by all the Elves I spoke to in both the Mistwood Forest, the Deepwood Forest, and a delegation from the Greywood that I was fortunate to come across while guest of the Lord of the Deepwood. I consider it authoritative from that standpoint, but I do not claim that all of these songs have universal appeal amongst all Elves, everywhere.
It must be noted that there are three historical categories of Elves among the Seldarine. The Avariel or Sky Born were the first making of Larethian. Legend has it that they had wings and soared as birds do. They were inclined to keep to their own affairs, but the depredations of the Urok made them curious and caused them to intervene during the Second Age. The children of the Avariel are said to born to the surface and are called Teraniel or Land Born. Like their sires, the Teraniel are believed to have been immortal, but lost their capacity for flight as a sort of judgment by Corellon Larethian for their curiousity. Then, those that were born after the end of the Fifth Age are called Celariel or Mortal Born and though they are extremely long-lived can know a natural death. I have never met an Avariel and was only told by others that the Lord of the Deepwood was Teraniel. I suspect that is more legend than anything, though he does speak with some authority on matters from long ago.
The Elves consider themselves to be children of Corellon Larethian, a servant of the Ere of All. Larethian is often called Llordein, or Master of Magic, and to some the Lord of Making. For the Elves, magic use and the singing of songs are much the same thing. For the human listener, translation of the songs is a difficult process. All of them tend to evoke great emotional content and a strange affinity for the singer, and often act as a sort of lullaby to boot.
The question may arise as to when or how an Elf becomes regarded among the Seldarine. There is no vote or formal process which puts them there. Simply, some Elf will write a song about another Elf and the popularity of its subject matter will either add it to the status of those most requested and performed, or not. The following list of songs has the benefit of being regarded highly by all the Elves I spoke to in both the Mistwood Forest, the Deepwood Forest, and a delegation from the Greywood that I was fortunate to come across while guest of the Lord of the Deepwood. I consider it authoritative from that standpoint, but I do not claim that all of these songs have universal appeal amongst all Elves, everywhere.
It must be noted that there are three historical categories of Elves among the Seldarine. The Avariel or Sky Born were the first making of Larethian. Legend has it that they had wings and soared as birds do. They were inclined to keep to their own affairs, but the depredations of the Urok made them curious and caused them to intervene during the Second Age. The children of the Avariel are said to born to the surface and are called Teraniel or Land Born. Like their sires, the Teraniel are believed to have been immortal, but lost their capacity for flight as a sort of judgment by Corellon Larethian for their curiousity. Then, those that were born after the end of the Fifth Age are called Celariel or Mortal Born and though they are extremely long-lived can know a natural death. I have never met an Avariel and was only told by others that the Lord of the Deepwood was Teraniel. I suspect that is more legend than anything, though he does speak with some authority on matters from long ago.
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