Suddenly they came out into the open again and found themselves under a pale evening sky pricked by a few early stars. There was a wide treeless space before them, running in a great circle and bending away on either hand. Beyond it was a deep fosse lost in soft shadow, but the grass upon its brink was green, as if it glowed still in memory of the sun that had gone. Upon the further side there rose to a great height a green wall encircling a green hill thronged with mallorn-trees taller than any they had yet seen in all the land. Their height could not be guessed, but they stood up in the twilight like living towers. In their, many-tiered branches and amid their ever-moving leaves countless lights were gleaming, green and gold and silver. Haldir turned towards the Company.
众人来到一块空旷的草地，发现自己站在点缀着稀寥星辰的天空下。他们眼前是一块毫无树木的圆形空地。在空地之外是层层叠叠的树木，被掩盖在陰影中；在另外一边则是一座小丘，上面生长着许多他们所看过最高的梅隆树。他们连猜都不出来这些树木到底有多高，这些树木在暮色中看起来如同高塔一般壮观。在这些高耸的树木枝丫间，有许多各种各样、绿色、金色和银色的灯光闪耀着。哈尔达指着眼前的景象对众人说：
The sun was sinking behind the mountains, and the shadows were deepening in the woods, when they went on again. Their paths now went into thickets where the dusk had already gathered. Night came beneath the trees as they walked, and the Elves uncovered their silver lamps.
太陽正渐渐落到山脉之后，当他们再度走下了望台的时候，森林中的陰影也慢慢加深。他们现在则是朝着树木浓密的方向前进。他们没走多远，夜色就已经完全降临，精灵们立刻打开原先携带着的油灯。
“Welcome to Caras Galadhon!” he said. “Here is the city of the Galadhrim where dwell the Lord Celeborn and Galadriel the Lady of Lorien. But we cannot enter here, for the gates do not look northward. We must go round to the southern side, and the way is not short, for the city is great.”
“欢迎来到卡拉斯加拉顿！”他说：“这就是树民之城，里面居住着塞勒鹏大人和罗瑞安女皇凯兰崔尔。我们得要从南边绕进去，因为城很大，所以路途并不近。”
Haldir knocked and spoke, and the gates opened soundlessly; but of guards Frodo could see no sign. The travellers passed within, and the gates shut behind them. They were in a deep lane between the ends of the wall, and passing quickly through it they entered the City of the Trees. No folk could they see, nor hear any feet upon the paths; but there were many voices, about them, and in the air above. Far away up on the hill they could hear the sound of singing falling from on high like soft rain upon leaves.
哈尔达敲了敲门，说了几句话，门就无声地敝开了。佛罗多没看见任何关于守卫的迹象。一行人就这么走进城内，大门跟着自动关上。他们走在两座墙之间的道路上，很快地进入了树木之城。他们看不见任何居民，也没听到任何的脚步声，只能听见有许多声音充斥在空气中和飘浮在他们头上。他们可以听见很远的山丘上悦耳的笑语声，如同银铃般地落到树叶上。
There was a road paved with white stone running on the outer brink of the fosse. Along this they went westward, with the city ever climbing up like a green cloud upon their left; and as the night deepened more lights sprang forth, until all the hill seemed afire with stars. They came at last to a white bridge, and crossing found the great gates of the city: they faced south-west, set between the ends of the encircling wall that here overlapped, and they were tall and strong, and hung with many lamps.
在这丛林之外，有一条铺满白色石头的小径，他们沿着这条路往西走，看着左边的城市越来越高，如同飘浮在绿云之上一般。随着夜色渐浓，灯光也变得越来越多，最后整个山丘彷佛掩没在星海之中。最后，他们来到一座白色的桥上，对面就是城市的大门，大门面对着西南方，两边则是坚固且悬挂许多灯火的城墙。
They went along many paths and climbed many stairs, until they came to the high places and saw before them amid a wide lawn a fountain shimmering. It was lit by silver lamps that swung from the boughs of trees, and it fell into a basin of silver, from which a white stream spilled. Upon the south side of the lawn there stood the mightiest of all the trees; its great smooth bole gleamed like grey silk, and up it towered, until its first branches, far above, opened their huge limbs under shadowy clouds of leaves. Beside it a broad white ladder stood, and at its foot three Elves were seated. They sprang up as the travellers approached, and Frodo saw that they were tall and clad in grey mail, and from their shoulders hung long white cloaks.
