In Lothlorien, the Lady Galadriel wielded her ring to preserve the freshness of the elven realm unfaded. Here the golden Mallorn trees grew tall and no shadow fell upon the forest, until the arrival of the company of the ring. Here Frodo and Sam gazed into the mirror of Galadriel and saw glimpses of their future. But the elves knew that their days were passing and their glory fading, so the songs of Lorien are sad songs.
The Mirror of Galdriel (by Alan Lee)
Here the company had to take to the river in boats, the gift of the Lady, and head towards the gathering dark of Mordor. Galadriel's Song
O Queen beyond the Western Seas!
O Light to us that wander here
Amid the world of woven trees!
Gilthoniel! O Elbereth!
Clear are thy eyes and bright thy breath!
Snow-white! Snow-white! we sing to thee
In a far land beyond the Sea.
O stars that in the Sunless Year
With shining hand by her were sown,
In windy fields, now bright and clear
We see your silver blossom blown!
O Elbereth! Gilthoniel!
We still remember, we who dwell
In this far land beneath the trees,
Thy starlight on the Western Seas.
The Leaving of Lothlorien (Ted Naismith)
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew:
Of wind I sang, a wind there came and in the branches blew.
Beyond the Sun, beyond the Moon, the foam was on the Sea,
And by the strand of Ilmarin, there grew a golden Tree.
Beneath the stars of Ever-eve, in Eldamar it shone,
In Eldamar beside the walls of Elven Tirion.
There long the golden leaves have grown upon the branching years,
While here, beyond the Sundering Seas now fall the Elven-tears.
O Lorien! Too long I have dwelt upon this Hither Shore
And in a fading crown have twined the golden elanor.
But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me?
What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a sea?
O Elbereth Gilthoniel!
Silivren penna miriel,
O menel aglar elennath,
Gilthoniel! A Elbereth!