These inspired words of Sam Gamgee recall the hymn of the Elves A Elbereth Gilthoniel and are in the same metre. Tolkien analysed and gave a poetic adaptation of it in The Road Goes Ever On. He left too a more literal translation in a letter to Rhona Beare (n° 211 in Humphrey Carpenter’s edition), that we reproduce here.

The text is transcribed in tengwar or “letters of Fëanor” according to the general use of the Third Age created by Tolkien. An instance of its application to Sindarin is found in the third manuscript of the King’s Letter, published in Sauron Defeated p. 131. We made use of Johan Winge’s typeface Tengwar Annatar.  Open this mode in Glaemscribe