他们走了许多的路，爬了许多层楼梯，这才来到一块草坪，看见眼前有一个闪闪发光的喷泉。这喷泉被悬挂在附近枝丫上的许多油灯所照亮，落进一个银盆中，银盆中还汨汨地流出一道清澈的泉水。在草坪的南边则是所有的神木中最高大的，它巨大的树干如同灰色的丝绸一样闪烁着光芒，一路往上延伸，直到第一次分岔的枝丫掩没在如同云雾般的树叶之中为止。树干上有一道白色的阶梯，有三名精灵坐在那边，一看见有人靠近，他们立刻跳了起来。佛罗多注意到他们都穿着灰色的锁子甲，披着长长的白色斗篷。
“Here dwell Celeborn and Galadriel,” said Haldir. “It is their wish that you should ascend and speak with them.”
“这里住着塞勒鹏和凯兰崔尔，”哈尔达说：“他们希望诸位能够上去和他们聊聊。”
One of the Elf-wardens then blew a clear note on a small horn, and it was answered three times from far above. “I will go first,” said Haldir. “Let Frodo come next and with him Legolas. The others may follow as they wish. It is a long climb for those that are not accustomed to such stairs, but you may rest upon the way.”
其中一个精灵守卫，利用一个小号角吹出清澈的声音，上面跟着传来了三次回答。“我先走！”哈尔达说：“佛罗多第二个，接下来是勒苟拉斯，其他人的顺序就随各位的意思。对于不习惯的人来说，这要爬很长的一段时间，不过，你们中途可以休息。”
The chamber was filled with a soft light; its walls were green and silver and its roof of gold. Many Elves were seated there. On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel. They stood up to greet their guests, after the manner of Elves, even those who were accounted mighty kings. Very tall they were, and the Lady no less tall than the Lord; and they were grave and beautiful. They were clad wholly in white; and the hair of the Lady was of deep gold, and the hair of the Lord Celeborn was of silver long and bright; but no sign of age was upon them, unless it were in the depths of their eyes; for these were keen as lances in the starlight, and yet profound, the wells of deep memory.
大厅内充满了柔和的光芒，墙壁是绿色和银色的，屋顶则是黄金色的，许多精灵坐在这里。有两张靠近树干的椅子，上面还有着活生生的树叶作为遮盖，上面坐着塞勒鹏和凯兰崔尔。两人站起来依照精灵的礼仪恭迎客人，用如同接待帝王一般的礼节欢迎远征队的到来。他们非常地高大，女皇并不会比皇帝高出多少；他们都十分严肃，极端美丽。两个人都穿着一身白，女皇的发色是深金色，塞勒鹏的头发则是丰润的亮银色。不过，两人脸上没有任何岁月的痕迹，唯一的线索仅在他们的眼中；两双眼睛都如同月夜中的槍尖一样锐利、闪闪发光，但也都蕴藏着极深的回忆。
As he climbed slowly up Frodo passed many flets: some on one side, some on another, and some set about the bole of the tree, so that the ladder passed through them. At a great height above the ground he came to a wide talan, like the deck of a great ship. On it was built a house, so large that almost it would have served for a hall of Men upon the earth. He entered behind Haldir, and found that he was in a chamber of oval shape, in the midst of which grew the trunk of the great mallorn, now tapering towards its crown, and yet making still a pillar of wide girth.
