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Namárië

2009-06-12T08:36:09Z

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'''Namárië''', also called '''Galadriel's Lament''' and sometimes '''Song of the Elves beyond the Sea''', is the longest [[Quenya]] text in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. The word ''Namárië'' means "farewell" in Quenya.

This poem was set to music by [[Donald Swann]]. The sheet music and an audio recording are part of ''[[The Road Goes Ever On (book)|The Road Goes Ever On, A Song Cycle]]''.

==Song==
<poem style="font-style:italic; margin-left:20px;">
Ai! laurië lantar lassi súrinen,
yéni únótimë ve rámar aldaron!
Yéni ve lintë yuldar avánier
mi oromardi lisse-miruvóreva
Andúnë pella, Vardo tellumar
nu luini yassen tintilar i eleni
ómaryo airetári-lírinen.

Sí man i yulma nin enquantuva?

An sí Tintallë Varda Oiolossëo
ve fanyar máryat Elentári ortanë,
ar ilyë tier undulávë lumbulë;
ar sindanóriello caita mornië
i falmalinnar imbë met, ar hísië
untúpa Calaciryo míri oialë.
Sí vanwa ná, Rómello vanwa, Valimar!

Namárië! Nai hiruvalyë Valimar.
Nai elyë hiruva. Namárië!</poem>

===Translation===
The song translates into English thus:
<poem style="font-style:italic; margin-left:20px;">
Ah! like gold fall the leaves in the wind,
long years numberless as the wings of trees!
The years have passed like swift draughts
of the sweet mead in lofty halls beyond the West,
beneath the blue vaults of [[Varda]]
wherein the stars tremble in the song of her voice, holy and queenly.

Who now shall refill the cup for me?

For now the Kindler, Varda, the Queen of the Stars,
from Mount Everwhite has uplifted her hands like clouds,
and all paths are drowned deep in shadow;
and out of a grey country darkness lies on the foaming waves between us,
and mist covers the jewels of [[Calacirya]] for ever.
Now lost, lost to those from the East is [[Valimar]]!

Farewell! Maybe thou shalt find Valimar.
Maybe even thou shalt find it. Farewell!</poem>
==See also==
* [[:Image:Tolkien2.mp3| Namárië read]] by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] (soundfile).

==External links==
* [http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/namarie.htm Word by word analysis]
* [[The Road Goes Ever On (book)]]
[[Category: Songs]]
[[Category: Quenya words]]
[[Category: Writings]]

Namárië

2009-06-12T08:34:29Z

Morthegil: /* External links */

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'''Namárië''', also called '''Galadriel's Lament''' and sometimes '''Song of the Elves beyond the Sea''', is the longest [[Quenya]] text in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. The word ''Namárië'' means "farewell" in Quenya.

This poem was set to music by [[Donald Swann]]. The sheet music and an audio recording are part of ''[[The Road Goes Ever On (book)|The Road Goes Ever On, A Song Cycle]]''.

==Song==
<poem style="font-style:italic; margin-left:20px;">
Ai! laurië lantar lassi súrinen,
yéni únótimë ve rámar aldaron!
Yéni ve lintë yuldar avánier
mi oromardi lisse-miruvóreva
Andúnë pella, Vardo tellumar
nu luini yassen tintilar i eleni
ómaryo airetári-lírinen.

Sí man i yulma nin enquantuva?

An sí Tintallë Varda Oiolossëo
ve fanyar máryat Elentári ortanë,
ar ilyë tier undulávë lumbulë;
ar sindanóriello caita mornië
i falmalinnar imbë met, ar hísië
untúpa Calaciryo míri oialë.
Sí vanwa ná, Rómello vanwa, Valimar!

