Aiya Eärendil elenion ancalima!
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Aiya Eärendil elenion ancalima! |
Hail Eärendil brightest of the stars! |
Tolkien stated in a letter (n° 297 in Humphrey Carpenter's edition) that this sentence ultimately originated in the line Éala Éarendel engla beorhtast of the Anglo-Saxon poem Crist of Cynewulf.
Quotations of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, Édouard Kloczko, Christopher Gilson, Patrick Wynne, Rhona Beare, Thomas Alan Shippey, Charles Kennedy, Elaine Treharne, André Crépin, Régis Boyer, François-Xavier Dillmann, Gabriel Rebourcet, Keith Bosley, Pierre-Yves Lambert, Gwyn Jones, Thomas Jones are under the copyright of their publishers.
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