Foundations of Stone - Howard Shore

Irkat-lukhud ma

Katabrikihu

Ulfat-atam ma

Tanakhi uduhu

Bin-nât aznân tarsisi

Bazar udu agânî-furkhîn

Gurd!

Ma nîd sakhu!

Ma satf unkhai!

Atkât zatagrafizu

Zatablugi sulluzu (D)

Mettanna

Nárendur!

An mauya mahtie

Mettanna!

(Q)

'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.'

Cuiva Olorin

Narendur

Tira nottolya

Tulta tuolya

An mauya mahtie

Ter oiomornie

Ter ondicilyar

Mettanna

Nurunna!

'Awake Olorin

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!'

Word-for-word translation:

'Awake Olorin

Fire-servant

Look-at foe-your

Summon strength-your

For compel to-fight

Through ever-darkness

Through stone-chasms

End-towards

Death-towards!