17. Song to Tinúviel: featured in Flight to the Ford and in Extended FotR on DVD
Lyrics by J.R.R. Tolkien, performed by Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn), translated into Sindarin by David Salo (?). Found in the FotR DVD Extended Edition Appendices under "Music". It's also sung in the beginning of Flight to the Ford.
Aragorn singing Lay of Leithian
Song lyrics from the FotR DVD Extended Edition
Solo [by Viggo Mortensen] in Sindarin
Tinúviel elvanui
Elleth alfirin edhelhael
O hon ring finnil fuinui
A renc gelebrin thiliol...
'Tinúviel [the] elven-fair,
Immortal maiden elven-wise,
About him cast [her] night-dark hair,
And arms [like] silver glimmering...'
[compare this text with a fragment of Aragorn's song in the book by J.R.R. Tolkien (LotR, Book I, Chapter A Knife in the Dark):
Tinúviel the elven-fair,
Immortal maiden elven-wise,
About him cast her shadowy hair
And arms like silver glimmering...]
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Tinúviel n. 'nightingale, daughter of twilight' (name that Beren gave to Lúthien).
elvanui adj., n. 'elven-fair'; el- 'Elvish' + *vanui, lenited form of *banui 'fair, beautiful' (cf. BAN- in LR 351).
elleth n. fem. 'elf-maid' (WJ 363-4).
alfirin adj. 'immortal' (Letters 402).
edhelhael adj., n. 'elven-wise'; edhel- 'elf' + hael, lenited form of *sael 'wise'.
o prep. 'about, concerning' (LR 378).
hon pron. 'he, him' (LR 385).
ring v. pret.. 'cast'; *rig- 'cast, wreathe (cf. RIG- 'twine, wreathe' in LR 383).
finnil n. pl. '(braided) hair'; sg. finnel (LR 387).
fuinui adj. 'nightly, dark'; cf. fuin 'night, gloom, darkness' (LR 354) + -ui 'adjectival suffix'.
a conj. 'and'.
renc n. pl. 'arms'; sg. ranc (LR 382).
gelebrin adj. pl. 'like silver'; sg. gelebren, lenited form of celebren 'like silver' (LR 365).
thiliol v. part. 'glistering, glimmering'; cf. thilia- 'glister' (LR 392).
Lyrics by J.R.R. Tolkien, performed by Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn), translated into Sindarin by David Salo (?). Found in the FotR DVD Extended Edition Appendices under "Music". It's also sung in the beginning of Flight to the Ford.
Aragorn singing Lay of Leithian
Song lyrics from the FotR DVD Extended Edition
Solo [by Viggo Mortensen] in Sindarin
Tinúviel elvanui
Elleth alfirin edhelhael
O hon ring finnil fuinui
A renc gelebrin thiliol...
'Tinúviel [the] elven-fair,
Immortal maiden elven-wise,
About him cast [her] night-dark hair,
And arms [like] silver glimmering...'
[compare this text with a fragment of Aragorn's song in the book by J.R.R. Tolkien (LotR, Book I, Chapter A Knife in the Dark):
Tinúviel the elven-fair,
Immortal maiden elven-wise,
About him cast her shadowy hair
And arms like silver glimmering...]
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Tinúviel n. 'nightingale, daughter of twilight' (name that Beren gave to Lúthien).
elvanui adj., n. 'elven-fair'; el- 'Elvish' + *vanui, lenited form of *banui 'fair, beautiful' (cf. BAN- in LR 351).
elleth n. fem. 'elf-maid' (WJ 363-4).
alfirin adj. 'immortal' (Letters 402).
edhelhael adj., n. 'elven-wise'; edhel- 'elf' + hael, lenited form of *sael 'wise'.
o prep. 'about, concerning' (LR 378).
hon pron. 'he, him' (LR 385).
ring v. pret.. 'cast'; *rig- 'cast, wreathe (cf. RIG- 'twine, wreathe' in LR 383).
finnil n. pl. '(braided) hair'; sg. finnel (LR 387).
fuinui adj. 'nightly, dark'; cf. fuin 'night, gloom, darkness' (LR 354) + -ui 'adjectival suffix'.
a conj. 'and'.
renc n. pl. 'arms'; sg. ranc (LR 382).
gelebrin adj. pl. 'like silver'; sg. gelebren, lenited form of celebren 'like silver' (LR 365).
thiliol v. part. 'glistering, glimmering'; cf. thilia- 'glister' (LR 392).