Foundations of Stone
-the Flight
(In Quenya )
Cuiva Olórin
Nįrendur
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!'
Exact translation -word for word:
'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!)
-The Abyss
Irkat-lukhud ma
katabrikihu
Ulfat-atam ma
tanakhi uduhu
bin-nāt aznān tarsisi
Bazar udu agānī-furkhīn
Gurd!
Ma nīd sakhu!
Ma satf unkhai!
Atkāt zatagrafizu
Zatablugi sulluzu
('No shaft of light
Can breach it
No breath of air
Comes from it
Only an endless dark rises
Deep from the beginnings
Of the world.
Have fear.
Do not look down
Nor step too close
The silence will take you.
It will swallow you whole.')
