레이시안의 노래

A King there was in days of old:

ere men yet walked upon the mould

his power was reared in cavern's shade,

his hand was over glen and glade.

His shields were shining as the moon,

his lances keen of steel were hewn,

of silver grey his crown was wrought,

the starlight in his banners caught ;

and silver thrilled his trumpets long

beneath the star in challenge strong;

enchantment did his realm enfold,

where might and glory, wealth untold,

he wielded from his ivory throne

in many pillared halls of stone.

There beryl, pearl and opal pale,

and metal wrought like fishes' mail,

buckler and corslet, axe and sword,

and gleaming spears were laid in hoard--

all these he had and loved them less

than a maiden once in Elfinesse;

for fairer than are born to Men

a daughter had he, Lúthien.

Such lissom limbs no more shall run

on the green earth beneath the sun;

so fair a maid no more shall be

from down to dusk, from sun to sea.

Her robe was blue as summer skies,

but grey as evening were her eyes;

'twas sewn with golden lilies fair,

but dark as shadows was her hair.

Her feet were light as bird on wing,

her laughter lighter than the spring;

the slender willow, the bowing reed,

the fragance of a flowering mead,

the light upon the leaves of trees,

the voice of water more than these

her beauty was and blissfulness,

her glory and her loveliness;

and her the king more dear did prize

than hand or heart or light of eyes.

They dwelt amid Beleriand,

while Elfin power yet held the land,

in the woven woods of Doriath:

few ever thither found the path;

few ever dared the forest-eaves

to pass, or stir the listening leaves

with tongue of hounds a-hunting fleet,

with horse, or horn, or mortal feet.

To North there lay the Land of Dread,

whence only evil pathways led

o'er hills of shadow bleak and cold

or Taur-na-Fuin's haunted hold,

where Deadly Nightshade lurked and lay

and never came or moon or day;

to South the wide earth unexplored;

to West the ancient Ocean roared,

unsailed and shoreless, wide and wild;

to East in peaks of blue were piled

in silence folded, mist-enfurled,

the mountains of the Outer World,

beyond the tangled woodland shade,

thorn and thicket, grove and glade,

whose brooding boughs with magic hung

were ancient when the world was young.

There Thingol in the Thousand Caves,

whose portals pale that river laves

Esgalduin that fairies call,

in many a tall and torchlit hall

a dark and hidden king did dwell,

lord of the forest and the fell;

and sharp his sword and high his helm,

the king of beech and oak and elm.

There Lúthien the lissom maid

would dance in dell and grassy glade,

and music merrily, thin and clear,

went down the ways, more fair than ear

of mortal Men at feast hath heard,

and fairer than the song of bird.

When leaves were long and grass was green

then Dairon with his fingers lean,

as daylight melted into shade,

a wandering music sweetly made,

enchanted fluting, warbling wild,

for love of Thingol's elfin child.

There bow was bent and shaft was sped,

the fallow deer as phantoms fled,

and horses proud with braided mane,

with shining bit and silver rein,

went fleeting by on moonlit night,

as swallows arrow-swift in flight;

a blowing and a sound of bells,

a hidden hunt in hollow dells.

There songs were made and things of gold,

and silver cups and jewels untold,

and the endless years of Faëry land

rolled over far Beleriand,

until a day beneath the sun,

when many marvels were begun.

Far in the North neath hills of stone

in caverns black there was a throne

by fires illumined underground,

that winds of ice with moaning sound

made flare and flicker in dark smoke;

the wavering bitter coils did choke

the sunless airs of dungeons deep

where evil things did crouch and creep.

There sat a king: no Elfin race

nor mortal blood, nor kindly grce

of earth or heaven might he own,

far older, stronger than the stone

the world is built of, than the fire

that burns within more fierce and dire;

and thoughts profound were in his heart:

a gloomy power that dwelt apart.

Unconquerable spears of steel

were at his nod. No ruth did feel

the legions of his marshalled hate,

on whom did wolf and raven wait;

and black the ravens sat and cried

upon their banners black, and wide

was heard their hideous chanting dread

above the reek and trampled dead.

With fire and sword his ruin red

on all that would not bow the head

like lightning fell. The Northern land

lay groaning neath his ghastly hand.

But still there lived in hiding cold

undaunted, Barahir the bold,

of land bereaved, of lordship shorn,

who once a prince of Men was born

and now an outlaw lurked and lay

in the hard heath and woodland grey,

and with him clung of faithful men

but Beren his son and other ten.

Yet small as was their hunted band

still fell and fearless was each hand,

and strong deeds they wrought yet oft,

and loved the woods, whose ways more soft

them seemed than thralls of that black throne

to live and languish in halls of stone.

King Morgoth still pursued them sore

with men and dogs, and wolf and boar

with spells of madness filled he sent

to slay them as in the woods they went;

yet nought hurt them for many years,

until, in brief to tell what tears

have oft bewailed in ages gone,

a deed unhappy; unaware

their feet were caught in Morgoth's snare.


Gorlim it was, who wearying
어느 밤 고를림은
of toil and flight and harrying,
고생, 도주 및 불시 습격에 지쳐
one night by chance did turn his feet
계곡에 숨은 친구들 몰래 만나고자
o'er the dark fields by stealth to meet
불쑥 어두운 들판 위로 발길 돌리던 중
with hidden friend within a dale,
안개 낀 별들 아래
and found a homestead looming pale
창백하게 드러난 농가를 보았다.
against the misty stars, all dark
온통 어두운 가운데
save one small window, whence a spark
꺼질 듯 말 듯 촐랑이는 촛불 한 가닥
of fitful candle strayed without.
작은 창으로 삐져나왔다.
Therein he peeped, and filled with dount
언뜻 들여다보니,
he saw, as in a dreaming deep
염원이 잠든 가슴 기만하는 깊은 꿈속인 양,
when longing cheats the heart in sleep,
아내가 스러지는 불가에서 사라진 그를
his wife beside a dying fire
한탄하는데, 그로선 제 눈을
lament him lost; her thin attire
믿을 수 없더라. 허름한 입성,
and greying hair and paling cheek
희끗해지는 머리칼, 핼쑥해지는 볼에서
of tears and loneliness did speak.
그녀의 눈물과 외로움 알았다.
'A! fair and gentle Eilinel,
'오래전 어둑한 지옥에 감금된 줄로만 알았던
whom I had thought in darkling hell
아! 아리땁고 온화한 에일리넬이여!
long since emprisoned! Ere I fled
귀히 여긴 모든 걸 잃은 저 느닷없던 공포의 밤에
I deemed I saw thee slain and dead
나는 달아나기 전 칼에 베여 죽은
upon that night of sudden fear
그대를 본 걸로 여겼거늘.'
when all I lost that I held dear':
그는 바깥 어둠 속에 아연히 바라보며
thus thought his heavy heart amazed
침울한 마음으로 이렇게 생각했다.
outside in darkness as he gazed.
허나, 감히 그녀 이름 부르거나
But ere he dared to call her name,
그녀가 탈출해 산지 밑 이 먼
or ask how she escaped and came
계곡까지 온 사연 묻기 전에
to this far cale beneath the hills,
산지 밑에서 웬 큰 소리 들렸더라!
he heard a cry beneath the hills!
사냥 올빼미 하나 가까이서
There hooted near a hunting owl
불길한 목소리로 부엉부엉 울었다.
with boding voice. He heard the howl
칙칙한 어둠 헤치며 그를 뒤밟아 쫓은
of the wild wolves that followed him
야생 늑대들의 울부짖음도 들렸다.
and dogged his feet through shadows dim.
모르고스의 추격이 가차 없이 따라붙음을
Him unrelenting, well he knew,
그는 익히 알고 있었다.
the hunt of Morgoth did pursue.
그들이 에일리넬마저 죽일까 봐
Lest Eilinel with him they slay
그는 한 마디 말 없이 발길 돌려
without a word he turned away,
한 마리 야생동물처럼
and like a wild thing winding led
이리저리 방향 바꾸며
his devious ways o'er stony bed
개울 돌바닥과 흔들리는 늪지 위로
of stream, and over quaking fen,
꾸불꾸불 길을 잡아 나가
until far from the homes of men
마침내 인가에서 멀리 떨어진
he lay beside his fellows few
어느 은밀한 곳에서 얼마 안 되는
in a secret place; and darkness grew,
동지들 곁에 누웠다.
and waned, and still he watched unsleeping,
어둠이 짙어지다 엷어지곤 했지만
and saw the dismal dawn come creeping
그는 잠들지 않고 계속 망보던 중
in dank heavens above gloomy trees.
음침한 나무들 위 축축한 하늘에서
A sickness held his soul for ease,
음울한 새벽이 기어오는 걸 봤다.
and hope, and even thraldom's chain
아내를 다시 볼 수만 있다면 그는
if he might find his wife again.
속박의 사슬마저 감수할 만큼
But all he thought twixt love of lord
안락과 희망에의 애타는 그리움에 사로잡혔다.
and hatred of the king abhorred
하지만 주군에의 사랑과 혐오스러운 왕에 대한 증오,
and anguish for fair Eilinel
외로이 시름에 잠긴 아리따운 에일리넬에 대한 고뇌,
who drooped alone, what tale shall tell?
그 사이를 오가며 아무리 생각한들 무슨 말을 하랴?

Yet at the last, when many days
그러다 마침내 숱한 날의 숙고 끝에
of brooding did his mind amaze,
그 마음 돌변했으니
he found the servants of the king,
왕의 부하들을 찾아가
and bade them to their master bring
그는 용자(勇子) 바라히르의 소식과
a rebel who forgiveness sought,
밤이든 낮이든 그의 은신처와 요새를
if haply forgiveness might be bought
어김없이 찾을 수 있는 정보로
with tidings of Barahir the bold,
혹여 용서를 얻을 수 있다면,
and where his hidings and his hold
용서를 구하는 이 반역자를 부디
might best be found by night or day.
그들 주군에게 데려다 달라고 청했다.
And thus sad Gorlim, led away
이리하여 괘씸하기 이를 데 없는 고를림은
unto those dark deep-dolven halls,
깊이 파인 어두운 궁전으로 인도되어
before the knees of Morgoth falls,
모르고스 앞에 머리 조아리고
and puts his trust in that cruel heart
진실이라곤 발붙일 데 없는
wherein no truth had ever part.
저 흉포한 가슴을 믿었도다.
Quoth Morgoth: 'Eilinel the fair
모르고스 일러 말했다. "너는 틀림없이
thou shalt most surely find, and there
아리따운 에일리넬 찾아
where she doth dwell and wait for thee
그녀가 거하며 너를 기다리는 거기서
together shall ye ever be,
두고두고 함께하며
and sundered shall ye sigh no more.
더는 서로 갈라져 한숨짓지 않으리라.
This guerdon shall he have that bore
이처럼 기쁜 소식을 전해 준 자에게
these tidings sweet, O traitor dear!
내리는 포상이니라, 오 친애하는 배반자여!
For Eilinel she dwells not here,
에일리넬은 여기 없나니,
but in the shades of death doth roam
그녀는 남편과 집을 잃은 채
widowed of husband and of home --
소망과 욕구의 육신 잃은 망령으로
a wraith of that which might have been,
황천(黃泉)을 떠도는바,
methinks, it is that thou hast seen!
네가 본 것이 바로 그것이로다!
Now shalt thou through the gates of pain
목하 너는 고통의 문들을 지나
the land thou askest grimly gain;
네가 한사코 바란 그 땅에 이르리니,
thou shalt to the moonless mists of hell
달 없는 안개 같은 지옥에나 내려가
descend and seek thy Eilinel.'
네 에일리넬을 찾거라."

Thus Gorlim died a bitter death
이렇게 고를림은 비참한 죽음을 맞아
and cursed himself with dying breath,
꺼져 가는 숨결로 자신을 저주했고,
and Barahir was caught and slain,
바라히르도 붙잡혀 살해되니
and all good deeds were made in vain.
모든 위용(威容)이 허사였더라.
But Morgoth's guile for ever failed,
하지만 모르고스의 간지(奸智)는
nor wholly o'er his foes prevailed,
언제까지나 낭패하고
and some were ever that still fought
또 적들을 완전히 압도하진 못한지라
unmaking that which malice wrought.
악의가 공들여 만든 것을 도로 폐하며
Thus men believed that Morgoth made
여전히 싸우는 이들은 늘 있었도다.
the fiendish phantom that betrayed
이런 까닭에, 인간들은 모르고스가
the soul of Gorlim, and so brought
고를림의 영혼 속인 극악한 환영 꾸며
the lingering hope forlorn to nought
외딴 숲에 존속한 쓸쓸하나마 끈질긴
that lived amid the lonely wood;
희망을 망쳐 놓았다고 믿었다.
yet Beren had by fortune good
한데, 그날 베렌은 운 좋게도
long hunted far afield that day,
밖으로 멀리 나가 오래도록 사냥하다가
and benighted in strange places lay
날 저물자 동지들에게서 먼 낯선 데서 잤다.
far from his fellows. In his sleep
잠 속에서 그는 무서운 어둠이
he felt a dreadful darkness creep
천천히 가슴에 다가듦을 느끼며,
upon his heart, and thought the trees
음산한 산들바람에 나무들이
were bare and bent in mournful breeze;
살풍경하게 굽은 걸 요상하게 여겼다.
no leaves they had, but ravens dark
잎사귀 하나 없는 나무들의
sat thick as leaves on bough and bark,
가지와 껍질에 가무잡잡한 까마귀들이
and croaked, and as they croaked each neb
잎인 양 빽빽히 앉아 깍깍 울어 댔다.
let fall a gout of blood; a web
울 때마다 각각의 부리에선 핏방울이 떨어졌다.
unseen entwined him hand and limb,
보이지 않는 거미줄이 그의 수족 휘감으니
until worn out, upon the rim
마침내 그는 기진맥진해
of stagnant pool he lay and shivered.
물 고인 웅덩이 가에 누워 덜덜 떨었더라.
There saw he that a shadow quivered
그런 중에, 저 멀리 파리한 물 위에
far out upon the water wan,
그림자 하나 떨리더니 점차 커져
and grew to a faint form thereon
희미한 형체로 고요한 호수 위를
that glided o'er the silent lake,
미끄러지듯 천천히 다가와
and coming slowly, softly spake
나직하고 슬프게 말했다.
and sadly said: 'Lo! Gorlim here,
"보라! 지금 여기 네 앞에 선 이는
traitor betrayed, now stands! Nor fear,
배신당한 배반자, 고를림이라!
but haste! For Morgoth's fingers close
두려워 말고 다만 서두르라! 모르고스의 손가락들이
upon thy father's throat. He knows
네 아비의 목을 죄어들고 있으니.
your secret tryst, your hidden lair',
그가 너희의 밀회 장소, 너희의 비밀 소굴을 알고 있어."
and all the evil he laid bare
그러고는 자신이 제안하고 모르고스가 실행한
that he had done and Morgoth wrought.
모든 악행들을 털어놓았다.
Then Beren waking swiftly sought
이윽고 베렌은 즉각 잠에서 깨 칼과 활을 들고
his sword and bow, and sped like wind
가을 나무의 얼마 남지 않은 가지들을
that cuts with knives the branches thinned
칼날로 베는 바람처럼 쏜살같이 달렸더라.
of autumn trees. At last he came,
마침내, 그가 뜨거운 격정으로 타오르는 가슴 안고
his heart afire with burning flame,
아버지 바라히르가 누운 곳에 다다랐으나,
where Barahir his father lay;
너무 늦었다. 동터 오는 빛 속에서
he came too late. At dawn of day
사냥당한 이들의 본거지,
he found the homes of hunted men,
습지 속의 나무 우거진 섬이 보였는데,
a wooded island in the fen,
새들이 느닷없이 떼 지어 솟구쳐
and birds rose up in sudden cloud --
늪지의 새가 아님에도 요란하게 울고 있었다.
no fen-fowl were they crying loud.
갈까마귀와 썩은 고기 먹는 까마귀가
The raven and the carrion-crow
오리나무들에 여러 줄로 앉아 있었다.
sat in the alders all a-row;
그중 하나가 깍깍대며
one croaked: 'Ha! Beren comes too late',
"하! 베렌이 너무 늦게 온 거야"라고 말하자
and answered all: 'Too late! Too late!'
"너무 늦었지! 너무 늦었다고!" 하고 모두가 화답했다.
There Beren buried his father's bones,
거기서 베렌은 아비의 유골을 묻고
and piled a heap of boulder-stones,
그 위에 둥근 돌들을 쌓아 올리며
and cursed the name of Morgoth thrice,
모르고스의 이름을 세 번 저주하면서도
but wept not, for his heart was ice.
얼음장 같은 가슴으로 울지 않았다.

Then over fen and field and mountain
그다음 그는 습지와 들판과 산을 넘어
he followed, till beside a fountain
뒤를 쫓던 중 아래의 불길에서
upgushing hot from fires below
뜨겁게 용솟음치는 어느 분수 곁에서
he found the slayers and his foe,
원수인 그 살인자들,
the murderous soldiers of the king.
곧 왕의 흉포한 병사들을 발견했다.
And one there laughed, and showed a ring
거기서 한 놈이 웃으며 바라히르의 죽은 손에서
he took from Barahir's dead hand.
탈취한 반지 하나를 내보였다.
'This ring in far Beleriand,
"여보게들, 잘 들어 봐, 이 반지는 말이야
now mark ye, mates,' he said, 'was wrought.
저 멀리 벨레리안드에서 공들여 만들어진 걸로
Its like with gold could not be bought,
이런 물건은 황금으로도 살 수가 없어.
for this same Berahir I slew,
들리는 말로는, 내가 죽인 그 바라히르,
this robber fool, they say, did do
그 얼치기 강도가 오래전에
a deed of service long ago
펠라군드를 도와 큰 전공을 세웠다는 거야.
for Felagund. It may be so;
그 말이 그럴싸한 게, 모르고스가
for Morgoth bade me bring it back,
내게 그걸 되찾아오라 명했으니 말이야.
and yet, methinks, he has no lack
그런데, 그의 보고엔 그보다 값진
of weightier treasure in his hoard.
보물이 그득하잖아. 그런 탐욕이
Such green befits not such a lord,
그 대단한 주군에겐 걸맞지 않은 고로,
and I am minded to declare
나는 바라히르의 손에는
the hand of Barahir was bare!'
아무것도 없었다고 공언할 참이야!"
Yet as he spake an arrow sped;
한데, 그가 그리 말할 때 화살 하나가
with riven heart he crumpled dead.
휭 하고 날아드니 그는 가슴이 쪼개져 죽어 나자빠졌다.
Thus Morgoth loved that his own foe
제 명령을 어긴 자에게 자신의 적수가
should in his service deal the blow
대신 처벌이 일격 가했으니
that punished the breaking of his word.
모르고스에겐 기꺼운 일이었다.
But Morgoth laughed not when he heard
하지만 베렌이 샘 곁 저 야영지의
that Beren like a wolf alone
어느 돌 뒤에서 외로운 늑대처럼
sprang madly from behind a stone
미친 듯 뛰쳐나와 그 반지를 움켜잡고는
amid that camp beside the well,
나머지가 분노와 격앙의 고함을
and seized the ring, and ere the yell
지르기도 전에 내뺐다는 것을 듣고는
of wrath and rage had left their throat
모르고스도 웃지 못했다.
had fled his foes. His gleaming coat
베렌의 번쩍이는 갑옷은 난쟁이들이
was made of rings of steel no shaft
쇠사슬로 교묘하게 만든 것이니
could pierce, a web of dwarvish craft;
어떤 창으로도 꿰뚫을 수 없었으나,
and he was lost in rock and thorn,
베렌은 바위와 가시덤불 속으로 유유히 사라졌다.
for in charméd hour was Beren born;
그는 마법의 가호를 받은 시각에 태어난 고로,
their hungry hunting never learned
그들이 기를 쓰고 추격했건만 종내
the way his fearless feet had turned.
그 용맹한 발길이 나아간 길을 알지 못했더라.

