Description from Lays of Beleriand
Kindreds of Nargothrond
Nor could lack belief for long the words
and faith of Flinding when friend and kin
and his father hastening that face beheld.
Lo! sire and son did sweet embrace
neath trees entwining tangled branches
at the dark doorways of those deep mansions
that Fuilin’s folk afar builded,
and dwelt in the deep of the dark woodland
to the West on the slopes of the Wold of Hunters.
Of the four kindreds that followed the king,
the watchtowers’ lords, the wold’s keepers
and the guards of the bridge, the gleaming bow
that was flung o’er the foaming froth of Ingwil,
from Fuilin’s children were first chosen,
most noble of name, renowed in valour.
There were four 'kindreds' in Nargothrond, and among them Guilin's children were highly regarded:
A really fancy cup
Then Fuilin filled with flowing mead,
dear-hoarded drink dark and potent
a carven cup with curious brim,
by ancient art of olden smiths
fairly fashioned, filled with marvels;
there gleamed and lived in grey silver
the folk of Faërie in the first noontide
of the Blissful Realms; with their brows wreathéd
in garlands golden with their gleaming hair
in the wind flying and their wayward feet
fitful flickering, on unfading lawns
the ancient Elves there everlasting
danced undying in the deep pasture
of the gardens of the Gods; there Glingol shone
and Bansil bloomed with beams shimmering,
mothwhite moonlight from its misty flowers;
the hilltops of Tûn there high and green
were crowned by Côr, climbing, winding,
town white-walléd where the tower of Ing
with pale pinnacle pierced the twilight,
and its crystal lamp illumined clear
with slender shaft the Shadowy Seas.
Through wrack and ruin, the wrath of the Gods,
through weary wandering, waste and exile,
had come that cup, carved in gladness,
in woe hoarded, in waning hope
when little was left of the lore of old.
Now Fuilin at feast filled it seldom
save in pledge of love to proven friend;
blithely bade he of that beaker drink
for the sake of his son that sate nigh him
It's a really fancy cup. Probably deserves its own section. Oberiko (talk) 16:37, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
- Besides, all the information about Guilin coming from the Lay of the Children of Hurin belongs to the OVOTL. - IvarTheBoneless (talk) 18:07, 2 March 2024 (UTC)