当佛罗多慢慢爬上绳梯的时候，一路上经过许多的了望台，了望台建造的位置都互有不同；有些就环绕着树干建造，绳梯会穿过他们。到距离地面很高的地方时，他来到了一座宽大的了望台，好像一艘巨舰的甲板一样宽大，在上面建了一座屋子，大小竟然大到可以作为地面上人类的大会堂。他跟着哈尔达走了进去，发现自己站在一个椭圆形的大厅中，正中央则是巨大的梅隆树干；虽然都已经快到顶了，但这株树的树干在此看来还是很壮观。
Haldir led Frodo before them, and the Lord welcomed him in his own tongue. The Lady Galadriel said no word but looked long upon his face.
哈尔达领着佛罗多走到两人面前，皇帝用他们的语言欢迎一行人。凯兰崔尔女皇一言不发，只是盯着佛罗多的眼睛瞧。
“Sit now beside my chair, Frodo of the Shire!” said Celeborn. “When all have come we will speak together.”
“夏尔来的佛罗多，请坐在我身边！”塞勒鹏说：“当所有人到齐之后，我们就来好好谈谈。”
“Welcome son of Thranduil! Too seldom do my kindred journey hither from the North.”
“欢迎！瑟兰督伊之子！北方我族同胞实在太少前来拜访了。”
“Welcome Gimli son of Gloin! It is long indeed since we saw one of Durin’s folk in Caras Galadhon. But today we have broken our long law. May it be a sign that though the world is now dark better days are at hand, and that friendship shall be renewed between our peoples.” Gimli bowed low.
“欢迎，葛罗音之子金雳！卡拉斯加拉顿已经很久没有见到都灵的同胞了，今天，我们打破了长久以来的律法。但愿这是一个黑暗，但却更团结时代的开始，也是两族之间新友谊的开端！”金雳深深一鞠躬。
When all the guests were seated before his chair the Lord looked at them again. “Here there are eight,” he said. “Nine were to set out: so said the messages. But maybe there has been some change of counsel that we have not heard. Elrond is far away, and darkness gathers between us, and all this year the shadows have grown longer.”
在所有人都就座之后，皇帝再度打量着众人。“这里只有八位，”他说：“根据信差的说法，远征队的成员共有九位。但或许之后有了变动，我们没听说。爱隆距离我们那么远，四周又全都是虎视眈眈的魔影，讯息出现错误是很自然的。”
Each of the companions he greeted courteously by name as they entered. “Welcome Aragorn son of Arathorn!” he said. “It is eight and thirty years of the world outside since you came to this land; and those years lie heavy on you. But the end is near, for good or ill. Here lay aside your burden for a while! “
远征队的每一名成员都获得亲切的接待，“欢迎亚拉松之子阿拉贡！”他说。“转眼间外界已经过了三十八年，从阁下的外表看来，这三十八年对阁下来说可真是沉重啊！但是，不管是好是坏，结局都快要到了。先把你的负担暂时放下吧！”
At these words all the Elves in the hall cried aloud in grief and amazement. “These are evil tidings,” said Celeborn, “the most evil that have been spoken here in long years full of grievous deeds.” He turned to Haldir. “Why has nothing of this been told to me before?” he asked in the Elven-tongue.
一听到这状况，全大厅的精灵都变得十分吃惊和激动。“这是邪恶的，”哈尔达说：“为什么我完全不知道这件事？”他刻意使用精灵语。
“Alas!” said Aragorn. “Gandalf the Grey fell into shadow. He remained in Moria and did not escape.”
“唉！”阿拉贡沉痛地说：“灰袍甘道夫牺牲在魔影之下，他没有逃出摩瑞亚。”
“Nay, there was no change of counsel,” said the Lady Galadriel speaking for the first time. Her voice was clear and musical, but deeper than woman’s wont. “Gandalf the Grey set out with the Company, but he did not pass the borders of this land. Now tell us where he is; for I much desired to speak with him again. But I cannot see him from afar, unless he comes within the fences of Lothlorien: a grey mist is about him, and the ways of his feet and of his mind are hidden from me.”
