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Galadriel's messages

2009-04-14T00:58:21Z

Nan Tathren:

{{unnamed}}
{{rewrite}}
'''Galadriel's Messages'''

'''Aragorn'''
<poem style="font-style:italic; margin-left:20px;">
Where now are the Dúnedain, Elessar, Elessar?
Why do thy kinsfolk wander afar?
Near is the hour when the Lost should come forth,
And the Grey Company ride from the North.
But dark is the path appointed for thee:
The Dead watch the road that leads to the Sea.
</poem>
'''Legolas'''
<poem style="font-style:italic; margin-left:20px;">
Legolas Greenleaf long under tree
In joy thou hast lived. Beware of the Sea!
If thou hearest the cry of the gull on the shore,
Thy heart shall then rest in the forest no more.'
</poem>
'''Gimli'''
<poem style="font-style:italic; margin-left:20px;">
Lock-bearer, wherever thou goest my thought goes with thee.
But have a care to lay thine axe to the right tree!"
</poem>

[[Category: Poems]]
[[Category: The Lord of the Rings]]

Galadriel's messages

2009-04-14T00:57:42Z

Nan Tathren:

Lament for the Rohirrim

2009-04-14T00:52:38Z

Nan Tathren:

{{rewrite}}

'''Lament for the Rohirrim'''

<poem style="font-style:italic; margin-left:20px;">
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
</poem>

[[Category: Poems]]
[[Category: The Lord of the Rings]]

'''Sung by:''' Aragorn (on his way to Edoras with Legolas, Gimli and Gandalf)
 
'''Composer:''' "a forgotten poet long ago in Rohan" 
'''About:''' Eorl the Young

Source: Tolkien's ''The Two Towers'',
Book Three, Chapter VI

Lament for the Rohirrim

2009-04-14T00:52:09Z

Nan Tathren:

{{rewrite}}

'''Lament for the Rohirrim'''

<poem style="font-style:italic; margin-left:20px;">
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
</poem>

[[Category: Poems]]
[[Category: The Lord of the Rings]]

Sung by: Aragorn (on his way to Edoras with Legolas, Gimli and Gandalf)
 
Composer: "a forgotten poet long ago in Rohan" 
About: Eorl the Young

Source: Tolkien's ''The Two Towers'',
Book Three, Chapter VI

Lament for the Rohirrim

2009-04-14T00:51:42Z

Nan Tathren:

{{rewrite}}

'''Lament for the Rohirrim'''

<poem style="font-style:italic; margin-left:20px;">
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
</poem>

[[Category: Poems]]
[[Category: The Lord of the Rings]]

Sung by: Aragorn (on his way to Edoras with Legolas, Gimli and Gandalf)
 
Composer: "a forgotten poet long ago in Rohan" 
About: Eorl the Young

Source: Tolkien's ''The Two Towers''
Book Three, Chapter VI

Lament for the Rohirrim

2009-04-14T00:51:02Z

Nan Tathren:

{{rewrite}}

'''Lament for the Rohirrim'''

<poem style="font-style:italic; margin-left:20px;">
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
</poem>

[[Category: Poems]]
[[Category: The Lord of the Rings]]

Sung by: Aragorn (on his way to Edoras with Legolas, Gimli and Gandalf)
Composer: "a forgotten poet long ago in Rohan"
About: Eorl the Young

Source: Tolkien's ''The Two Towers''
Book Three, Chapter VI

Lament for the Rohirrim

2009-04-14T00:40:04Z

Nan Tathren:

Song of the Ent and Entwife

2009-04-14T00:29:16Z

Nan Tathren:

{{rewrite}}
'''''The Ent and the Entwife'''''
<poem style="font-style:italic; margin-left:20px;">
Ent:

When spring unfolds the beechen-leaf and sap is in the bough,
When light is on the wild-wood stream, and wind is on the brow,
When stride is long, and breath is deep, and keen the mountain air,
Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is fair!

''Entwife:''

When Spring is come to garth and field, and corn is in the blade,
When blossom like a shining snow is on the orchard laid,
When sun and shower upon the earth with fragrance fill the air,
I'll linger here, and will not come, because my land is fair!

