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Sword-cirth - verses from the Lay of Leithian
Submitted by Gannelion on October 19th, 2015
These cirth appear along either side of the sword forged by Tavelorn Silverbranch for his protegé, Gannelion Glinnelluin, giving the verses of the Lay of Leithian he sang at its forging to make it more potent in defiance of the Shadow:
Elo! i estel Eldamar,
naur o Feanor, calad aur
no Anor a Isil onnin,
sin tol lain ed gaduin!
"Behold! the hope of Elvenland
the fire of Fëanor, Light of Morn
before the sun and moon were born,
thus out of bondage came at last"
The Lay of Leithian, Canto XIII
Source:
created in GIMP with Dan Smith's Angerthas font by myself. The Lay of Leithian is by Tolkien. The Sindarin translation of the verse is my own.