“不，爱隆的建议并没有更改，”凯兰崔尔女皇第一次开口了，她的声音如同诗歌般悦耳，但却十分低沉：“灰袍甘道夫和远征队一起出发，但他却没有进入森林的边界，请告诉我们他人在哪里，因为我十分想要和他谈谈。但是，除非他踏进罗斯洛立安的藩篱，否则我是看不到他的。他的四周有团灰色的迷雾，他的脚步和心智都不是我能窥探的。”
“We have not spoken to Haldir of our deeds or our purpose,” said Legolas. “At first we were weary and danger was too close behind and afterwards we almost forgot our grief for a time, as we walked in gladness on the fair paths of Lorien.”
“我们之前，没有对哈尔达说到这件事情或是我们的目的，”勒苟拉斯说：“一开始我们很疲倦，危险又紧追在后，稍后我们走在美丽的罗瑞安，几乎忘却了心中的悲痛。”
“Yet our grief is great and our loss cannot be mended,” said Frodo. “Gandalf was our guide, and he led us through Moria; and when our escape seemed beyond hope he saved us, and he fell.”
“我们的悲痛是无法完全忘却，损失也是不可弥补的，”佛罗多说：“甘道夫是我们的向导，他带领着我们通过摩瑞亚，如果没有他的牺牲，我们绝对逃不出摩瑞亚。”
“Indeed I saw upon the bridge that which haunts our darkest dreams l saw Durin’s Bane,” said Gimli in a low voice, and dread was in his eyes.
“的确，我在桥上看到的是噩梦中的生物，也是我们所称呼的都灵克星！”金雳压低声音说，话声中带着恐惧。
“Tell us now the full tale!” said Celeborn:
“把经过详细的告诉我们！”塞勒鹏说。
“Alas!” said Celeborn. “We long have feared that under Caradhras a terror slept. But had I known that the Dwarves had stirred up this evil in Moria again, l would have forbidden you to pass the northern borders, you and all that went with you. And if it were possible, one would say that at the last Gandalf fell from wisdom into folly, going needlessly into the net of Moria.”
“唉！”塞勒鹏说：“我们早就担心卡拉霍拉斯底下有着邪恶沉睡着。如果我知道矮人再度吵醒了这邪恶，我会阻止你和所有的人进入北方疆界。我这么觉得，甘道夫这次所做的是不必要的牺牲，真是聪明一世，糊涂一时，他不该踏入摩瑞亚的！”
Then Aragorn recounted all that had happened upon the pass of Caradhras, and in the days that followed; and he spoke of Balin and his book, and the fight in the Chamber of Mazarbul, and the fire, and the narrow bridge, and the coming of the Terror. “An evil of the Ancient World it seemed, such as I have never seen before,” said Aragorn. “It was both a shadow and a flame, strong and terrible.”
阿拉贡重新描述了在卡拉霍拉斯隘口发生的事情，提到了巴林和他的史书，以及在撰史之厅中的激战和那火焰、桥梁，以及恐怖的降临。“那似乎是来自古代的魔物，我之前从来没有看到过！”阿拉贡余悸犹存地说：“它同时拥有陰影和火焰的特质，浑身散发着极强的邪气。”
“It was a Balrog of Morgoth,” said Legolas; “of all elf-banes the most deadly, save the One who sits in the Dark Tower.”
“那是摩苟斯的炎魔！”勒苟拉斯说：“在所有精灵的敌人之中，除了邪黑塔的魔王之外，他是最致命的危险。”
“He would be rash indeed that said that thing,” said Galadriel gravely. “Needless were none of the deeds of Gandalf in life. Those that followed him knew not his mind and cannot report his full purpose. But however it may be with the guide, the followers are blameless. Do not repent of your welcome to the Dwarf. If our folk had been exiled long and far from Lothlorien, who of the Galadhrim, even Celeborn the Wise, would pass nigh and would not wish to look upon their ancient home, though it had become an abode of dragons?
