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thumb|280px|The first stanza of "Namárië", a Quenya poem written in [[Tengwar script |alt=A verse of the song, written in a constructed language and script ]] "Namárië" () is a poem by J. R. R. Tolkien written in one of his constructed languages, Quenya, and published in The Lord of the Rings. It is subtitled "Galadriel's Lament in Lórien", which in Quenya is Altariello nainië Lóriendessë. The poem appears, too, in a book of musical settings by Donald Swann of songs from Middle-earth, The Road Goes Ever On; the Gregorian plainsong-like melody was hummed to Swann by Tolkien. The poem is the lo

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