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FIFTH
Zhera’ has taken a throng of sea-wains to Middle-Earth, “Hitherlands”
Hezumeru alaskel fumero taskerel igzan-izel tapheren Hezuperu kholaskel
ZHR: My throng is not easily seen; at sleep, having labored, far come to rest; as if in a beech-jar, I endure enclosed and unseen.
Ishiz’l zuper-sil miggil makmahod zilpharen
Wheresoever its shine shall endure, the sword Mahkmahod verily hunts them
O alzgul kanishiggenzul ekzush alskuren thingol hesupperion
V2: concerning the mighty sorcerers [them] whose shrieks come upon many places, of olden days without marring, they were Thingol’s consanguineal half-sons (Numenoreans through Luthien),
fre-theru alputh uferion
before-times-seeming without birth; sons of not-mortals.
forsutteru hezumeru afkin enzil kolazgel
ZHR: The north winds my throng does not splinter, shall yonder bear
this triumph.
O zumerasil ish-kin ifzindel florasku hezumerashkul forafkul
Concerning wishes hence: when small splinters from Sindel.grey elves’ shore-wains to my throng’s first load, [yet] the North did not load.
afkilzendul eh’sutteru Forameno assilyo
Do not the six forth straight from Fornost, hence away?
O zupFerendel Karosh alz-gudenyo h’izh-u-Earendel
V2: Concerning these un-Dead Six: makers of heaps
of slain corpses of the seed of Earendel
[‘made ones’, the six Easterlings given rings of power, currently spreading the rule of Ziggurun . Sauron across the northern lands; suggesting the other three being “black Numenoreans” have joined with Ar-Pharazon to lead his armada in siege of Eressëa.]
wingelosh inishtiliyeno usukeno alzgul afkil-enzo inishzul.
Wingelot of timeless lore escaped earth; so the mighty sorcerers do not follow them to the age-thither.
Alsuteru h’zsh u(g)’kendo igzil-aforeno.
ZHR: As an aside, perhaps the seed of Shadowland to the north shall
come.
Izilba i’ku’en o kalafel:
Izilba spoke concerning caves of light.
alzgo nusutharal iflorenzo mi-inkesh gozaldo fero uhtumno
V2: Descendants sense across the beyond out of dreams.
Our [dual, addressee-exclusive] thought: gathering now are mortals of Utumno.
iglaru endaru hosh-ipfel-iyenzo
The Radiant, they halt the armies gone out of their caves
alsuken diniel izilba alspaku glameru hi-izesh
ZHR: Not talking of them, she is silent.
Izilba speaks not: echoing this call [explained in 14]:
draco-glariel afin-issil alzgul uzul hezmero Godannel
“Glowing-shewolf, crystals-opened-out-of – a great sorcerer thither our Festival Of The Returned –
[held during the new moon?]
atheru issil asenath gleedariel athanu hazpan igzan-issel gezan
“— seeming as the crystals of Asenath’s exiled daughters; on all sides, men deliberately hacked up the maidens come-of- longinquity ever-remote.
gloriel asuth-enaz askeru isildu aferu gozanipel asteru.
“Golden specter-fetter [One Ring] wounds one, Isildur, does not one of the long-waning Being-Essences?”
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