When once again the darkness grew
And Mordor Gondor's warriors slew,
Then Umbar with the dark allied
And raised a fleet of ships so plied
To plunder coastlands, and they swore
To bring to Gondor ruin and war.
Ecthelion had a captain brave,
Great Thorongil who wished to save,
So sought his liege-lord's leave to fight
Corsairs who wished to fell the light;
Prepared he sailed Dol Amroth's fleet
That Umbar's ships their end may meet.
With stealth they stole in harbor's lee
And there with fire took victory;
The Corsair lord the captain sought
And long they on the gangway fought;
The pirate fell, and Gondor's best
From harbor slipped without arrest.
They soon had reached Pelargir's quays;
Inhabitants their joy now seized
And celebrated Umbar's fall;
One soldier, on the city's wall,
Enthusiasm heard and thought
To tell the Steward of triumph bought.
From city's gate he took his flight,
He ran from dusk through moonlit night,
Though field and wood he kept his pace
Full steady in his chosen race,
Till came at last to end of way,
Saw city gleam in sunlight's ray.
Yet still he ran through city's tiers,
On wind the chiming bells he hears
And unproclaimed ran into court
Where Steward did day's business sort;
The nobles, startled with surprise,
And suppliants, fix on him their eyes.
Now Angrod cried, "The victory's won!
The threat is gone, the battle done!
The fires burned, and now need we
Not fear Umbarian victory!"
As soon as he his news could tell
In death he by exhaustion fell.
The city joyed in victory
For now no Corsair fleet they'd see;
So Angrod duty had fulfilled
Though in completion it he felled;
Though he be dead, yet lives he long
Within this minstrel-poet's song.
A/N: Thanks to ElvenRangerRysel for the idea of Marathon's messenger! Isn't it sad that this was the only victory in the history of Middle-earth I could imagine fitting the story into? Just pretend Boromir brought this song to Rivendell or something, since I can't imagine Aragorn himself introducing it...
Sorry to anyone who thought this would be about the original Angrod; Tolkien reused enough First Age names in Gondor that I figured I could too!
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