Lay of Nimrodel

The Lay of NimrodelThe Lord of the Rings, Vol. III: The Return of the King, Book Five, Ch. IV: "The Siege of Gondor" was a long and sad Sindarin lay about how when the Dwarves found Durin's Bane, much sorrow came to Lothlórien.The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two, Ch. VI: "Lothlórien"
==History==
On January 15 of the year 3019 during the late Third Age,The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Great Years" an excerpt from the lay was sung by Legolas in Westron on the banks of the Nimrodel in Lothlórien, though he broke off at the end because he forgot a lot of the end of it.
== Text ==
An Elven-maid there was of old,
A shining star by day:
Her mantle white was hemmed with gold,
Her shoes of silver-grey.
A star was bound upon her brows,
A light was on her hair
As sun upon the golden boughs
In Lórien the fair.
Her hair was long, her limbs were white,
And fair she was and free;
And in the wind she went as light
As leaf of linden-tree.
Beside the falls of Nimrodel,
By water clear and cool,
Her voice as falling silver fell
Into the shining pool.
Where now she wanders none can tell,
In sunlight or in shade;
For lost of yore was Nimrodel
And in the mountains strayed.
The elven-ship in haven grey
Beneath the mountain-lee
Awaited her for many a day
Beside the roaring sea.
A wind by night in Northern lands
Arose, and loud it cried,
And drove the ship from elven-strands
Across the streaming tide.
When dawn came dim the land was lost,
The mountains sinking grey
Beyond the heaving waves that tossed
Their plumes of blinding spray.
Amroth beheld the fading shore
Now low beyond the swell,
And cursed the faithless ship that bore
Him far from Nimrodel.
Of old he was an Elven-king,
A lord of tree and glen,
When golden were the boughs in spring
In fair Lothlórien.
From helm to sea they saw him leap,
As arrow from the string,
And dive into the water deep,
As mew upon the wing.
The wind was in his flowing hair,
The foam about him shone;
Afar they saw him strong and fair
Go riding like a swan.
But from the West has come no word,
And on the Hither Shore
No tidings Elven-folk have heard
Of Amroth evermore.
== References ==
Category:Poems in The Fellowship of the Ring
Category:Songs and verses
Category:Tales
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