Mellonath Daeron
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'[In Third Age 2509] Celebrían, wife of Elrond, journeys to Lórien to visit Galadriel, her mother; but she is taken by Orcs in the passes of the mountains. She is rescued by Elrond and his sons, but after fear and torment she is no longer willing to remain in Middle-earth, and she departs to the Grey Havens and sails over Sea.' (The Peoples of Middle-earth, pp.235-236)
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Envinyatalye nainala, meld' aran órenyo, feanyasse i lumna móre! Ai nwalmi úquétime nu hísitildi unquis, cilyassen! Ai anga umbarwa, rúnyanen uruite! Tyres i osse, i auroita laume turin, nan i auroitane oi Endórendilmenya linte ve fanyar! Súlenya lapsar i lómea Valo lumbuli; vanwa nin i Laureanóre sí, yasse quantaner nu maline orni vilya lindinyar. Man nin entinta sinome eldion silme? Man nin enanta sin' Anro calta? L Lóriendeva Heri, ar laume Vilyatur, elye! Ni, nútina túrínen sauramaite rimbeo, nolwely' entunce cuilenna ar ilye lívi auhortane harwante et hroanyallo; nan os feany' alantie oioquelle, yav' úvan mirima quorye rancallon mí Endóremardi. men úva calanna nin entulesse, an súrinen utúlie Númello Tintalleo nin lisseómalinde, ar falmar caituvar únótime imbe met, Elennóna! Sí hiruvan i ciryaron falasse, yann' úrima naiceny' ear-hwestainen vanuva ar Ulmo pantuva nin tie Valinórenna. A Nenya-tri . . . Undómiel Eldaliéva . . . i ónoni. . . anw' Andúneo nu menel encenuvanyet? Arata nin tope ilyaron umbar . . . Nan elye hilyuva yallume, istanyes, íre Eldaloaron haira úva metta. Nai eldi Vardo siluvar lúmenna enomentielvo! Nin sí úye sére, verno, nu tópalva: Esteo óma ni yale Earello pella . . . Namrie, Eldatan . . . hiruvan tie Valinórenna! |
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Lamenting you renew, beloved lord of my heart, in my spirit the heavy darkness. Ah! torments unspeakable under [the] misty peaks in caves, in gorges! Ah! fatal steel, hot with red flame! It caused a horror that I am utterly unable to chase away [lit.: that chase away not-at-all I can] but that chased away for ever my love for Middle-earth like swift clouds. [At] my soul are licking the dark Angel's shadows; lost to me is the Sun-golden land now, where under golden trees my songs filled [the] air. Who rekindles for me here the light of the stars? Who gives back to me the light of this Sun? Not the Lady of Lórien, nor [lit.: and not] even you, master of Vilya! Me [who was] tied by the forces of a foul-handed horde, your secret lore brought back to life, and [it] banished all wounding sicknesses out of my body; but around my spirit has fallen an eternal fading, from whose stifling embrace I shall not be free in the halls of Middle-earth. In them there will be for me no return into light, for in the wind from the West has come to me Star-kindler's sweet-voice[d] song, and [so] waves shall [soon] lie countless between us two, o Star-begotten! Now I will find the strand of the ships, where my burning pain will vanish in [the] sea-breezes and Ulmo will open for me a path to Valinor. O Nenya's Queen . . . o Evenstar of [the] Elven people . . . the twins . . . under the sky of the True West shall I [ever] see them again? A Higher Power hides from me [lit.: for me] the fate of them all . . . But you will follow at last, I know it, when the end of the Elven-years in Middle-earth will be no [longer] distant.* May Varda's stars [then] shine upon the hour of our reunion! For me now is no rest, husband, under our roof: Este's voice summons me from beyond the Sea . . . Farewell, Elf-Man . . . I will find a path to Valinor! |
*'For after the destruction of the Ruling Ring the Three Rings of the Eldar lost their virtue. Then Elrond prepared at last to depart from Middle-earth and follow Celebrían.' (The Peoples of Middle-earth, p.243)
teithant Findegil, o Mellonath Daeron
Previous versions of this poem were published in Palantíren 3 (1973), An Introduction to Elvish, and Quettar 45 (1993).
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Daeron.
On-line since 6 June 1997.
Updated 31 July 1998 by Gildir / Per Lindberg.