As fearless Beren was renowned,
아직 바라히르가 살아 싸울 적에
as man most hardy upon ground,
지상의 가장 강인한 인간으로
while Barahir yet lived and fought;
대담무쌍한 베렌의 명성 쟁쟁했건만,
but sorrow now his soul had wrought
비탄으로 인해 이제 그의 영혼
to dark despair, and robbed his life
캄캄한 절망으로 치달아 살아갈 낙이 없자
of sweetness, that he longed for knife,
그는 고통을 끝내고자
of shaft, or sword, to end his pain,
칼이나 창, 검을 열망했고
and dreaded only thraldom's chain.
두려운 거라곤 노예의 사슬뿐이었다.
Danger he sought and death pursued,
그는 위험을 찾고 죽음을 쫓음으로써
and thus escaped the fate he wooed,
자신이 구애한 운명을 피했고,
and deeds of breathless wonder dared
숨 막히게 경이로운 무공을 감행하여
whose whispered glory widely fared,
그 영광 귀엣말로 널리 퍼진 고로,
and softly songs were sung at eve
그가 안개나 달 때문에 길 잃은 밤이나
of marvels he did once achieve
벌건 대낮의 햇빛 아래
alone, beleaguered, lost at night
적들로 에워싸였을 때
by mist or moon, or neath the light
언젠가 단신으로 이뤄 낸 위업들을 기리는 노래들이
of the broad eye of day. The woods
해 질 녘이면 나직이 불려졌다네.
that northward looked with bitter feuds
그가 북향의 삼림을 모르고스 족속과의
he filled and death for Morgoth's folk;
가차 없는 싸움과 모진 살육으로
his comrades were the beech and oak,
그득 채울 때면 너도밤나무와 참나무,
who failed him not, and many things
그리고 모피, 수피, 및 깃 달린 날개 지닌
with fur and fell and feathered wings;
많은 것들이 그를 저버리지 않는
and many spirits, that in stone
듬직한 동지가 되었으니,
in mountains old and wastes alone,
오랜 산과 황야의 돌 속에서만
do dwell and wander, were his friends.
거하고 떠도는 많은 영들이 그의 친구였도다.
Yet seldom well an outlaw ends,
그렇지만 무법자 신세는
and Morgoth was a king more strong
좀체 좋게 끝나는 법이 없고,
than all the world has since in song
모르고스는 세상이 이제껏 노래 속에 기록한
recorded, and his wisdom wide
그 어떤 이보다 강대한 왕인지라
slow and surely who him defied
그는 그 널리 뻗치는 지혜로 자신에게 도전한 자를
did hem and hedge. Thus at the last
서서히 그리고 어김없이 에워쌌더라.
must Beren flee the forest fast
이런즉, 드디어 베렌은
and lands he loved where lay his sire
아비가 습지 아래 갈대의 애도 속에 누운
by reeds bewailed beneath the mire.
자신이 사랑한 땅과 숲에서
Beneath a heap of mossy stones
달아나지 않을 수 없었다.
now crumble those once mighty bones,
한때 내로라하는 강골이었던 육신도
but Beren flees the friendless North
이끼 낀 돌 더미 아래 바스라지고 말았으니.
one autumn night, and creeps him forth;
어느 가을밤 베렌은 벗 없는 북부를
the leaguer of his watchful foes
살그머니 떠나 적의 감시망을 피해
he passed -- silently he goes.
조용히 나아갔다. 그의 숨겨진 활시위
No more his hidden bowstring sings,
더는 쌩하고 울리지 않았고
no more his shaven arrow wings,
더는 짧게 깎은 화살도 날지 않았으며
no more his hunted head doth lie
도는 쫓기는 그의 머리도
upon the heath beneath the sky.
하늘 밑 히스 위에 눕지 못했다.
The moon that looked amid the mist
안개 속에서 소나무들을 내다보는 달도,
upon the pines, the wind that hissed
헤더와 양치류 사이로 쉿 스치는 바람도
among the heather and the fern
더는 그를 찾지 못했다.
found him no more. The stars that burn
쌀쌀한 대기 속 북부 주위로
about the North with silver fire
은빛 불꽃으로 타오르는 별들,
in frosty airs, the Burning Briar
까마득한 시절에 인간들이 이름 지은
that Men did name in days long gone,
불타는 가시나무[2]가
were set behind his back, and shone
그의 등 뒤에서 지곤
o'er land and lake and darkened hill,
땅, 호수, 어둑해진 언덕
forsaken fen and mountain rill.
버려진 습지와 산 개울 위에서 빛났더라.

His face was South from the Land of Dread,
그는 공포의 땅에서 불길한 길들만 뻗은
whence only evil pathways led,
남쪽으로 길을 잡았으니,
and only feet of men most bold
오직 가장 담찬 인간의 발만이
might cross the Shadowy Mountains cold.
저 차가운 어둠산맥 넘을 수 있었으라.
Their northern slopes were filled with woe,
그 북쪽 비탈에는 고난과 악
with evil and with mortal foe;
그리고 불구대천의 적들이 득실거렸고
their southern faces mounted sheer
뿌리가 기만으로 엮이고
in rocky pinnacle and pier,
달고 쓰린 물줄기들에 씻긴
whose roots were woven with deceit
험준한 봉우리와 네모 기둥 속에
and washed with waters bitter-sweet.
남쪽 사면이 깎아지른 듯 솟았다.
There magic lurked in gulf and glen,
깊숙이 갈라진 틈과 협곡 속에도
for far away beyond the ken
마법은 도사렸으니,
of searching eyes, unless it were
독수리들만이 살며 울어 대는
from dizzy tower that pricked the air
허공을 찌른 듯 아찔하게 높은 탑에서는
where only eagles lived and cried,
제아무리 예리한 눈으로도 닿을 수 없는
might grey and gleaming be descried
저 멀리에 벨레리안드가,
Beleriand, Beleriand,
요정 땅의 경계 벨레리안드가
the borders of the faëry land.
잿빛으로 가물거리는 게 어렴풋이나마 보였도다.

There once, and long and long ago,

before the sun and moon we know

were lit to sail above the world,

when first the shaggy woods unfurled,

and shadowy shapes did stare and roam

beneath the dark and starry dome

that hung above the dawn of Earth,

the silences with silver mirth

were shaken; the rocks were ringing,

the birds of Melian were singing,

the first to sing in mortal lands,

the nightingales with her own hands

she fed, that fay of garments grey;

beneath her silver girdle's seat

and down unto her silver feet.

She had wayward wandered on a time

from gardens of the Gods, to climb

the everlasting mountains free

that look upon the outmost sea,

and never wandered back, but stayed

and softly sang from glade to glade.

Her voice it was that Thingol heard,

and sudden singing of a bird,

in that old time when new-come Elves

had all the wide world to themselves.

Yet all his kin now marched away,

as old tales tell, to seek the bay

on the last shore of mortal lands,

where mighty ships with magic hands

they made, and sailed beyond the seas.

The Gods them bade to lands of ease

and gardens fair, where earth and sky

together flow, and none shall die.

But Thingol stayed, enchanted, still,

one moment to hearken to the thrill

of that sweet singing in the trees.

Enchanted moments such as these

from gardens of the Lord of Sleep,

where fountains play and shadows creep,

do come, and count as many years

in mortal lands. With many tears

his people seek him ere they sail,

while Thingol listens in the dale.

There after but an hour, him sees,

he finds her where she lies and dreams,

pale Melian with her dark hair

upon a bed of leaves. Beware!

There slumber and a sleep is twined!

He touched her tresses and his mind

was drowned in the forgetful deep,

and dark the years rolled o'er his sleep.

Thus Thingol sailed not on the seas

but dwelt amid the land of trees,

and Melian he loved, divine,

whose voice was potent as the wine

the Valar drink in golden halls

where flower blooms and fountain falls;

but when she sang it was a spell,

and no flower stirred nor fountain fell.

A king and queen thus lived they long,

and Doriath was filled with song,

and all the Elves that missed their way

and never found the western bay,

the gleaming walls of their long home

by the grey seas and the white foam,

who never trod the golden land

where the towers of the Valar stand,

all these were gathered in their realm

beneath the beech and oak and elm.

In later days when Morgoth first,

fleeing the Gods, their bondage burst,

and on the mortal lands set feet,

and in the North his mighty seat

founded and fortified, and all

the newborn race of Men were thrall

unto his power, and Elf and Gnome

his slaves, or wandered without home,

or scattered fastnesses walled with fear

upraised upon his borders drear,

and each one fell, yet reigned there still

in Doriath beyond his will

Thingol and deathless Melian,

whose magic yet no evil can

that cometh from without surpass.

Here still was laughter and green grass,

and leaves were lit with the white sun,

and many marvels were begun.

In sunshine and in sheen of moon,

with silken robe and silver shoon,

the daughter of the deathless queen

now danced on the undying green,

half elven-fair and half divine;

and when the stars began to shine

unseen but near a piping woke,

and in the branches of an oak,

or seated on the beech-leaves brown,

Dairon the dark with ferny crown

played with bewildering wizard's art

music for breaking of the heart.

Such players have there only been

thrice in all Elfinesse, I ween:

Tinfang Gelion who still the moon

enchants on summer nights of June

and kindles the pale firstling star;

and he who harps upon the far

forgotten beaches and dark shores

where western foam for ever roars,

Maglor whose voice is like the sea;

and Dairon, mightiest of the three.

Now it befell on summer night,

upon a lawn where lingering light

yet lay and faded faint and grey,

that Lúthien danced while he did play.

The chestnuts on the turf had shed

their flowering candles, white and red;

there darkling stood a silent elm

and pale beneath its shadow-helm

there glimmered faint the umbels thick

of hemlocks like a mist, and quick

the moths on pallid wings of white

with tiny eyes of fiery light

were fluttering softly, and the voles

crept out to listen from their holes;

the little owls were hushed and still;

the moon was yet behind the hill.

Her arms like ivory were gleaming,

her long hair like a cloud was streaming,

her feet atwinkle wandered roaming

in misty mazes in the gloaming;

and glowworms shimmered round her feet,

and moths in moving garland fleet

above her head went wavering wan -

and this the moon now looked upon,

uprisen slow, and round, and white

above the branches of the night.

Then clearly thrilled her voice and rang;

with sudden ecstasy she sang

a song of nightingales she learned

and with her elvish magic turned

to such bewildering delight

the moon hung moveless in the night.

And this it was that Beren heard,

and this he saw, without a word,

enchanted dumb, yet filled fire

of such a wonder and desire

that all his mortal mind was dim;

her magic bound and fettered him,

and faint he leaned against a tree.

Forwandered, wayworn, gaunt was he,

his body sick and heart gone cold,

grey in his hair, his youth turned old;

for those that tread that lonely way

a price of woe and anguish pay.

And now his heart was healed and slain

with a new life and with new pain.

He gazed, and as he gazed her hair

within its cloudy web did snare

the silver moonbeams sifting white

between the leaves, and glinting bright

teh tremulous starlight of the skies

was caught and mirrored in her eyes.

Then all his journey's lonely fare,

the hunger and the haggard care,

the awful mountains' stones he stained

with blood of weary feet, and gained

only a land of ghosts, and fear

in dark ravines imprisoned sheer -

there mighty spiders wove their webs,

old creatures foul with birdlike nebs

that span their traps in dizzy air,

and filled it with clinging black despair,

and there they lived, and the sucked bones

lay white beneath on the dank stones -

now all these horrors like a cloud

faded from mind. The waters loud

falling from pineclad heights no more

he heard, those waters grey and frore

that bittersweet he drank and filled

his mind with madness - all was stilled.

He recked not now the burning road,

the paths demented where he strode

endlessly...and ever new

horizons stretched before his view,

as each blue ridge with bleeding feet

battle with creatures old and strong

and monsters in the dark, and long,

long watches in the haunted night

while evil shapes with baleful light

in clustered eyes did crawl and snuff

beneath his tree - not half enough

the price he deemed to come at last

to that pale moon when day had passed,

to those clear stars of Elfinesse,

the hearts-ease and the loveliness.

Lo! all forgetting he was drawn

unheeding toward the glimmering lawn

by love and wonder that compelled

his feet from hiding; music welled

within his heart, and songs unmade

on themes unthought-of moved and swayed

his soul with sweetness; out he came,

a shadow in the moon's pale flame -

and Dairon's flute as sudden stops

as lark before it steeply drops,

as grasshopper within the grass

listening for heavy feet to pass.

'Flee, Lúthien!', and 'Lúthien!'

from hiding Dairon called again;

'A stranger walks the woods! Away!'

But Lúthien would wondering stay;

fear had she never felt or known,

till fear then seized her, all alone,

seeing that shape with shagged hair

and shadow long that halted there.

Then sudden she vanished like a dream

in dark oblivion, a gleam

in hurrying clouds, for she had leapt

among the hemlocks tall, and crept

under a mighty plant with leaves

all along and dark, whose stem in sheaves

upheld an hundred umbels fair;

and her white arms and shoulders bare

her raiment pale, and in her hair

the wild white roses glimmering there,

all lay like spattered moonlight hoar

in gleaming pools upon the floor.

Then stared he wild in dumbness bound

at silent trees, deserted ground;

he blindly groped across the glade

to the dark trees' encircling shade,

and, while she watched with veiléd eyes,

touched her soft arm in sweet surprise.

Like startled moth from deathlike sleep

in sunless nook or bushes deep

she darted swift, and to and fro

with cunning that elvish dancers know

about the trunks of trees she twined

a path fantastic. Far behind

enchanted, wildered and forlorn

Beren came blundering, bruised and torn:

Esgalduin the elven-stream,

in which amid tree-shadows gleam

the stars, flowed strong before his feet.

Some secret way she found, and fleet

passed over and was seen no more,

and left him forsaken on the shore.

'Darkly the sundering flood rolls past!

To this my long way comes at last -

a hunger and a loneliness,

enchanted waters pitiless.'

A summer waned, an autumn glowed,

and Beren in the woods abode,

as wild and wary as a faun

that sudden wakes at rustling dawn,

and flits from shade to shade, and flees

the brightness of the sun, yet sees

all stealthy movements in the wood.

The murmurous warmth in weathers good,

the hum of many wings, the call

of many a bird, the pattering fall

of sudden rain upon the trees,

the windy tide in leafy seas,

the creaking of the boughs, he heard;

but not the song of sweetest bird

brought joy or comfort to his heart,

a wanderer dumb who dwelt apart;

who sought unceasing and in vain

to hear and see those things again:

a song more fair than nightingale,

a wonder in the moonlight pale.

An autumn waned, a winter laid

the withered leaves in grove and glade;

the beeches bare were gaunt and grey,

and red their leaves beneath them lay.

From cavern pale the moist moon eyes

the white mists that from earth arise

to hide the morrow's sun and drip

all the grey day from each twig's tip.

By dawn and dusk he seeks her still;

by noon and night in valleys chill,

nor hears a sound but the slow beat

on sodden leaves of his own feet.

The wind of winter winds his horn;

the misty veil is rent and torn.

The wind dies; the starry choirs

leap in the silent sky to fires,

whose light comes bitter-cold and sheer

through domes of frozen crystal clear.

A sparkle through the darkling trees,

a piercing glint of light he sees,

and there she dances all alone

upon a treeless knoll of stone!

Her mantle blue with jewels white

caught all the rays of frosted light.

She shone with cold and wintry flame,

as dancing down the hill she came,

and passed his watchful silent gaze,

a glimmer as of stars ablaze.

And snowdrops sprang beneath her feet,

and one bird, sudden, late and sweet,

shrilled as she wayward passed along.

A frozen brook to bubbling song

awoke and laughed; but Beren stood

still bound enchanted in the wood.

Her starlight faded and the night

closed o'er the snowdrops glimmering white.

Thereafter on a hillock green

he saw far off the elven-sheen

of shining limb and jewel bright

often and oft on moonlit night;

and Dairon's pipe woke once more,

and soft she sang as once before.

Then nigh he stole beneath the trees,

and heartache mingled with hearts-ease.

A night there was when winter died;

then all alone she sang and cried

and danced until the dawn of spring,

and chanted some wild magic thing

that stirred him, till it sudden broke

the bonds that held him, and he woke

to madness sweet and brave despair.

He flung his arms to the night air,

and out he danced unheeding, fleet,

enchanted, with enchanted feet.

He sped towards the hillock green,

the lissom limbs, the dancing sheen;

he leapt upon the grassy hill

his arms with loveliness to fill:

his arms were empty, and she fled;

away, away her white feet sped.

But as she went he swiftly came

and called her with the tender name

of nightingales in elvish tongue,

that all the woods now sudden rung:

'Tinúviel! Tinúviel!'

And clear his voice was as a bell;

its echoes wove a binding spell:

'Tinúviel! Tinúviel!'

His voice such love and longing filled

one moment stood she, fear was stilled;

one moment only; like a flame

he leaped towards her as she stayed

and caught and kissed that elfin maid.

