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. From
Solace to Sancrist to Palanthas and further, our hero
recording, enshrining the Companions in numbers and
song, himself the one who embodied most fully the
Gnomish ideal of BALANCE - of balance between action
and thought, movement and reflection (in the words of his
dear departed sister, "teeter and totter"). Owing to modesty,
of course, many of Armavir's more heroic exploits never
found their way into his poetry; but some - lines and stanzas
and staves (sometimes entire passages) in which Armavir
appeared as a Companion in his own right - began to find
their way OUT of the story.19 For strangely, unac-
18. Printed shamelessly as "Song of the Nine Heroes" in
both CHRONICLES, II, and in LEAVES FROM THE INN
OF THE LAST HOME. See comments in Section III of this
essay.
19. Indeed, the text of Armavir's poetry was twice the
length of the prose account that makes up the greater part of
the
CHRONICLES as they currently stand. It was the elves -
the elves and the humans - who saw fit to disregard much
of the compelling verse (never, alas, to be printed, for water
damage from last month's flood has destroyed the ONE
remaining copy of the poetry in its original splendor. Here
lies one whose name was writ underwater!)
countably, the Heroes grew distant as the War turned in
their favor,20 and even at this late time, though I have sent
appropriate letters and pleas to several of the original
Companions, I "have yet to hear their answer" (as Armavir
concludes in the "Canticle of the Dragon")
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