Antique Lyrics of Arda

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Kin of Durin, too much you have dug


Content and merry you once were in your broad halls,
But malice made you dig too deep, attracting creeping shadows and a very foul of a foe.

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Do not let thyself be swayed by evil snares


Frail man, do not let thyself be swayed by evil snares,
A gift to thy kind was granted, to depart from Eä's halls and towards unknown destinations to head.

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Why doesn't it act?


Why doesn't it act, I ask myself?
The World needs its help, and all say that anything it may.

Wrong is he, who thinks it shall act in this world,
For silent it remains, upon its throne, to contemplate its Plan as it unfolds.

[Walküre]

Waiting along the shore


We shall wait along the shores of the blue,
For how much time we do not know,
The presence of our lord we crave, for long among plains and hills us he led,
But he is not now, and they say a new kingdom among woods he would fain found.

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Asunder they shall not tear us


Many toils, sorrows and tragedy, the main theme of the Noldor's melody,
But grave tones harmony shall not mar and our proud House they shall not tear asunder.

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The Book of Days


Fast and sudden along their course flow, days and years and eras,
Astray they run and forever vanish, bringing with them of what was the old memory.

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Endurance shall open the way


In the midst of the heat of suffering, to a conclusion we have come,
That the buoyant people of Middle-earth may greatly suffer,
The bitterness of cold and the hopeless void that darkness brings,
Yet endurance shall open a way, if one is tough enough to undergo misfortune.

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Beware, things are often what they are not


Beware, be vigilant and with a prompt mind,
Things conceal and often different seem, in the forest of the World,
A prowess of uncertain sort might be behind it,
Consider, what is bewitched to nature does not belong.

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Ah, a place of learning and merry solace!


In the valley it secretive lieth,
Sun is high and nature rejoiceth,
Thou might hear the old tongue, for long forgotten,
In Elrond's residence hallowed by stars and grace.

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Mayhem


The Lord of the Rings tried to have his arts back,
The Eldar this combatted and Eregion in mayhem was then abandoned.

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Wilt thou ever return, Grey Wizard?


Wilt thou ever return, Grey Wizard?
Perhaps I shall, perhaps not. The world is much vast and I would fain behold more of it.

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The Shelter in the Stone


Flee, people of the heath, leave your wooden capital and the golden throne,
A mighty force is coming, emerged from the devilry of industry,
It shall not stop until your kind is totally extinguished,
Follow your king and seek refuge in the stone-carved shelter, which well protected you in past times.

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The Goblet of Grief

Nay, valiant Noldo, thy pardon I shall not accept,
For much is still ahead and the whole goblet of grief thou hast not drunk yet.

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The Chains of Arda (Time)


Chained is Arda and all that findeth itself within,
A force that stone maketh in dust, the iron strangleth and life devoureth.

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The Tyrant's demise


Aye, the Tyrant lost control of the mortal world,
On his knees for pardon he begged,
His legs were hewn and the iron crown as a chain choked him,
Away with him! The brave coalition of free wanteth him to be cast in the obscure chaos beyond of space and time the gates.