“这么说未免太过武断了，”凯兰崔尔神情凝重地说：“甘道夫这辈子从来不做不必要的事情，跟随他的人不知道他的计划，更无法替他内心所想的辩护。不过，不管他们的向导怎么样，这些人都是无辜的，不要收回你对矮人的贺语。如果我们树之民被长年流放在家园外，即使这里成了恶龙的巢穴，难道你不会想要再度回来这里看看吗？”
“Dark is the water of Kheled-zaram, and cold are the springs of Kibil-nala, and fair were the many-pillared halls of Khazad-dum in Elder Days before the fall of mighty kings beneath the stone.” She looked upon Gimli, who sat glowering and sad, and she smiled. And the Dwarf, hearing the names given in his own ancient tongue, looked up and met her eyes; and it seemed to him that he looked suddenly into the heart of an enemy and saw there love and understanding. Wonder came into his face, and then he smiled in answer.
“卡雷德——萨姆之水幽黑，奇比利——那拉之水冰寒，在古王驾崩之前，凯萨督姆的众柱之厅美丽无匹……”她看着闷闷不乐坐着的金雳，露出微笑。矮人一听到有人说出他自己的语言，他立刻抬起头，和凯兰崔尔的目光交会。突然间，他彷佛看进了敌人的心内，发现了爱和谅解；他的脸上冰霜化解，也露出了笑容。
“Your quest is known to us,” said Galadriel, looking at Frodo. “But we will not here speak of it more openly. Yet not in vain will it prove, maybe, that you came to this land seeking aid, as Gandalf himself plainly purposed. For the Lord of the Galadhrim is accounted the wisest of the Elves of Middle-earth, and a giver of gifts beyond the power of kings. He has dwelt in the West since the days of dawn, and I have dwelt with him years uncounted; for ere the fall of Nargothrond or Gondolin I passed over the mountains, and together through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat.
“我们知道你的任务，”凯兰崔尔看着佛罗多：“但我们不会公开讨论它。但或许，你们正如同甘道夫原先计划的一般，前来此地寻求协助，这计划并没有失败。因为树民之皇帝是中土世界中最睿智的精灵，他也有能力赐给你们胜过凡人国王的珍贵礼物。自从天地初开他就居住在西方之境，我和他一起经历了数不尽的年头。在贡多林陷落之后，我就越过了山脉，和他一起并肩抵抗这世界。”
There was a silence. At length Celeborn spoke again. “I did not know that your plight was so evil,” he said. “Let Gimli forget my harsh words: I spoke in the trouble of my heart. I will do what I can to aid you, each according to his wish and need, but especially that one of the little folk who bears the burden.”
四周陷入一片沉寂。良久，塞勒鹏才再度开口：“我不知道你们处于这种复杂、忧伤的情绪里，”他说：“请金雳原谅我的失言，我这是因为心烦才有的失态。我愿意尽全力协助你们，遵照每个人的意愿，但特别是那位带着沉重负担的小朋友。”
He rose clumsily and bowed in dwarf-fashion, saying: “Yet more fair is the living land of Lorien, and the Lady Galadriel is above all the jewels that lie beneath the earth! “
他笨拙的站起身，以矮人的礼仪行礼：“但在罗瑞安的大地上更是美丽，凯兰崔尔女皇胜过一切地底的宝石！”
“I it was who first summoned the White Council. And if my designs had not gone amiss, it would have been governed by Gandalf the Grey, and then mayhap things would have gone otherwise. But even now there is hope left. I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be. But this I will say to you: your Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while all the Company is true.”
“是我首先召开圣白议会，如果不是我的失策，那次的议会应该是由灰袍甘道夫所主导，一切就不会变得这样了。不过，即使是现在，一切也还是有希望的。我不会给予你们任何建议，指示你们该做这个、该做那个，因为我没有立场做出任何决定和指导，我只是负责知道过去和现在，以及部分的未来。但我必须跟各位说：你们的任务正游走在刀锋边缘，只要稍有偏差就会全盘皆输，全世界也会跟着一起陷落。但是，只要每个远征队的成员都坚守信心，一切都还有希望。”
At length the Lady Galadriel released them from her eyes, and she smiled. “Do not let your hearts be troubled,” she said. “Tonight you shall sleep in peace.” Then they sighed and felt suddenly weary, as those who have been questioned long and deeply, though no words had been spoken openly.
