Galadriel's Lament

"Galadriel's Lament" Words by J.R.R. Tolkien, music by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Performed by Broceliande, with lead vocal and harp by Margaret Davis. Available on the CD "The Starlit Jewel" from www.flowinglass.com/sjewel.html.
LYRICS: 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?

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[Renagade5150]

@GaladedridDamodred Since your gay you don't get it obviously. But it was said more in jest if that makes you feel better.

[chumboboots]

if you died and woke up in this time iwould kill myselfright now

[ENDLESDECAYMUSIC]

Amazing song! J.R.R Tolkien was just a Genius! :D Love this song!

[GaladedridDamodred]

@Renagade5150 Why don't you usually use the word exquisite? I use it all the time, but I'm gay, and I also use words like resplendent. But why shouldn't heterosexual men use the word "exquisite"?

[Renagade5150]

This is a truly beautiful rendering of the Tolkien lyrics. The music is perfect and the vocals are exquisite. I don't usually use that word as a heterosexual male, but if ever it had to be used, now was the time :-)

[Renagade5150]

Galadriel had the blood of all the three elven kindreds of old, Noldor, Teleri, and Vanyar. She decided to take the road of the exiled Noldor, and passed the grinding ices of Helcarax with them to reach middle earth. Though it was Valinor from whence she came...

[aaronortiz]

@missttt888 It's in The Silmarillion, in the third section (Quenta Silmarillion), the story of the war of the jewels.

The Silmarillion was not originally meant to be published, it is a story Tolkien's son edited out of his father's notes.

[missttt888]

@aaronortiz Hi there! where can one read of this backstory? thanks :)

[aaronortiz]

How extraordinarily sad...if you know the backstory of Galadriel...banished for millennia from her home in Aman.

[xLinaChansDEADx]

Marion Zimmer Bradley... isn't that the author of The Mists of Avalon?! :O! Love!