As love there woke in sweet surprise

the starlight trembled in her eyes.

A! Lúthien! A! Lúthien!

more fair than any child of Men;

O! loveliest maid of Elfinesse,

what madness does thee now possess!

A! lissom limbs and shadowy hair

and chaplet of white snowdrops there;

O! starry diadem and white

pale hands beneath the pale moonlight!

She left his arms and slipped away

just at the breaking of the day.

He lay upon the leafy mould,

his face upon earth's bosom cold,

aswoon in overwhelming bliss,

enchanted of an elvish kiss,

seeing within his darkened eyes

the light that for no darkness dies,

the loveliness that doth not fade,

though all in ashes cold be laid.

Then folded in the mists of sleep

he sank into abysses deep,

drowned in an overwhelming grief

for parting after meeting brief;

a shadow and a fragrance fair

lingered, and waned, and was not there.

Forsaken, barren, bare as stone,

the daylight found him cold, alone.

'Where art thou gone? The day is bare,

the sunlight dark, and cold the air!

Tinúviel, where went thy feet?

O wayward star! O maiden sweet!

O flower of Elfland all too fair

for mortal heart! The woods are bare!

The woods are bare!' he rose and cried.

'Ere spring was born, the spring hath died!'

And wandering in path and mind

he groped as one gone sudden blind,

who seeks to grasp the hidden light

with faltering hands in more than night.

And thus in anguish Beren paid

for that great doom upon him laid,

the deathless love of Lúthien,

too fair for love of mortal Men;

and in his doom was Lúthien snared,

the deathless in his dying shared;

and Fate them forged a binding chain

of living love and mortal pain.

Beyond all hope her feet returned

at eve, when in the sky there burned

the flame of stars; and in her eyes

there trembled the starlight of the skies,

and from her hair the fragrance fell

of elvenflowers in elven-dell.

Thus Lúthien, whom no pursuit,

no snare, no dart that hunters shoot,

might hope to win or hold, she came

at the sweet calling of her name;

and thus in his her slender hand

was linked in far Beleriand;

in hour enchanted long ago

her arms about his neck did go,

and gently down she drew to rest

his weary head upon her breast.

A! Lúthien, Tinúviel,

why wentest thou to darkling dell

with shining eyes and dancing pace,

the twilight glimmering in thy face?

Each day before the end of eve

she sought her love, nor would him leave,

until the stars were dimmed, and day

came glimmering eastward silver-grey.

Then trembling-veiled she would appear

and dance before him, half in fear;

there flitting just before his feet

she gently chid with laughter sweet:

'Come! dance now, Beren, dance with me!

For fain thy dancing I would see.

Come! thou must woo with nimbler feet,

than those who walk where mountains meet

the bitter skies beyond this realm

of marvellous moonlit beech and elm.'

In Doriath Beren long ago

new art and lore he learned to know;

his limbs were freed; his eyes alight,

kindled with a new enchanted sight;

and to her dancing feet his feet

attuned went dancing free and fleet;

his laughter welled as from a spring

of music, and his voice would sing

as voices of those in Doriath

where paved with flowers are floor and path.

The year thus on to summer rolled,

from spring to a summertime of gold.

Thus fleeting fast their short hour flies,

while Dairon watches with fiery eyes,

haunting the gloom of tangled trees

all day, until at night he sees

in the fickle moon their moving feet,

two lovers linked in dancing sweet,

two shadows shimmering on the green

where lonely-dancing maid had been.

'Hateful art thou, O Land of Trees!

May fear and silence on thee seize!

My flute shall fall from idle hand

and mirth shall leave Beleriand;

music shall perish and voices fail

and trees stand dumb in dell and dale!'

It seemed a hush had fallen there

upon the waiting woodland air;

and often murmured Thingol's folk

in wonder, and to their king they spoke:

'This spell of silence who hath wrought?

What web hath Dairon's music caught?

It seems the very birds sing low;

murmurless Esgalduin doth flow;

the leaves scarce whisper on the trees,

and soundless beat the wings of bees!'

This Lúthien heard, and there the queen

her sudden glances saw unseen.

But Thingol marvelled, and he sent

for Dairon the piper, ere he went

and sat upon his mounded seat -

his grassy throne by the grey feet

of the Queen of Beeches, Hirilorn,

upon whose triple piers were borne,

the mightiest vault of leaf and bough

from world's beginning until now.

She stood above Esgalduin's shore,

where long slopes fell beside the door,

the guarded gates, the portals stark

of the Thousand echoing Caverns dark.

There Thingol sat and heard no sound

save far off footsteps on the ground;

no flute, no voice, no song of bird,

no choirs of windy leaves there stirred;

and Dairon coming no word spoke,

silent amid the woodland folk.

Then Thingol said: 'O Dairon fair,

thou master of all musics rare,

O magic heart and wisdom wild,

whose ear nor eye may be beguiled,

what omen doth this silence bear?

What horn afar upon the air,

what summons do the woods await?

Mayhap the Lord Tavros from his gate

and tree-propped halls, the forest-god,

rides his wild stallion golden-shod

amid the trumpets' tempest loud,

amid his green-clad hunters proud,

leaving his deer and friths divine

and emerald forests? Some faint sign

of his great onset may have come

upon the Western winds, and dumb

the woods now listen for a chase

that here once more shall thundering race

beneath the shade of mortal trees.

Would it were so! The Lands of Ease

hath Tavros left not many an age,

since Morgoth evil wars did wage,

since ruin fell upon the North

and the Gnomes unhappy wandered forth.

But if not he, who comes or what?'

And Dairon answered: 'He cometh not!

No feet divine shall leave that shore,

where the Shadowy Seas' last surges roar,

till many things be come to pass,

and many evils wrought. Alas!

the guest is here. The woods are still,

but wait not; for a marvel chill

them holds at the strange deeds they see,

but kings see not - though queens, maybe,

may guess, and maidens, maybe, know.

Where one went lonely two now go!'

'Whither thy riddle points is plain'

the king in anger said, 'but deign

to make it plainer! Who is he

that earns my wrath? How walks he free

within my woods amid my folk,

a stranger to both beech and oak?'

But Dairon looked on Lúthien

and would he had not spoken then,

and no more would he speak that day,

though Thingol's face with wrath was grey.

Then Lúthien stepped lightly forth:

'Far in the mountain-leaguered North,

my father,' said she, 'lies the land

that groans beneath King Morgoth's hand.

Thence came on hither, bent and worn

in wars and travail, who had sworn

undying hatred of that king;

the last of Bëor's sons, they sing,

and even hither far and deep

within thy woods the echoes creep

through the wild mountain-passes cold,

the last of Bëor's house to hold

a sword unconquered, neck unbowed,

a heart by evil power uncowed.

No evil needst thou think or fear

of Beren son of Barahir!

If aught thou hast to say to him,

then swear to hurt not flesh nor limb,

and I will lead him to thy hall,

a son of kings, no mortal thrall.'

Then long King Thingol looked on her

while hand nor foot nor tongue did stir,

and Melian, silent, unamazed,

on Lúthien and Thingol gazed.

'No blad nor chain his limbs shall mar'

the king then swore. 'He wanders far,

and news, mayhap, he hath for me,

and words I have for him, maybe!'

Now Thingol bade them all depart

save Dairon, whom he called: 'What art,

what wizardry of Northern mist

hath this illcomer brought us? List!

Tonight go thou by secret path,

who knowest all wide Doriath,

and watch that Lúthien - daughter mine,

what madness doth thy heart entwine,

what web from Morgoth's dreadfull halls

hath caught thy feet and thee enthralls! -

that she bid not this Beren flee

back whence he came. I would him see!

Take with thee woodland archers wise.

Let naught beguile your hearts or eyes!'

Thus Dairon heavyhearted did,

and the woods were filled with watchers hid;

yet needless, for Lúthien that night

led Beren by the golden light

of mounting moon unto the shore

and bridge before her father's door;

and the white light silent looked within

the waiting portals yawning dim.

Downward with gentle hand she led

through corridors of carven dread

whose turns were lit by lanters hung

or flames from torches that were flung

on dragons hewn in the cold stone

with jewelled eyes and teeth of bone.

Then sudden, deep beneath the earth

the silences with silver mirth

were shaken and the rocks were ringing,

the birds of Melian were singing;

and wide the ways of shadow spread

as into archéd halls she led

Beren in wonder. There a light

like day immortal and like night

of stars unclouded, shone and gleamed.

A vault of topless trees it seemed,

whose trunks of carven stone there stood

like towers of an enchanted wood

in magic fast for ever bound,

bearing a roof whose branches wound

in endless tracery of green

lit by some leaf-emprisoned sheen

of moon and sun, and wrought of gems,

and each leaf hung on golden stems.

Lo! there amid immortal flowers

the nightingales in shining bowers

sang o'er the head of Melian,

while water for ever dripped and ran

from fountains in the rocky floor.

There Thingol sat. His crown he wore

of green and silver, and round his chair

a host of gleaming armour fair.

Then Beren looked upon the king

and stood amazed; and swift a ring

of elvish weapons hemmed him round.

Then Beren looked upon the ground,

for Melian's gaze had sought his face,

and dazed there drooped he in that place,

and when the king spake deep and slow:

'Who art thou stumblest hither? Know

that none unbidden seek this throne

and ever leave these halls of stone!'

But Lúthien answered in his stead:

'Behold, my father, one who came

pursued by hatred like a flame!

Lo! Beren son of Barahir!

What need hath he thy wrath to fear,

foe of our foes, without a friend,

whose knees to Morgoth do not bend?'

'Let Beren answer!' Thingol said.

'What wouldst thou here? What hither led

thy wandering feet, O mortal wild?

How hast thou Lúthien beguiled

or darest thus to walk this wood

unasked, in secret? Reason good

'twere best declare now if thou may,

or never again see light of day!'

Then Beren looked in Lúthien's eyes

and saw a light of starry skies,

and thence was slowly drawn his gaze

to Melian's face. As from a maze

of wonder dumb he woke; his heart

the bonds of awe there burst apart

and filled with the fearless pride of old;

in his glance now gleamed an anger cold.

'My feet hath fate, O king,' he said,

'here over the mountains bleeding led,

and what I sought not I have found,

and love it is hath here me bound.

Thy dearest treasure I desire;

nor rocks nor steel nor Morgoth's fire

nor all the power of Elfinesse

shall keep that gem I would possess.

For fairer than are born to Men

A daughter hast thou, Lúthien.'

Silence then fell upon the hall;

like graven stone there stood they all,

save one who cast her eyes aground,

and one who laughed with bitter sound.

Dairon the piper leant there pale

against a pillar. His fingers frail

there touched a flute that whispered not;

his eyes were dark; his heart was hot.

'Death is the guerdon thou hast earned,

O baseborn mortal, who hast learned

in Morgoth's realm to spy and lurk

like Orcs that do his evil work!'

'Death!' echoed Dairon fierce and low,

but Lúthien trembling gasped in woe.

'And death,' said Thingol, 'thou shouldst taste,

had I not sworn an oath in haste

that blade nor chain thy flesh should mar.

Yet captive bound by never a bar,

unchained, unfettered, shalt thou be

in lightless labyrinth endlessly

that coils about my halls profound

by magic bewildered and enwound;

there wandering in hopelessness

thou shalt learn the power of Elfinesse!'

'That may not be!' Lo! Beren spake,

and through the king's words coldly brake.

'What are thy mazes but a chain

wherein the captive blind is slain?

Twist not thy oaths, O elvish king,

like faithless Morgoth! By this ring -

the token of a lasting bond

that Felagund of Nargothrond

once swore in love to Barahir,

who sheltered him with shield and spear

and saved him from pursuing foe

on Northern battlefields long ago -

death thou canst give unearned to me,

but names I will not take from thee

of baseborn, spy, or Morgoth's thrall!

Are these the ways of Thingol's hall?'

Proud are the words, and all there turned

to see the jewels green that burned

in Beren's ring. These Gnomes had set

as eyes of serpents twined that met

beneath a golden crown of flowers,

that one upholds and one devours:

the badge that Finrod made of yore

and Felagund his son now bore.

His anger was chilled, but little less,

and dark thoughts Thingol did possess,

though Melian the pale leant to his side

and whispered: 'O king, forgo thy pride!

Such is my counsel. Not by thee

shall Beren be slain, for far and free

from these deep halls his fate doth lead,

yet wound with thine. O king, take heed!'

But Thingol looked on Lúthien.

'Fairest of Elves! Unhappy Men,

children of little lords and kings

mortal and frail, these fadings things,

shall they then look with love on thee?'

his heart within him thought. 'I see

thy ring,' he said, 'O mighty man!

But to win the child of Melian

a father's deeds shall not avail,

nor thy proud words at which I quail.

A treasure dear I too desire,

but rocks and steel and Morgoth's fire

from all the powers of Elfinesse

do keep the jewel I would possess.

Yet bonds like these I hear thee say

affright thee not. Now go thy way!

Bring me one shining Silmaril

from Morgoth's crown, then if she will,

may Lúthien set her hand in thine;

then shalt thou have this jewel of mine.'

Then Thingol's warriors loud and long

they laughed; for wide renown in song

had Fëanor's gems o'er land and sea,

the peerless Silmarils; and three

alone he made and kindled slow

in the land of the Valar long ago,

and there in Tûn of their own light

they shone like marvellous stars at night,

in the great Gnomish hoards of Tûn,

while Glingal flowered and Belthil's bloom

yet lit the land beyond the shore

where the Shadowy Seas' last surges roar,

ere Morgoth stole them and the Gnomes

seeking their glory left their homes,

ere sorrows fell on Elves and Men,

ere Beren was or Lúthien,

ere Fëanor's sons in madness swore

their dreadful oath. But now no more

their beauty was seen, save shining clear

in Morgoth's dungeons vast and drear.

His iron crown they must adorn,

and gleam above Orcs and slaves forlorn,

treasured in Hell above all wealth,

more than his eyes; and might nor stealth

could touch them, or even gaze too long

upon their magic. Throng on throng

of Orcs with reddened scimitars

encircled him, and mighty bars

and everlasting gates and walls,

who wore them now amidst his thralls.

Then Beren laughed more loud than they

in bitterness, and thus did say:

'For little price do elven-kings

their daughters sell - for gems and rings

and things of gold! If such thy will,

thy bidding I will now fulfill.

On Beren son of Barahir

thou hast not looked the last, I fear.

Farewell, Tinúviel, starlit maiden!

Ere the pale winter pass snowladen,

I will return, not thee to buy

with any jewel in Elfinesse,

but to find my love in loveliness,

a flower that grows beneath the sky.'

Bowing before Melian and the king

he turned, and thrust aside the ring

of guards about him, and was gone,

and his footsteps faded one by one

in the dark corridors. 'A guileful oath

thou sworest, father! Thou hast both

to blade and chain his flesh now doomed

in Morgoth's dungeons deep entombed,'

said Lúthien, and welling tears

sprang in her eyes, and hideous fears

clutched at her heart. All looked away,

and later remembered the sad day

whereafter Lúthien no more sang.

Then clear in the silence the cold words rang

of Melian: 'Counsel cunning-wise,

O king!' she said. 'Yet if mine eyes

lose not their power, 'twere well for thee

that Beren failed his errantry.

Well for thee, but for thy child

a dark doom and a wandering wild.'

'I sell not to Men those whom I love'

said Thingol, 'whom all things above

I cherish; and if hope there were

that Beren should ever living fare

to the Thousand Caves once more, I swear

he should not ever have seen the air

or light of heaven's stars again.'

But Melian smiled, and there was pain

as of far knowledge in her eyes;

for such is the sorrow of the wise.

So days drew on from the mournful day;

the curse of silence no more lay

on Doriath, though Dairon's flute

and Lúthien's singing both were mute.

The murmurs soft awake once more

about the woods, the waters roar

past the great gates of Thingol's halls;

but no dancing step of Lúthien falls

on turf or leaf. For she forlorn,

where stumbled once, where bruised and torn,

with longing on him like a dream,

had Beren sat by the shrouded stream

Esgalduin the dark and strong,

she sat and mourned in a low song:

'Endless roll the waters past!

To this my love hath come at last,

enchanted waters pitiless,

a heartache and a loneliness.'

The summer turns. In branches tall

she hears the pattering raindrops fall,

the windy tide in leafy seas,

the creaking of the countless trees;

and longs unceasing and in vain

to hear one calling once again

the tender name that nightingales

were called of old. Echo fails.

'Tinúviel! Tinúviel!'

the memory is like a knell,

a faint and far-off tolling bell:

'Tinúviel! Tinúviel!'

'O mother Melian, tell to me

some part of what thy dark eyes see!

Tell of thy magic where his feet

are wandering! What foes him meet?

O mother, tell me, lives he still

treading the desert and the hill?

Do sun and moon above him shine,

do the rains fall on him, mother mine?'

'Nay, Lúthien my child, I fear

he lives indeed in bondage drear.

The Lord of Wolves hath prisons dark,

chains and enchantments cruel and stark,

there trapped and bound and languishing

now Beren dreams that thou dost sing.'

'Then I alone must go to him

and dare the dread in dungeons dim;

for none there be that will him aid

in all the world, save elven-maid

whose only skill were joy and song,

and both have failed and left her long.'

Then nought said Melian thereto,

though wild the words. She wept anew,

and ran through the woods like hunted deer

with her hair streaming and eyes of fear.

Dairon she found with ferny crown

silently sitting on beech-leaves brown.

On the earth she cast her at his side.

'O Dairon, Dairon, my tears,' she cried,

'now pity for our old days' sake!

Make me a music for heart's ache,

for heart's despair, and for heart's dread,

for light gone dark and laughter dead!'

'But for music dead there is no note,'

Dairon answered, and at his throat

his fingers clutched. Yet his pipe he took,

and sadly trembling the music shook;

and all things stayed while that piping went

wailing in the hollows, and there intent

they listened, their business and mirth,

their hearts' gladness and the light of earth

forgotten; and bird-voices failed

while Dairon's flute in Doriath wailed.

Lúthien wept not for very pain,

and when he ceased she spoke again:

'My friend, I have a need of friends,

as he who a long dark journey wends,

and fears the road, yet dare not turn

and look back where the candles burn

in windows he has left. The night

in front, he doubts to find the light

that far beyond the hills he seeks.'

