Song of E?rendil

Song Song of E?rendil
Artist YoungStar
Album The Lord of the Rings: Complete Songs & Poems

Lyrics

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[00:06.67] Earendil was a mariner
[00:08.09] that tarried in Arvernien;
[00:09.39] he built a boat of timber felled
[00:11.07] in Nimbrethil to journey in;
[00:13.53] her sails he wove of silver fair,
[00:15.14] of silver were her lanterns made,
[00:16.61] her prow was fashioned like a swan,
[00:18.21] and light upon her banners laid.
[00:21.41] In panoply of ancient kings,
[00:23.38] in chainéd rings he armoured him;
[00:24.89] his shining shield was scored with runes
[00:26.56] to ward all wounds and harm from him;
[00:28.96] his bow was made of dragon-horn,
[00:30.64] his arrows shorn of ebony,
[00:32.55] of silver was his habergeon,
[00:35.87] his scabbard of chalcedony;
[00:45.06] his sword of steel was valiant,
[00:49.20] of adamant his helmet tall,
[00:52.84] an eagle-plume upon his crest,
[00:57.67] upon his breast an emerald.
[01:10.50] Beneath the Moon and under star
[01:11.91] he wandered far from northern strands,
[01:13.46] bewildered on enchanted ways
[01:14.83] beyond the days of mortal lands.
[01:17.56] From gnashing of the Narrow Ice
[01:19.17] where shadow lies on frozen hills,
[01:20.73] from nether heats and burning waste
[01:22.34] he turned in haste, and roving still
[01:29.65] on starless waters far astray
[01:35.62] at last he came to Night of Naught,
[01:43.15] and passed, and never sight he saw
[01:50.16] of shining shore nor light he sought.
[02:05.40] The winds of wrath came driving him,
[02:08.73] and blindly in the foam he fled
[02:13.09] from west to east and errandless,
[02:17.83] unheralded he homeward sped.
[02:28.31] There flying Elwing came to him,
[02:31.74] and flame was in the darkness lit;
[02:36.02] more bright than light of diamond
[02:40.97] the fire upon her carcanet.
[02:53.21] The Silmaril she bound on him
[02:54.66] and crowned him with the living light
[02:56.17] and dauntless then with burning brow
[02:57.68] he turned his prow; and in the night
[03:00.15] from Otherworld beyond the Sea
[03:01.71] there strong and free a storm arose,
[03:03.37] a wind of power in Tarmenel;
[03:04.98] by paths that seldom mortal goes
[03:17.60] his boat it bore with biting breath
[03:21.26] as might of death across the grey
[03:25.90] and long-forsaken seas distressed:
[03:30.74] from east to west he passed away.
[03:39.66] Through Evernight he back was borne
[03:45.01] on black and roaring waves that ran
[03:50.56] o'er leagues unlit and foundered shores
[03:56.15] that drowned before the Days began,
[04:02.70] until he heard on strands of pearl
[04:07.48] when ends the world the music long,
[04:13.15] where ever foaming billows roll
[04:18.85] the yellow gold and jewels wan.
[04:32.64] He saw the Mountain silent rise
[04:34.15] where twilight lies upon the knees
[04:35.75] of Valinor, and Eldamar
[04:37.33] beheld afar beyond the seas.
[04:40.36] A wanderer escaped from night
[04:41.81] to haven white he came at last,
[04:43.58] to Elvenhome the green and fair
[04:45.25] where keen the air, where pale as glass
[04:53.21] beneath the Hill of Ilmarin
[04:59.36] a-glimmer in a valley sheer
[05:06.69] the lamplit towers of Tirion
[05:13.98] are mirrored on the Shadowmere.
[05:31.43] He tarried there from errantry,
[05:33.04] and melodies they taught to him,
[05:34.61] and sages old him marvels told,
[05:36.17] and harps of gold they brought to him.
[05:38.85] They clothed him then in elven-white,
[05:40.68] and seven lights before him sent,
[05:42.29] as through the Calacirian
[05:44.00] to hidden land forlorn he went.
