Of Beren and Luthien

This is a song by the Russian band Caprice. They have sung many songs from the LOTR books. This is the song which Aragorn sang in book. Caprice have sung just a part of it. Here is the song Tolkien wrote: The leaves were long, the grass was green, The hemlockumbels tall and fair, And in the glade a light was seen Of stars in shadow shimmering. Tinuviel was dancing there To music of a pipe unseen, And light of stars was in her hair, And in her raiment glimmering. There Beren came from mountains cold, And lost he wandered under leaves, And where the Elvenriver rolled. He walked along and sorrowing. He peered between the hemlockleaves And saw in wonder flowers of gold Upon her mantle and her sleeves, And her hair like shadow following. Enchantment healed his weary feet That over hills were doomed to roam; And forth he hastened, strong and fleet, And grasped at moonbeams glistening. Through woven woods in Elvenhome She lightly