Феанор [Feanor] [English translation]
Феанор [Feanor] [English translation]
The gods could not control
The fire in your soul;
There's no place for its light,
You hate your paradise.
Your faith fell to Melkor,
Who ruined Valinor;
But all you heard were lies,
Stuck in your back like knives.
Teleri blood still flows
As you rush towards your oath;1
The Noldor’s stolen fleet
Across the ocean flees.
There's fire in your words,
You fear no worldly curse,
Damnation of the gods
Amuses you-
The soul in you
Is one of two-2
Either to find death and curse the land you take
Or to slowly fade away!
And the princely Noldo3
Left his land with joy and
From the gods, he asked for no support.
And he stepped onto the earth the
First in Middle-earth and
On himself he took the curse!
Your sword is shining
Like Silmarils at night!
Your foe, retreating
Hears laughter, loud and bright.
Your sword is shining
Like fire in your sight!
Death is advancing
But Fëanor will fight,
But Fëanor will fight!
The dark one stole your hope
The sweat poured in your work,
And thus, you lost the soul
You put into those stones.
Still you hold onto hate,
In Angband lies your fate,
You’re looking for a path
Where mountains reek of wrath.
You advance in vain,
Behind the army stays.
Balrogs surround you,
They’re closing around you.
Why do you hurry on?
The life of Elves is long.
Though foes are all around
You’re on your feet-
The soul in you
Is one of two-
Either to find death and curse the land you take
Or to slowly fade away!
And the princely Noldo
Left his land with joy and
From the gods, he asked for no support.
And he stepped onto the earth the
First in Middle-earth and
On himself he took the curse!
Your sword is shining
Like Silmarils at night!
Your foe, retreating
Hears laughter, loud and bright.
Your sword is shining
Like fire in your sight!
Death is advancing
But Fëanor will fight,
But Fëanor will fight!
The soul in you
Is one of two-
Either to find death and curse the land you take
Or to slowly fade away!
And the princely Noldo
Left his land with joy and
From the gods, he asked for no support.
And he stepped onto the earth the
First in Middle-earth and
On himself he took the curse!
Your sword is shining
Like Silmarils at night!
Your foe, retreating
Hears laughter, loud and bright.
Your sword is shining
Like fire in your sight!
Death is advancing
But Fëanor will fight,
But Fëanor will fight!
Without jewels to adorn it,
Why do you wear your crown?
Like a forest without branches,
Like an abandoned town.
Without elves, the world is common,
All is grey when they are gone!
But 'til the end of Arda
You live on in our songs!
You live on in our songs!4
1. Literal Russian: "The exodus was bloody/Nature shed tears." I simply did not vibe with that and added in some extra Silmarillion references: the Teleri were the elves that Fëanor and his company slaughtered in order to steal their ships, which is likely what the original line is referring to. Fëanor's oath to retrieve the Silmarils is an important event of the Silmarillion.2. These two lines were taken from Even Blurry Videos' cover of this song on YouTube, here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK2ImUJSllE 3. Noldo is plural, Noldor is singular. Since прекрасный is singular, I went with Noldo.4. The original line is literally "They live only in songs/That the bards sing to us" which may be a reference to the Blind Guardian song "The Bard's Song." Since I couldn't fit that in the rhythm I replaced it with an allusion to the Fëanor quote "The deeds we shall do will be the matter of song until the last days of Arda."
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