Lament for
Gandalf, Chorus
Text
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FEATURED IN
REGULAR CD
COMPLETE RECORDINGS
Prologue: One Ring to Rule Them All
Prologue
(CR-FOTR - Disc One - Track 1)
Entering Lórien - Lothlórien Theme
(FOTR - Track
14)
Entering Lórien
(CR-FOTR Disc Three - Track 2)
Lórien Elves' Lament for
Gandalf
(FOTR - Track
14)
Lórien Elves' Lament for
Gandalf
(CR-FOTR Disc Three - Track 2)
Galadriel's Mirror - Lothlórien Theme
(CR-FOTR Disc Three - Track 3)
Galadriel talks with Elrond
- Lothlórien Theme
(TTT - Track
11)
Galadriel talks with Elrond
- Lothlórien Theme
(CR-TTT Disc Two - Track 12)
The Elves arrive at Helm's
Deep - Lothlórien Theme
(CR-TTT Disc Three - Track 4)
Lyrics and Music
by
Philippa Boyens and Howard Shore
Translated into Elvish by David Salo
Inspired by text by J.R.R Tolkien
Lyrics from the
FOTR Annotated
Score. The Lórien
Elves lament for Gandalf contains a solo part and a choral
counterpart. This page
contains the choral part or "Chorus Text". To find the
source text for the solo part, or the 'Verses', go
HERE. What
might be interesting to note is that the soloist is singing a Lament
for Gandalf but the chorus is singing a "Lament" for the ending of
the Elves and the life they have known. In
Doug Adams' FOTR
booklet, he lists only two lines of melody as the
Lothlórien
Theme, but I think many of us are familiar with the melody
progressing along a few more lines. In the cases when it does... and
it's sung... those lines are from the Chorus text for Lament for
Gandalf.
Sung by
The London Voices.
Quenya
Original English
Melmelma
nóren sina
Our love for this land
Key:
Text in blue indicates language used
Text in green indicates lyrics used
Text in brown indicates lyrics not used
Text in black
indicates English translation
Núra lá earo núri
Is deeper than the deeps of the sea
Ilfirin nairelma
Our regret is undying
Ananta ilyar eccatuvalme
Yet we will cast all away
Ar ullume nucuvalme
Rather than submit
Nauva i nauva.
What should be shall be.
FOTR, Book 2, Chapter VII,
The Mirror of Galadriel
Galadriel
tells Frodo:
"Do you not see now wherefore your
coming is to us as the footstep of Doom? For if you fail, then we
are laid bare to the Enemy. Yet if you succeed, then our power is
diminished, and Lothlórien will fade, and the tides of Time will
sweep it away. We must depart into the West, or dwindle to a rustic
folk of dell and cave, slowly to forget and to be forgotten.'
Frodo bent his head. `And what do
you wish? ' he said at last.
'That
what should be shall be,' she
answered. 'The
love
of the Elves for their land
and their works
is deeper than the deeps of the Sea,
and their regret is undying
and cannot ever wholly be assuaged.
Yet they will cast all away rather than
submit to Sauron: for they know him now. For
the fate of Lothlórien you are not answerable, but only for the
doing of your own task. Yet I could wish, were it of any avail,
that the One Ring had never been wrought, or had remained for ever
lost.'
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