Uploaded April 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
These lyrics are an excerpt from the source poem “Death of Boromir, part two”, and their related music is played while the wounded Boromir fights the Uruk-hai and reprised as Pippin remembers this while in front of Denethor.
It entirely recites:
I alda helda, i ehtele lína
Manna lelyalye Voromírë?
Cánalya hlarula, la hirimmel
Fuinë lanta Pelendoro nandesse
Sí massë i Anar?
That is in quenya:
The tree is bare, the fountain still.
Whither goest thou Boromir?
We heard your call but cannot find you
Darkness falls upon the vale of Pelennor
Where now is the sun?
Here is sung by The London Oratory School Schola and accompanied by the male choir of The London Voices, with the first one’s lyrics indicated in italic.
In “The Window on the West” from TTT, Book 4, Chapter V, Faramir recounts his vision of Boromir floating in the Elven boat on the Anduin:
“‘A broken sword was on his knee. I saw many wounds on him. It was Boromir, my brother, dead. I knew his gear, his sword, his beloved face. One thing only I missed: his horn. One thing only I knew not: a fair belt, as it were of linked golden leaves, about his waist. Boromir! I cried. Where is thy horn? Whither goest thou? O Boromir! But he was gone. The boat turned into the stream and passed glimmering on into the night. Dreamlike it was. and yet no dream, for there was no waking. And I do not doubt that he is dead and has passed down the River to the Sea.’”
“We heard your call but cannot find you.” probably refers to the fact that Faramir ‘heard’ the horn call Boromir made on Amon Hen. “I heard the blowing of that horn: from the northward it seemed, but dim, as if it were but an echo in the mind.”
The music heard just before he is wounded and just after he dies is “The Death of Boromir, part one”.
These lyrics are an excerpt from the source poem “Death of Boromir, part two”, and their related music is played while the wounded Boromir fights the Uruk-hai and reprised as Pippin remembers this while in front of Denethor.
It entirely recites:
I alda helda, i ehtele lína
Manna lelyalye Voromírë?
Cánalya hlarula, la hirimmel
Fuinë lanta Pelendoro nandesse
Sí massë i Anar?
That is in quenya:
The tree is bare, the fountain still.
Whither goest thou Boromir?
We heard your call but cannot find you
Darkness falls upon the vale of Pelennor
Where now is the sun?
Here is sung by The London Oratory School Schola and accompanied by the male choir of The London Voices, with the first one’s lyrics indicated in italic.
In “The Window on the West” from TTT, Book 4, Chapter V, Faramir recounts his vision of Boromir floating in the Elven boat on the Anduin:
“‘A broken sword was on his knee. I saw many wounds on him. It was Boromir, my brother, dead. I knew his gear, his sword, his beloved face. One thing only I missed: his horn. One thing only I knew not: a fair belt, as it were of linked golden leaves, about his waist. Boromir! I cried. Where is thy horn? Whither goest thou? O Boromir! But he was gone. The boat turned into the stream and passed glimmering on into the night. Dreamlike it was. and yet no dream, for there was no waking. And I do not doubt that he is dead and has passed down the River to the Sea.’”
“We heard your call but cannot find you.” probably refers to the fact that Faramir ‘heard’ the horn call Boromir made on Amon Hen. “I heard the blowing of that horn: from the northward it seemed, but dim, as if it were but an echo in the mind.”
The music heard just before he is wounded and just after he dies is “The Death of Boromir, part one”.
