the great river

Howard Shore

Verse 1

Ai! laurie lantar lassi surinen,
yeni unotime ve ramar aldaron!
yeni ve linte...

'Alas! golden leaves fall in the wind,
long years numberless as [the] wings of trees!
Long years like swift...'

Verse 2

Et Earello Endorenna utulien.
Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn' Ambar-metta!

'Out of the Great Sea to Middle-earth I am come.
In this place I will abide, and my heirs, unto the ending of the world'