Elbereth [Norwegian translation]

Snow-white! Snow-white! O lady clear!

O Queen beyond the Western Sea!

O Light to us that wander here

Amid the world of woven trees!

Gilthoniel! O Elbereth!

Clear are thy eyes and bright thy breath.

Snow-white! Snow-white! We sing to thee

In a far land beyond the Sea.

O stars that in the Sunless Year

With shining hand by her were sown,

In windy fields now bright and clear

We see your silver blossom blown.

O Elbereth! Gilthoniel!

We still remember, we who dwell

In this far land beneath the trees,

Thy starlight on the Western Seas.

Ah! Like gold fall the leaves in the wind,

Long years numberless as the wings of trees!

The long years have passed like swift draughts of the sweet mead

In lofty halls beyond the West

Beneath the blue vaults of Varda

Wherein the stars tremble in the song of her voice,

Holy and queenly.

Who now shall refill the cup for me?

For now the Kindler, Varda,

The Queen of the Stars, from Mount Everwhite

Has uplifted her hands like clouds,

And all paths are drowned deep in shadow;

And out of a grey country darkness lies on the foaming waves between us,

And mist covers the jewels of Calacirya for ever.

Now lost, lost to those from the East is Valimar!

Farewell! Maybe thou shalt find Valimar.

Maybe even thou shalt find it! Farewell!

We still remember, we who dwell

In this far land beneath the trees

Thy starlight on the Western Seas.

• Artist:J. R. R. Tolkien