最后，凯兰崔尔女皇才将他们从目光中释放了出来。“别担心！”她说：“今晚你们将高枕无忧。”然后，她叹口气，他们突然间觉得十分疲倦，虽然没有多说一句话，但刚刚的目光交流却彷佛如同漫长的审问一般。
And with that word she held them with her eyes, and in silence looked searchingly at each of them in turn. None save Legolas and Aragorn could long endure her glance. Sam quickly blushed and hung his head.
话一说完，她就以视线扫过每个远征队的成员。除了阿拉贡和勒苟拉斯之外，没有人能够承受她的目光，山姆很快地涨红着脸低下头去。
That night the Company slept upon the ground, much to the satisfaction of the hobbits. The Elves spread for them a pavilion among the trees near the fountain, and in it they laid soft couches; then speaking words of peace with fair elvish voices they left them. For a little while the travellers talked of their night before in the tree-tops, and of their day’s journey, and of the Lord and Lady; for they had not yet the heart to look further back.
那一夜，众人都睡在地面上，这让哈比人非常满意。精灵们替他们在喷泉附近架设了一个帐棚，他们在里面放置了华丽的软垫，以精灵悦耳的声音向他们告别。众人讨论了一会儿今天的旅程、皇帝与女皇，以及在树上的体验，因为他们暂时不愿意再回顾过去。
“Go now!” said Celeborn. “You are worn with sorrow and much toil. Even if your Quest did not concern us closely, you should have refuge in this City, until you were healed and refreshed. Now you shall rest, and we will not speak of your further road for a while.”
“离开吧！”塞勒鹏说：“你们身上背负了太多的哀伤和责任，即使你们的任务与我们没有关系，也该在我们城市中疗伤止痛。现在你们该休息了，我们暂时不会讨论你们该何去何从。”
“What did you blush for, Sam?” said Pippin. “You soon broke down. Anyone would have thought you had a guilty conscience. I hope it was nothing worse than a wicked plot to steal one of my blankets.”
“山姆，你为什么要脸红？”皮聘说：“你似乎快崩溃了，旁边的人一定会以为你有很强的罪恶感，希望你不会是要偷我的毯子啊！”
“I never thought no such thing,” answered Sam, in no mood for jest. “If you want to know, I felt as if I hadn’t got nothing on, and I didn’t like it. She seemed to be looking inside me and asking me what I would do if she gave me the chance of flying back home to the Shire to a nice little hole with-with a bit of garden of my own.”
“我从来没想过这类的事情，”山姆现在可不想要开玩笑：“如果你想要知道，我觉得当时好像赤身露体，我一点也不喜欢这样。她似乎在询问我，如果我有机会飞回夏尔，拥有自己的小花园，我会怎么做。”
All of them, it seemed, had fared alike: each had felt that he was offered a choice between a shadow full of fear that lay ahead, and something that he greatly desired: clear before his mind it lay, and to get it he had only to turn aside from the road and leave the Quest and the war against Sauron to others.
看来，所有的人都经历了相同的体验。每个人都获得了两个选择，一个是经历眼前黑暗处处的道路，另一个是他们所迫切想要的美梦。只要他们放弃眼前的黑暗道路，让其他人来抵抗索伦，就可以获得那美梦。
“That’s funny,” said Merry. “Almost exactly what I felt myself; only, only well, I don’t think I’ll say any more,” he ended lamely.
“这真诡异了！”梅里说：“这几乎跟我所感受到的一样，只不过……我想我还是不要多说好了！”他结巴地转移话题。
“And it seemed to me, too,” said Gimli, “that my choice would remain secret and known only to myself.”
“对我也是一样，”金雳说：“我的选择是不能和其他人分享的。”
And as for Frodo, he would not speak, though Boromir pressed him with questions. “She held you long in her gaze, Ring-bearer,” he said.
