Ann-thennath

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Ann-thennath (Sindarin ann = long, thenn = short, -ath = collective plural) was a song mode used in the Song of Beren and Lúthien as chanted by Strider. He stated that it was hard to render in the Common Speech.[1] The English metric mode consists in a iambic tetrameter with nine stanzas of eight lines each, rhymed ABAC, BABE. Following Aragorn's words, Patrick Wynne and Carl F. Hostetter explain that these metric and rhyme try to imitate what the ann-thennath would have been in the original Sindarin poem.[2]

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