Dir avosaith a gwaew hinar

"Dir avosaith a gwaew hinar" is the first line of a poem that was written by J.R.R. Tolkien in the autumn of 1931, to be part of his lecture A Secret Vice.The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, Vol. Two, no. 125: Dir Avosaith a Gwaew Hinar
==Poem==
:Dir avosaith a gwaew hinar
:engluid eryd argenaid,
:dir Tumledin hin Nebrachar
:Yrch methail maethon magradhaid.
:Damrod dir hanach dalath benn
:ven Sirion gar meilien,
:gail Luithien heb Eglavar
:dir avosaith han Nebrachar.
==Background==
Tolkien originally wrote the poem in 1931, using it in a lecture on language as an example of language invention. Tolkien later wrote two translations of the poem in English.
The print poem was published posthumously on page 217 of The Essays of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays in 1983.
==References==
Category:Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien
Category:Sindarin names & words
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