Ainulindalë [English translation]

Listen, listen, listen,

Voices ring out from the void,

filling it with new sound.

A world comes into being from sounds, from song.

Slowly breaks the first day,

Everything shines in harmony,

Father of the gods, teach us the melody!

From heaven

Comes the song of the Ainur1

Comes the song of the Ainur

Ah, on this day, begin all things.

From heaven

Comes the song of the Ainur

Comes the song of the Ainur

Ah, on this day, begin all things.

Time and Space filled with colors

Words breathe life in

Hear, ye peoples, here shall you be at home,

Everything shall be real

how the music imagined it.

Father of the gods, start the progress of the worlds

From heaven

Comes the song of the Ainur

Comes the song of the Ainur

Ah, on this day, begin all things.

From heaven

Once upon a time, that time

Comes the song of the Ainur

Comes the song of the Ainur

Ah, on this day, begin all things,

with Ilúvater2

with Ilúvater

once upon a time, that time.

Voices ring out from the void.

That begins the course of the world.

With the first morning wakes up Creation.

From heaven

Comes the song of the Ainur

Comes the song of the Ainur

Ah, on this day, begin all things.

From heaven

Once upon a time, that time

Comes the song of the Ainur

Comes the song of the Ainur

Ah, on this day, begin all things,

Voices ring out from the void,

filling it with new sound.

A world comes into being from sounds, from song.

1. Immortal spirits existing before Creation in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe. These were the first beings made of the thought of Eru Ilúvatar.2. The Allfather, the supreme being of the Tolkien universe.