And thus of Melian's words she speaks,

and of her doom and her desire

to climb the mountains, and the fire

and ruin of the Northern realm

to dare, a maiden without helm

or sword, or strength of hardy limb,

where magic founders and grows dim.

His aid she sought to guide her forth

and find the pathways to the North,

if he would not for love of her

go by her side a wanderer.

'Wherefore,' said he, 'should Dairon go

into direst peril earth doth know

for the sake of mortal who did steal

his laughter and joy? No love I feel

for Beren son of Barahir,

nor weep for him in dungeons drear,

who in this wood have chains enow,

heavy and dark. But thee, I vow,

I will defend from perils fell

and deadly wandering into hell.'

No more they spake that day, and she

perceived not his meaning. Sorrowfully

she thanked him, and she left him there.

A tree she climbed, till the bright air

above the woods her dark hair blew,

and straining afar her eyes could view

the outline grey and faint and low

of dizzy towers where the clouds go,

the southern faces mounting sheer

in rocky pinnacle and pier

of Shadowy Mountains pale and cold;

and wide the lands before them rolled.

But straightway Dairon sought the king

and told him his daughter's pondering

and how her madness might her lead

to ruin, unless the king gave heed.

Thingol was wroth, and yet amazed;

in wonder and half fear he gazed

on Dairon, and said: 'True hast thou been.

Now ever shall love be us between,

while Doriath lasts; within this realm

thou art a prince of beech and elm!'

He sent for Lúthien, and said:

'O maiden fair, what hath thee led

to ponder madness and despair

to wander to ruin, and to fare

from Doriath against my will,

stealing like a wild thing men would kill

into the emptiness outside?'

'The wisdom, father,' she replied;

nor would she promise to forget,

nor would she vow for love or threat

her folly to forsake and meek

in Doriath her father's will to seek.

This only vowed she, if go she must,

that none but herself would she now trust,

no folk of her father's would persuade,

to break his will or lend her aid;

if go she must, she would go alone

and friendless dare the walls of stone.

In angry love and half in fear

Thingol took counsel his most dear

to guard and keep. He would not bind

in caverns deep and intertwined

sweet Lúthien, his lovely maid,

who robbed of air must wane and fade,

who ever must look upon the sky

and see the sun and moon go by.

But close unto his mounded seat

and grassy throne there ran the feet

of Hirilorn, the beechen queen.

Upon her triple boles were seen

no break or branch, until aloft

in a green glimmer, distant, soft,

the mightiest vault of leaf and bough

from world's beginning until now

was flung above Esgalduin's shores

and the long slopes to Thingol's doors.

Grey was the rind of pillars tall

and silken-smooth, and far and small

to squirrels' eyes were those who went

at her grey feet upon the bent.

Now Thingol made men in the beech,

in that great tree, as far as reach

their longest ladders, there to build

an airy house; and as he willed

a little dwelling of fair wood

was made, and veiled in leaves it stood

above the first branches. Corners three

it had and windows faint to see,

and by three shafts of Hirilorn

in the corners standing was upborne.

There Lúthien was bidden dwell,

until she was wiser and the spell

of madness left her. Up she clomb

the long ladders to her new home

among the leaves, among the birds;

she sang no song, she spoke no words.

White glimmering in the tree she rose,

and her little door they heard her close.

The ladders were taken and no more

her feet might tread Esgalduin's shore.

Thither at whiles they climbed and brought

all things she needed or besought;

but death was his, whoso should dare

a ladder leave, or creeping there

should set one by the tree at night;

a guard was held from dusk to light

about the grey feet of Hirilorn

and Lúthien in prison and forlorn.

There Dairon grieving often stood

in sorrow for the captive of the wood,

and melodies made upon his flute

leaning against a grey tree-root.

Lúthien would from her windows stare

and see him far under piping there,

and she forgave his betraying word

for the music and the grief she heard,

and only Dairon would she let

across her threshold foot to set.

Yet long the hours when she must sit

and see the sunbeams dance and flit

in beechen leaves, or watch the stars

peep on clear nights between the bars

of beechen branches. And one night

just ere the changing of the light

a dream there came, from the Gods, maybe,

or Melian's magic. She dreamed that she

heard Beren's voice o'er hill and fell

'Tinúviel' call, 'Tinúviel.'

And her heart answered: 'Let me be gone

to seek him no others think upon!'

She woke and saw the moonlight pale

through the slim leaves. It trembled frail

upon her arms, as these she spread

and there in longing bowed her head,

and yearned for freedom and escape.

Now Lúthien doth her counsel shape;

and Melian's daughter of deep lore

knew many things, yea, magics more

than then or now know elven-maids

that glint and shimmer in the glades.

She pondered long, while the moon sank

and faded, and the starlight shrank,

and the dawn opened. At last a smile

on her face flickered. She mused a while,

and watched the morning sunlight grow,

then called to those that walked below.

And when one climbed to her she prayed

that he would in the dark pools wade

of cold Esgalduin, water clear,

the clearest water cold and sheer

to draw for her. 'At middle night,'

she said, 'in bowl of silver white

it must be drawn and brought to me

with no word spoken, silently.'

Another she begged to bring her wine

in a jar of gold where flowers twine -

'and singing let him come to me

at high noon, singing merrily.'

Again she spake: 'Now go, I pray,

to Melian the queen, and say:

"thy daughter many a weary hour

slow passing watches in her bower;

a spinning-wheel she begs thee send."'

Then Dairon she called: 'I prithee, friend,

climb up and talk to Lúthien!'

And sitting at her window then,

she said: 'My Dairon, thou hast craft,

beside thy music, many a shaft

and many a tool of carven wood

to fashion with cunning. It were good,

if thou wouldst make a little loom

to stand in the corner of my room.

My idle fingers would spin and weave

a pattern of colours, of morn and eve,

of sun and moon and changing light

amid the beech-leaves waving bright.'

This Dairon did and asked her then:

'O Lúthien, O Lúthien,

What wilt thou weave? What wilt thou spin?'

'A marvellous thread, and wind therein

a potent magic, and a spell

I will weave within my web that hell

nor all the powers of Dread shall break.'

Then Dairon wondered, but he spake

no word to Thingol, though his heart

feared the dark purpose of her art.

And Lúthien was left alone.

A magic song to Men unknown

she sang, and singing then the wine

with water mingled three times nine;

and as in golden jar they lay

she sang a song of growth and day;

and as they lay in silver white

another song she sang, of night

and darkness without end, of height

uplifted to the stars, and flight

and freedom. And all names of things

tallest and longest on earth she sings:

the locks of the Longbeard dwarves; the tail

of Draugluin the werewolf pale;

the body of Glómund the great snake;

the vast upsoaring peaks that quake

above the fires in Angband's gloom;

the chain Angainor that ere Doom

of steel and torment. Names she sought,

and sang of Glend the sword of Nan;

of Gilim the giant of Eruman;

and last and longest named she then

the endless hair of Uinen,

the Lady of the Sea, that lies

through all the waters under skies.

Then did she lave her head and sing

a theme of sleep and slumbering,

profound and fathomless and dark

as Lúthien's shadowy hair was dark -

each thread was more slender and more fine

than threads of twilight that entwine

in filmy web the fading grass

and closing flowers as day doth pass.

Now long and longer grew her hair,

and fell to her feet, and wandered there

like pools of shadow on the ground.

Then Lúthien in a slumber drowned

was laid upon her bed and slept,

till morning through the windows crept

thinly and faint. And then she woke,

and the room was filled as with a smoke

and with an evening mist, and deep

she lay thereunder drowsed in sleep.

Behold! her hair from windows blew

in morning airs, and darkly grew

waving about the pillars grey

of Hirilorn at break of day.

Then groping she found her little shears,

and cut the hair about her ears,

and close she cropped it to her head,

enchanted tresses, thread by thread.

Thereafter grew they slow once more,

yet darker than their wont before.

And now was her labour but begun:

long was she spinning, long she spun;

and though with elvish skill she wrought,

long was her weaving. If men sought

to call her, crying from below,

'Nothing I need,' she answered, 'go!

I would keep my bed, and only sleep

I now desire, who waking weep.'

Then Dairon feared, and in amaze

he called from under; but three days

she answered not. Of cloudy hair

she wove a web like misty air

of moonless night, and thereof made

a robe as fluttering-dark as shade

beneath great trees, a magic dress

that all was drenched with drowsiness,

enchanted with a mightier spell

than Melian's raiment in that dell

wherein of yore did Thingol roam

beneath the dark and starry dome

that hung above the dawning world.

And now this robe she round her furled,

and veiled her garments shimmering white;

her mantle blue with jewels bright

like crystal stars, the lilies gold,

were wrapped and hid; and down there rolled

dim dreams and faint oblivious sleep

falling about her, to softly creep

through all the air. Then swift she takes

the threads unused; of these she makes

a slender rope of twisted strands

yet long and stout, and with her hands

she makes it fast unto the shaft

of Hirilorn. Now, all her craft

and labour ended, looks she forth

from her little window facing North.

Already the sunlight in the trees

is drooping red, and dusk she sees

come softly along the ground below,

and now she murmurs soft and slow.

Now chanting clearer down she cast

her long hair, till it reached at last

from her window to the darkling ground.

Men far beneath her heard the sound;

but the slumbrous strand now swung and swayed

above her guards. Their talking stayed,

they listened to her voice and fell

suddenly beneath a binding spell.

Now clad as in a cloud she hung;

now down her ropéd hair she swung

as light as squirrel, and away,

away, she danced, and who could say

what paths she took, whose elvish feet

no impress made a-dancing fleet?

When Morgoth in that day of doom

had slain the Trees and filled with gloom

the shining land of Valinor,

there Fëanor and his sons then swore

the mighty oath upon the hill

of tower-crownéd Tûn, that still

wrought wars and sorrow in the world.

From darkling seas the fogs unfurled

their blinding shadows grey and cold

where Glingal once had bloomed with gold

and Belthil bore its silver flowers.

The mists were mantled round the towers

of the Elves' white city by the sea.

There countless tochers fitfully

did start and twinkle, and the Gnomes

were gathered to their fading homes,

and thronged the long and winding stair

that led to the wide echoing square.

There Fëanor mourned his jewels divine,

the Silmarils he made. Like wine

his wild and potent words them fill;

a great host harkens deathly still.

But all he said both wild and wise,

half truth and half the fruit of lies

that Morgoth sowed in Valinor,

in other songs and other lore

recorded is. He bade them flee

from lands divine, to cross the sea,

the pathless plains, the perilous shores

where ice-infested water roars;

to follow Morgoth to the unlit earth

leaving their dwellings and olden mirth;

to go back to the Outer Lands

to wars and weeping. There their hands

they joined in vows, those kinsmen seven,

swearing beneath the stars of Heaven,

by Varda the Holy that them wrought

and bore them each with radiance fraught

and set them in the deeps to flame.

Timbrenting's holy height they name,

whereon are built the timeless halls

of Manwë Lord of Gods. Who calls

these names in witness may not break

his oath, though earth and heaven shake.

Curufin, Celegorm the fair,

Damrod and Díriel were there,

and Crathir dark, and Maidros tall

(whom after torment should befall),

and Maglor the mighty who like the sea

with deep voice sings yet mournfully.

'Be he friend or foe, or seed defiled

of Morgoth Bauglir, or mortal child

that in after days on earth shall dwell,

no law, nor love, nor league of hell,

not mights of Gods, not moveless fate

shall him defend from wrath and hate

of Fëanor's sons, who takes or steals

or finding keeps the Silmarils,

that thrice-enchanted globes of light

that shine until the final night.'

The wars and wandering of the Gnomes

this tale tells not. Far from their homes

they fought and laboured in the North.

Fingon daring alone went forth

and sought for Maidros where he hung;

in torment terrible he swung,

his wrist in band of forgéd steel,

from a sheer precipice where reel

the dizzy senses staring down

from Thangorodrim's stony crown.

The song of Fingon Elves yet sing,

captain of armies, Gnomish king,

who fell at last in flame of swords

with his white banners and his lords.

They sing how Maidros free he set,

and stayed the feud that slumbered yet

between the children proud of Finn.

Now joined once more they hemmed him in,

even great Morgoth, and their host

beleaguered Angband, till they boast

no Orc nor demon ever dare

their leaguer break or past them fare.

Then days of solace woke on earth

beneath the new-lit Sun, and mirth

was heard in the Great Lands where Men,

a young race, spread and wandered then.

That was the time that songs do call

the Siege of Angband, when like a wall

the Gnomish swords did fence the earth

from Morgoth's ruin, a time of birth,

of blossoming, of flowers, of growth;

but still there held the deathless oath,

and still the Silmarils were deep

in Angband's darkly-dolven keep.


An end there came, when fortune turned,
어느덧 운명이 바뀌어 모르고스의
and flames of Morgoth's vengeance burned,
복수의 화염이 타오르고
and all the might which he prepared
그가 제 요새에서 은밀히 준비한
in secret in his fastness flared
모든 완력이 솟구쳐 목마른평원을 휩쓸고
and poured across the Thirsty Plain;
검은 대군이 그의 뒤를 따랐을 때
and armies black were in his train.
드디어 종말이 닥쳤노라.
The leaguer of Angband Morgoth broke;
모르고스가 앙반드 공성을 깨뜨리니
his enemies in fire and smoke
그의 적들은 불길과 연기 속에 흩어지고
were scattered, and the Orcs there slew
그의 오르크들이 베고 또 베니
and slew, until the blood like dew
이윽고 잔혹하고 굽은 칼날마다
dripped from each cruel and crooked blade.
이슬인 양 피가 똑똑 떨어졌다.
Then Barahir the bold did aid
그에 용자 바라히르가 거대한 창과 방패 들고
with mighty spear, with shield and men,
전사들과 함께 부상당한 펠라군드를 도왔으라.
Felagund wounded. To the fen
그들은 습지로 탈출하며
escaping, there they bound their troth,
거기서 굳은 언약 맺었으니
and Felagund deeply swore an oath
펠라군드는 그의 친족과 자손에 대한
of friendship to his kin and sed,
위급 시의 우의, 사랑과 구조를
of love and succour in time of need.
온 마음으로 맹세했다.
But there of Finrod's children four
하지만 핀로드[3]의 네 자식 가운데
were Angrod slain and proud Egnor.
앙그로드와 의기양양하던 에그노르[4]가 쓰러졌다.
Felagund and Orodreth then
그러자 펠라군드와 오로드레스는
gathered the remnant of their men,
남은 전사들과 처녀들,
their maidens and their children fair;
어여쁜 아이들을 모아,
forsaking war they made their lair
전쟁을 포기하고 남쪽 저 먼 곳에
and cavernous hold far in the south.
은신처 겸 동굴 요새를 만들었다.
On Narog's towering bank its mouth
나로그강 어귀가 우뚝 솟은 강둑으로 통하니
was opened; which they hid and veiled,
그것을 숨기어 가리고
and mighty doors, that unassailed
눈에 잘 띄지 않는 침침한 나무들로
till Turin's day stood vast and grim,
투린의 시절이 올 때까지 난공불락으로
they built by trees o'ershadowed dim.
방대하고 굳세게 버틴 강고한 문들을 세웠다.
And with them dwelt a long time there
거기서 쿠루핀과 가인(佳人) 켈레고름이
Curufin, and Celegorm the fair;
그들과 함께 오래도록 거할 동안
and a mighty folk grew neath their hands
나로그강의 비밀스러운 궁전과 땅에는
in Narog's secret halls and lands.
그들의 지휘 하에 힘센 일족 자라났다.

