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The Two Towers:

 

15. Foundations of Stone: The Fight Q.

19. Evenstar S

20. Treebreard: Entmoot S.

24. Breath of Life: Aragorn S

26. Isengard Unleashed: The Ents S.

27. Isengard Unleashed: Haldir's Lament Q

 

15. The Fight: featured in Foundations of Stone Quenya

Words by Philippa Boyens, translated into Quenya by David Salo, music by Howard Shore. 

Version published on the Internet Limited Edition website for the Two Towers Soundtrack.

 

Cuiva Olórin
Nárendur
Tira nottolya
Tulta tuolya
An mauya mahtie
 
Ter oiomornie
Ter ondicilyar
.
Mettanna
.

Nurunna!

 

'Awake Olórin
Servant of fire
Face your foe
Summon forth your strength
For you must fight
Through endless dark
Through chasms of stone.

To the end.
To the death!
'

 

Word-for-word translation:

 

'Awake Olórin

Fire-servant

Look-at foe-your

Summon strength-your

For [you] compel to-fight

Through ever-darkness

Through stone-chasms.

End-towards.

Death-towards!

 

19. Evenstar

Text by J.R.R. Tolkien, translated into Sindarin by David Salo. It is performed by Isabel Bayrakdarian. 

 

Ú i vethed nâ i onnad.

Si boe ú-dhanna.

Ae ú-esteli, esteliach nad.

Ú i vethed nâ i onnad.  

Nâ boe ú i.

Estelio han, estelio han, estelio

estelio han, estelio veleth.

[Es]teliach nad, estelio han

 

'Not the end [it] is the beginning.

Now it-is-necessary [that] don't-fall

If you don't-trust some-thing.'

'Not the end [it] is the beginning.'

'[It] is necessary don't that.'

'Trust this, trust this, trust

Trust this, trust love.'

 

You trust some-thing, trust this.'

 

 

20. Entmoot: featured in Treebeard  Sindarin

Words by Philippa Boyens, translated into Sindarin by David Salo, music by Howard Shore. 

 

Naur vi eryn,
lanc i dalaf.
Mathach vi geven?
Nostach vi 'wilith?
Mâb le i nagor,
Bâd gurth vi ngalad firiel.
Dorthach vi mar han?
Dagrathach go hain?

 

'The woods are burning,
the ground lies bare.
Do you feel it in the earth?
Can you smell it in the air?
The war is upon you,
Death moves in the fading light.
Are you part of this world?
Will you join their fight?'

 

Word-for-word translation:

 

'Fire in forest,

naked [is] the ground.

Feel-you [it] in earth?

Smell-you [it] in air?

Takes you [or you are taken by] the war,

Goes death in light fading.

Dwell-you in land this?

Will-make-war-you with them?'

 

 

25. Aragorn: featured in Breath of Life  Sindarin

This Sindarin text is by Fran Walsh. It is performed by Sheila Chandra.

Uich gwennen na 'wanath ah na dhín.

An uich gwennen na ringyrn ambar hen.

Boe naid bain gwannathar,

Boe cuil ban firitha.

 

Boe naer gwannathach, 

 

'You are not bound to loss and silence.

For you are not bound to the circles of this world.

All things must pass away,

All life is doomed to fade…

 

Sorrowing you must go, [and yet you are not without hope].'

 

26. The Ents: featured in Isengard Unleashed  Sindarin

Words by Philippa Boyens, translated into Sindarin by David Salo, music by Howard Shore. 

 

  rithannen i geven [2.18]

thangen i harn

na fennas i daur

ôl dûr ristannen

eryn...

 

...echuiannen [2.58]

i ngelaidh dagrar

ristar thynd, cúa tawar

dambedir enyd i ganed

si linna i 'waew trin 'ylf

Isto i dur i chuiyl

i ngelaidh dagrar

 

'Earth shakes

Stone breaks

The forest [is] at [your] door

The dark sleep is broken

The woods...

 

... have awoken

The trees have gone to war

Roots rend, wood bends

The Ents have answered the call

Through branches now the wind sings

Feel the power of living things

The trees have gone to war'

 

Word-for-word translation:

 

'Shaken the earth

broken the stone

at door the forest

sleep dark broken

woods awoken

the trees make-war

rend roots, bends wood

answered Ents the call

now sings the wind through-the branches

have-knowledge [of] the strength of-the living-creatures

the trees make-war'

 

27. Haldir's Lament: featured in Isengard Unleashed Quenya

This verse is a fragment of the Galadriel's Lament (The Fellowship of the Ring book). This Quenya text is by J.R.R. Tolkien. For its analysis see J.R.R. Tolkien The Road Goes Ever On. It is performed by Elizabeth Fraser.

 

Solo by Elisabeth Fraser:

Ar sindarnóriello caita mornie,

Ar ilye tier unduláve lumbule...

 

'And grey-country-from lies darkness,

And all roads down-licked [the] clouds...'

 

 

 

From Elvish.org's Soundtrack: Linguistic Survey