笔记｜中洲节气贴(10)

It is sad that we should meet only thus at the ending. For the world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air. I do not think we shall meet again.
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Not in Middle-earth, nor until the lands that lie under the wave are lifted up again. Then in the willow-meads of Tasarinan we may meet in Spring.
—J. R. R. Tolkien, 「The Lord of the Rings」
我们这样直到结束的时刻才相见，真令人悲 伤。因为世界正在改变：我自水中察觉，我自土中感应，我自风中嗅到。我想我们不会再见了。
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我们是不会再在中洲相见了，直到沉没在波涛之下的陆地重新升起——届时，我们或许会在春天塔萨瑞南的柳林草地上相会。
——托尔金，《魔戒》，卷六，第六章
秋分��

In the twilight of autumn it sailed out of Mithlond, until the seas of the Bent World fell away beneath it, and the winds of the round sky troubled it no more, and borne upon the high airs above the mists of the world it passed into the Ancient West, and an end was come for the Eldar of story and of song.
—J. R. R. Tolkien, 「The Silmarillion」