Tolkien Fan Fiction
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| Nai A-lehanoi Ta'alsheenoi, "Briary Verses": Coil |
| Tell of Nuvimeb! Servant most blessed Most high, most beloved. Who was Nuvimeb? What tribe, what khanate Could claim: “She was ours”? Who was Nuvimeb? The guest most at home The lowly most high The crosser of mountains The walker of deserts Bearer of news Who always returned To her chosen lord And that day she made him To his own wife a stranger: To his enemies, She yielded naught. Twenty times twenty The wounds she bore, As a man, as a warrior. Who was Nuvimeb? The Rose-maid of Harad, For love of a people Not her own kind. |