Many Meetings is the ninth track of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Howard Shore. It is played during the beginnings of the Hobbits' time in Rivendell.
"The hymn to Elbereth" …
Many Meetings is the ninth track of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Howard Shore. It is played during the beginnings of the Hobbits' time in Rivendell.
"The hymn to Elbereth" Sung by The London Voices, female choir.
This was sung (in the book) by an Elf of Rivendell in the Hall of Fire on the eve of Elrond's Council.
Source: http://www.amagpiesnest.com/cbc_analysis/fotr/f09many_meetings.htm
Note: I used Tolkien's own translation which is rather a free translation.
Varda Elentári, known in Sindarin as Elbereth Gilthoniel, was a Valië, one of the Aratar, the wife of Manwë and Queen of the Valar. She was said to be too beautiful for words as within her face radiated the light of Ilúvatar. Elves love and revere her most of all the Valar, and they call upon her in their hours of deepest darkness. She appeared in shining white fana in visions to the Elves of Middle-earth, and thus was called Fanuilos (Snow-white).
This hymn is the longest Sindarin text in LotR, found near the end of the chapter "Many meetings" (LotR1/II ch. 1). The hobbits are in the house of Elrond and leave the Hall of Fire: "Even as they stepped over the threshold a single clear voice rose in song... [Frodo] stood still enchanted, while the sweet syllables of the elvish song fell like clear jewels of blended word and melody. 'It is a song to Elbereth,' said Bilbo. 'They will sing that, and other songs of the Blessed Realm, many times tonight.' "
The hymn to Elbereth (Tengwar superscript Aerlinn in Edhil o Imladris, *"Hymn of the Elves of Rivendell"):
𝐀 𝐄𝐥𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐥,
𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐦í𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐥
𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡!
𝐍𝐚-𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧-𝐝í𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐥
𝐨 𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡,
𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬, 𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧
𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬, 𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧
𝐧𝐞𝐟 𝐚𝐞𝐚𝐫, 𝐬í 𝐧𝐞𝐟 𝐚𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐧!
O Elbereth who lit the stars
(white) glittering slants down sparkling like jewels
from [the] firmament [the] glory [of] the star-host!
To-remote distance far-having gazed
from [the] tree-tangled middle-lands,
Fanuilos, to thee I will chant
on this side of ocean, here on this side of the Great Ocean!
Source: https://folk.uib.no/hnohf/elbereth.htm