Thus Felagund in Nargothrond
이렇듯 용자 바라히르에게 유대를 맹세한
still reigned, a hidden king whose bond
숨은 왕, 펠라군드는 여전히
was sworn to Barahir the bold.
나르고스론드를 다스렸다.
And now his son through forests cold
그동안 바라히르의 아들은 꿈결인 듯
wandered alone as in a dream.
추운 숲들을 헤치며 떠돌았더라.
Esgalduin's dark and shrouded stream
그는 에스갈두인강의 어둡고 감춰진 물길 따라
he followed, till its waters frore
그 혹한의 물결이 시리온강,
were joined to Sirion, Sirion hoar,
바다로 장대하게 굽이쳐 흐르는
pale silver water wide and free
드넓고 유유하며 서리로 덮인
rolling in splendour to the sea.
은백의 시리온강과 합류하는 데로 나아갔다.
Now Beren came unto the pools,
이제 베렌은 시리온강이
wide shallow mered where Sirion cools
갈대 무성한 강둑들에 부대껴 갈라져
his gathered tide beneath the stars,
거대한 늪지를 흠뻑 적신 후
ere chafed and sundered by the bars
몇십 리에 걸쳐 물길이 길게 굽어 드는
of reedy banks a mighty fen
지하의 방대한 틈들 속으로 뛰어들기 전
he feeds and drenches, plunging then
별빛 아래 불어난 물결을
into vast chasms underground,
가라앉히는 물웅덩이들,
where many miles his way is wound.
즉 넓고 얕은 못들에 이르렀다.
Umboth-Muilin, Twilight Meres,
당시 요정들은 눈물처럼 잿빛을 띈 그 드넓은 수역을
those great wide waters grey as tears
움보스무일린[5], 황혼의 호수로 이름 지었으라.
the Elves then named. Through driving rain
거기서부터 베렌은 파수평원을
from thence across the Guarded Plain
휩쓰는 세찬 빗줄기를 뚫고
the Hills of the Hunters Beren saw
서풍에 시달려 알몸의 꼭대기가
with bare tops bitten bleak and raw
황량하고 을씨년스레 드러난
by western winds; but in the mist
사냥꾼의 언덕을 보았으나,
of streaming rains that flashed and hissed
번득이고 쉭쉭대며 호수로 떨어지는
into the meres he knew there lay
끝없이 이어지는 빗발들의 연무 속에서도
beneath those hills the cloven way
그 구릉지 밑에 나로그강의 갈라진 물길이,
of Narog, and the watchful halls
그리고 고원에서 굴러떨어지는 잉귈폭포 곁엔
of Felagund beside the falls
경계를 게을리하지 않는
of Ingwil tumbling from the wold.
펠라군드의 궁전이 놓여 있음을 알았다.
An everlasting watch they hold,
나르고스론드의 그노메[6]들은
the Gnomes of Nargothrond renowned,
물샐틈없는 경계로 호(號)가 낫던바,
and every hill is tower-crowned,
모든 언덕에 파수탑이 세워지고
where wardens sleepless peer and gaze
물살 센 나로그강과 어슴푸레한 시리온강 사이의
guarding the plain and all the ways
평원과 모든 길들을 파수꾼들이 지키며
between Narog swift and Sirion pale;
밤낮없이 경계의 눈초리를 번득이고,
and archers whose arrows never fail
백발백중의 궁수들은 숲을 순찰하며
there range the woods, and secret kill
허락 없이 거기로 기어 오는 모든 자를
all who creep thither against their will.
감쪽같이 사살했더라.
Yet now he thrusts into that land
그럼에도 목하 베렌은 손에 은은히 빛나는
bearing the gleaming ring on hand
펠라군드의 반지를 지니고
of Felagund, and oft doth ry:
그 땅으로 쑥 들어가서 이따금 이렇게 외쳤다.
'Here comes no wandering Orc or spy,
"어떤 떠돌이 오르크나 밀정도 올 수 없는 여기에
but Beren son of Barahir
한때 펠라군드가 친애했던
who once to Felagund was dear.'
바라히르의 아들 베렌이 왔도다."
So ere he reached the eastward shore
그러자 그가 검은 옥돌들 위로 거품 일으키며
of Narog, that doth foam and roar
세차게 흐르는 나로그강의 동쪽 강변에 닿기도 전에
o'er boulders black, those archers green
초록 차림새의 궁수들이 다가와 그를 에워쌌다.
came round him. When the ring was seen
그의 행색이 초라한 거지꼴이었음에도
they bowed before him, though his plight
그들은 그 반지를 보자 그 앞에서 머리를 조아렸다.
was poor and beggarly. Then by night
다음에 그들은 야음을 틈타
they led him northward, for no ford
그를 북쪽으로 인도했으니,
no bridge was built where Narog poured
나로그강이 나르고스론드의 성문 앞으로
before the gates of Nargothrond,
쏟아지는 곳에는 여울목이나 다리가 없어
and friend nor foe might pass beyond.
친구든 적이든 이 강을 건널 수 없기 때문이었다.
To northward, where that stream yet young
그들은 짧은 황금빛 급류가 끝나며
more slender flowed, below the tongue
나로그강에 합류할 때 깅글리스강이 에워싸는
of foam-splashed land that Ginglith pens
거품 철벅이는 곶 모양의 땅 아래로
when her brief golden torrent ends
저 나로그강의 물줄기가 아직은 여리고 가늘게 흐르는
and joins the Narog, there they wade.
북쪽으로 가 거기서 강을 걸어서 건넜다.
Now swiftest journey thence they made
거기서부터 그들은 이제 나르고스론드의
to Nargothrond's sheer terraces
가파른 단구(段丘)들과 침침하게 드러난
and dim gigantic palaces.
거대한 왕궁으로 빠르게 나아갔다.
They came beneath a sickle moon
낫 모양의 달 아래 그들은 거기 어둑하게 걸린
to doors there darkly hung and hewn
육중한 돌과 거대한 재목을 깎아 만든 기둥과
with posts and lintels of ponderous stone
상인방(上引枋)들이 달린 문들에 이르렀다.
and timbers huge. Now open thrown
금방 크게 벌어진 성문을 활짝 열어젖히고
were gaping gates, and in they strode
그들은 펠라군드가 왕좌에 좌정한 곳으로
where Felagund on throne abode.
성큼성큼 걸어 들어갔다.

Fair were the words of Narog's king
베렌에게 건넨 나로그 왕의 말이 정겨웠던지라
to Beren, and his wandering
이내 방랑 생활과 가슴속에 켜켜이 쌓인
and all his feuds and bitter wars
온갖 숙원(宿怨)과 쓰디쓴 전쟁이 하염없이 풀려나왔다.
recounted soon. Behind closed doors
베렌이 도리아스에서의 사연을 말할 동안엔
they sat, while Beren told his tale
그들은 문을 닫아걸고 아무도 들이지 않았다.
of Doriath; and words him fail
머리에 흰 들장미를 꽂은 채
recalling Lúthien dancing fair
아름답게 춤추던 루시엔을 회상하고
with wild white roses in her hair,
어스름 속에 그녀 주위에 별들이 내걸린 가운데
remembering her elven voice that rung
울려 퍼지던 그녀의 요정 목소리를 기억할 때는
while stars in twilight round her hung.
말이 안 나와 그저 먹먹하기만 했다.
He spake of Thingol's marvellous halls
그는 마법으로 불 밝혀진
by enchantment lit, where fountain falls
싱골의 경이로운 궁전을 언급하면서
and ever the nightingale doth sing
분수들이 떨어질 때면 언제나 나이팅게일이
to Melian and to her king.
멜리안과 왕에게 노래를 부른다고 했다.
The quest he told that Thingol laid
그는 싱골이 자신을 업신여겨
in scorn on him; how for love of maid
자신에게 지운 원정을 털어놓으며
more fair than ever was born to Men,
일찍이 인간들 속에서 태어난 그 어느 처녀보다도
of Tinúviel, of Lúthien,
아름다운 처녀, 티누비엘, 루시엔에 대한 사랑 때문에
he must essay the burning waste,
자신은 타는 듯한 불모지도 마다 않고 가
and doubtless death and torment taste.
필시 죽음과 지극한 고통을 겪어야만 한다고 했노라.
This Felagund in wonder heard,
펠라군드가 큰 놀라움 속에 이런 말을 듣더니
and heavily spake at last this word:
마침내 침울하게 말했다.
'It seems that Thingol doth desire
"싱골은 그대의 죽음을 바라는 것 같네.
thy death. The everlasting fire
모두가 알듯이, 저 마법에 들린
of those enchanted jewels all know
보석들의 영원한 불길에는
is cursed with an oath of endless woe,
끝없는 재앙의 저주가 들러붙어,
and Fëanor's sons alone by right
응당 페아노르의 아들들만이
are lords and masters of their light.
그 빛을 다루고 다스릴 수 있네.
He cannot hope within his hoard
싱골은 자신의 보고 속에
to keep this gem, nor is he lord
이 보석을 간직하길 바랄 수 없으며,
of all the folk of Elfinesse.
또 그는 모든 요정들의 왕도 아닐세.
And yet thou saist for nothing less
그러함에도 그대는 그것을 획득해야만
can thy return to Doriath
도리아스로 돌아갈 수 있다고 말하는 겐가?
be purchased? Many a dreadful path
실로, 그대의 발길 앞에는
in sooth there lies before thy feet --
무시무시한 길들이 숱하게 놓였으며
and after Morgoth, still a fleet
내가 잘 아는바, 그대가 모르고스를 제압하더라도
untiring hate, as I know well,
날래고도 모진 증오가 그대를 하늘에서 지옥까지
would hunt thee from heaven unto hell.
줄기차게 쫓을 걸세. 게다가 페아노르의 아들들은
Fëanor's sons would, if they could,
할 수만 있다면 그대를 죽이려 들 것인데,
slay thee or ever thou reached his wood
대체 그대가 어찌 싱골의 숲에 다다르거나
or laid in Thingol's lap that fire,
그의 무릎에 저 불덩이를 놓거나
or gained at least thy sweet desire.
그런대로 그대가 애틋하게 원하는 이를 취한다는 겐가.
Lo! Celegorm and Curufin
보게! 켈레고름과 쿠루핀은
here dwell this very realm within,
여기 바로 이 왕국 속에 거하면서도
and even though I, Finrod's son,
핀로드의 아들인 내가 왕임에도 불구하고
am king, a mighty power have won
막강한 권세를 쥐고
and many of their own folk lead.
자기 백성의 다수를 이끈다네.
Friendship to me in every need
위급할 때마다 그들이 아직은
they yet have shown, but much I fear
내게 우의를 내보였네만,
that to Beren son of Barahir
일단 그대의 무시무시한 원정을 안다면
mercy or love they will not show
그들은 바라히르의 아들 베렌에게
if once thy dreadful quest they know.'
자비나 사랑을 내보이지 않을 거라네."

True words he spake. For when the king
그가 참된 울림의 말을 했노라.
to all his people told this thing,
왕이 모든 백성에게 이 일을 알리고,
and spake of the oath to Barahir,
바라히르에게 했던 맹세와 더불어
and how that mortal shield and spear
오래전 북녘 전장에서
had saved them from Morgoth and from woe
저 필멸의 방패와 창이
on Northern battlefields long ago,
모르고스와 재앙으로부터
then many were kindled in their hearts
그들을 구해 준 사연을 얘기하자
once more to battle. But up there starts
많은 이들의 가슴엔 또 한 번 전의가 타올랐다.
amid the throng, and loudly cries
그때 군중 속에서 펄쩍 뛰어올라
for hearing, one with flaming eyes,
큰 목소리로 발언권을 청하는 이가 있었으니,
proud Celegorm, with gleaming hair
이글거리는 두 눈에 번득이는 머리칼과
and shining sword. Then all men stare
빛나는 검을 지닌 의기양양한 켈레고름이었다.
upon his stern unyielding face,
그에, 모든 전사들이 그의 엄하고 단호한 얼굴을
and a great hush falls upon that place.
빤히 쳐다봤고, 그 자리엔 깊은 침묵이 깔렸다.
'Be he friend or foe, or demon wild
"친구든 적이든, 혹은 모르고스의 난폭한 악마,
of Morgoth, Elf, or mortal child,
요정, 죽을 운명의 아이든,
or any that here on earth may dwell,
또는 여기 대지에 거하는 그 어떤 자든
no law, nor love, nor league of hell,
그 어떤 법, 사랑, 지옥의 패거리,
no might of Gods, no binding spell,
신들의 힘, 영험한 주문도
shall him defend from hatred fell
실마릴을 탈취하거나 훔치거나 그것을 찾아내
of Fëanor's sons, whoso take or steal
보유하는 자를 페아노르의 아들들의
or finding keep a Silmaril.
모진 증오로부터 지켜 줄 수 없도다.
These we alone do claim by right,
신묘한 마법을 간직한 우리의 찬란한 보석 셋,
our thrice enchanted jewels bright.'
이것들은 오로지 우리만의 것이라."

Many wild and potent words he spoke,
그는 힘차고 열광적인 말을 줄줄이 토해 냈던바,
and as before in Tûn awoke
예전에 툰[7]에서 그 아비의 목소리가
his father's voice their hearts to fire,
그들 가슴에 격정을 불러일으켰듯
so now dark fear and brooding ire
이제 그는 친구와 친구 사이의 전쟁을 슬쩍 비추며
he cast on them, foreboding war
군중에게 음산한 두려움과 뿌리 깊은 분노를
of friend with friend; and pools of gore
환기시켰다. 그러자 그들은 나로그의 주민들이
their minds imagined lying red
베렌과 함께 간다면 나르고스론드에
in Nargothrond about the dead,
사자(死者)들 주위로 퍼질 피바다를,
did Narog's host with Beren go;
위대한 싱골이 페아노르의 치명적인 보석을 얻는다면
or haply battle, ruin, and woe
그가 다스리는 도리아스에서 필시 일어날
in Doriath where great Thingol reigned,
전투, 폐허 및 재난을 마음속에 그려보았다.
if Feanor's fatal jewel he gained.
펠라군드에게도 그런 사태가 불을 보듯 뻔했기에
And even such as were most true
그는 자신의 맹세를 후회했고,
to Felagund with terror and despair
완력으로든 간계로든
and thought with terror and despair
모르고스의 소굴로 가는 것을
of seeking Morgoth in his lair
공포스럽고 절망적인 일로 여겼다.
with force or guile. This Curufin
형이 말을 그치자, 뒤이어
when his brother ceased did then begin
쿠루핀이 이런 참혹한 사태를
more to impress upon their inds;
그들의 마음에 더욱더 각인시켰는데,
and such a spell he on them binds
그가 그들을 어찌나 구워삶았던지
that never again till Turin's day
나로그에 그노메들은 투린의 시절 전까지는
would Gnome of Narog in array
두 번 다시 야전(野戰) 태세로
of open battle go to war.
싸우러 나갈 엄두를 내지 못했더라.
With secrecy, ambush, spies, and lore
은밀함, 매복, 밀정들 및 전승(傳承)의 마법으로,
of wizardry, with silent leaguer
매사에 조심스럽고 방심하지 않으며
of wild things wary, watchful, eager,
무엇 하나 놓치지 않으려는
of phantom hunters, venomed darts,
야생동물과 유령 같은 사냥꾼, 독 묻은 단창(短槍),
and unseen stealthy creeping arts,
보이지 않게 살며시 다가드는 수법이 결합된
with padding hatred that its prey
무언의 포위망으로,
with feet of velvet all the day
그리고 먹잇감을 온종일 조용한 발소리로
followed remorseless out of sight
시야에서 사라질 때까지 가차 없이 뒤쫓다가
and slew it unawares at night --
밤에 감쪽같이 죽이는 증오의 발걸음으로
thus they defended Nargothrond,
이렇듯 그들은 나르고스론드를 방비했으며
and forgot their kin and solemn bond
쿠루핀이 교묘하게 그들 가슴속에 심은
for dread of Morgoth that the art
모르고스에 대한 두려움 탓에
of Curufin set within their heart.
그들의 친족도 엄숙한 유대도 잊어버였다.
So would they not that angry day
그렇듯 저 분노의 날에 그들은 자신들의 주군,
King Felagund their lord obey,
펠라군드 왕의 말을 따르려 하지 않고
but sullen mumured that Finrod
핀로드도 그의 아들도 신(神)은 아니잖냐고
nor yet his son were as a god.
볼멘소리로 투덜거렸다.
Then Felagund took off his crown
이 지경에 이르자, 펠라군드는 왕관,
and at his feet he cast it down,
나르고스론드의 은(銀) 투구를 벗어
th silver helmm of Nargothrond:
발치에 내던지며 말했다.
'Yours ye may break, but I my bond
"너희는 너희가 한 약속을 깰지 몰라도,
must keep, and kingdom here forsake.
나는 내 약속을 지켜야만 하기에
If hearts here were that did not quake,
이 자리에서 나는 왕국을 저버리노라.
or that to Finrod's son were true,
만약 여기에 흔들리지 않거나
then I at least should find a few
핀로드의 아들에게 충직한 마음들이 있다면,
to go with me, not like a poor
그러면 나는 퇴짜 맞은 처량한 신세의 거지와는 달리
rejected beggar scorn endure,
업신여김을 견디고 내 성문에서 발길 돌려
turned from my gates to leave my town,
내 도성, 내 백성 그리고 내 왕국과 왕관을 떠나
my people, and my realm and crown!'
나와 동행할 자를 하다못해 서넛은 얻으리라!"
Hearing these words there swiftly stood
이런 말을 듣고 그의 곁에 열 명의
beside him ten tried warriors good,
훌륭하고 믿음직한 전사들이 잽싸게 섰으니,
men of his house who had ever fought
그의 깃발 가는 곳이면 어디서든 싸운
wherever his banners had been brought.
그의 가병(家兵)들이었다.
One stooped and lifted up his crown,
그중 하나가 허리 굽혀 그의 왕관을 치켜들고 말했다.
and said: 'O king, to leave this town
"오 왕이시여, 목하 이 도성을 떠나면서도
is now our fate, but not to lose
당신의 정통(正統) 지배권을
thy rightful lordship. Thou shalt choose
잃지 않는 것이 우리의 운명이올시다.
one to be steward in thy stead.'
당신을 대신할 섭정을 정하소서."
Then Felagund upon the head
그에 펠라군드가 오로드레스의 머리 위에
of Orodreth set it: 'Brother mine.'
왕관을 얹으며 말했노라. "내 아우[8]
till I return this crown is thine.
내가 돌아올 때까지 이 왕관은 그대의 것이로다."
Then Celegorm no more would stay,
그제야 켈레고름은 더는 뻗대려 하지 않았고,
and Curufin smiled and turned away.
쿠루핀도 빙긋 웃고는 등을 돌렸다.

Thus twelve alone there ventured forth
이리하여 거기 남은 열둘만이 감연히
from Nargothrond, and to the North
나르고스론드를 나서
they turned their silent secret way,
말 없는 은밀한 발길을 북쪽으로 틀어
and vanished in the fading day.
저물어 가는 빛 속에 사라졌다.
No trumpet sounds, no voice there sings,
나팔 소리 울리지 않고 노래하는 목소리 없는 채
as robed in mail of cunning rings
그들은 정교한 쇠사슬 갑옷에
now blackened dark with helmets grey
잿빛 투구와 칙칙한 외투를 걸쳐
and sombre cloaks they steal away.
시커메진 모습으로 남몰래 떠났다.
Far-journeying Narog's leaping course
그들은 나로그강의 세찬 물길을 따라
they followed till they found his source,
멀리 여행하다 이윽고 그 수원(水源)인
the flickering falls, whose freshets sheer
하늘거리는 폭포에 이르러 보니,
a glimmering goblet glassy-clear
그 더럼 없는 눈석임물이 유리처럼 깨끗한
with crystal waters fill that shake
미광(微光)의 웅덩이를 수정 같은 물로
and quiver down from Ivrin's lake,
그득 채웠더라. 달빛 아래 어둠산맥의
from Ivrin's mere that mirrors dim
휑하고 험악하며 핼쑥한,
the pallid faces bare and grim
여렴풋이 비추는 이브린호수에서
of Shadowy Mountains neath the moon.
흔들리고 떨려 내리는 물이었다.

