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[personal profile] bythewaves 2022-07-22 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
The honor is mine!

[ He assures Xie Lian with a smile ]

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.


[ He chants it, low and sweet and then breaks off and laughs wryly ]

Daeron of Doriath was he, loremaster and harpist to King Thingol Greymantle, in the morning of the world. I have heard him sing but the once, but no other would I mark as my better, although I will admit that the writer of the Lay had a definite bias towards him.
Edited 2022-07-22 07:05 (UTC)
bythewaves: (Arnold smile)

[personal profile] bythewaves 2022-07-25 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ Maglor peals with laughter ]

Oh! I shall remember you said that if ever he comes here - how he will pout! Thank you, my friend.
bythewaves: (Arnold smile)

[personal profile] bythewaves 2022-07-28 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ He gentles, fond ]

Xie Lian, my friend, why would I not wish to recall anything you say? Ai, but if Daeron ever comes here I will introduce you. We have been rivals for as long as folk have known to compare us, is all.

[ Not friends, never that, with the slaughter of Doriath laying between them. But rivals, yes. Once, something more, perhaps, but there is too much grief between them now for things to be easy ]
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[personal profile] bythewaves 2022-08-03 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
He would doubtless be pleased to meet you too.

[ Maglor hums, seeing that fleeting sadness but being polite enough not to mention it ]

And then we can both sing for you, and you can decide which of us is the better!
bythewaves: (Arnold smile)

[personal profile] bythewaves 2022-08-07 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he peals in laughter again ]

Oh, he will be so sulky. Thank you, Xie Lian, you are a true friend indeed!
bythewaves: (Arnold smile)

hm, end here?

[personal profile] bythewaves 2022-08-09 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Aye, that is true enough. [ Maglor smiles at him ]

Well! I will wish hard - perhaps one day it will be granted.