Caprice - Of Amroth and Nimrodel video free download

A great song from "Caprice", a neo-classical ensemble from Russia from their album "Elvenmusic" inspired by JRR Tolkien.

Poetry by JRR Tolkien.

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OF AMROTH AND NIMRODEL

Do you hear the voice of Nimrodel? I will sing you a song of maiden Nimrodel who bore the same name as the stream beside which she lived long ago.. It's a fair song in our woodland tongue; but this is how it runs in the Westron speech, as some in Rivendell now sing it...

An Elven-maid there was of old,

A shining star by day:

Her mantle white was hemmed with gold,

Her shoes of silver-grey.

A star was bound upon her brow,

A light was on her hair,

As sun upon the golden bough

In Lorien the fair.

Her hair was long, her limbs were white

And fair she was and free

And in the wind she went as light,

As leaf of linden-tree.

Beside the falls of Nimrodel,

By water clear and cool

Her voice as falling silver fell

Into the shining pool.

Where now she wanders none can tell,

In sunlight or in shade;

For lost of yore was Nimrodel

And in the mountains strayed.

The Elven-ship in haven grey

Beneath the mountain-lee

Awaited her for many days

Beside the roaring sea.

Amroth beheld the fading shore

Now low beyond the swell

And cursed the faithless ship that bore

Him far from Nimrodel.

From helm to sea they saw him leap

As arrow from the string

And dive into the water deep,

As mew upon the wing.

The wind was in his flowing hair,

The foam about him shone

Afar they saw him strong and fair

Go riding like a swan.

But from the west has come no word,

And on the hither shore

No tidings Elven-folk have ever heard

Of Amroth evermore.

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