and it is said that , save only when the fierce fathers of men , foes of the elves , being new come under the yoke of evil , ~ entered first that land , never else did so great a concourse of elfin ships and white-winged galleons sail to the setting sun as in those days when the ancient men of the south set first their mighty feet upon the soil of luthien -- the men whose lords sat in the city of power that elves and men have called rum ( but the elves alone do know as magbar ) .~ now is it the dull hearts of later days rather than the red deeds of cruel hands that set the minds of the little folk to fare away ; and ever and anon a little ship~ weighs anchor from belerion at eve and its sweet sad song is lost for ever on the waves .