Namárië! Nai hiruvalyë Valimar.
Nai elyë hiruva. Namárië!</poem>

===Translation===
The song translates into English thus:
<poem style="font-style:italic; margin-left:20px;">
Ah! like gold fall the leaves in the wind,
long years numberless as the wings of trees!
The years have passed like swift draughts
of the sweet mead in lofty halls beyond the West,
beneath the blue vaults of [[Varda]]
wherein the stars tremble in the song of her voice, holy and queenly.

Who now shall refill the cup for me?

For now the Kindler, Varda, the Queen of the Stars,
from Mount Everwhite has uplifted her hands like clouds,
and all paths are drowned deep in shadow;
and out of a grey country darkness lies on the foaming waves between us,
and mist covers the jewels of [[Calacirya]] for ever.
Now lost, lost to those from the East is [[Valimar]]!

Farewell! Maybe thou shalt find Valimar.
Maybe even thou shalt find it. Farewell!</poem>
==See also==
* [[:Image:Tolkien2.mp3| Namárië read]] by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] (soundfile).

==External links==
* [http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/namarie.htm Word by word analysis]
* [[The Road Goes Ever On]]
[[Category: Songs]]
[[Category: Quenya words]]
[[Category: Writings]]

Fingolfin

2009-06-12T08:20:47Z

Morthegil:

{{noldor infobox
| image=[[Image:Jenny Dolfen - The Coming of Fingolfin.jpg|300px]]
| name=Fingolfin
| quenya=Ñolofinwë, Aracáno
| titles=[[High King of the Noldor]]
| birth=c. [[Years of the Trees|Y.T.]] 1190, [[Tirion]]
| realm=[[Hithlum]], [[Beleriand]]
| death=[[First Age 456|F.A. 456]], the year after [[Dagor Bragollach]]
| age=3,400+
| parentage=[[Finwë]] and [[Indis]]
| spouse=[[Anairë]]
| children=[[Fingon]], [[Turgon the Wise|Turgon]], [[Aredhel]], [[Argon]]
| gender=Male
| hair=Dark
| ref=''[[The Silmarillion]]''
|}}
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[[Image:Fingolfin Heraldic Device.jpg|left|100px]]
'''Fingolfin''' was a [[High King of the Noldor]] in [[Beleriand]], eldest son of [[Finwë]] and [[Indis]], younger brother of [[Findis]], older brother of [[Irimë]] and [[Finarfin]], and the younger half-brother of [[Fëanor]]. His wife was [[Anairë]] and his children were [[Fingon]], [[Turgon of Gondolin|Turgon]], [[Aredhel]], and [[Argon]]1. He was 1/2 Vanyarin through Indis and 1/2 Noldorin through Finwe.

== History ==
Fingolfin led the largest host of the Ñoldor when they fled [[Aman]] for [[Middle-earth]], even though he thought this unwise; he did not want to abandon his people to Fëanor. He was the one who took them across the ice of the [[Helcaraxë]], and soon after, at the rising of the Sun, he came to the [[Gates of Angband]] and smote upon them, but [[Morgoth]] stayed hidden inside. Fingolfin and the Noldor then came to the northern shores of [[Lake Mithrim]], from which the Fëanorian part of the host had withdrawn.

His son [[Fingon]] rescued [[Maedhros]], son of [[Fëanor]], who consequently waived his claim to kingship. Thus Fingolfin became High-King of the [[Noldor]]. He ruled from [[Hithlum]], by the northern shores of [[Lake Mithrim]].

After defeating the [[Orcs]] in the [[Dagor Aglareb]] ("Glorious Battle"), Fingolfin maintained the [[Siege of Angband]] for nearly four hundred years. But the Siege was ended by the sudden assaults of Morgoth in the [[Dagor Bragollach]] ("Battle of Sudden Flame"), and many peoples of Beleriand fled. In the end Fingolfin rode to Angband alone to challenge Morgoth to single combat, and there died after a mighty duel, wounding Morgoth seven times with his sword [[Ringil]]. [[Thorondor]] the King of Eagles then brought Fingolfin's body to a mountaintop overlooking [[Gondolin]], and [[Turgon of Gondolin|Turgon]] built a cairn over the remains of his father.
{{quote|In that vast shadow once of yore Fingolfin stood: his shield he bore with field of heaven’s blue and star of crystal shining pale afar. In overmastering wrath and hate desperate he smote upon that gate, the [[Gnomes|Gnomish]] king, there standing lone, while endless fortresses of stone engulfed the thin clear ringing keen of silver horn and baldric green.|''[[Lay of Leithian]]'', [[Lay of Leithian Canto XII|Canto XII]], lines 3538-3547}}

