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[00:06.94]E?endil was a mariner
[00:08.07]that tarried in Arvernien;
[00:09.63]he built a boat of timber felled
[00:11.02]in Nimbrethil to journey in;
[00:13.58]her sails he wove of silver fair,
[00:15.05]of silver were her lanterns made,
[00:16.59]her prow was fashioned like a swan,
[00:18.23]and light upon her banners laid.
[00:21.57]In panoply of ancient kings,
[00:23.51]in chained rings he armoured him;
[00:24.95]his shining shield was scored with runes
[00:26.49]to ward all wounds and harm from him;
[00:29.07]his bow was made of dragon-horn,
[00:30.78]his arrows shorn of ebony,
[00:32.62]of silver was his habergeon,
[00:35.66]his scabbard of chalcedony;
[00:44.91]his sword of steel was valiant,
[00:48.39]of adamant his helmet tall,
[00:52.75]an eagle-plume upon his crest,
[00:57.58]upon his breast an emerald.
[01:10.42]Beneath the Moon and under star
[01:11.80]he wandered far from northern strands,
[01:13.35]bewildered on enchanted ways
[01:14.81]beyond the days of mortal lands.
[01:17.53]From gnashing of the Narrow Ice
[01:19.22]where shadow lies on frozen hills,
[01:20.66]from nether heats and burning waste
[01:22.36]he turned in haste, and roving still
[01:29.79]on starless waters far astray
[01:35.53]at last he came to Night of Naught,
[01:43.03]and passed, and never sight he saw
[01:50.05]of shining shore nor light he sought.
[02:05.03]The winds of wrath came driving him,
[02:08.51]and blindly in the foam he fled
[02:13.05]from west to east and errandless,
[02:17.84]unheralded he homeward sped.
[02:28.19] There flying Elwing came to him,
[02:31.69]and flame was in the darkness lit;
[02:35.94]more bright than light of diamond
[02:40.88]the fire upon her carcanet.
[02:53.11]The Silmaril she bound on him
[02:54.50]and crowned him with the living light
[02:56.10]and dauntless then with burning brow
[02:57.58]he turned his prow; and in the night
[03:00.15]from Otherworld beyond the Sea
[03:01.69]there strong and free a storm arose,
[03:03.32]a wind of power in Tarmenel;
[03:04.92]by paths that seldom mortal goes
[03:17.49]his boat it bore with biting breath
[03:21.14]as might of death across the grey
[03:25.76]and long-forsaken seas distressed:
[03:30.58]from east to west he passed away.
[03:40.16] Through Evernight he back was borne
[03:44.72]on black and roaring waves that ran
[03:49.96]o'er leagues unlit and foundered shores
[03:56.22]that drowned before the Days began,
[04:02.06]until he heard on strands of pearl
[04:06.65]when ends the world the music long,
[04:12.54]where ever foaming billows roll
[04:17.98]the yellow gold and jewels wan.
[04:31.57]He saw the Mountain silent rise
[04:33.11]where twilight lies upon the knees
[04:34.69]of Valinor, and Eldamar
[04:36.30]beheld afar beyond the seas.
[04:39.32]A wanderer escaped from night
[04:40.82]to haven white he came at last,
[04:42.54]to Elvenhome the green and fair
[04:44.19]where keen the air, where pale as glass
[04:52.05]beneath the Hill of Ilmarin
[04:58.26]a-glimmer in a valley sheer
[05:05.74]the lamplit towers of Tirion
[05:13.25]are mirrored on the Shadowmere.
[05:30.27]He tarried there from errantry,
[05:32.01]and melodies they taught to him,
[05:33.61]and sages old him marvels told,
[05:35.15]and harps of gold they brought to him.
[05:37.93]They clothed him then in elven-white,
[05:39.57]and seven lights before him sent,
[05:41.37]as through the Calacirian
[05:42.97]to hidden land forlorn he went.
[05:51.03]He came unto the timeless halls
[05:56.33]where shining fall the countless years,
[06:04.15]and endless reigns the Elder King
[06:10.44]in Ilmarin on Mountain sheer;
[06:26.81]and words unheard were spoken then
[06:30.59]of folk of Men and Elven-kin,
[06:35.06]beyond the world were visions showed
[06:40.07]forbid to those that dwell therein.
[06:51.00]A ship then new they built for him
[06:54.46]of mithril and of elven-glass
[06:58.98]with shining prow; no shaven oar
[07:03.77]nor sail she bore on silver mast:
[07:12.47]the Silmaril as lantern light
[07:16.92]and banner bright with living flame
[07:22.81]to gleam thereon by Elbereth
[07:28.10]herself was set, who thither came
[07:33.89]and wings immortal made for him,
[07:38.32]and laid on him undying doom,
[07:43.05]to sail the shoreless skies and come
[07:48.70]behind the Sun and light of Moon.
[07:54.24] From Evereven's lofty hills
[07:59.71]where softly silver fountains fall
[08:07.51]his wings him bore, a wandering light,
[08:15.08]beyond the mighty Mountain Wall.
[08:32.35]From World's End then he turned away
[08:33.82]and yearned again to find afar
[08:35.49]his home through shadows journeying,
[08:36.97]and burning as an island star
[08:39.80]on high above the mists he came,
[08:41.46]a distant flame before the Sun,
[08:44.55]a wonder ere the waking dawn
[08:47.16]where grey the Norland waters run.
[08:53.44]And over Middle-earth he passed
[08:57.75]and heard at last the weeping sore
[09:02.88]of women and of elven-maids
[09:08.37]in Elder Days, in years of yore.
[09:14.34]But on him mighty doom was laid,
[09:18.78]till Moon should fade, an orbéd star
[09:24.10]to pass, and tarry never more
[09:29.29]on Hither Shores where mortals are;
[09:42.84]for ever still a herald on
[09:44.38]an errand that should never rest
[09:46.70]to bear his shining lamp afar,
[09:50.91]the Flammifer of Westernesse.