至于佛罗多，虽然波罗莫问了很多问题，但他都拒绝回答。“魔戒持有者，女皇似乎看你看得特别久。”他说。
“To me it seemed exceedingly strange,” said Boromir. “Maybe it was only a test, and she thought to read our thoughts for her own good purpose; but almost I should have said that she was tempting us, and offering what she pretended to have the power to give. It need not be said that I refused to listen. The Men of Minas Tirith are true to their word.” But what he thought that the Lady had offered him Boromir did not tell.
“我就更怪了，”波罗莫说：“或许这只是场试炼，她想要测试我们的内心，但我几乎可以确定她在诱惑我们，试图给予我们她无权赠与的东西。当然，我拒绝倾听这诱惑的话语，我们米那斯提力斯人可是言出必行的。”但是，波罗莫对于女皇所提供的诱惑，则没有多加评论。
“Yes,” said Frodo; “but whatever came into my mind then I will keep there.”
“没错，”佛罗多说：“但不管当时我想到什么，还是继续让它留在该处好了。”
“Well, have a care!” said Boromir. “I do not feel too sure of this Elvish Lady and her purposes.”
“好吧，小心点就是了！”波罗莫说：“我对于这个精灵女子的意图可不太确定。”
“Speak no evil of the Lady Galadriel!” said Aragorn sternly. “You know not what you say. There is in her and in this land no evil, unless a man bring it hither himself. Then let him beware! But tonight I shall sleep without fear for the first time since I left Rivendell. And may I sleep deep, and forget for a while my grief! I am weary in body and in heart.” He cast himself down upon his couch and fell at once into a long sleep.
“千万别污蔑凯兰崔尔女皇！”阿拉贡严厉地说：“你不知道自己说了什么！她和这座大地都是无邪气的，除非人们自己将邪气带进来。那时，这个人就要小心了！不过，今晚，自从离开瑞文戴尔之后，我第一次可以高枕无忧。但愿我可以沉沉睡去，暂时忘却心中的烦恼，我已经身心俱疲了。”他躺在软垫上，立刻睡着了。
They remained some days in Lothlorien, so far as they could tell or remember. All the while that they dwelt there the sun shone clear, save for a gentle rain that fell at times, and passed away leaving all things fresh and clean. The air was cool and soft, as if it were early spring, yet they felt about them the deep and thoughtful quiet of winter. It seemed to them that they did little but eat and drink and rest, and walk among the trees; and it was enough.
他们在罗斯洛立安居住了一段时间，但他们也弄不清楚到底是多长的时间。当他们居住在此地时，太陽总是清朗无比，连偶尔降下的雨滴都只是让一切变得更洁净、清澈。空气清新、干净，彷佛现在已是早春；但他们又觉得这沉静的气息彷佛正是深冬。一连好几天，他们似乎每天都只是吃喝、休息，以及在森林中漫步，这样就够了。
The others soon did the same, and no sound or dream disturbed their slumber. When they woke they found that the light of day was broad upon the lawn before the pavilion. and the fountain rose and fell glittering in the sun.
其他人很快跟着效法。他们的沉眠果然没有受到任何梦境或是声响的打扰。当他们醒过来时，他们发现太陽已经照在帐棚和草地上，喷泉也在日光下闪耀着光芒。
Mithrandir, Mithrandir sang the Elves, O Pilgrim Grey! For so they loved to call him. But if Legolas was with the Company, he would not interpret the songs for them, saying that he had not the skill, and that for him the grief was still too near, a matter for tears and not yet for song.
米斯兰达，米斯兰达精灵们会这样唱着，喔，灰袍的朝圣者！他们偏好这样的称呼。但即使勒苟拉斯和众人在一起，他也不愿意替众人翻译。因为他说他没有这个技巧，一方面则是这对他来说是太过切身的伤痛，是应该哭泣的悲剧，还不是应该用歌谣来赞颂的回忆。
Now as the companions sat or walked together they spoke of Gandalf, and all that each had known and seen of him came clear before their minds. As they were healed of hurt and weariness of body the grief of their loss grew more keen. Often they heard nearby Elvish voices singing, and knew that they were making songs of lamentation for his fall, for they caught his name among the sweet sad words that they could not understand.
