Galadriel's Song of Eldamar

This article describes a concept which is mentioned in J.R.R. Tolkien's works, but was never given a definite name.

The name Galadriel refers to more than one character, item or concept. For a list of other meanings, see Galadriel (disambiguation).

Galadriel's Song by Matt Stewart

Galadriel's song of Eldamar refers to a song about Eldamar, sung by Galadriel in her Swan-ship in Lothlórien for the Fellowship of the Ring.

Poem

I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew:
Of wind I sang, a wind there came and in the branches blew.
Beyond the Sun, beyond the Moon, the foam was on the Sea,
And by the strand of Ilmarin there grew a golden Tree.
Beneath the stars of Ever-eve in Eldamar it shone,
In Eldamar beside the walls of Elven Tirion.
There long the golden leaves have grown upon the branching years,
While here beyond the Sundering Seas now fall the Elven-tears.
O Lórien! The Winter comes, the bare and leafless Day;
The leaves are falling in the stream, the river flows away.
O Lórien! Too long I have dwelt upon this Hither Shore
And in a fading crown have twined the golden elanor.
But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,
What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?

Other versions of the legendarium

The earliest version of the song was published in The Treason of Isengard.

External links

• Galadriel's Song of Eldamar translated by Christopher Gilson
• Galadriel's Song of Eldamar translated by Erwin Swoboda
• Rendition by Chance Thomas, vocals by Jenny Jordan Frogley

See also

• Poems in The Lord of the Rings
• Namárië