Beautiful, absolutely beautiful poem ✅ ✅
My fav elvish one is still the Ilú Ilúvatar
But I think I already posted that one here 😛
There are also some wonderful ones on the soundtracks to the film [not directly thread-related]
like this one about Osgiliath, I like it
Revail vyrn dan minuial
ú galad, ú vin anor hen
Cano an dregad
ú natha ored
Gwanwen ost in giliath
Dannen Osgiliath
(Black wings against a pale morning
There is no more light, not in this sun
Call the retreat
There will be no warning
The citadel of the stars is gone
Osgiliath is fallen)
(yea I had the first line in a sig bout Gondolin 😛 )
Or this one ^^ Mordorrrrr
Nu dalaf
Úrui tuiannen na ruith
Leithia Orodruin oe in phan.
Ristannen i geven,
Danna eliad morn.
Si, na vethed
Meth i naid bain
I wilith úria
I ardhon ban lacha!
(Beneath the ground
Swollen hot with anger
Orodruin releases all its ruin.
Earth rips asunder
Black rain falls.
Here at the end;
The end of all things.
The air is aflame,
All the world is on fire!)
or from the TT booklet -
Héo naefre wacode dægréd
Tó bisig mid dægeweorcum
Ac oft héo wacode sunnanwanung
Ðonne nihtciele créap geond móras
And on ðaere hwile
Héo dréag ðá losinga
Earla ðinga ðe héo forléas.
Héo swá oft dréag hire sáwle sincende
Héo ne cúðe hire heortan lust...
(She never watched the morning rising,
Too busy with the day's first chores,
But oft she would watch the sun's fading,
As the cold of night crept across the moors.
And in that moment
She felt the loss
Of everything that had been missed.
So used to feeling the spirit sink,
She had not felt her own heart's wish.)
Oh, you can search far and wide
You can drink the whole town dry
You'll never find a beer so brown
But you'll never find a beer so brown
As the one we drink in our home town.
As the one we drink in our home town.
You can keep your fancy ales.
You can drink em by the flagon.
But the only brew for the brave and true
Comes from the Green Dragon!
😉
Originally posted by angelsflame265
I never noticed how much legolas's song of the sea looked like Into the West. Is it just me?
Into The West mostly uses quotes and half-quotes from the books; for example the part "and all will turn to silver glass" (like also in the film itself) is from the last few paragraphs in the book when Frodo indeed comes to Valinor 🙂
It also has the same topic as Legolas' Song - wonderful use of different quotations combined to a pwettyful song 🙂