''Ent:''

When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold
Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold,
When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West,
Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is best!

''Entwife:''

When Summer warms the hanging fruit and burns the berry brown;
When straw is gold, and ear is white, and harvest comes to town;
When honey spills, and apple swells, though wind be in the West,
I'll linger here beneath the Sun, because my land is best!

''Ent:''

When Winter comes, the winter wild that hill and wood shall slay;
When trees shall fall and starless night devour the sunless day;
When wind is in the deadly East, then in the bitter rain
I'll look for thee, and call to thee; I'll come to thee again!

''Entwife:''

When Winter comes, and singing ends; when darkness falls at last;
When broken is the barren bough, and light and labour past;
I'll look for thee, and wait for thee, until we meet again:
Together we will tkae the road beneath the bitter rain!

''Both:''

Together we will take the road that leads into the West,
And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.

</poem>

[[Category: The Lord of the Rings]]
[[Category: Poems]]

2009-04-11T12:03:44Z

Nan Tathren:

''Song of Beren and Lúthien''

The leaves were long, the grass was green,
The hemlock-umbels tall and fair,
And in the glade a light was seen
Of stars in shadow shimmering.
Tinúviel was dancing there
To music of a pipe unseen,
And light of stars was in her hair,
And in her raiment glimmering.

There Beren came from mountains cold,
And lost he wandered under leaves,
And where the Elven-river rolled
He walked alone and sorrowing.
He peered between the hemlock-leaves
And saw in wonder flowers of gold
Upon her mantle and her sleeves,
And her hair like shadow following.

Enchantment healed his weary feet
That over hills were doomed to roam;
And forth he hastened, strong and fleet,
And grasped at moonbeams glistening.
Through woven woods in Elvenhome
She lightly fled on dancing feet,
And left him lonely still to roam
In the silent forest listening.

He heard there oft the flying sound
Of feet as light as linden-leaves,
Or music welling underground,
In hidden hollows quavering.
Now withered lay the hemlock-sheaves,
And one by one with sighing sound
Whispering fell the beechen leaves
In the wintry woodland wavering.

He sought her ever, wandering far
Where leaves of years were thickly strewn,
By light of moon and ray of star
In frosty heavens shivering.
Her mantle glinted in the moon,
As on a hilltop high and far
She danced, and at her feet was strewn
A mist of silver quivering.

When winter passed, she came again,
And her song released the sudden spring,
Like rising lark, and falling rain,
And melting water bubbling.
He saw the elven-flowers spring
About her feet, and healed again
He longed by her to dance and sing
Upon the grass untroubling.

Again she fled, but swift he came.
Tinúviel! Tinúviel!
He called her by her elvish name,
And there she halted listening.
One moment stood she, and a spell
His voice laid on her: Beren came,
And doom fell on Tinúviel
That in his arms lay glistening.

As Beren looked into her eyes
Within the shadows of her hair,
The trembling starlight of the skies
He saw there mirrored shimmering.
Tinúviel the elven-fair,
Immortal maiden elven-wise,
About him cast her shadowy hair
And arms like silver glimmering.

Long was the way that fate them bore,
O'er stony mountains cold and grey,
Through halls of iron and darkling door,
And woods of nightshade morrowless.
The Sundering Seas between them lay,
And yet at last they met once more,
And long ago they passed away
In the forest singing sorrowless.

Song of Beren and Lúthien

2009-04-11T12:02:26Z

Nan Tathren:

Song of Beren and Lúthien

2009-04-11T11:53:53Z

Nan Tathren: New page: ''Song of Beren and Lúthien'' The leaves were long, the grass was green, The hemlock-umbels tall and fair, And in the glade a light was seen Of stars in shadow shimmering. Tinúviel was ...

The Little House of Lost Play: Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva

2009-04-11T11:28:47Z

Nan Tathren: /* The Poem */

'''You and Me / and the Cottage of Lost Play''' was the original title for a poem by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]. It was then changed to ''[[Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva, The Cottage of Lost Play]]'' and then finally changed to ''[[The Little House of Lost Play: Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva]]''. It was written in 1915 and is published within [[The Book of Lost Tales Part 1]].

