This early version of Galadriel’s lament has been published in The Treason of Isengard pp. 284-285. There are others; the development of the text has been studied by David Salo in Tyalië Tyelleliéva n° 12. Many words can be understood, but there remains enough obscurities to make a secure translation difficult. We here give the interpretation propounded by Édouard Kloczko in the first volume of his Dictionnaire des langues elfiques.

The text is transcribed in sarati or “letters of Rúmil”, written vertically from top to bottom and from left to right. The signs are used according to Tolkien’s valuation for Quenya. We made use of Måns Björkman Berg’s typeface Sarati Eldamar.  Open this mode in Glaemscribe