\"Nam\u00e1ri\u00eb\" (Goodbye) is the title of the longest of the poems in Quenya or High-elven written by J.R.R. Tolkien in all his work. A poem that the British professor himself left us a recording of.<\/p>\n
Let's start with the poem. Tolkien published it in \"The Fellowship of the Ring\"<\/strong>, the first volume of \"The Lord of the Rings\", specifically in chapter 8, entitled \"Farewell to L\u00f3rien.\" Galadriel sang it when the Fellowship of the Ring bid farewell to Lothl\u00f3tien. This is the Quenya text in the book:<\/strong><\/p>\n Ai! lauri\u00eb lantar lassi s\u00farinen! And this is the English version:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a1Ah! like gold fall the leaves in the wind, The meaning of the poem<\/big><\/p>\n The content of the poem will be riddled with riddles for those who have not read Tolkien's works.<\/strong> To clarify some points, when Tolkien speaks of \"long years numberless\" is not being short, because at the time she sang this poem, Galadriel was already more than 6,000 years<\/strong> (the elves were immortal). When the poem talks about the \"halls beyond the West\" it refers to Aman, the Undying Lands, home of the Valar, and surely to Tirion, the city of the Noldor, in which Galadriel was born.<\/strong> The \"blue vaults of Varda\" is a way of referring to the night sky, illuminated by the stars that Varda had lit, according to Tolkien's mythology.<\/p>\n The \"Mount Everwhite\" of which the poem speaks is the Taniquetil, at the top of which are the mansions of Varda and her husband, Manw\u00eb<\/strong>, the Lord of the Valar. From that summit you could see all the lands of Arda, name given by Tolkien to the world created by him, which included the mentioned Undying Lands, the Middle Earth (in which the events of \"The Hobbit\" and \"The Lord of the Rings\") and the ocean that separated them. When the poem speaks of \"a gray country\" it refers, obviously, to Mordor, the kingdom of the evil Sauron.<\/strong> With \"the jewels of Calacirya\", the poem refers to the gorge of the same name that opened in the Pel\u00f3ri mountains, in the Undying Lands, through which came the light of the Valinor Trees as far as Tirion. Finally, Valimar is the land of the Valar - the high powers of Arda - in the Undying Lands.<\/strong> The final part of the poem talks about the loss of that land for the elves who left for Middle Earth, for the events that took place during the War of Wrath.<\/p>\n The spectacular version composed by the Finn Toni Edelmann<\/big><\/p>\n The most spectacular musical version of this poem can be heard in this video<\/strong>, published by Ohskar77<\/a> on Youtube in March 2010:<\/p>\n
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\nY\u00e9ni \u00fan\u00f3time ve r\u00e1mar aldaron,
\ny\u00e9ni ve linte yuldar v\u00e1nier
\nmi oromardi lisse-miruv\u00f3reva
\nAnd\u00fane pella Vardo tellumar
\nnu luini yassen tintilar \u00ed eleni
\n\u00f3maryo airet\u00e1ri-l\u00edr\u00ednen.
\nS\u00ed rnan i yulna nin enquantuva?
\nve fanyar m\u00e1ryat Elent\u00e1ri ortane
\nar ilye tier undul\u00e1ve lumbule,
\nar sindan\u00f3riello carta morni\u00eb
\ni falmalinnar imbe met, ar h\u00edsi\u00eb
\nunt\u00fapa Calaciryo m\u00edri oiale.
\nS\u00ed vanwa na, R\u00f3mello vanwa, Valimar!
\nNam\u00e1ri\u00eb Nai biruvalye Valimar.
\nNai elye hiruwa. Nam\u00e1ri\u00eb!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nlong years numberless as the wings of trees!
\nThe long years have passed like swift draughts
\nof the sweet mead in lofty halls
\nbeyond the West, beneath the blue vaults of Varda
\nwherein the stars tremble
\nin the voice of her song, holy and queenly.
\nWho now shall refill the cup for me?
\nFor now the Kindler, Varda, the Queen of the stars,
\nfrom Mount Everwhite has uplifted her hands like clouds
\nand all paths are drowned deep in shadow;
\nand out of a grey country darkness lies
\non the foaming waves between us,
\nand mist covers the jewels of Calacirya for ever.
\nNow lost, lost to those of the East is Valimar!
\nFarewell! Maybe thou shalt find Valimar!
\nMaybe even thou shalt find it! Farewell!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n