The Song of Nimrodel is a song sung sa pamamagitan ng Legolas while he and the Company rested sa pamamagitan ng the Nimrodel. The original song was in Sindarin but Legolas sang the song in the Westron speech. The song is incomplete because Legolas had forgotten much of it. The song was long and sad, for it told how sorrow came upon Lothlórien when the Dwarves found evil in the mountains. The song goes as follows:
An Elven-maid there was of old,
A shining bituin sa pamamagitan ng day:
Her mantle white was hemmed with gold,
Her shoes of silver-grey.
A bituin was bound upon her brows,
A light was on her hair
As sun upon the golden boughs
In...
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