Lay of Leithian Canto V
This Canto speaks of Lúthien Tinúviel after the departure of Beren and how she went to her mother Melian and friend Dairon, begging for aid, from the first foresight and from the second music. Melian said that Beren was in the dungeons of Thû, and Dairon refused to play any music. A second time Dairon betrayed her, this time out of love, to her father Thingol, who placed her in a guarded treehouse. But by magic she grew out her hair and made a robe and rope of it "a magic dress / that all was drenched in drowsiness". Lowering the rope she put to sleep her guards and escaped.
Concerning the Canto
After Beren is gone, the forest falls into solemn silence:
Lúthien sings only quietly this medley of mourning:
After learning from Melian of Beren's fate, she seeks comfort in Dairon, begging him to make her music to aid her heart.
But "for music dead there is no note", replies Dairon, though he plays a wailing melody that causes all creatures, birds and elves, to forget their happiness. Though Lúthien entreats him then to come with her to seek Beren, he replies firmly
This indeed does Dairon do, for he warns the King of Lúthien's apparent madness. Thingol "in angry love and half in fear" locks her up in a treehouse, not wanting to bind her in his caverns. Lúthien, though forgiving Dairon, pines for Beren.
Following is a detailed description of her magic art to grow out her hair. Then she weaves them with a borrowed loom
And finally as the sun goes down she causes the guards to fall asleep with the rope, and
Referencias
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