Born of the Quendi, were they,
The result of their race's First Sunder.
Chose, they did, to remain in the lands of their birth,
When for the West, the others did hunger.
"No desire have we for Treelight," said they.
"The stars are all we need."
And so when the other Kindred set forth,
The summons of the Powers they did not heed.
"No," was their reply to told the Emissaries,
"The land of our birth we will not forsake."
So remain behind they did, when the others crossed the Sea;
By the waters where their kind did awake.
New names were given to the sundered group-
The Firstborn of which this song is telling.
For while those who set forth became 'The People of the Stars',
Those who remained behind were called 'The Unwilling'.
A tribal people were they, with neither cities nor kings,
Of them few tales and no fame;
But first were they to greet the Secondborn,
And their teachers they became.