The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers movie - Foundations Of Stone lyrics

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Song by Howard Shore<br /><br>

(Quenya and Dwarvish)<br>

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Mettanna(Q)<br>

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Irkat-lukhud ma<br>

katabrikihu<br>

Ulfat-atam ma<br>

tanakhi uduhu<br>

bin-nât aznân tarsisi<br>

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Bazar udu agânî-furkhîn<br>

Gurd!<br>

Ma nîd sakhu!<br>

Ma satf unkhai!<br>

Atkât zatagrafizu<br>

Zatablugi sulluzu(D)<br>

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Mettanna<br>

Nárendur!<br>

An mauya mahtie.<br>

Mettanna! (Q)<br>

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'No shaft of light<br>

Can breach it<br>

No breath of air<br>

Comes from it<br>

Only an endless dark rises<br>

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Deep from the beginnings<br>

Of the world.<br>

Have fear.<br>

Do not look down<br>

Nor step too close<br>

The silence will take you.<br>

It will swallow you whole.'<br>

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Cuiva Olorin<br>

Narendur<br>

Tira nottolya<br>

Tulta tuolya<br>

An mauya mahtie<br>

Ter oiomornie<br>

Ter ondicilyar.<br>

Mettanna.<br>

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Nurunna!<br>

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'Awake Olorin<br>

Servant of fire<br>

Face your foe<br>

Summon forth your strength<br>

For you must fight<br>

Through endless dark<br>

Through chasms of stone. <br>

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To the end.<br>

To the death!'<br>

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Word-for-word translation:<br>

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'Awake Olorin<br>

Fire-servant<br>

Look-at foe-your<br>

Summon strength-your<br>

For [you] compel to-fight<br>

Through ever-darkness<br>

Through stone-chasms.<br>

End-towards.<br>

Death-towards!<br>

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