==The Poem==
<poem>
We knew that land once, You and I,
and once we wandered there
in the long days now long gone by,
a dark child and a fair.
Was it on the paths of firelight thought
in winter cold and white,
or in the blue-spun twilit hours
of little early tucked-up beds
in drowsy summer night,
that you and I in Sleep went down
to meet each other there,
your dark hair on your white nightgown
and mine was tangled fair?

We wandered shyly hand in hand,
small footprints in the golden sand,
and gathered pearls and shells in pails,
while all about the nightingales
were singing in the trees.
We dug for silver with our spades,
and caught the sparkle of the seas,
then ran ashore to greenlit glades,
and found the warm and winding lane
that now we cannot find again,
between tall whispering trees.

There was neither night nor day,
an ever-eve of gloaming light,
when first there glimmered into sight
the Little House of Play.
New-built it was, yet very old,
white, and thatched with straws of gold,
and pierced with peeping lattices
that looked toward the sea;
and our own children's garden-plots
were there: our own forget-me-nots,
red daisies, cress and mustard,
and radishes for tea.
There all the borders, trimmed with box,
were filled with favourite flowers, with phlox,
with lupins, pinks, and hollyhocks,
beneath a red may-tree;
and all the gardens full of folk
that their own little language spoke,
but not to You and Me.

For some had silver watering-cans
and watered all their gowns,
or sprayed each other; some laid plans
to build their houses, little towns
and dwellings in the trees.
And some were clambering on the roof;
some crooning lonely and aloof;
some dancing round the fairy-rings
all garlanded in daisy-strings,
while some upon their knees
before a little white-robed king
crowned with marigold would sing
their rhymes of long ago.
But side by side a little pair
with heads together, mingled hair,
went walking to and fro
still hand in hand; and what they said,
ere Waking far apart them led,
that only we now know.
</poem>
:— [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]

===External Links===

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrozNYjAAeM Placed to music by Colin Rudd]

[[Category:Poems]]

