Ever long have I waited,
through dark nights and gloomy days,
for this day to become fated.
Alas! we each have gone our separate ways!
Elven-fair and a lover of trees,
you who stole my heart and breath,
and left me feeling ill at ease,
as you neared ever to death.
Over mountains and through Dwarf-mine,
into lands both fair and fell,
you journeyed far and made me pine,
for a day we would together dwell.
O Legolas! how I feared for you,
to die from orc-arrow or battle axe,
but, nay, you were the one who slew,
with hands as quick as the feet of Shadowfax.
The Darkness has now departed,
happiness is everywhere.
Will you still want us to be parted?
Do you wish my life to be bare?
For I will follow you wherever you stray,
be it mountain, fen, lake, forest, or Sea,
and tend and care for you night and day,
Do not leave me here alone, Legolas, I need thee!
Yet with Gimli Dwarf-friend,
you sailed away over the Sea,
breaking my heart, without hope of it ever to mend.
Return, Legolas, return to me!
through dark nights and gloomy days,
for this day to become fated.
Alas! we each have gone our separate ways!
Elven-fair and a lover of trees,
you who stole my heart and breath,
and left me feeling ill at ease,
as you neared ever to death.
Over mountains and through Dwarf-mine,
into lands both fair and fell,
you journeyed far and made me pine,
for a day we would together dwell.
O Legolas! how I feared for you,
to die from orc-arrow or battle axe,
but, nay, you were the one who slew,
with hands as quick as the feet of Shadowfax.
The Darkness has now departed,
happiness is everywhere.
Will you still want us to be parted?
Do you wish my life to be bare?
For I will follow you wherever you stray,
be it mountain, fen, lake, forest, or Sea,
and tend and care for you night and day,
Do not leave me here alone, Legolas, I need thee!
Yet with Gimli Dwarf-friend,
you sailed away over the Sea,
breaking my heart, without hope of it ever to mend.
Return, Legolas, return to me!