[05:51.92] He came unto the timeless halls
[05:57.66] where shining fall the countless years,
[06:05.09] and endless reigns the Elder King
[06:11.64] in Ilmarin on Mountain sheer;
[06:27.93] and words unheard were spoken then
[06:31.58] of folk of Men and Elven-kin,
[06:36.01] beyond the world were visions showed
[06:41.00] forbid to those that dwell therein.
[06:52.00] A ship then new they built for him
[06:55.46] of mithril and of elven-glass
[06:59.89] with shining prow; no shaven oar
[07:04.78] nor sail she bore on silver mast:
[07:13.30] the Silmaril as lantern light
[07:18.14] and banner bright with living flame
[07:23.97] to gleam thereon by Elbereth
[07:29.19] herself was set, who thither came
[07:34.85] and wings immortal made for him,
[07:39.44] and laid on him undying doom,
[07:44.08] to sail the shoreless skies and come
[07:50.79] behind the Sun and light of Moon.
[07:55.85] From Evereven's lofty hills
[08:02.17] where softly silver fountains fall
[08:09.62] his wings him bore, a wandering light,
[08:16.68] beyond the mighty Mountain Wall.
[08:34.56] From World's End then he turned away
[08:35.87] and yearned again to find afar
[08:37.48] his home through shadows journeying,
[08:39.10] and burning as an island star
[08:41.86] on high above the mists he came,
[08:43.53] a distant flame before the Sun,
[08:45.79] a wonder ere the waking dawn
[08:49.29] where grey the Norland waters run.
[08:55.32] And over Middle-earth he passed
[09:00.01] and heard at last the weeping sore
[09:05.42] of women and of elven-maids
[09:10.85] in Elder Days, in years of yore.
[09:16.08] gut on him mighty doom was laid,
[09:20.92] till Moon should fade, an orbéd star
[09:26.17] to pass, and tarry never more
[09:31.41] on Hither Shores where mortals are;
[09:44.95] for ever still a herald on
[09:46.52] an errand that should never rest
[09:49.14] to bear his shining lamp afar,
[09:52.61] the Flammifer of Westernesse.

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[00:06.67] Earendil was a mariner
[00:08.09] that tarried in Arvernien
[00:09.39] he built a boat of timber felled
[00:11.07] in Nimbrethil to journey in
[00:13.53] her sails he wove of silver fair,
[00:15.14] of silver were her lanterns made,
[00:16.61] her prow was fashioned like a swan,
[00:18.21] and light upon her banners laid.
[00:21.41] In panoply of ancient kings,
[00:23.38] in chainé d rings he armoured him
[00:24.89] his shining shield was scored with runes
[00:26.56] to ward all wounds and harm from him
[00:28.96] his bow was made of dragonhorn,
[00:30.64] his arrows shorn of ebony,
[00:32.55] of silver was his habergeon,
[00:35.87] his scabbard of chalcedony
[00:45.06] his sword of steel was valiant,
[00:49.20] of adamant his helmet tall,
[00:52.84] an eagleplume upon his crest,
[00:57.67] upon his breast an emerald.
[01:10.50] Beneath the Moon and under star
[01:11.91] he wandered far from northern strands,
[01:13.46] bewildered on enchanted ways
[01:14.83] beyond the days of mortal lands.
[01:17.56] From gnashing of the Narrow Ice
[01:19.17] where shadow lies on frozen hills,
[01:20.73] from nether heats and burning waste
[01:22.34] he turned in haste, and roving still
[01:29.65] on starless waters far astray
[01:35.62] at last he came to Night of Naught,
[01:43.15] and passed, and never sight he saw
[01:50.16] of shining shore nor light he sought.
[02:05.40] The winds of wrath came driving him,
[02:08.73] and blindly in the foam he fled
[02:13.09] from west to east and errandless,
[02:17.83] unheralded he homeward sped.
[02:28.31] There flying Elwing came to him,
[02:31.74] and flame was in the darkness lit
[02:36.02] more bright than light of diamond
[02:40.97] the fire upon her carcanet.