Song of Eärendil

2009-04-11T11:15:06Z

Nan Tathren: /* The Poem */

The '''Song of Eärendel''' (so named in the index of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'') was song written by [[Bilbo Baggins|Bilbo]] and [[Aragorn II|Aragorn]], and song by Bilbo when the [[hobbits]] reached [[Rivendell]].
==Division of the Poem==
# An introduction to him and the building of his [[Vingilot|ship]]
# A detailed description of him, whose final line was supposedly influenced by [[Aragorn II|Aragorn]]
# A description of his fruitless wanderings in search of [[Valinor]]
# How [[Elwing]] his wife flew to him in the form of a bird and bound the jewel to his forehead
# How he found Valinor
# Concerning his stay there
# How they built a new ship for him, and how [[Varda|Elbereth]] gave him wings
# How he left Valinor
# How he passed over [[Middle-earth]] and became as a [[Star of Eärendil|star]]
==The Poem==
{{quote|[[Eärendil the Mariner|Eärendil]] was a mariner that tarried in [[Arvernien]]; he built a boat of timber felled in [[Nimbrethil]] to journey in; her sails he wove of silver fair, of silver were her lanterns made, her prow was fashioned like a swan, and light upon her banners laid. In panoply of ancient kings, in chainéd rings he armoured him; his shining shield was scored with runes to ward all wounds and harm from him; his bow was made of dragon-horn, his arrows shorn of ebony; of silver was his habergeon, his scabbard of chalcedony; his sword of steel was valiant, of adamant his helmet tall, an eagle-plume upon his crest, upon his breast an emerald. Beneath the Moon and under star he wandered far from northern strands, bewildered on enchanted ways beyond the days of mortal lands. From gnashing of the [[Narrow Ice]] where shadow lies on frozen hills, from nether heats and burning waste he turned in haste, and roving still on starless waters far astray at last he came to Night of Naught, and passed, and never sight he saw of shining shore nor light he sought. The winds of wrath came driving him, and blindly in the foam he fled from west to east and errandless, unheralded he homeward sped. There flying [[Elwing]] came to him, and flame was in the darkness lit; more bright than light of diamond the fire on her carcanet. The [[Silmaril]] she bound on him and crowned him with the living light and dauntless then with burning brow he turned his prow; and in the night from Otherworld beyond the Sea there strong and free a storm arose, a wind of power in [[Tarmenel]]; by paths that seldom mortal goes his boat it bore with biting breath as might of death across the grey and long forsaken seas distressed; from east to west he passed away. Through Evernight he back was borne on black and roaring waves that ran o'er leagues unlit and foundered shores that drowned before the Days began, until he heard on strands of pearl where ends the world the music long, where ever-foaming billows roll the yellow gold and jewels wan. He saw the Mountain silent rise where twilight lies upon the knees of [[Valinor]], and [[Eldamar]] beheld afar beyond the seas. A wanderer escaped from night to haven white he came at last, to Elvenhome the green and fair where keen the air, where pale as glass beneath the Hill of [[Ilmarin]] a-glimmer in a valley sheer the lamplit towers of [[Tirion]] are mirrored on the Shadowmere. He tarried there from errantry, and melodies they taught to him, and sages old him marvels told, and harps of gold they brought to him. They clothed him then in elven-white, and seven lights before him sent, as through the [[Calacirian]] to hidden land forlorn he went. He came unto the timeless halls where shining fall the countless years, and endless reigns the [[Elder King]] in Ilmarin on Mountain sheer; and words unheard were spoken then of folk and [[Men]] and [[elves|Elven-kin]], beyond the world were visions showed forbid to those that dwell therein. A ship then new they built for him of mithril and of elven-glass with shining prow; no shaven oar nor sail she bore on silver mast: the Silmaril as lantern light and banner bright with living flame to gleam thereon by [[Elbereth]] herself was set, who thither came and wings immortal made for him, and laid on him undying doom, to sail the shoreless skies and come behind the [[Sun]] and light of [[Moon]]. From [[Evereven|Evereven's]] lofty hills where softly silver fountains fall his wings him bore, a wandering light, beyond the mighty [[Mountain Wall]]. From a World's End there he turned away, and yearned again to find afar his home through shadows journeying, and burning as an island star on high above the mists he came, a distant flame before the Sun, a wonder ere the waking dawn where grey the Norland waters run. And over [[Middle-earth]] he passed and heard at last the weeping sore of women and of elven-maids in [[Elder Days]], in years of yore. But on him mighty doom was laid, till Moon should fade, an orbéd star to pass, and tarry never more on [[Hither Shore|Hither Shores]] where [[Mortals]] are; for ever still a herald on an errand that should never rest to bear his shining lamp afar, the Flammifer of [[Westernesse]].|[[The Fellowship of the Ring]], [[Many Meetings]]}}

==See also==
* [[Errantry]]
[[Category:Poems]]
[[Category:Songs]]
[[de:Lied über Earendil]]

