Yuletide in Exile: Songs of the Dúnedain
4. Morgoth Lay Ibounden
Morgoth lay ibounden
bounden in a bond
fore thousand Ages
thought he not too long
And all was for a jewel
A jewel that he tok
as clerkes finden
Wreten in here book
Ne hadde the jewel take ben
That jewel take ben
Ne hadde ever Lúthien
a ben forebearers' Queen
Blissed be the time
That jewel take was
Therefore we moun singen
"Deo gracias"!
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I know, there's no Latin in Númenor, but I don't have a rhyming Quenya equivalent. Tune: Adam Lay Ibounden (Mediaeval Baebes have a rendition).
bounden in a bond
fore thousand Ages
thought he not too long
And all was for a jewel
A jewel that he tok
as clerkes finden
Wreten in here book
Ne hadde the jewel take ben
That jewel take ben
Ne hadde ever Lúthien
a ben forebearers' Queen
Blissed be the time
That jewel take was
Therefore we moun singen
"Deo gracias"!
******
I know, there's no Latin in Númenor, but I don't have a rhyming Quenya equivalent. Tune: Adam Lay Ibounden (Mediaeval Baebes have a rendition).
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