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Title: Love Found, Love Lost (#460)
Author: boz4PM
Chapters: 1

Archive: Tolkien
Category: Bombadil's Corner
Description: Song of an elf who loved a mortal.
Published: 16 Dec 2003
Updated: 16 Dec 2003
Warnings:
Type: Romance
Characters: OCs


Chapter 1 - Love Found, Love Lost

This is the song sung by Fuineth in my story 'Legolas ar Yende Beriorgano' (posted here at openscrolls). It is sung in Quenyan, so think of this as an English translation of it. In Quenyan it would scan better and rhyme of course.


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In long ago / in simpler time
They did meet / those fated loves:
A mortal and / an elf-maid fair.
A dark elf she: / a moriquend.



Tall, proud and dark, / a warrior bold
He stood amazed, / his heart did stop,
As she there / before him smiled
Shining by light / of moon and star




I will see you never more, my love,
I will see you never more.




Hand in hand / they did walk
Their laughter bright / rang through the trees
Their love was clear / to all that knew
But dark indeed / her mother’s thoughts



O daughter mine, / O maiden fair,
I cannot bear / to see you thus.
Though your heart / in joy delights,
All too soon / your heart will break.




I will see you never more, my love,
I will see you never more.




The mortals die, / their lives too brief.
Wither they wander / is not known;
They do not return / nor cross the seas
To sit patiently / in Mandos’ Halls.



The lovers twain / would not be swayed
But joined, betrothéd, / wed became,
They shared a love, / a passion deep,
But still she watched him / age and die.




I will see you never more, my love,
I will see you never more.




A figure stands / beside a mound
Weeping, tears / upon her breast.
A ship awaits her / at the quay:
A ship to take her / to the West.



Across the sea / to Valinor,
Back to the arms / of waiting kin;
But forever will / her heart turn East,
Back to that turf / o’er crowned with flowers.




I will see you never more, my love,
I will see you never more.

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Apologies for the layout - there should be a gap in the middle of the 'verse' lines, but couldn't get that to work, hence the '/' instead.
Also posted at fanfiction.net
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