Song of Eärendil

2009-04-11T09:59:05Z

Nan Tathren: /* The Poem */

The '''Song of Eärendel''' (so named in the index of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'') was song written by [[Bilbo Baggins|Bilbo]] and [[Aragorn II|Aragorn]], and song by Bilbo when the [[hobbits]] reached [[Rivendell]].
==Division of the Poem==
# An introduction to him and the building of his [[Vingilot|ship]]
# A detailed description of him, whose final line was supposedly influenced by [[Aragorn II|Aragorn]]
# A description of his fruitless wanderings in search of [[Valinor]]
# How [[Elwing]] his wife flew to him in the form of a bird and bound the jewel to his forehead
# How he found Valinor
# Concerning his stay there
# How they built a new ship for him, and how [[Varda|Elbereth]] gave him wings
# How he left Valinor
# How he passed over [[Middle-earth]] and became as a [[Star of Eärendil|star]]
==The Poem==
{{quote|[[Eärendil the Mariner|Eärendil]] was a mariner that tarried in [[Arvernien]]; he built a boat of timber felled in [[Nimbrethil]] to journey in; her sails he wove of silver fair, of silver were her lanterns made, her prow was fashioned like a swan, and light upon her banners laid. In panoply of ancient kings, in chainéd rings he armoured him; his shining shield was scored with runes to ward all wounds and harm from him; his bow was made of dragon-horn, his arrows shorn of ebony; of silver was his habergeon, his scabbard of chalcedony; his sword of steel was valiant, of adamant his helmet tall, an eagle-plume upon his crest, upon his breast an emerald. Beneath the Moon and under star he wandered far from northern strands, bewildered on enchanted ways beyond the days of mortal lands. From gnashing of the [[Narrow Ice]] where shadow lies on frozen hills, from nether heats and burning waste he turned in haste, and roving still on starless waters far astray at last he came to Night of Naught, and passed, and never sight he saw of shining shore nor light he sought. The winds of wrath came driving him, and blindly in the foam he fled from west to east and errandless, unheralded he homeward sped. There flying [[Elwing]] came to him, and flame was in the darkness lit; more bright than light of diamond the fire on her carcanet. The [[Silmaril]] she bound on him and crowned him with the living light and dauntless then with burning brow he turned his prow; and in the night from Otherworld beyond the Sea there strong and free a storm arose, a wind of power in [[Tarmenel]]; by paths that seldom mortal goes his boat it bore with biting breath as might of death across the grey and long forsaken seas distressed; from east to west he passed away. Through Evernight he back was borne on black and roaring waves that ran o'er leagues unlit and foundered shores that drowned before the Days began, until he hears on strands of pearl where ends the world the music long, where ever-foaming billows roll the yellow gold and jewels wan. He saw the Mountain silent rise where twilight lies upon the knees of [[Valinor]], and [[Eldamar]] beheld afar beyond the seas. A wanderer escaped from night to haven white he came at last, to Elvenhome the green and fair where keen the air, where pale as glass beneath the Hill of [[Ilmarin]] a-glimmer in a valley sheer the lamplit towers of [[Tirion]] are mirrored on the Shadowmere. He tarried there from errantry, and melodies they taught to him, and sages old him marvels told, and harps of gold they brought to him. They clothed him then in elven-white, and seven lights before him sent, as through the [[Calacirian]] to hidden land forlorn he went. He came unto the timeless halls where shining fall the countless years, and endless reigns the [[Elder King]] in Ilmarin on Mountain sheer; and words unheard were spoken then of folk and [[Men]] and [[elves|Elven-kin]], beyond the world were visions showed forbid to those that dwell therein. A ship then new they built for him of mithril and of elven-glass with shining prow; no shaven oar nor sail she bore on silver mast: the Silmaril as lantern light and banner bright with living flame to gleam thereon by [[Elbereth]] herself was set, who thither came and wings immortal made for him, and laid on him undying doom, to sail the shoreless skies and come behind the [[Sun]] and light of [[Moon]]. From [[Evereven|Evereven's]] lofty hills where softly silver fountains fall his wings him bore, a wandering light, beyond the mighty [[Mountain Wall]]. From a World's End there he turned away, and yearned again to find afar his home through shadows journeying, and burning as an island star on high above the mists he came, a distant flame before the Sun, a wonder ere the waking dawn where grey the Norland waters run. And over [[Middle-earth]] he passed and heard at last the weeping sore of women and of elven-maids in [[Elder Days]], in years of yore. But on him mighty doom was laid, till Moon should fade, an orbéd star to pass, and tarry never more on [[Hither Shore|Hither Shores]] where [[Mortals]] are; for ever still a herald on an errand that should never rest to bear his shining lamp afar, the Flammifer of [[Westernesse]].|[[The Fellowship of the Ring]], [[Many Meetings]]}}

==See also==
* [[Errantry]]
[[Category:Poems]]
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Song of Eärendil

