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Predestined to become the hope |
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Of all in the drear time |
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The time when feast changed into tears |
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And grandness into slime |
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He went to the forbidden gate |
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Of Gondolin the great |
| [00:41.480] |
To warn the king against the doom |
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Brought forth by pride and hate |
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Stranger from the Great Sea |
| [00:51.920] |
From a far-off shore |
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Where the rocks have voices |
| [00:55.980] |
And the waves are hoar |
| [00:58.000] |
An obscure enigma |
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He will come at last |
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Speaking the deep language |
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Of a buried past |
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The vigour of the human race |
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Is gathered in his form |
| [01:13.700] |
And he sounds like the symphony |
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Of waves after the storm |
| [01:22.040] |
Stranger from the Great Sea |
| [01:24.300] |
From a far-off shore |
| [01:26.360] |
Where the rocks have voices |
| [01:28.390] |
And the waves are hoar |
| [01:30.540] |
An obscure enigma |
| [01:32.410] |
He will come at last |
| [01:34.590] |
Speaking the deep language |
| [01:36.650] |
Of a buried past |
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Nobody knows |
| [02:16.400] |
What road will lead you there |
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Tales of something |
| [02:22.740] |
That seems to be nowhere |
| [02:24.720] |
A cherished secret |
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That the mountains screen |
| [02:32.860] |
A guarded treasure |
| [02:34.740] |
Never to be seen |
| [02:37.930] |
In the valley the rivers sing |
| [02:41.110] |
Light-winged legend carried by the wind |
| [02:45.660] |
Fleeing flicker, immaterial sound |
| [02:49.690] |
Hidden city, when will you be found |
| [02:54.470] |
|
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The dazzling brightness |
| [03:07.400] |
Of marble and of gold |
| [03:11.570] |
Marvel of marvels |
| [03:15.420] |
So hard to behold |
| [03:19.920] |
End of the rainbow |
| [03:23.330] |
Dreamed of from afar |
| [03:27.270] |
Vanishing image |
| [03:31.300] |
Of a falling star |
| [03:36.220] |
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Hopeless memory of a long-loved thing |
| [04:01.410] |
Song of dead leaves floating in the wind |
| [04:05.790] |
Apparition of a haunting ghost |
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Hidden city, found and lost |
| [04:16.230] |
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Attacking the unconscious city |
| [04:40.890] |
Invading it unawares |
| [04:42.580] |
They came over hills and ramparts |
| [04:45.590] |
They went up the vast, white stairs |
| [04:50.120] |
And that was a night of shrieking |
| [04:53.140] |
And summer changed into death |
| [04:54.980] |
A welter of black confusion |
| [04:58.960] |
The fierce blast of dragons' breath |
| [05:04.890] |
|
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Gondolin, Gondolin, proud and wondrous |
| [05:28.800] |
Treason has woken within your walls |
| [05:37.860] |
|
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No weapon could stop the slaughter |
| [05:43.980] |
No hand could avert the stroke |
| [05:48.180] |
The ruin of falling bulwarks |
| [05:53.090] |
The spirals of strangling smoke |
| [05:56.170] |
Distraction and desperation |
| [06:00.000] |
Enfolding the happy plain |
| [06:04.500] |
The jealously guarded kingdom |
| [06:08.980] |
Brought down by the ruthless bane |
| [06:13.660] |
The end of the long illusion |
| [06:17.600] |
Catastrophe of the land |
| [06:21.910] |
Where centuries of seclusion |
| [06:26.310] |
Were useless against Hell's band |
| [06:31.150] |
The city beyond the mountains |
| [06:34.960] |
Collapsed like a tower of glass |
| [06:39.380] |
And ceased like the short-lived echo |
| [06:45.710] |
Of beautiful things that pass |
| [06:49.870] |
|
| [07:00.830] |
And greedy ivy is all that grows now |
| [07:06.120] |
Among the rubble of tumbling halls |
| [07:10.280] |
|
| [07:27.760] |
The lives of Elves and Men |
| [07:30.760] |
Entwined are in his destiny |
| [07:33.800] |
And in his eyes the wistful gaze |
| [07:38.250] |
Into infinity |
| [07:41.730] |
|
| [07:59.970] |
The lives of Elves and Men |
| [08:02.950] |
Entwined are in his destiny |
| [08:06.180] |
And in his eyes the wistful gaze |
| [08:10.910] |
Into infinity |
| [08:19.620] |
And in the end the city fell. |
| [08:26.800] |
Its streets were filled with the might of Morgoth's monstrous |
| [08:31.150] |
creatures: wolves, Orcs and Balrogs wandered around, |
| [08:36.520] |
spreading fire and death. And in the very square of the King, |
| [08:41.570] |
Ecthelion of the Fountain engaged a deadly battle with Gothmog lord |
| [08:47.040] |
of Balrogs, where each killed the other. Then, |
| [08:53.250] |
by the pass called the Eagles' Cleft, |
| [08:55.990] |
the fugitives from Gondolin were ambushed by Orcs; |
| [08:59.280] |
and a Balrog was with them. |
| [09:01.570] |
They were only saved by the courage of Glorfindel |
| [09:05.810] |
the golden-haired, whose valour lives on in Elfish songs |
| [09:11.880] |
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