[[Fingon]] then became High King of the [[Noldor]].

== Etymology ==
Fingolfin's [[father-name]] was ''Ñolofinwë'' ("Wise Finwë"). His [[mother-name]] was ''Aracáno'' ("High Chieftain"). ''Fingolfin'' is the [[Sindarin]] form of his father-namee, with the word ''Finwë'' added to the beginning. The addition was done by Fingolfin himself in pursuance of his claim to be [[High King of the Noldor]] after his father's death <ref name="Notes">The History of Middle-earth XII: The Peoples of Middle-earth, "The Shibboleth of Fëanor"</ref>

== Genealogy ==

 
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{{familytree| | MIR |~|y|~| FIN |~|~|~|~|y|~|~|~| IND | | | | | | | | | | |FIN=[[Finwë]]|IND=[[Indis]]|MIR=[[Míriel Serindë|Míriel]]}}
{{familytree| | | | | |!| | | |,|-|-|v|-|^|-|v|-|-|-|.| |}}
{{familytree| | | | | FEA | | FDS | |!| | | IRM | | FIR | |FIN='''FINGOLFIN'''|FIR=[[Finarfin]]|FEA=[[Fëanor]]|FDS=[[Findis]]|IRM=[[Irimë]]}}
{{familytree| | | | | | | | | |,|-|-|'| | | | | | | | | | |}}
{{familytree| | | | | | | | | FNG |~|y|~| ANA | | | | | | | | | | |FNG='''FINGOLFIN'''|ANA=[[Anairë]]}}
{{familytree| | |,|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|v|-|^|-|v|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|.| |}}
{{familytree| | FIN | | ELE |y| TUR | | ARE |y| EOL | | ARG |FIN=[[Fingon]]|ARE=[[Aredhel]]|TUR=[[Turgon]]|ELE=[[Elenwë]]|EOL=[[Eöl]]|ARG=[[Argon]]}}
{{familytree| | | | | | | | |!| | | | | | | |!| | | | | | | |}}
{{familytree| | | | TUO |y| IDR | | | | | | MAE | | | | | | |MAE=[[Maeglin]]|IDR=[[Idril]]|TUO=[[Tuor]]}}
{{familytree| | | | | | |!| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |}}
{{familytree| | | | | | EAR | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |EAR=[[Eärendil the Mariner|Eärendil]]}}
{{familytree/end}}
 

== See Also ==
* [[:Category:Images of Fingolfin|Images of Fingolfin]]

== Notes ==
# [[Argon]] only appears in very late writings by [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] as shown in ''[[The History of Middle-earth]]'' and therefore was not mentioned in the published ''[[The Silmarillion]]''.

{{sequence
|prev=[[Fëanor]]
|next=[[Fingon]]
|list=3rd [[High King of the Noldor]] <code>I</code> 1 – 456
}}

[[Category:Noldor]]
[[Category:House of Finwë]]
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[[fi:Fingolfin]]

Ann-thennath

2009-05-28T19:06:27Z

Morthegil:

'''Ann-thennath''' ([[Sindarin]] ''[[ann]]'' = long, ''[[thenn]]'' = short, ''[[ath]]'' = collective plural) was a song mode used in the [[Lay of Leithian]] as chanted by Aragorn.

==References==
* [[The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth]]

[[category:Songs]]

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2009-04-26T03:20:26Z

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