Oh great Mandos

High among Valar

I come to you in sorrow

And with a broken heart

.

Long has been my journey

That led me to these halls

But now I kneel before thee

As grief my spirit calls

.

I seek a man named Beren

Whom I bid await me here

I pledged that I would find him

Before he leaves this sphere

.

This man of whom I speak

He gave his life for me

But thence my soul grew weak

And at last it too broke free

.

So borne upon an urgent breeze

I travelled to this place

Where only one thing could appease

The torment I now face

.

Oh tell me I am not too late

To see my love once more

For that would be too cruel a fate

I beg him be restored

.

That we may take a little time

To bid our last farewell

And remember all we shared erstwhile

Such joy no one could quell

.

For never was a greater love

Than that within our hearts

Once born, forever binding us

E’en though through death we part

 

Meaning Of The Song

“The song of Lúthien before Mandos was the song most fair that ever in words was woven, and the song most sorrowful that ever the world shall hear. Unchanged, imperishable, it is sung still in Valinor beyond the hearing of the world, and listening the Valar are grieved. For Lúthien wove two themes of words, of the sorrow of the Eldar and the grief of Men, of the Two Kindreds that were made by Ilúvatar to dwell in Arda, the Kingdom of Earth amid the innumerable stars. And as she knelt before him her tears fell upon his feet like rain upon stones; and Mandos was moved to pity, who never before was so moved, nor has been since.”

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