The song “To the Sea” is in the “Return of the King” and is sung by Legolas. @determamfidd reblogged someone singing this and I suddenly got the urge to practice my quenya and tengwar. Now it is also possible to be sung in quenya for giggles. 😀
To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are calling
The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying
West, west away, the round sun is falling.
Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling,
The voices of my people that have gone before me?
I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me;
For our days are ending and our years failing.
I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing.
Long are the waves on the Last Shores falling,
Sweet are the voices in the Last Isle calling,
In Eressea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover,
Where the leaves fall not: land of my people for ever!
New song! This is the song that Legolas sings at the end of The Return of the King when he first starts to long for the sea. Thank you to anyone who listens! 🙂 Also, I tag all my music with ‘songs from the lord of the rings’ if anyone is interested.
Music is mine, the text is from The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West, west away, the round sun is falling. Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling, The voices of my people that have gone before me? I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me; For our days are ending and our years failing. I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing. Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling, Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling, In Eressëa, in Elvenhome that no man can discover, Where the leaves fall not: land of my people for ever!
Well, that took me about half a second to reblog, haha. Seriously, though, if you guys haven’t heard this girl sing – check out her blog, listen to all of her music! So beautiful! Almost always her compositions and her voice make me tear up…
Do I really need to add anything to this post? Perfect, as always! Keep up the awesome work!
they would be ADORABLE marrieds, aaahhhhh – that’s so sweet, Nonnie!
Thranduil, by that stage, might actually be inured to the whole thing. “Fine, whatever, go marry a mortal, all of you go and marry mortals, see if I care.” *chugs wine*
This lowkey feels like something Legolas would say in the Hobbit trilogy lol, I mean, he p much seems to be going through his rebellious teen phase as it is.
*pats Leggy*
Gloin: Hey give it back, that’s private. Legolas: Who is this? Your brother? Gloin: That is my wife. Legolas: And what is this horrid creature? A goblin mutant? Gloin: That’s my wee lad Gimli. Why are you so rude, elf? Legolas: unlike u i have the spine to tell ppl when i hate them so they know and can fix their behaviour
Dwarves: The elves did not come to our aid when we needed it most
Thranduil: unlike u i have the spine to tell ppl when i hate them so they know and can fix their behavior
Awww, thank you for asking! Spoilers under the cut:
I have named her ‘Aelir’ (”Birdsong”) and she was a Silvan Elf, not a Sinda. Her hair was very pale gold, rather than the Sindar white/silver.
She was incredibly close to the trees, even more than is usual for Elves. She would have been the sort of Elf who began ‘waking up the Trees, teaching them to speak’ and walking with the Ents, had she been around in the Age of the Lamps, for example.
She was tall and athletic, and never wore gowns or jewels except for a single necklace of white gems, a courting gift to her from her husband. She always wore green, and usually went barefoot, with grass-stains on her feet. Thranduil courted her for decades, fascinated by her strength and her freedom and her wisdom and her gentleness, all the joy she found in her home and in the things that grow. She was not a skilled and deadly warrior, as he was – but she was quite a wild thing nevertheless, forever clambering into the canopy of the trees like a squirrel, or flitting through the forest, constantly singing to the leaves and the sky. She hated the idea of being confined to formality and pomp (not unlike Bomfris, but of course Bomfris wouldn’t give two hoots about trees) – but in those days Thranduil was gentler and less chilly, and his tenderness and respect eventually won her over. She carefully unearthed his deep-buried heart as though it was one of her beloved trees, and she coaxed it back into bloom. They would dance amidst the leaves season after season, lost in the whispering of the wind.
She loved completely, and fully – her husband, her children, her home. Her elder two boys were much like Thranduil in demeanor, dignified and reserved (though Laerophen gained her lanky height, and Laindawar had her lithe, squirrelish strength and her delight in the woods). However, her third child was most like her in spirit – in wide-eyed love with the world, singing constantly and heedlessly, sensitive to the green, slow unspoken world of growing things. (ALSO he managed to inherit her slightly obvious and oblivious manner!!)
As Thranduil became more and more involved in trying to keep his Kingdom free from the taint of the growing darkness, he missed the first signs in his wild Silvan wife. By the middle of the Third Age, Aelir had sickened greatly, practically reflecting the sickness creeping through the wood, and it was too late for any healer to halt its progression. The only cure was to go over the sea, to Valinor, where healing would come.
But once there, there is no coming back. No ship comes East through the mists.
It was an awful time. For all of them. And yet another loss for Thranduil to endure, surrounding his heart in yet another layer of ice. All he has left, he clings to all the more tightly.