Текст песни: Fall of Gondolin + перевод

Predestined to become the hope

Of all in the drear time

The time when feast changed into tears

And grandness into slime

He went to the forbidden gate

Of Gondolin the great

To warn the king against the doom

Brought forth by pride and hate

Stranger from the Great Sea

From a far-off shore

Where the rocks have voices

And the waves are hoar

An obscure enigma

He will come at last

Speaking the deep language

Of a buried past

The vigour of the human race

Is gathered in his form

And he sounds like the symphony

Of waves after the storm

Stranger from the Great Sea

From a far-off shore

Where the rocks have voices

And the waves are hoar

An obscure enigma

He will come at last

Speaking the deep language

Of a buried past

Part II -- The Secret city

Nobody knows

What road will lead you there

Tales of something

That seems to be nowhere

A cherished secret

That the mountains screen

A guarded treasure

Never to be seen

In the valley the rivers sing

Light-winged legend carried by the wind

Fleeing flicker, immaterial sound

Hidden city, when will you be found?

The dazzling brightness

Of marble and of gold

Marvel of marvels

So hard to behold

End of the rainbow

Dreamed of from afar

Vanishing image

Of a falling star

Hopeless memory of a long-loved thing

Song of dead leaves floating in the wind

Apparition of a haunting ghost

Hidden city, found and lost

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