I would generate the prose from the poem (a couple of times for having more choices), and mix it with the Silmarillion version, with some very minor corrections if needed. Then I decided to do it for the full story, to finally have my own "Extended Version".
The prose was finally immediately comprehensible, and I realized it had far more details than the Silmarillion version. Render it as a prose", and I pasted the first few lines of the poem. Just for the sake of trying, I told ChatGPT: "This is the beginning of the Lay of Leithian, by J.R.R. It is basically a chatbot, that precisely answers to any question. For anyone who doesn't know it, it is the most elaborate artificial intelligence model made publicly available (technically: a language model based on a transformer neural network). I am not a native English speaker, and reading it requires too much effort to me, and while I try to understand the meaning, I loose all the feeling of the story.Įnters ChatGPT. On the other side I find reading the Lay of Leithian very difficult to appreciate. I always wanted it to last longer, to go deeper into details and basically have more text to read. But, it being one of the three great tales, I always found the Silmarillion version short and a bit rushed. The original version of this poem is contained in The Return of the Shadow.The story of Beren and Luthien is one of my favorites. It was also consistently influenced by Light as Leaf on Lindentree. The song would be an extract translated from the Lay of Leithian, specifically the Canto III. Hostetter explain that the English metric mode tries to imitate what the Sindarin metric (the so called ann-thennath) would have been in the original poem.
Its metric mode consists in a iambic tetrameter (four pairs of unstressed and stressed syllable).įollowing Aragorn's words, Patrick Wynne and Carl F.
The Song consists of nine stanzas of eight lines each, rhymed ABAC, BABC. A part of it is sung by Strider to the Hobbits upon Weathertop, explaining to them that it " is a song in the mode that is called ann-thennath among the Elves in our Common Speech, and this is but a rough echo of it". The tale of Tinúviel, or the song of Beren and Lúthien, is a poem found within the chapter " A Knife in the Dark" of The Fellowship of the Ring. Tolkien's works, but was never given a definite name. This article describes a concept which is mentioned in J.R.R.
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