Misenus, most skilled of men to fire up hearts for battle with his bugle’s blare. Marked out by his spear and trumpet, he used to fight next to his friend, great Hector. When victorious Achilles robbed Hector of life, this bravest of heroes joined Aeneas 170 as companion, following no lesser leader. But when he seized his hollow horn to make the seas resound, challenging the gods in song (the fool!), jealous Triton grabbed him up, if the tale is true, and drowned him in the rocky surf.
Iluvatar was more patient with Melkor's challenge-in-song, in JRR Tolkien's "Silmarillion":
Some of these thoughts he now wove into his music, and straightway discord arose about him, and many that sang nigh him grew despondent, and their thought was disturbed and their music faltered; but some began to attune their music to his rather than to the thought which they had at first. Then the discord of Melkor spread ever wider, and the melodies which had been heard before foundered in a sea of turbulent sound. But Ilúvatar sat and hearkened until it seemed that about his throne there was a raging storm, as of dark waters that made war one upon another in an endless wrath that would not be assuaged.
Then Ilúvatar arose, and the Ainur perceived that he smiled; and he lifted up his left hand, and a new theme began amid the storm, like and yet unlike to the former theme, and it gathered power and had new beauty. But the discord of Melkor rose in uproar and contended with it, and again there was a war of sound more violent than before, until many of the Ainur were dismayed and sang no longer, and Melkor had the mastery. Then again Ilúvatar arose, and the Ainur perceived that his countenance was stern; and he lifted up his right hand, and behold! a third theme grew amid the confusion, and it was unlike the others. For it seemed at first soft and sweet, a mere rippling of gentle sounds in delicate melodies; but it could not be quenched, and it took to itself power and profundity. And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of Ilúvatar, and they were utterly at variance.
