Songs concerning Tolkien's writings
One of the elements that I love dearly in the books is the songs that Tolkien wrote, they come to tell us a story by poem, whether if the song is of mirth or grief, it makes the story more a live and in general tell us about the culture of the people of Arda by showing us the kind of poetry which they used to express themselves by song.
Here shall be our hall of poems, here your poems shall be displayed and the readers will be able to send to you comments about them. send any poem concerning our subject to here.
Song of Gondolin - A song that I made for the memory of Turgon's realm.
Glîr Thingol ar Ardh în - A song of Thingol and his kingdom that I made.
Farewell to middle earth - A song that I made of the kind which the elves sang at their departure into the west.
Of Gandalf and the Balrog - A song that I made of their duel and a little bit of history...
For the sake of this page at his days of youth, here is one of my favorite songs :
Beren's Farewell to the world song, taken from the Lay of Leithian :
"Farewell now here, ye leaves of trees Your music in the morning-breeze! Farewell now blade and bloom and grass That see the changing seasons pass; Ye waters murmuring over stone, And meres that silent stand alone! Farewell now mountain, vale, and plain! Farewell now wind, and frost and rain, And mist and cloud, and heaven's air; Ye star and moon so blinding-fair That still shall look down form the sky On the wide earth, though Beren die- Though Beren die not, and yet deep, Deep, whence comes of those that weep No dreadful echo, lie and choke In everlasting dark and smoke. 'Farewell sweet earth, and northern sky, For ever blest, since here did lie, And here with lissom limbs did run, Beneath the moon, beneath the sun, Luthien Tinuviel More fair than mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world, And were dissolved and backward hurled Unmade into the old abyss, Yet were its making good, for this- The dawn, the dusk, the earth, the sea- That Luthien on a time should be!"