[02:53.21] The Silmaril she bound on him
[02:54.66] and crowned him with the living light
[02:56.17] and dauntless then with burning brow
[02:57.68] he turned his prow and in the night
[03:00.15] from Otherworld beyond the Sea
[03:01.71] there strong and free a storm arose,
[03:03.37] a wind of power in Tarmenel
[03:04.98] by paths that seldom mortal goes
[03:17.60] his boat it bore with biting breath
[03:21.26] as might of death across the grey
[03:25.90] and longforsaken seas distressed:
[03:30.74] from east to west he passed away.
[03:39.66] Through Evernight he back was borne
[03:45.01] on black and roaring waves that ran
[03:50.56] o' er leagues unlit and foundered shores
[03:56.15] that drowned before the Days began,
[04:02.70] until he heard on strands of pearl
[04:07.48] when ends the world the music long,
[04:13.15] where ever foaming billows roll
[04:18.85] the yellow gold and jewels wan.
[04:32.64] He saw the Mountain silent rise
[04:34.15] where twilight lies upon the knees
[04:35.75] of Valinor, and Eldamar
[04:37.33] beheld afar beyond the seas.
[04:40.36] A wanderer escaped from night
[04:41.81] to haven white he came at last,
[04:43.58] to Elvenhome the green and fair
[04:45.25] where keen the air, where pale as glass
[04:53.21] beneath the Hill of Ilmarin
[04:59.36] aglimmer in a valley sheer
[05:06.69] the lamplit towers of Tirion
[05:13.98] are mirrored on the Shadowmere.
[05:31.43] He tarried there from errantry,
[05:33.04] and melodies they taught to him,
[05:34.61] and sages old him marvels told,
[05:36.17] and harps of gold they brought to him.
[05:38.85] They clothed him then in elvenwhite,
[05:40.68] and seven lights before him sent,
[05:42.29] as through the Calacirian
[05:44.00] to hidden land forlorn he went.
[05:51.92] He came unto the timeless halls
[05:57.66] where shining fall the countless years,
[06:05.09] and endless reigns the Elder King
[06:11.64] in Ilmarin on Mountain sheer
[06:27.93] and words unheard were spoken then
[06:31.58] of folk of Men and Elvenkin,
[06:36.01] beyond the world were visions showed
[06:41.00] forbid to those that dwell therein.
[06:52.00] A ship then new they built for him
[06:55.46] of mithril and of elvenglass
[06:59.89] with shining prow no shaven oar
[07:04.78] nor sail she bore on silver mast:
[07:13.30] the Silmaril as lantern light
[07:18.14] and banner bright with living flame
[07:23.97] to gleam thereon by Elbereth
[07:29.19] herself was set, who thither came
[07:34.85] and wings immortal made for him,
[07:39.44] and laid on him undying doom,
[07:44.08] to sail the shoreless skies and come
[07:50.79] behind the Sun and light of Moon.
[07:55.85] From Evereven' s lofty hills
[08:02.17] where softly silver fountains fall
[08:09.62] his wings him bore, a wandering light,
[08:16.68] beyond the mighty Mountain Wall.
[08:34.56] From World' s End then he turned away
[08:35.87] and yearned again to find afar
[08:37.48] his home through shadows journeying,
[08:39.10] and burning as an island star
[08:41.86] on high above the mists he came,
[08:43.53] a distant flame before the Sun,
[08:45.79] a wonder ere the waking dawn
[08:49.29] where grey the Norland waters run.
[08:55.32] And over Middleearth he passed
[09:00.01] and heard at last the weeping sore
[09:05.42] of women and of elvenmaids
[09:10.85] in Elder Days, in years of yore.
[09:16.08] gut on him mighty doom was laid,
[09:20.92] till Moon should fade, an orbé d star
[09:26.17] to pass, and tarry never more
[09:31.41] on Hither Shores where mortals are
[09:44.95] for ever still a herald on
[09:46.52] an errand that should never rest
[09:49.14] to bear his shining lamp afar,
[09:52.61] the Flammifer of Westernesse.