Now far beyond the realm immune
이제 그들은 오르크와 악마
from Orc and demon and the dread
그리고 모르고스의 힘에 대한 두려움을
of Morgoth's might their ways had led.
몸소 맞닥뜨릴 영역 속으로 쑥 들어왔다.
In woods o'ershadowed by the heights
그들은 고지대의 그늘진 삼림에서
they watched and waited many nights,
숱한 밤을 망보며 기다련던바,
till on a time when hurrying cloud
이윽고 황급히 내닫는 구름에 달과 별가지가 가리고
did moon and constellation shroud,
가을을 여는 거센 바람이 나뭇가지에 윙윙대며
and winds of autumn's wild beginning
잎새들이 나직이 와삭대는
soughed in the boughs, and leaves went spinning
어두운 회오리에 휩쓸려 뱅뱅 돌아가던 어느 때
down the dark eddies rustling soft,
멀리서 귀에 거슬리는 얕은 중얼거림이
they heard a murmur hoarsely waft
들렸는데 그 목쉰 웃음소리는 다가오면서
from far, a croaking laughter coming;
일순 커지기도 했다.
now louder; now they heard the drumming
다음에는 지친 대지를 쿵쿵 짓밟는
of hideous stamping feet that tramp
흉측한 발소리가 둔중하게 들렸다.
the weary earth. Then many a lamp
뒤이어, 그들은 음침한 붉은색의 많은 횃불이
of sullen red they saw draw near,
이리저리 흔들리고 창과 언월도에 부딪쳐
swinging, and glistening on spear
번쩍이며 다가오는 걸 보았다.
and scimitar. There hidden nigh
그들은 거기 가까이에 숨은 채
they saw a band of Orcs go by
가무잡잡하고 더러운 고블린의 얼굴을 한
with goblin-faces swart and foul.
오르크 무리가 지나치는 것도 보았다.
Bats were about them, and the owl,
그들의 주위엔 박쥐들이 날았고
the ghostly forsaken night-bird cried
쓸쓸한 유령 같은 밤새, 올빼미가
from trees above. The voices died,
저 위의 숲에서 울어 댔다.
the laugher like clash of stone and steel
그 목소리들이 희미해지고
passed and faded. At their heel
돌과 쇠가 부딪치는 것 같은 웃음소리도
the Elves and Beren crept more soft
지나치며 스러졌다. 요정들과 베렌은
than foxes stealing through a croft
먹잇감을 찾아 농장을 몰래 파고드는 야수보다도
in search of prey. Thus to the camp
조용히 살금살금 그들의 뒤를 따랐다.
lit by flickering fire and lamp
그렇게 그들은 깜빡이는 화톳불과
they stole, and counted sitting there
횃불로 밝혀진 야영지에 몰래 다가가
full thirty Orcs in the red flare
타는 장작의 너울대는 붉은 불빛에 헤아려 보니
of burning wood. Without a sound
거기 앉은 오르크들이 꼬박 서른이었더라.
they one by one stood silent round,
그들은 각기 나무 그림자에 몸을 숨긴 채
each in the shadow of a tree;
소리 없이 하나하나씩 조용히 둘러서서
each slowly, grimly, secretly
각자가 천천히, 엄하게, 은밀하게
bent then his bow and drew the string.
활을 굽혀 시위를 당겼다.

Hark! how they sudden twang and sing,
들어 보라! 펠라군드가 고함을 내지르자
when Felagund lets forth a cry;
느닷없이 화살들이 윙하고 울리며 날아가니
and twelve Orcs sudden fall and die.
순식간에 오르크 열둘이 고꾸라져 죽는 것을.
Then forth they leap casting their bows.
그에 그들이 활을 내던지고 내쳐 뛰어들었다.
Out their bright swords, and swift their blows!
눈부신 칼을 빼 들자마자 그 칼부림 날렵했도다!
The stricken Orcs now shriek and yell
급습당한 오르크들은 빛 없는 지옥 깊은데서
as lost things deep in lightless hell.
길 잃은 것들마냥 아우성치고 비명을 내질렀다.
Battle there is beneath the trees
나무들 아래서 모질고 날랜 전투가 벌어졌건만
bitter and swift; but no Orc flees;
오르크는 단 한 명도 달아나지 못했더라.
there left their lives that wandering band
그 떠돌이 무리는 거기서 목숨 저버리고
and stained no more the sorrowing land
더는 비탄의 땅을 약탈과 살육으로 더럽히지 못했다.
with rape and murder. Yet no song
함에도, 거기서 요정들은 악을 꺾은 환희와
of joy, or triumph over wrong,
개가의 그 어떤 노래도 부르지 않았다.
the Elves there sang. In peril sore
그처럼 작은 오르크 무리가 단독으로
they were, for never alone to war
싸우러 나가는 법은 없는 고로,
so small an Orc-band went, they knew
자신들이 절박한 위험에 처했음을 알았던 게다.
Swiftly the raiment off they drew
그들은 신속하게 오르크들의 복장을 벗기고
and cast the corpses in a pit.
시체들은 구덩이에 던졌다.
This desperate counsel had the wit
이 필사적인 계책은 펠라군드가
of Felagund for them devised:
동지들을 위해 궁리한 것으로
as Orcs his comrades he disguised.
오르크들로 위장하려는 것이었다.

The poisoned spears, the bows of horn,
그들은 적들이 갖고 다닌
the crooked swords their foes had borne
독 묻은 창들, 뿔활들, 꼬부라진 검들을
they took; and loathing each him clad
탈취하고선, 각자가 치를 떨며
in Angband's raiment foul and sad.
더럽고 역겨운 앙반드의 복장을 착용했다.
They smeared their hands and faces fair
그들은 자신들의 손과 고운 얼굴을
with pigment dark; the matted hair
거무칙칙한 안료로 문지르고, 고블린의 머리에서
all lank and black from goblin head
검고 길게 늘어진 엉킨 머리카락을 잘라 내어
they shore, and joined it thread by thread
그것을 그노메의 솜씨로 한 올 한올 이어 붙였다.
with Gnomish skill. As each one leers
낭패감에 서로서로를 힐끗힐끗
at each dismayed, about his ears
곁눈질하며 각자는 진저리를 치며
he hangs it noisome, shuddering.
양쪽 귀 언저리에 그 역한 것을 걸었다.
Then Felagund a spell did sing
다음에, 펠라군드가 천변만화의 주문을 읊자,
of changing and of shifting shape;
그 느릿느릿한 읊조림에 따라
their ears grew hideous, and agape
그들의 귀는 흉측해지고
their mouths did start, and like a fang
입은 쩍 벌어지고
each tooth became, as slow he sang.
하나하나의 이빨이 엄니처럼 변했다.
Their Gnomish raiment then they hid,
뒤이어 그들은 그노메식 의복을 숨기곤
and one by one behind him slid,
한 명 한 명씩 어느새 그의 뒤에,
behind a foul and goblin thing
한때 아름다운 요정이자 왕이었지만
that once was elven-fair and king.
이제 더러운 고블린 꼴을 한 자의 뒤에 줄지어 섰다.
Northward they went; and Orcs they met
그들은 북쪽으로 갔는데, 지나치는 오르크들을 만나도
who passed, nor did their going let,
오르크들은 통행을 저지하진커녕
but hailed them in greeting; and more bold
외려 반갑게 인삿말을 건내는 등,
they grew as past the long miles rolled.
그 먼 거리를 답파하면서 그들은 점차 대담해졌다.
At length they came with weary feet
마침내 그들은 지친 발을 끌고
beyond Beleriand. They found the fleet
벨레리안드를 넘어섰다.
young waters, rippling, silver-pale
잔물결 일고 파리한 은빛을 띤 시리온강의
of Sirion hurrying through that vale
날래고 쌩쌩한 유수(流水)가,
where Taur-na-Fuin, Deadly Night,
저쪽 계곡을 부리나케 관류했는데,
the trackless forest's pine-clad height,
거기서 소나무 빽빽하고 길 없는 고지의 숲,
falls dark forbidding slowly down
타우르나푸인, 즉 죽음 같은 밤은 음산하고 으스스하게
upon the east, while westward frown
동쪽으로 서서히 떨어져 내리고 반면 서쪽으로는
the northward-bending Mountains grey
북쪽으로 굽은 산맥이 잿빛으로 위압하듯 우뚝 솟아
and bar the westering light of day.
서쪽으로 기우는 빛을 가로막았다.
An isléd hill there stood alone
그 계곡 속에는 언덕 하나가
amid the valley, like a stone
거인들이 떠들썩하게 돌지내 지나칠 때
rolled from the distant mountains vast
방대한 산맥에서 굴러떨어진 하나의 돌인 양
when giants in tumult hurtled past.
외딴 작은 섬처럼 외로이 서 있었다.
Around its feet the river looped
강에 휘감긴 그 기슭 주위로
a stream divided, that had scooped
개울 하나가 돌출된 모서리들을 움푹 파
the hanging hedges into caves.
동굴들을 만들어 내곤 두 줄기로 갈라졌다.
There briefly shuddered Sirion's waves
거기서 시리온강의 물결은 잠시 몸을 뒤채다
and ran to other shores more clean.
보다 깨끗한 건너편 기슭으로 내달렸다.
An elven watchtower had it been,
거기에 지난 시절의 요정 파수탑 하나가
and strong it was, and still was fair;
여전히 튼튼하고 아름다웠음에도
but now did grim with menace stare
이젠 한쪽으론 창백한 벨레리안드를
one way to pale Beleriand,
위협하듯 험상궂게 응시하고
the other to that mournful land
다른 쪽으론 계곡 북쪽 어귀 너머의
beyond the valley's northern mouth.
저 음산한 땅을 빤히 내다봤다.
Thence could be glimpsed the fields of drouth,
거기서 목 타는 들판, 메마른 모래 언덕과
the dusty dunes, the desert wide;
드넓은 사막이 흘끗 보였으며,
and further far could be descried
더 멀리로는 천둥이라도 칠 것 같은
the brooding cloud that hangs and lowers
상고로드림의 탑들을 못마땅하게 흘기는 듯
on Thangorodrim's thunderous towers.
낮게 깔린 구름도 식별되었다.

Now in that hill was the abode
목하 저 언덕에 가장 사악한 자의
of one most evil; and the road
처소가 있었던바, 그는 잠드는 법 없는
that from Beleriand thither came
불꽃 같은 두 눈으로 벨레리안드에서
he watched with sleepless eyes of flame.
거기로 이르는 길을 감시했다.
(From the North there led no other way,

save east where the Gorge of Aglon lay,

and that dark path of hurrying dread

which only in need the Orcs would tread

through Deadly Nightshade's awful gloom

where Taur-na-Fuin's branches loom;

and Aglon led to Doriath,

and Fëanor's sons watched o'er that path.)

Men called him Thû, and as a god
인간들은 그를 수[9]라고 불렀지만,
in after days beneath his rod
훗날에는 그의 압제에 현혹된 나머지
bewildered bowed to him, and made
신처럼 섬겨 앞에서 머리를 조아리더니
his ghastly temples in the shade.
급기야 그늘진 곳에 그를 받드는
Not yet by Men enthralled adored,
소름 끼치는 사원을 만들었으라.
now was he Morgoth's mightiest lord,
아직은 홀린 인간들의
Master of Wolves, whose shivering howl
경배의 대상은 아니었지만
for ever echoed in the hills, and foul
목하 그는 모르고스의 최고 지배자요,
enchantments and dark sigaldry
그 오싹하게 울부짖는 소리가 산지에
did weave and wield. In glamoury
영구히 메아리치는 늑대들의 왕으로
that necromancer held his hosts
못된 마법과 음험한 요술을 부리고 휘둘렀노라.
of phantoms and of wandering ghosts,
저 강령술사는 떼지어 몰려든 환영과 떠도는 유령,
of misbegotten or spell-wronged
서출이거나 실패한 주문으로 낳은
monsters that about him thronged,
괴물들의 대군을 마법으로 사로잡아
working his bidding dark and vile:
자신의 음험하고 비열한 분부를 수행케 했으니,
the werewolves of the Wizard's Isle.
그들이 곧 마법사의 섬의 늑대인간들이었도다.

From Thû their coming was not hid;
수는 그들의 접근을 모르지 않았다.
and though beneath the eaves they slid
비록 그들이 어둑하게 걸린 나뭇가지들을 골라
of the forest's gloomy-hanging bounghs,
숲 처마 밑으로 살며시 다가들었지만
he saw them afar, and wolves did rouse:
그는 멀리서도 그들을 보고 늑대들을 분기시켰다.
'Go! fetch me those sneaking Orcs,' he said,
"가라! 마치 뭐가 두려운 듯 이렇듯
'that fare thus strangely, as if in dread,
수상하게 걸으면서도 모든 오르크의 습성과
and do not come, as all Orcs use
수명(受命)대로 와서 내게, 수에게
and are commanded, to bring me news
자신의 모든 행적을 알리지 않는
of all their deeds, to me, to Thû.'
저 살금살금대는 오르크들을 내게 데려오라"

From his tower he gazed, and in him grew
그는 탑에서 유심히 내려다보았고,
suspicion and a brooding thought,
그들이 끌려올 때까지 기다리고 곁눈질하면서
waiting, leering, till they were brought.
그의 마음엔 의심과 골똘한 생각이 커 갔다.
Now ringed about with wolves they stand,
이제, 그들은 늑대들에게 빙 둘러싸여 선 태
and fear their doom. Alas! the land,
자신들의 운명을 두려워했다.
the land of Narog left behind!
아아! 두고 온 땅, 나로그의 땅이여!
Foreboding evil weights their mind,
그들이 낙담해 머뭇거리며 발길을 옮겨
as downcast, halting, they must go
마법사의 섬에 이르는 비탄의 돌다리를 건너
and cross the stony bridge of woe
거기 피로 얼룩진 돌로 만들어진 왕좌로
to Wizard's Isle, and to the throne
가야만 했을 때 곧 닥칠 재앙에
there fashioned of blood-darkened stone.
그들의 마음은 천근만근으로 무거웠다.

'Where have ye been? What have ye seen?'
"너희는 어디에 있었나? 무엇을 보았나?"

'In Elfinesse; and tears and distress,
"요정나라에, 그리고 눈물과 고난,
the fire blowing and the blood flowing,
바람에 날리는 불길과 강물처럼 흐르는 피를,
these have we seen, there have we been.
이것을 보았사옵고, 거기에 있었는뎁쇼.
Thirty we slew and their bodies threw
저희는 서른 명을 죽여 그 시체들을 어두운 구덩이 속에
in a dark pit. The ravens sit
던졌습죠. 저희가 헤쳐 온 길에는
and the owl cries where our swath lies.'
갈까마귀들이 앉아 댔고 올빼미가 울어 댔습죠."

'Come, tell me true, O Morgoth's thralls,
"자, 사실대로 말하라, 오 모르고스의 노예들이여,
what then in Elfinesse befalls?
그렇다면 요정나라에는 무슨 일이 있나?
What of Nargothrond? Who reigneth there?
나르고스론드의 사정은? 거기는 누가 다스리는가?
Into that realm did your feet dare?'
너희의 발은 저 왕국에 들어갈 용기가 있었던가?"

'Only its borders did we dare.
"저희는 그 국경까지만 갈 용기가 있었습죠.
There reigns King Felagund the fair.'
거기는 가인(佳人) 펠라군드 왕이 다스립죠."

'Then heard ye not that he is gone,
"그렇다면 너흰 그가 사라졌다는 것을,
that Celegorm sits his throne upon?'
켈레고름이 즉위한 것을 듣지 못했나?"

'That is not true! If he is gone,
"그것은 사실이 아니옵니다! 만약 그가 사라졌다면,
then Orodreth sits his throne upon.'
그렇다면 오로드레스가 즉위했을 것입니다.

'Sharp are your ears, swift have they got
"너희의 귀가 밝기도 하군, 들어가지도 않은
tidings of realms ye entered not!
왕국들의 소식을 재빠르게 꿰뚫었으니!
What are your names, O spearmen bold?
너희의 이름은 무엇이냐, 오 담찬 창수들이여?
Who your captain, ye have not told.'
너희 대장이 누군지 너흰 말하지 않았어."

'Nereb and Dungalef and warriors ten,
"저희는 네레브(Nereb)와 둥갈레브(Dungalef)
so we are called, and dark our den
그리고 열 명의 전사들로 불리고,
under the mountains. Over the waste
산맥 아래의 저희 소굴은 심히 어둡습죠.
we march on an errand of need and haste.
저희는 급박한 용무로 황야를 누비며 행군하는 중이온데,
Boldog the captain awaits us there
모닥불이 밑에서부터 연기를 내며 너울거리는
where fires from under smoke and flare.'
거기서 대장 볼도그가 저희를 기다립죠."

'Boldog, I heard, was lately slain
"도적 싱골과 무법자 일당이
warring on the borders of that domain
황량한 도리아스의 느릅나무와 참나무 밑을
where Robber Thingol and outlaw folk
움츠려 기어다니는 저 일대의 경계에서
cringe and brawl beneath elm and oak
최근 볼도그가 싸우다 죽었다는 걸 들었다.
in drear Doriath. Heard ye not then
그렇다면 너희는 저 아리따운 정령,
of that pretty fay, of Lúthien?
루시엔에 대해 듣지 못했느냐?
Her body is fair, very white and fair.
그녀의 몸은 아름다워, 아주 희고 아름답지.
Morgoth would possess her in his lair.
모르고스는 그녀를 자신의 소굴에 두고 싶어 하지.
Boldog he sent, but Boldog was slain:
그래서 볼도그를 보냈는데, 볼도그는 죽어 버렸어.
strange ye were not in Boldog's train.
너희가 볼도그를 따르지 않은 게 수상해.
Nereb looks fierce, his frown is grim.
네레브는 사나워 보이는 데다 얼굴을 독하게도 찡그리는군.
Little Lúthien! What troubles him?
귀여운 루시엔! 이 말에 그가 심란해할 게 뭔가?
Why laughs he not to think of his lord
한때 깨끗했던 것이 더러워지고
crushing a maiden in his hoard,
빛이 있던 곳이 어두워지는 게 만고의 이치거는
that foul should be what once was clean,
처녀 하나를 보고에 채워 넣으려는 주군을 두고
that dark should be where light has been?
왜 웃질 않는 거지?
Whom do ye serve, Light or Mirk?
너희는 빛과 암흑 중 누구를 섬기는가?
Who is the maker of mightiest work?
참으로 장대한 작품인 이 세상을 만드신 이는 누군가?
Who is the king of earthly kings,
현세의 왕 중 왕이요,
the greatest giver of gold and rings?
가장 위대한 황금과 반지의 수여자가 누군가?
Who is the master of the wide earth?
드넓은 대지의 주인이 누군가?
Who despoiled them of their mirth,
누가 탐욕스러운 신들, 그들로부터 낙을 앗아 버렸던가!
the freedy Gods? Repeat your vows,
너희의 맹세를 복창하라,
Orcs of Bauglir! Do not bend your brows!
바우글리르의 오르크들이여!
Death to light, to law, to love!
눈살 찌푸리지 말라!
Cursed be moon and stars above!
빛에, 법에, 사랑에 죽음을!
May darkness everlasting old
창공의 달과 별들에게 저주를!
that waits outside in surges cold
저 밖 굽이치는 차가운 바닷속에 잠복한 장구한 어둠이
drown Manwë, Varda, and the sun!
만웨, 바르다 및 태양을 휩쓸어 버리길!
May all in hatred be begun,
광막한 바다의 신음 속에서
and all in evil ended be,
만물이 증오로 시작되고
in the moaning of the endless Sea!'
만물이 악으로 끝장나기를!"

