On a trip from Rivendell to Lórien, she was waylaid by orcs in the Redhorn Pass of the Misty Mountain (Caradhras), captured and tormented, receiving a poisoned wound. Her sons rescued her and she was healed by Elrond, but after horrified and haunted by the fearful memories of her torture she no longer wished to stay in Middle-earth, and passed to the Grey Havens and over the Sea in the following year.

Envinyatalye nainala, melda aran 
órenyo, feanyasse i lumna móre! 
Ai nwalmi úquétime nu hísitildi 
                          unquis, cilyassen!

Ai anga umbarwa, rúnyanen uruite! 
Osse tyarinwa lá polin auroita, 
auroitanes oio Endornilmenya 
                          linte ve fanyar!

Súlenya lapsar i lómea Valo 
lumbuler; vanwa nin i Laureanóre 
sí, yasse quantaner nu malinorni 
                          vilya lindinyar.

Man nin entinta sinome eldion silme? 
Man nin enanta cále Anáro sina? 
Lá Lóriendeva Heri, ar laume 
                          Vilyatur, elye!

Ni, sauramaite rimbeo poldiénen
nutinwa, nolwelya entunce cuilenna 
ar ilye lívi auhortane harwanye 
                          et hroanyallo;

mal or feanya alantie oioquelle.
Quostala rancoryallon lauvan lehta 
mí Endormardi, yassen nin calanna 
                          lá entulesse.

An súrinen utúlie Númello 
ninna Tintalleo lissómalinde, 
ar falmar caituvar únótime imbe 
                          vet, Elennóna!

Sí cestuvan i ciryaron falasse; 
tás úruva naicenya ear-hwestainen 
autuva ar Ulmo pantuva nin tie 
                          Valinórenna.

A Nenya-tári . . . Undómiel Eldaliéva . . . 
i ónoni. . . anwa Andúneo nu menel 
encenuvanyet? Arata nin tope 
                          illion umbar . . .

Nó elye hilyuva, sin quete órenya, 
íre Eldaloaron metta lauva haira. 
Nai eldi Vardo siluvar lúmenna 
                          enomentienquo!

Sí lá nin sére, venno, nu tópanqua: 
óma Esteva ni yála Earello pella . . . 
Namárie, Eldatan . . . hiruvan tie 
                          Valinórenna!

English:

Lamenting you renew, beloved lord 
of my heart, in my spirit the heavy darkness. 
Ah! torments unspeakable under [the] misty peaks 
                          in caves, in gorges!

Ah! fatal steel, hot with red flame! 
The horror caused I cannot chase away 
[but] it chased away for ever my love for Middle-earth 
                          like swift clouds.

[At] my soul are licking the dark Angel's 
shadows; lost to me is the Sun-golden land 
now, where under golden trees 
                          my songs filled [the] air.

Who rekindles for me here the light of the stars? 
Who gives back to me the light of this Sun? 
Not the Lady of Lórien, nor [lit.: and not] 
                          even you, master of Vilya!

Me [who had been] tied by the force of a foul-handed 
horde, your secret lore brought back to life, 
and banished all wounding sicknesses 
                          out of my body;

but over my spirit has fallen an eternal fading. 
From its stifling embrace I shall not be free 
in the halls of Middle-earth, where for me
                          there is no return into light.

For in the wind from the West has come 
to me Star-kindler's sweet-voice[d] song, 
and [so] waves shall [soon] lie countless between 
                          us two, o Star-begotten!

Now I will seek the strand of the ships; 
there my burning pain will vanish in [the] sea-breezes 
and Ulmo will open for me a path 
                          to Valinor.

O Nenya's Queen . . . o Evenstar of [the] Elven people . . . 
the twins . . . under the sky of the True West 
shall I [ever] see them again? A Higher Power hides from me [lit.: for me] 
                          the fate of them all . . .

But you will follow, so says my heart, 
when the end of the Elven-years in Middle-earth will be no [longer] distant.* 
May Varda's stars [then] shine upon the hour 
                          of our reunion!

Now is for me no rest, husband, under our roof: 
Este's voice summons me from beyond the Sea . . . 
Farewell, Elf-Man . . . I will find a path 
                          to Valinor!

Characters © J.R.R Tolkien