2009-04-11T09:58:23Z

Nan Tathren: /* The Poem */

The '''Song of Eärendel''' (so named in the index of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'') was song written by [[Bilbo Baggins|Bilbo]] and [[Aragorn II|Aragorn]], and song by Bilbo when the [[hobbits]] reached [[Rivendell]].
==Division of the Poem==
# An introduction to him and the building of his [[Vingilot|ship]]
# A detailed description of him, whose final line was supposedly influenced by [[Aragorn II|Aragorn]]
# A description of his fruitless wanderings in search of [[Valinor]]
# How [[Elwing]] his wife flew to him in the form of a bird and bound the jewel to his forehead
# How he found Valinor
# Concerning his stay there
# How they built a new ship for him, and how [[Varda|Elbereth]] gave him wings
# How he left Valinor
# How he passed over [[Middle-earth]] and became as a [[Star of Eärendil|star]]
==The Poem==
{{quote|[[Eärendil the Mariner|Eärendil]] was a mariner that tarried in [[Arvernien]]; he built a boat of timber felled in [[Nimbrethil]] to journey in; her sails he wove of silver fair, of silver were her lanterns made, her prow was fashioned like a swan, and light upon her banners laid. In panolpy of ancient kings, in chainéd rings he armoured him; his shining shield was scored with runes to ward all wounds and harm from him; his bow was made of dragon-horn, his arrows shorn of ebony; of silver was his habergeon, his scabbard of chalcedony; his sword of steel was valiant, of adamant his helmet tall, an eagle-plume upon his crest, upon his breast an emerald. Beneath the Moon and under star he wandered far from northern strands, bewildered on enchanted ways beyond the days of mortal lands. From gnashing of the [[Narrow Ice]] where shadow lies on frozen hills, from nether heats and burning waste he turned in haste, and roving still on starless waters far astray at last he came to Night of Naught, and passed, and never sight he saw of shining shore nor light he sought. The winds of wrath came driving him, and blindly in the foam he fled from west to east and errandless, unheralded he homeward sped. There flying [[Elwing]] came to him, and flame was in the darkness lit; more bright than light of diamond the fire on her carcanet. The [[Silmaril]] she bound on him and crowned him with the living light and dauntless then with burning brow he turned his prow; and in the night from Otherworld beyond the Sea there strong and free a storm arose, a wind of power in [[Tarmenel]]; by paths that seldom mortal goes his boat it bore with biting breath as might of death across the grey and long forsaken seas distressed; from east to west he passed away. Through Evernight he back was borne on black and roaring waves that ran o'er leagues unlit and foundered shores that drowned before the Days began, until he hears on strands of pearl where ends the world the music long, where ever-foaming billows roll the yellow gold and jewels wan. He saw the Mountain silent rise where twilight lies upon the knees of [[Valinor]], and [[Eldamar]] beheld afar beyond the seas. A wanderer escaped from night to haven white he came at last, to Elvenhome the green and fair where keen the air, where pale as glass beneath the Hill of [[Ilmarin]] a-glimmer in a valley sheer the lamplit towers of [[Tirion]] are mirrored on the Shadowmere. He tarried there from errantry, and melodies they taught to him, and sages old him marvels told, and harps of gold they brought to him. They clothed him then in elven-white, and seven lights before him sent, as through the [[Calacirian]] to hidden land forlorn he went. He came unto the timeless halls where shining fall the countless years, and endless reigns the [[Elder King]] in Ilmarin on Mountain sheer; and words unheard were spoken then of folk and [[Men]] and [[elves|Elven-kin]], beyond the world were visions showed forbid to those that dwell therein. A ship then new they built for him of mithril and of elven-glass with shining prow; no shaven oar nor sail she bore on silver mast: the Silmaril as lantern light and banner bright with living flame to gleam thereon by [[Elbereth]] herself was set, who thither came and wings immortal made for him, and laid on him undying doom, to sail the shoreless skies and come behind the [[Sun]] and light of [[Moon]]. From [[Evereven|Evereven's]] lofty hills where softly silver fountains fall his wings him bore, a wandering light, beyond the mighty [[Mountain Wall]]. From a World's End there he turned away, and yearned again to find afar his home through shadows journeying, and burning as an island star on high above the mists he came, a distant flame before the Sun, a wonder ere the waking dawn where grey the Norland waters run. And over [[Middle-earth]] he passed and heard at last the weeping sore of women and of elven-maids in [[Elder Days]], in years of yore. But on him mighty doom was laid, till Moon should fade, an orbéd star to pass, and tarry never more on [[Hither Shore|Hither Shores]] where [[Mortals]] are; for ever still a herald on an errand that should never rest to bear his shining lamp afar, the Flammifer of [[Westernesse]].|[[The Fellowship of the Ring]], [[Many Meetings]]}}

==See also==
* [[Errantry]]
[[Category:Poems]]
[[Category:Songs]]
[[de:Lied über Earendil]]

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