But no true Man nor Elf yet free
그러나 아직 자유로운 참된 인간이나 요정으로선
would ever speak that blasphemy,
감히 저런 신성모독을 발설할 수 없었기에,
and Beren muttered: 'Who is Thû
베렌이 중얼거렸다. " 수가 누구관데
to hinder work that is to do?
해야 할 일을 막습니까?
Him we serve not, nor to him owe
저희는 그를 섬기지 않고 경의를 표해야 할
obeisance, and we now would go.'
이유도 없으니 이제 가 보렵니다."

Thû laughed: 'Patience! Not very long
수가 웃음을 터뜨렸디. "가만 있으라!
shall ye abide. But first a song
그리 오래 머물진 않을 테니. 먼저 너희에게
I will sing to you, to ears intent.'
경청할 자들에게 노래 하나를 불러 주련다."
Then his flaming eyes he on them bent,
이내 그의 이글거리는 두 눈이 그들에게 쏠렸고,
and darkness black fell round them all.
그들 주위에 시커먼 어둠이 깔렸다.
Only they saw as through a pall
그들은 소용돌이치는 연막을 통해 보는 듯
of eddying smoke those eyes profound
그 속에서 그들의 의식이 질식하고 익사할 것만 같은
in which their senses choked and drowned.
저 심원한 두 눈을 볼 뿐이었다.
He chanted a song of wizardry,
그는 불렀다. 마법의 노래.
of piercing, opening, of treachery,
찌르고 터뜨리는 노래, 배반의 노래,
revealing, uncovering, betraying.
드러내고, 파헤치는 노래, 배신의 노래,
Then sudden Felagund there swaying
그러자 별안간 펠라군드가 몸을 흔들며 버티고
sang in answer a song of staying,
대항의 답가 불렀다.
resisting, battling against power,
권세에 맞서 저항하며 싸우는 노래,
of secrets kept, strength like a tower,
비밀 엄수, 성채와 같은 무력,
and trust unbroken, freedom, escape;
항구적인 신의, 자유와 탈출의 노래.
of changing and of shifting shape,
바뀌고 또 바뀌는 형상,
of snares eluded, broken traps,
덫은 피하고, 함정은 부수고,
the prison opening, the chain that snaps.
감옥문이 열리고, 쇠사슬이 끊어지는 노래.
Backwards and forwards swayed their song.
일진일퇴 식의 노래 공방이 펼쳐졌다.
Reeling and foundering, as ever more strong
수의 노래가 절름거리고 비틀대면서도
Thû's chanting swelled, Felagund fought,
점차 격해짐에 따라 펠라군드도 싸웠다.
and all the magic and might he brought
그가 가사 속에 불러들인 것은
of Elfinesse into his words.
요정나라의 모든 마법과 힘.
Softly in the gloom they heard the birds
저 멀리 나르고스론드에서 새들의 노랫소리,
singing afar in Nargothrond,
그 너머, 서쪽 세계 너머 바닷가
the sighing of the sea beyond,
모래에, 요정나라의 진줏빛 모래에
beyond the western world, on sand,
살랑대는 소리가
on sand of pearls in Elvenland.
어둠 속에서 아련히 들렸다.
Then the gloom gathered: darkness growing
이윽고 어둠이 밀려들었다.
in Valinor, the red blood flowing
발리노르에 어둠이 불어나고,
beside the sea, where the Gnomes slew
바닷가에는 붉은 피가 흘렀다.
the Foamriders, and stealing drew
그노메들이 파도 타는 요정들을 살해하고
their white ships with their white sails
등불 밝힌 항구에서 흰 돛의 하얀 배들을
from lamplit havens. The wind wails.
몰래 훔쳐간다.
The wolf howls. The ravens flee.
늑대가 울부짖는다. 갈까마귀들이 달아난다.
The ice mutters in the mouths of the sea.
바다의 어귀들에선 얼음장이 쩡쩡거리며 갈라진다.
The captives sad in Angband mourn.
비탄에 잠긴 앙반드의 포로들은 신세를 한탄한다.
Thunder rumbles, the fires burn,
천둥이 우르릉대고, 불꽃이 타오르고,
a vast smoke gushes out, a roar -
엄청난 연기가 분출하며 포효하니-
and Felagund swoons upon the floor.
마침내 펠라군드가 혼절해 바닥에 쓰러진다.

Behold! they are in their own fair shape,
이게 어찌 된 일인가! 그들이 흰 살결에
fairskinned, brighteyed. No longer gape
빛나는 눈매로 본래의 고운 모습이라니.
Orclike their mouths; and now they stand
더는 오르크처럼 입을 크게 벌리지도 않는다.
betrayed into the wizard's hand.
목하, 그들은 속아 마법사의 손아귀에 든 것이라.
Thus came they unhappy into woe,
이렇듯 그들은 비참한 재앙을 맞아
to dungeons no hope nor glimmer know,
희망도 가물거리는 빛도 없는 지하 감옥에 떨어져
where chained in chains that eat the flesh
살을 죄어드는 사슬에 매이고
and woven in webs of strangling mesh
질식할 듯한 그물망에 엮여
they lay forgotten, in despair.
잊힌 채 절망 속에 놓였다.

Yet not all unavailing were
그렇지만 펠라군드의 주문이
the spells of Felagund; for Thû
모두 헛된 건 아니었으니,
neither their names nor purpose knew.
수는 그들의 이름도 목적도 몰랐던 게다.
These much he pondered and bethought,
그는 그것들을 알아내려 궁리하고 숙고하다
and in their woeful chains them sought,
사슬에 묶인 가련한 그들을 찾아
and threatened all with dreadful death,
한 명이라도 배신자가 되어 이실직고하지 않으면
if one would not with traitor's breath
모두를 극형에 처하겠다고 협박했다.
reveal this knowledge. Wolves should come
늑대들이 다가와 나머지가 보는 앞에서
and slow devour them one by one
서서히 하나하나씩 잡아먹으면
before the others' eyes, and last
종내 질겁한 하나만이 남을 것인바,
should one alone be left aghast,
그리 되면 그는 모든 걸 토설할 때까지
then in a place of horror hung
격심한 고통 속에 공포의 장소에
with anguish should his limbs be wrung,
매달려 사지가 주리 틀리고
in the bowels of the earth be slow
대지의 창자 속에서
endlessly, cruelly, put to woe
서서히, 끝없이, 잔혹하게
and torment, till he all declared.
갖은 고문에 시달릴 거라고 말했노라.

Even as he threatened, so it fared.
협박한 바로 그 참부터 일은 진행되었다.
From time to time in the eyeless dark
아무것도 뵈지 않는 어둠 속에서
two eyes would grow, and they would hark
이따금 두 개의 눈이 점점 커지며
to frightful cries, and then a sound
섬뜩한 비명들을 즐거이 음미하다
of rending, a slavering on the ground,
이윽고 살 찢는 소리 들리고
and blood flowing they would smell.
바닥에 침 흐르는 가운데 흐르는 피 냄새를 맡곤 했다.
But none would yield, and none would tell.
함에도, 굴하는 이, 실토하는 이가 아무도 없더라.

Hounds there were in Valinor.
발리노르에 은 목걸이를 두른
with silver collars. Hart and boar,
사냥개들이 있었다. 거기 초록의 숲들엔
the fox and hare and nimble roe
수사슴과 멧돼지, 여우, 산토끼와
there in the forests green did go.
민첩한 노루가 돌아다녔으라.
Oromë was the lord divine
오로메가 그 모든 숲들의 거룩한
of all those woods. The potent wine
주인이었다. 그의 궁전에선
went in his halls and hunting song.
사냥 노래에 독한 술이 어우러졌더라.
The Gnomes anew have named him long
오래전 그 뿔나팔이 산맥 곳곳에 울려 퍼지고
Tavros, the God whose horns did blow
달과 해의 깃발들이 펼쳐지기 전
over the mountains long ago;
신들 가운데 홀로 세상을 사랑한 신을 기려
who alone of Gods had loved the world
그노메들이 그에게 타브로스라는
before the banners were unfurled
새 이름을 지어 준 지 오래였고,
of Moon and Sun; and shod with gold
그의 준마들은 발굽에 황금 편자 박혔으라.
were his great horses. Hounds untold
그는 서녘 저 편의 숲들에서 짖는
baying in woods beyond the West
불사의 사냥개를 무수히 거느린 바,
of race immortal he possessed:
잿빛의 유연한 것, 검고 튼실한 것,
grey and limber, black and strong,
길고 보드라운 털의 흰 것,
white with silken coats and long,
갈색 얼룩빼기에
brown and brindled, swift and true
주목(朱木) 활로 쏜 화살처럼
as arrow from a bow of yew;
날래고 어김없는 것 등이 있었고,
their voices like the deeptoned bells
그들의 목소리는 발마르의 성채들에 울리는
that ring in Valmar's citadels,
낮고 굵은 종소리 같고 그 눈은 생명 있는
their eyes like living jewels, their teeth
보석 같으며 그 이빨은 상아 같았도다.
like ruel-bone. As sword from sheath
칼집에서 나온 칼처럼 그들이 가죽끈을 벗어나
they flashed and fled from leash to scent
번개처럼 내달아 사냥감 쫓으니
for Tavros' joy and merriment.
타브로스가 보기에 기쁘고 흥겨웠노라.
In Tavros' friths and pastures green
일찍이 후안은 타브로스의 강어귀와
had Huan once a young whelp been.
초록 목장의 어린 새끼였다.
He grew the swiftest of the swift,
그가 자라 날랜 것들 중 으뜸이 되자
and Oromë gave him as a gift
오로메는 위대한 신의 뿔나팔 소리를 좇아
to Celegorm, who loved to follow
즐겨 언덕과 계곡을 누비던 켈레고름에게
the great God's horn o'er hill and hollow.
그를 선물로 주었다.
Alone of hounds of the Land of Light,
페아노르의 아들들이 도망쳐
when sons of Fëanor took to flight
북부로 왔을 적에 주인 곁에 머문 건
and came into the North, he stayed
빛의 땅의 사냥개들 중
beside his master. Every raid
오직 그뿐이었다.
and every foray wild he shared,
그는 모든 난폭한 습격과 약탈에 가담했고
and into mortal battle dared.
사투도 마다하지 않았다.
Often he saved his Gnomish lord
그가 오르크, 늑대 및 날아드는 칼로부터
from Orc and wolf and leaping sword.
그노메 주인을 구한 것도 여러 번.
A wolf-hound, tireless, grey and fierce
지칠 줄 모르는 사나운 잿빛 늑대사냥개로
he grew; his gleaming eyes would pierce
자라니 번득이는 두 눈은
all shadows and all mist, the scent
모든 어둠과 안개를 꿰뚫고, 늪지와 초원,
moons old he found through fen and bent,
살랑대는 나뭇잎과 먼지 자욱한 모래밭 뒤져
through rustling leaves and dusty sand;
몇 달 묵은 냄새도 찾아내는 등
all paths of wide Beleriand
드넓은 벨레리안드의 모든 길들을 꿰었다.
he knew. But wolves, he loved them best;
하지만 그가 제일 좋아한 것은 늑대들이었던바,
he loved to find their throats and wrest
그는 그들의 목덜미를 찾아 그 으르렁대는 목숨과
their snarling lives and evil breath.
사악한 숨결 낚아채기를 즐겼노라.
The packs of Thû him feared as Death.
수의 늑대 떼들이 그를 죽음처럼 두려워했다.
No wizardry, nor spell, nor dart,
흑마술이 부리는 그 어떤 주술, 주문, 단창,
no fang, nor venom devil's art
엄니와 독(毒)에도 그는 끄떡없었으니,
could brew had harmed him; for his weird
그의 운명이 이미 정해진 것이라.
was woven. Yet he little feared
그럼에도 그는 저 운명이 공포(公布)되어
that fate decreed and known to all:
모두가 알게 되는 걸 두려워하지 않았으니,
before the mightiest he should fall,
그는 오로지 최강자에게만,
before the mightiest wolf alone
일찍이 석굴 속에서 태어난 것들 중
that ever was whelped in cave of stone.
최강의 늑대에게만 쓰러질 것이었다.

Hark! afar in Nargothrond,
들어라! 저 멀리 나르고스론드에
far over Sirion and beyond,
시리온강의 도처와 그 너머에서
there are dim cries and horns blowing,
희미한 고함 소리와 뿔나팔 소리 울리고
and barking hounds through the trees going.
짖어 대는 사냥개들이 나무들을 헤쳐 달린다.
The hunt is up, the woods are stirred.
사냥이 시작되고 숲들이 꿈틀댄다.
Who rides to-day? Ye have not heard
오늘은 누가 사냥 나섰나? 그대는
that Celegorm and Curufin
켈레고름과 쿠루핀이
have loosed their dogs? With merry din
개들을 풀었다는 걸 듣지 못했던가?
they mounted ere the sun arose,
해 뜨기 전 그들이 흥겨운 소음 속에
and took their spears and took their bows.
말에 올라 창과 활을 잡았노라.
The wolves of Thû of late have dared
근자에 수의 늑대들이 뱃심 좋게도
both far and wide. Their eyes have glared
산자사방을 나돌았으라.
by night across the roaring stream
밤이면 나로그강의 노호하는 물결 가로질러
of Narog. Doth their master dream,
그 눈들 번쩍번쩍 빛났으니.
perchance, of plots and counsels deep,
혹여 그들의 주인이 속 검은 술수와 계략,
of secrets that the Elf-lords keep,
요정 영주들이 쉬쉬하는 비밀들, 그노메 왕국의 동정과
of movements in the Gnomish realm
너도밤나무와 느릅나무 아래의 용무에 대해
and errands under beech and elm?
꿈이라도 꾼 겐가?

Curufin spake: 'Good brother mine,
쿠루핀이 말했다. "훌륭하신 형님,
I like it not. What dark design
전 이 상황이 달갑지 않아요.
doth this portend? These evil things,
무슨 흉계가 담긴 걸까요?
we swift must end their wanderings!
우린 이 사악한 것들과 그놈들의 배회를
And more, 'twould please my heart full well
속히 끝장내야 해요! 게다가, 한바탕 사냥으로
to hunt a while and wolves to fell.'
늑대들을 죄다 베어야만 속이 후련하겠습니다."
And then he leaned and whispered low
곧이어 그는 몸을 기울여 작은 소리로 속삭이길,
that Orodreth was a dullard slow;
왕이 사라진 지 오래고
long time it was since the king had gone,
아무 소문이나 기별도 오지 않는 판에
and rumour or tidings came there none.
오로드레스는 손 놓고만 있는 멍청이라고 했다.
'At least thy profit it would be
"하다 못해 왕이 죽은 건지 자유의 몸인지를 알아내고
to know whether dead he is or free;
병사들을 모아 전열을 가다듬는 게
to gather thy men and thy array.
형님께 이로울 것입니다.
"I go to hunt" then thou wilt say,
'나는 사냥을 하련다'고 형님은 말하실 테고
and men will think that Narog's good
백성들은 형님이 마음 쓰시는 한
ever thou heedest. But in the wood
나로그가 졸다고 생각할 테죠. 물론 숲속에서
things may be learned; and if by grace,
알게 될 것들이 있겠지만요.
by some blind fortune he retrace
만일 은총이나 어떤 눈먼 행운으로,
his footsteps mad, and if he bear
왕이 정신 나간 방걸음을 되짚어 온다면,
a Silmaril - I need declare
그리고 만일에 실마릴 하나를 가져온다면
no more in words; but one by right
저로선 더 이상 왈가왈부할 필요가 없죠. 응당 하나는,
is thine (and ours), the jewel of light;
그러니까 빛의 보석은 형님의 (그리고 우리의) 것이고,
another may be won - a throne.
또 하나는 쟁취할 수 있을 겝니다.-왕좌 말이죠.
The eldest blood our house doth own.'
우리 가문이 장자의 혈통을 갖고 있으니까요."

Celegorm listened. Nought he said,
켈레고름은 경청했지만, 아무 말도 하지 않고
but forth a mighty host he led;
큰 무리를 이끌어 나갔고,
and Huan leaped at the glad sounds,
사냥개들의 우두머리 겸 대장, 후안이
the chief and captain of his hounds.
그 반가운 소리에 발바투 달려들었다.
Three days they ride by holt and hill
그들은 수의 늑대들을 쫓아 죽이고자
the wolves of Thû to hunt and kill,
사흘 동안 잡목림과 언덕을 달려
and many a head and fell of grey
많은 수급(首級)과 회색 수피(獸皮)를 얻고
they take, and many drive away,
많은 놈들을 내몰다가
till nigh to the borders in the West
도리아스의 서쪽 변경 부근에서
of Doriath a while they rest.
잠시 쉬었다.

There were dim cries and horns blowing,
희미한 고함 소리와 뿔나팔 소리 울리고
and barking dogs through the woods going.
짖어 대는 사냥개들이 나무들을 헤쳐 달린다.
The hunt was up. The woods were stirred,
사냥이 시작되었고 숲들이 꿈틀댔고,
and one there fled like startled bird,
거기서 무엇 하나가 깜짝 놀란 새처럼 달아났는데
and fear was in her dancing feet.
그녀의 춤추는 발에는 겁이 실렸다.
She knew not who the woods did beat.
그녀는 누가 숲을 뒤지는지 몰랐다.
Far from her home, forwandered, pale,
집을 떠나 멀리 핼쑥한 모습으로 떠돌던
she flitted ghostlike through the vale;
그녀는 유령처럼 계곡을 휘젓고 다녔다.
ever her heart bade her up and on,
그녀는 계속 움직여야 한다고 내내 마음먹었지만
but her limbs were worn, her eyes were wan.
사지는 풀렸고, 두 눈은 퀭했다.
The eyes of Huan saw a shade
그림자 하나가 흔들리더니 언뜻 스민
wavering, darting down a glade
대낮의 빛에 혹한 저녁 안개처럼
like a mist of evening snared by day
숲속 빈터를 따라 휙 내닫고 기겁해
and hasting fearfully away.
화급히 멀어지는 걸 후안의 두 눈이 보았다.
He bayed, and sprang with sinewy limb
그가 컹컹 짖더니 힘줄 불거진 사지로 뛰쳐나가
to chase the shy thing strange and dim.
수상하고 흐릿한 그 겁 많은 것을 추격했다.
On terror's wings, like a butterfly
높은 데서 와락 덤벼드는 새에게 쫓기는 나비처럼
pursued by a sweeping bird on high,
그녀는 혼비백산해 이리 퍼덕거리고 저리 돌진하고
she fluttered hither, darted there,
공중에 떠 있는가 하면 금새 공중을 휙 가로질렀지만
now poised, now flying through the air -
모든 게 허사였다. 마침내 그녀가
in vain. At last against a tree
나무 하나에 기대어 헐떡거렸다.
she leaned and panted. Up leaped he.
그가 껑충 뛰어올랐다. 비통함에 숨이 막혀
No word of magic gasped with woe,
어떤 마법의 말도 나오지 않았고
no elvish mystery she did know
자신이 알거나 검은 의복에 휘감은
or had entwined in raiment dark
어떤 요정의 비법도 그 순종 사냥개에겐 소용 없었다.
availed against that hunter stark,
어떤 주문으로도 쫓아 버리거나
whose old immortal race and kind
꼼짝 못 하게 할 수 없는
no spells could ever turn or bind.
고래로부터 불멸의 종(種)이었다.
Huan alone that she ever met
일찍이 그녀가 마주친 상대 중에
she never in enchantment set
마법도 주문도 아예 통하지 않은 건
nor bound with spells. But loveliness
오직 후안뿐이었다. 한데, 그 어여쁜 얼굴,
and gentle voice and pale distress
부드러운 목소리, 곤궁에 처한 창백한 표정
and eyes like starlight dimmed with tears
그리고 눈물로 흐려진 별빛 같은 두 눈에
tamed him that death nor monster fears.
죽음도 괴물도 두려워하지 않는 그가 유순해졌다.

