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| - | ====== Orcish lullaby from Lay of Leithian ====== | ||
| - | I’ll sing ye famous song, how in the days of yore, | ||
| - | When flat was our world, when Rings have not yet been made, | ||
| - | Our first Dark Lord defeated was by Elfin maid, | ||
| - | Where others failed; Tinúviel was name of her. | ||
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| - | Idea of making a lullaby from Lay of Leithian came to me after reading a Russian translation of "Beren and Luthien" | ||
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| - | It also reflects Tolkien' | ||
| - | > The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own. | ||
| - | > //(Frodo to Sam about Orcs, LOTR, ROTK)// | ||
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| - | > Melkor spent his spirit in envy and hate, until at last he could make nothing save in mockery of the thought of others... | ||
| - | > // | ||
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| - | So, most of the text was taken directly from Lay of Leithian, but with lines and words inside of them re-arranged. Out of 500 words over 300 were " | ||
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| - | ===== English text ===== | ||
| - | <wrap monospace> | ||
| - | Why won’t you sleep? Loud is Angband. | ||
| - | All day and night there hammers pound. 3861 | ||
| - | **The** **rumour** **thunder**s in the **forges** 3852 | ||
| - | built deep in Thangorodrim’s gorges. | ||
| - | **A burning wind there roaring** blows 3853 | ||
| - | **foul vapours up from gaping holes, | ||
| - | where wretched **captives** cry in **pain** 3865 | ||
| - | **amid the iron clink of chain.** 3864 | ||
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| - | Soon, soon it will be **slow**ly **change**d: | ||
| - | the elven witch in **raiment strange**, | ||
| - | **batlike**, | ||
| - | bloodthirsty snobbish wood-sprites’ spy, | ||
| - | **to Morgoth’s hall, where** splendid **feast** 3876 | ||
| - | **he** holds, **and** drinks **the blood of beast** 3877 | ||
| - | **and lives of Men**, she’ll boldly raid. 3878 | ||
| - | Her **eyes** will blaze with **flame** **and** hate. 3879 | ||
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| - | She’ll **let her flying raiment sweep, | ||
| - | **enmeshed with woven spells of sleep, | ||
| - | **as round the dark void she** will **reel**, | ||
| - | and hidden **garment** she’ll **reveal** 3968, | ||
| - | with **starlight caught in** elvish **veil** 3969 | ||
| - | which **glimmer**s in Angband’s halls **pale**. 3968 | ||
| - | **Dim dreams and faint oblivious sleep** 3970 | ||
| - | will **softly** fall on **dungeons deep**, | ||
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| - | And smell of Doriath’s **flowers** 3972 | ||
| - | will cloud fiery glowing towers. | ||
| - | **Then softly she**’ll begin **to sing** 3978 | ||
| - | **a theme of sleep and slumbering.** 3979 | ||
| - | **The fires of Angband** will **flare and die**, 3984 | ||
| - | **smouldered into darkness; through the** high 3985 | ||
| - | **and hollow halls there**' | ||
| - | **the shadows of the underworld.** 3987 | ||
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| - | **Wandering, | ||
| - | her voice all **maw**s **and** **heart**s will quell. 4082 | ||
| - | **Down crumpled orc**s, down hungry **beast**s 4080 / 4170 | ||
| - | **turned in their dreams of** lavish **feast**s; | ||
| - | **the fires of heart and maw** are **still**, | ||
| - | soothed by enchanting **bird**-like **thrill**; | ||
| - | **in sleep uneasy Balrog**s **stir**; | ||
| - | all lulled by sorcery of her. | ||
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| - | And as **her song** begins **anew** 4062 | ||
| - | and **soft** comes **dropping like a dew**, | ||
| - | that falls from ceiling of that dome | ||
| - | and grows to seething silver foam | ||
| - | of loudly rumbling rapid **streams**, | ||
| - | **pale falling in dark pools** of **dreams**, | ||
| - | a heart-enthralling dance she winds 4059, | ||
| - | to calm the servants restless minds. | ||
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| - | **All eyes were quenched, save those that glared** 4086 | ||
| - | **in** gloomy **Morgoth**’s face **and stared** 4087 | ||
| - | at elvish beauty, frail and false, | ||
| - | bewitching in the great vast halls | ||
| - | **in slowly wandering wonder round**, | ||
| - | all **were in enchantment bound**. 4089 | ||
| - | **Like stars the Silmarils** glittered, | ||
| - | from Dark Lord’s crown they down flittered 4135 | ||
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| - | **Then flaring suddenly they fell, | ||
| - | **upon the floors of Iron Hell. | ||
| - | The dark and mighty head was bowed; | ||
| - | like mountain-top beneath a cloud | ||
| - | the shoulders foundered, the vast form | ||
| - | crashed, as in overwhelming storm | ||
| - | huge cliffs in ruin slide and fall; | ||
| - | and prone lays Morgoth in his hall.** | ||
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| - | **All eyes** are **quenched, all heads** are **bowed; | ||
| - | sleeps **crumpled Orc**, sleeps **Balrog proud**. 4080 | ||
| - | **The wolves like corpses foul** are **strewn**, | ||
| - | no more they **howling** on the Moon. 4175 | ||
| - | Sleep **adders, lay like twisted stone, | ||
| - | **lays Morgoth in his hall**, dream-**prone**. 4103 (word order changed) | ||
| - | **His crown there roll**s **upon the ground**, | ||
| - | with **Silmarils kindl**ing; **all sound** 4092, | ||
| - | **died, and a silence grew as deep** 4106 | ||
| - | **as were the heart of Earth asleep.** 4107 | ||
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| - | **All movement stayed, and all sound ceased, | ||
| - | **save** snoring **breath of Orc and beast.** 3989 | ||
| - | **All eyes** are **quenched, all heads** are **bowed**; | ||
| - | sleep, child, be your bed as soft as cloud. | ||
| - | </ | ||
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| - | <WRAP hidden> | ||
| - | ===== New words ===== | ||
| - | <WRAP center round info 60%> | ||
| - | Words that have synonyms are not listed here. | ||
| - | </ | ||
| - | ^ English ^ Nûrlâm ^ Etymology ^ | ||
| - | | ceiling | pulz | MERP " | ||
| - | | crumpled | kunaga | past passive participle " | ||
| - | | Doriath | thurkuzg | translation of Sindarin name "Land of the Fence" | | ||
| - | | enchant | lûf- | from early abandoned translations of PN " | ||
| - | also HG " | ||
| - | | enmeshed | thuromaga | " | ||
| - | | gape | hagh | Quenya " | ||
| - | | lavish | malgûrz | adjective from " | ||
| - | | maw | korl | MERP " | ||
| - | | oblivious | ribholûgz | from " | ||
| - | | quench | nanstak- | " | ||
| - | | roar | robh- | Quenya " | ||
| - | | save | rihikug | prefix " | ||
| - | | ::: | ap nar | lit. "but not" | | ||
| - | | seethe | ghûlsh- | merging ZA " | ||
| - | | slumbering | dhûlurm | LOS " | ||
| - | | snobbish | ardaukûrz | NL " | ||
| - | | soothe | bort- | HG " | ||
| - | | spell | dosh | merging Gnomish " | ||
| - | | still | rubh | Qenya " | ||
| - | | theme | lîth | Qenya " | ||
| - | | thrill | glirsh | merging " | ||
| - | | unfurled | nanfraghaga | " | ||
| - | </ | ||
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| - | ===== Nûrlâm translation ===== | ||
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| - | <WRAP center round todo 60%> | ||
| - | <todo !!!> | ||
| - | </ | ||
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