[00:16.620]Predestined to become the hope
[00:21.330]Of all in the drear time
[00:25.080]The time when feast changed into tears
[00:29.040]And grandness into slime
[00:33.440]He went to the forbidden gate
[00:37.440]Of Gondolin the great
[00:41.480]To warn the king against the doom
[00:45.140]Brought forth by pride and hate
[00:49.670]Stranger from the Great Sea
[00:51.920]From a far-off shore
[00:53.960]Where the rocks have voices
[00:55.980]And the waves are hoar
[00:58.000]An obscure enigma
[00:59.900]He will come at last
[01:01.910]Speaking the deep language
[01:04.040]Of a buried past
[01:06.530]The vigour of the human race
[01:10.310]Is gathered in his form
[01:13.700]And he sounds like the symphony
[01:18.860]Of waves after the storm
[01:22.040]Stranger from the Great Sea
[01:24.300]From a far-off shore
[01:26.360]Where the rocks have voices
[01:28.390]And the waves are hoar
[01:30.540]An obscure enigma
[01:32.410]He will come at last
[01:34.590]Speaking the deep language
[01:36.650]Of a buried past
[01:40.470]
[02:13.180]Nobody knows
[02:16.400]What road will lead you there
[02:20.050]Tales of something
[02:22.740]That seems to be nowhere
[02:24.720]A cherished secret
[02:28.990]That the mountains screen
[02:32.860]A guarded treasure
[02:34.740]Never to be seen
[02:37.930]In the valley the rivers sing
[02:41.110]Light-winged legend carried by the wind
[02:45.660]Fleeing flicker, immaterial sound
[02:49.690]Hidden city, when will you be found
[02:54.470]
[03:04.080]The dazzling brightness
[03:07.400]Of marble and of gold
[03:11.570]Marvel of marvels
[03:15.420]So hard to behold
[03:19.920]End of the rainbow
[03:23.330]Dreamed of from afar
[03:27.270]Vanishing image
[03:31.300]Of a falling star
[03:36.220]
[03:58.590]Hopeless memory of a long-loved thing
[04:01.410]Song of dead leaves floating in the wind
[04:05.790]Apparition of a haunting ghost
[04:10.990]Hidden city, found and lost
[04:16.230]
[04:37.260]Attacking the unconscious city
[04:40.890]Invading it unawares
[04:42.580]They came over hills and ramparts
[04:45.590]They went up the vast, white stairs
[04:50.120]And that was a night of shrieking
[04:53.140]And summer changed into death
[04:54.980]A welter of black confusion
[04:58.960]The fierce blast of dragons' breath
[05:04.890]
[05:24.940]Gondolin, Gondolin, proud and wondrous
[05:28.800]Treason has woken within your walls
[05:37.860]
[05:41.740]No weapon could stop the slaughter
[05:43.980]No hand could avert the stroke
[05:48.180]The ruin of falling bulwarks
[05:53.090]The spirals of strangling smoke
[05:56.170]Distraction and desperation
[06:00.000]Enfolding the happy plain
[06:04.500]The jealously guarded kingdom
[06:08.980]Brought down by the ruthless bane
[06:13.660]The end of the long illusion
[06:17.600]Catastrophe of the land
[06:21.910]Where centuries of seclusion
[06:26.310]Were useless against Hell's band
[06:31.150]The city beyond the mountains
[06:34.960]Collapsed like a tower of glass
[06:39.380]And ceased like the short-lived echo
[06:45.710]Of beautiful things that pass
[06:49.870]
[07:00.830]And greedy ivy is all that grows now
[07:06.120]Among the rubble of tumbling halls
[07:10.280]
[07:27.760]The lives of Elves and Men
[07:30.760]Entwined are in his destiny
[07:33.800]And in his eyes the wistful gaze
[07:38.250]Into infinity
[07:41.730]
[07:59.970]The lives of Elves and Men
[08:02.950]Entwined are in his destiny
[08:06.180]And in his eyes the wistful gaze
[08:10.910]Into infinity
[08:19.620]And in the end the city fell.
[08:26.800]Its streets were filled with the might of Morgoth's monstrous
[08:31.150]creatures: wolves, Orcs and Balrogs wandered around,
[08:36.520]spreading fire and death. And in the very square of the King,
[08:41.570]Ecthelion of the Fountain engaged a deadly battle with Gothmog lord
[08:47.040]of Balrogs, where each killed the other. Then,
[08:53.250]by the pass called the Eagles' Cleft,
[08:55.990]the fugitives from Gondolin were ambushed by Orcs;
[08:59.280]and a Balrog was with them.
[09:01.570]They were only saved by the courage of Glorfindel
[09:05.810]the golden-haired, whose valour lives on in Elfish songs
[09:11.880]