Lightly he lifted her, light he bore
그는 그녀를 가볍게 들어 올려
his trembling burden. Never before
와들와들 떠는 자신의 짐을 가벼이 옮겼다.
had Celegorm beheld such prey:
켈레고름은 그런 포획물을 처음 보았다.
'What hast thou brought, good Huan say!
"나무랄 데 없는 후안이여, 무엇을 가져온 겐가!
Dark-elvish maid, or wraith, or fay?
어둠요정의 처녀, 악령 혹은 정령인가?
Not such to hunt we came today.'
오늘 우리가 사냥하러 온 건 그런 게 아니야."

'Tis Lúthien of Doriath,'
" 도리아스의 루시엔입니다"
the maiden spake. 'A wandering path
하고 그 처녀가 말했다. "소녀는 처량하게도
far from the Wood-Elves' sunny glades
숲요정들의 볕 바른 숲속 오솔길을 멀리 벗어나
she sadly winds, where courage fades
종작없는 길을 누비던 중 용기가 꺾이고
and hope grows faint.' And as she spoke
희망이 시든 처지이올시다." 그렇게 말하며 그녀가
down she let slip her shadowy cloak,
슬쩍 어둑한 외투를 미끄러져 내리게 하자
and there she stood in silver and white.
은백색 차림의 자태가 드러났다.
Her starry jewels twinkled bright
솟은 해 속에서 별 같은 그녀의 보석들이
in the risen sun like morning dew;
아침 이슬처럼 환히 반짝였고
the lilies gold on mantle blue
푸른 망토 위의 황금빛 나리꽃들이
gleamed and glistened. Who could gaze
은은히 빛나고 번득였다. 그 아리따운
on that fair face without amaze?
얼굴을 쳐다보고선 누군들 경탄하지 않으랴?
Long did Curufin look and stare.
쿠루핀이 동그랗게 뜬 눈으로 오래도록 응시했다.
The perfume of her flower-twined hair,
그는 꽃 장식된 머리칼의 향기, 나긋나긋한 사지,
her lissom limbs, her elvish face,
요정 같은 얼굴에 온통 마음을 뺏긴 채
smote to his heart, and in that place
그 자리에 사슬에 매인 듯 서 있었다.
enchained he stood. 'O maiden royal,
"오, 왕녀시여, 오 아리따운 숙녀시여,
O lady fair, wherefore in toil
무슨 연고로 이런 험하고 외로운 여정에
and lonely journey dost thou go?
나서신 것이오? 도리아스에 전쟁과 재앙에 대한
What tidings dread of war and woe
무슨 무서운 소식이라도 닥친 것이오?
In Doriath have betid? Come tell!
자, 말해 보시오! 운명은 그대의 발길을 잘 인도해 주었소.
For fortune thee hath guided well;
그대는 친구들을 만나셨으니 말이오."
friends thou hast found,' said Celegorm,
켈레고름은 이렇게 말하고 나서
and gazed upon her elvish form.
그녀의 요정 같은 자태를 빤히 쳐다보았다.

In his heart him thought her tale unsaid
그는 그녀의 말 없는 사연을 웬만큼 미루어
he knew in part, but nought she read
짐작했지만, 그녀는 빙긋 웃는 그의 얼굴에서
of guile upon his smiling face.
그 어떤 계교의 기미도 알아차리지 못했다.
'Who are ye then, the lordly chase
"이 위태로운 숲을 뒤지는 당당한
that follow in this perilous wood?'
사냥에 나선 분들께선 뉘신지요?" 하고 그녀가 물었다.
she asked; and answer seeming-good
그들의 그럴싸한 대답이 돌아왔다.
they gave. 'Thy servants, lady sweet,
"분부만 내리소서, 사랑스러운 숙녀시여,
lords of Nargothrond thee greet,
나르고스론드의 영주들이 인사드리며
and beg that thou wouldst with them go
잠시 시름을 잊고 희망과 휴식을 찾아
back to their hills, forgetting woe
저희와 함께 저희 구릉지로
a reason, seeking hope and rest.
돌아갈 것을 청하나이다.
And now to hear thy tale were best.'
이제 그대의 사연을 듣고 싶나이다."
So Lúthien tells of Beren's deeds
그리하여 루시엔은 북쪽 땅에서의 베렌의 행적,
in northern lands, how fate him leads
운명이 그를 도리아스로 이끈 내력,
to Doriath, of Thingol's ire,
싱골의 분노, 그녀의 아버지가 베렌에게 선포한
the dreadful errand that her sire
저 가공할 심부름에 대해 말했다.
decreed for Beren. Sign nor word
형제들은 자신이 들었거나 자신과 이해관계가 깊은 것은
the brothers gave that aught they heard
그 무엇도 내색하거나 귀띔하지 않았다.
that touched them near. Of her escape
그녀는 자신의 탈출과
and the marvellous mantle she did shape
자신이 만든 놀라운 망토에 대해선
she lightly tells, but words her fail
마음 편히 얘기했지만,
recalling sunlight in the vale,
베렌이 그 위험한 길에 오르기 전
moonlight, starlight in Doriath,
계곡의 햇살, 도리아스의 달빛과 별빛을
ere Beren took the perilous path.
회상할 때는 말이 나오지 않았다.
'Need, too, my lords, there is of haste!
"예하(猊下)들이시여, 서둘러야 합니다!
No time in ease and rest to waste.
안락과 휴식으로 시간을 허비할 때가 아닙니다.
For days are gone now since the queen,
예리한 혜안을 지닌 멜리안 여왕께서
Melian whose heart hath vision keen,
멀리 내다보고 근심하여 제게 일러 주시길
looking afar me said in fear
베렌이 속박된 몸으로 비참하게 사노라고 한 지
that Beren lived in bondage drear.
벌써 며칠이 지났습니다.
The Lord of Wolves hath prisons dark,
늑대들의 군주가 어두운 감옥에서
chains and enchantments cruel and stark,
잔인하고 혹독한 사슬과 마법을 부리는 가운데
and there entrapped and languishing
올가미에 걸린 베렌이 시름시름 시들고 있습니다.
doth Beren lie - if direr thing
혹시 더 끔찍한 어떤 일로 인해
hath not brought death or wish for death':
그가 죽었거나 죽음을 희구하지 않았다면 말입니다."
than gasping woe bereft her breath.
이 말끝에 그녀는 비탄에 잠겨 숨도 제대로 쉬지 못했다.
To Celegorm said Curufin
쿠루핀이 따로 켈레고름에게
apart and low: 'Now news we win
얕은 소리로 말했다. "이제 우리는
of Felagund, and now we know
펠라군드의 소식을 들은 데다
wherefore Thú's creatures prowling go',
수의 졸개들이 헤매며 돌아다니는 까닭도 알았습니다."
and other whispered counsels spake,
덧붙여 그는 귀엣말로 여러 계책을 전하고
and showed him what answer he should make.
그가 해야 할 대답도 넌지시 일러 주었다.
'Lady,' said Celegorm, 'thou seest
"숙녀시여" 하고 켈레고름이 말했다.
we go a-hunting roaming beast,
"보시다시피, 우리는 배회하는 야수를 사냥하는 참이오.
and though our host is great and bold,
우리의 무리가 뛰어나고 담대하다고 하나
'tis ill prepared the wizard's hold
마법사의 요새와 섬의 성채를 공격할
and island fortress to assault.
준비는 제대로 되어 있지 않소.
Deem not our hearts or wills at fault.
우리의 용기와 의지가 모자란다고 생각진 마시오.
Lo! here our chase we now forsake
자! 이제 우리는 여기서 사냥을 접고
and home our swiftest road we take,
가장 빠른 길로 본채로 돌아가
counsel and aid there to devise
고통에 시달리는 베렌을 구출할
for Beren that in anguish lies.'
계획과 원조를 궁리하겠소."
To Nargothrond they with them bore
그들은 심히 미심쩍어하는
Lúthien, whose heart misgave her sore.
루시엔을 데리고 나르고스론드로 갔다.
Delay she feared; each moment pressed
그녀에겐 한순간 한순간이 절박했건만,
upon her spirit, yet she guessed
그녀의 어림으로는
they rode not as swiftly as they might.
그들은 최대한 신속하게 달리지 않았다.
Ahead leaped Huan day and night,
후안은 밤낮없이 날 듯이 앞서 달리며
and ever looking back his thought
뒤를 돌아볼 때마다 마음이 어지러웠다.
was troubled. What his master sought,
그는 주인이 무엇을 추구하며
and why he rode not like the fire,
왜 그가 화급히 달리지 않는지
why Curufin looked with hot desire
왜 쿠루핀이 뜨거운 욕망의 눈길로
on Lúthien, he pondered deep,
루시엔을 쳐다보는지를 깊이 숙고하며
and felt some evil shadow creep
고래의 저주의 어떤 불길한 그림자가
of ancient curse o'er Elfinesse.
요정나라에 서서히 밀려오는 걸 느꼈다.
His heart was torn for the distress
용맹한 베렌, 사랑스러운 루시엔 그리고
of Beren bold, and Lúthien dear,
두려움을 모르는 펠라군드가 겪을 고난 탓에
and Felagund who knew no fear.
그의 가슴은 찢어지는 듯했더라.

In Nargothrond the torches flared
나르고스론드에는 횃불들이 환히 타오르고
and feast and music were prepared.
연회와 음악이 준비되어 있었다.
Lúthien feasted not but wept.
루시엔은 진수성찬엔 손대지 않고 울기만 했다.
Her ways were trammelled; closely kept
그녀가 취할 방책이 그물에 걸렸고,
she might not fly. Her magic cloak
그녀는 새장에 갇힌 꼴로 날 수 없었나니.
was hidden, and no prayer she spoke
그녀의 마법 의복이 감춰지고 간원(懇願)은 무시되며
was heeded, nor did answer find
간절한 물음에도 아무 대꾸가 없었다.
her eager quetions. Out of mind,
저 멀리 막다른 지하 감옥에
it seemed, were those afar that pined
비참하게 갇힌 채 고난 속에
in anguish and in dungeons blind
한탄하는 이들이 마음에서 멀어지는 듯했다.
in prison and in misery.
그녀는 그들의 배반을 너무 늦게 알았다.
Too late she knew their treachery.
페아노르의 아들들이 그녀를 붙들어 두었다는 게
It was not hid in Nargothrond
나르고스론드에서 비밀이 아니었다.
that Fëanor's sons her held in bond,
그들은 베렌에 대해선 개의치 않았으며,
who Beren heeded not, and who
사랑하지 않는 것은 물론 그 원정을 떠올리면
had little cause to wrest from Thû
가슴속 묵은 증오의 맹세가
the king they loved not and whose quest
새록새록 되살아나는 왕을
old vows of hatred in their breast
수의 수중에서 애써 빼낼 필요가 없었다.
had roused from sleep. Orodreth knew
펠라군드 왕을 죽게 내버려 두고
the purpose dark they would pursue:
싱골 왕의 혈통과 결연하여 우격다짐이든
King Felagund to leave to die,
협상을 통해서든 페아노르의 가문이
and with King Thingol's blood ally
지배하려는 그들의 음험한 속셈을
the house of Fëanor by force
오로드레스는 알고 있었다.
or treaty. But to stay their course
그렇지만 그에겐 그들의 진로를 막을
he had no power, for all his folk
힘이 없었다. 아직은 그 형제들이
the brothers had yet beneath their yoke,
자신의 모든 백성을 좌지우지했고
and all yet listened to their word.
모두가 아직은 그들의 지시를 따랐던 게다.
Orodreth's consel no man heard;
오로드레스의 권고를 무시하여 스스로의 수치심을
their shame they crushed, and would not heed
억눌러 온 터라 백성들은 지난한 곤경에 처한
the tale of Felagund's dire need.
펠라군드의 사정도 돌아보지 않았다.

At Lúthien's feet there day by day
나르고스론드의 사냥개 후안이
and at night beside her couch would stay
낮에는 거기 루시엔의 발치에
Huan the hound of Nargothrond;
밤이면 그 침상 곁에 머무르곤 했던 고로,
and words she spoke to him soft and fond:
그녀가 부드럽고 다정한 말을 그에게 건냈으라.
'O Huan, Huan, swiftest hound
"오, 후안, 후안, 필멸의 땅을 달리는 것 중
that ever ran on mortal ground,
가장 날랜 사냥개여,
what evil doth thy lords possess
네 주인들은 무슨 악에 들렸기에
to heed no tears nor my distress?
내 눈물에도 고난에도 아랑곳하지 않는가?
Once Barahir all men above
일찍이 바라히르는 나무랄 데 없는 사냥개들을
good hounds did cherish and did love;
모든 인간들보다 더 아끼고 사랑했거늘.
once Beren in the friendless North,
일찍이 베렌은 친구라곤 없던 북부에서
when outlaw wild he wandered forth,
거친 무법자로 떠돌던 시절
had friends unfailing among things
모피와 가죽 그리고 깃과 날개 지닌 것들에게서
with fur and fell and feathered wings,
그리고 여태도 오랜 산들과 황야의 돌 속에만
and among the spirits that in stone
거하는 영들에게서 어김없는 친구들을 얻었거늘.
in mountains old and wastes alone
하지만 이젠 멜리안의 자식 외엔
still dwell. But now nor Elf nor Man,
어느 요정, 어느 인간인들
none save the child of Melian,
모르고스에 맞서 싸우면서도
remembers him who Morgoth fought
결코 비열한 노예로 전락하지 않은
and never to thraldom base was brought.'
그를 기억하지 않다니."

Nought said Huan; but Curufin
후안은 아무 말이 없었다. 그렇지만 그 후로
thereafter never near might win
쿠루핀은 후안의 엄니들이 무서워
to Luthien, nor touch that maid,
그를 꺼린 나머지 루시엔 곁에 얼씬거리지도
but shrank from Huan's fangs afraid.
저 처녀에게 손대지도 못했다.
Then on a night when autumn damp
그러던 중, 가을 냉기가 파리하게 어른거리는
was swathed about the glimmering lamp
달빛 주위를 에워싸고 깜빡대는 별들이
of the wan moon, and fitful stars
질주하는 구름장들 사이로 날리며 겨울 초승달의
were flying seen between the bars
한쪽 끝이 벌써 쓸쓸한 나무들 위에 걸린 어느 밤
of racing cloud, when winter's horn
어찌 된 일인지 후안이 사라졌다.
already wound in trees forlorn,
그때 루시엔은 새로운 나쁜 짓을 걱정하며 누웠는데,
lo! Huan was gone. Then Lúthien lay
이윽고 동트기 직전 사위(四圍)가 죽은 듯
fearing new wrong, till just ere day,
숨소리도 없이 고요하고 형체 없는 두려움들이
when all is dead and breathless still
잠 못 드는 이들의 가슴을 그득 채울 때
and shapeless fears the sleepless fill,
그림자 하나가 벽을 따라 다가왔다.
a shadow came along the wall.
다음 순간 무언가가 그녀의 마법 옷을
Then something let there softly fall
거기 침상 곁에 살그머니 떨어뜨렸다.
her magic cloak beside her couch.
그녀는 벌벌 떠는 와중에도
Trembling she saw the great hound crouch
그 거대한 사냥개가 곁에 웅크린 걸 보았고
beside her, heard a deep voice swell
종탑에서 들리는 아주 느린 종소리인 양
as from a tower a far slow bell.
낮고 굵은 목소리가 점점 커지는 걸 들었다.

Thus Huan spake, who never before
후안은 이렇게 말했다.
had uttered words, and but twice more
예전에 결코 말을 한 적이 없지만
did speak in elven tongue again:
추후에 두 번 더 요정 언어로 말한 그였다.
'Lady beloved, whom all Men,
"모든 인간들, 모든 요정들, 그리고
whom Elfinesse, and whom all things
모피와 가죽 깃과 날개를 지닌 모든 것들이
with fur and fell and feathered wings
섬기고 사랑해 마땅한 사랑스러운 숙녀여,
should serve and love - arise! away!
일어나시오! 떠나시오! 그대의 옷을 입으시오!
Put on thy cloak! Before the day
나르고스론드에 날이 밝기 전에
comes over Nargothrond we fly
우리가 북쪽의 위태로운 곳으로
to Northern perils, thou and I.'
나는 듯이 갈 것이오, 그대와 내가."
And ere he ceased he counsel wrought
그리고 말을 마치기 전에 그는
for achievement of the thing they sought.
그들이 좇는 목적을 성취하기 위한 계획을 일러 주었다.
There Lúthien listened in amaze,
루시엔은 아연히 놀란 가운데서도 경청하고선
and softly on Huan did she gaze.
부드러운 눈길로 후안을 지그시 바라보았다.
Her arms about his neck she cast -
그녀가 두 팔로 그의 목을 감쌌으니,
in friendship that to death should last.
목숨이 다하도록 이어질 우정이 거기 실렸더라.