Song

((Disclaimer: The melody is not mine, only the text is. The original melody is Toki No Uta by Aoi Teshima.

((This song was sung at the beginning of Archet Aid. Sung to the melody of Camelot.
The other song Cloves sang is here.))

((It is now the Seventh Age, and Daerundros has faded and becoming a lingerer (eg. a wandering spirit who has consumed it's host's body). Her spirit climbs the highest mountain on Middle-earth, where the sea and some part of Aman can be seen, and she will sing this Lament until the Second Music. The Lament will never be heard by mortal men, because they cannot see or hear the spirits of the faded Elves.

Beyond  the hills there lies a wood.

Of trees of old, I speak with truth.

There I now wander, not on my own.

Through a land, for many yet unknown.

My heart lies with her, she, mistress of the wood.

For she is a pure radiation of peace and youth.

((NOTE: My Sindarin is quite bad. Please send me a PM if you think you have a better translation for something or other!))

Yende learned this song a long time ago, a song of one of the companies she fought in. Though a hopeful-sounding song, this makes the heart of a soldier sad... because they remember who they shall not see again in the morning.

This song was sung to wandering Hobbits the Elves of Linna na Gelaidh met on their travels. It is, as Tolkien would say, nonsense but fair nonsense.

Carð i-Chalarinðrim

Thick dusk had fallen cross the land

When our heroes found the orcs

Foul ugly beasts, dressed with rags

And armed with cruel boar-forks

With stealth our heroes advanced

Outnumbered, though they were

And crept into the orcish camp

And battled them right there

Sing to the summer, the season of warmth, the sun and the fruit in the fields;
But welcome the autumn, the fall of the leaves, the artist of colour and change.

In red and golden leaves it paints, in cold and starry sky,
In fiery grass and flaming fruits, in misty fingers grey.
The winds it calls from east and west, from north and southern plains,
The clouds it shepherds to its will, bright sun and early rains.