不管是在散步，或是坐着聊天的时候，他们都会提到甘道夫；他的所有教诲和一言一行都回到众人的脑海中。他们身体的疲倦虽然已经消失了，但内心的伤痛却变得更为鲜明。他们经常可以听见精灵的歌声，他们也知道这是为了纪念他的逝去所作的诗歌；因为他们在这甜美的语音中听见了甘道夫的名号。
They had not seen the Lord and Lady again, and they had little speech with the Elven-folk; for few of these knew or would use the Westron tongue. Haldir had bidden them farewell and gone back again to the fences of the North, where great watch was now kept since the tidings of Moria that the Company had brought. Legolas was away much among the Galadhrim, and after the first night he did not sleep with the other companions, though he returned to eat and talk with them. Often he took Gimli with him when he went abroad in the land, and the others wondered at this change.
他们并没有再度谒见皇帝夫妇，也极少和其他的精灵交谈，因为他们几乎都不使用除了森林精灵语之外的其他语言。哈尔达已经向他们道别，回到原先的北方岗位去。自从远征队带来的消息和摩瑞亚的变化之后，该处已经安排了更严密的守卫。勒苟拉斯经常在树民之间往来，经过第一夜之后，他就没有再和众人一起睡在地面上，只是偶尔回来和他们一起用餐和交谈。通常，他会带着金雳一起四处游历，其他人对他的改变都感到十分好奇。
before the dawn he went away
在黎明前他已离开，
a trumpet-voice, a burning brand,
号角之声，火焰之首；
a back that bent beneath its load;
因重担而弯曲的背脊；
on journey long without a word.
无言地迈向漫长的旅程。
with mortal and immortal folk,
凡人和不朽的民族，
through dragon-lair and hidden door
穿越龙穴暗门间，
A deadly sword, a healing hand,
一柄夺命神剑，一双疗病圣手，
With Dwarf and Hobbit, Elves and Men,
矮人和霍比特人，精灵和人类，
It was Frodo who first put something of his sorrow into halting words. He was seldom moved to make song or rhyme; even in Rivendell he had listened and had not sung himself, though his memory was stored with many things that others had made before him. But now as he sat beside the fountain in Lorien and heard about him the voices of the Elves, his thought took shape in a song that seemed fair to him; yet when he tried to repeat it to Sam only snatches remained, faded as a handful of withered leaves.
先将这悲痛化成文字的是佛罗多，他极少因为感动而作出诗词或是歌赋，即使在瑞文戴尔的时候，他也只是倾听，并没有开口歌唱。但是，现在，当他坐在罗瑞安的泉水旁，听着精灵的歌声时，他的思念化成了美丽的歌词；但是，当他试图对山姆重复的时候，这诗词化成了片片的落叶，不复当时的美丽。
in their own secret tongues he spoke.
他用他们自己的秘密语言说话。
from northern waste to southern hill,
从北大荒到南低丘，
with bird on bough and beast in den,
鸟在树枝上，兽穴在兽穴里，
When evening in the Shire was grey
当夏尔时近傍晚，
and darkling woods he walked at will.
自在于林间漫游。
From Wilderland to Western shore,
从大荒原到西海岸，
his footsteps on the Hill were heard;
他的脚步声出现在山丘上，
an old man in a battered hat
一位戴着破帽的老人
and Fire and Shadow both defied;
力抗魔影邪火；
He stood upon the bridge alone
他孤身站在桥上，
“Why, you’ll be beating Mr. Bilbo next!” said Sam.
“哇，下次你就可以超越比尔博先生了！”山姆说。
swift in anger, quick to laugh;
火爆脾气，爱笑的性格；
or after thunder golden showers
又如雷声过后金色的阵雨，
“No, I’ll leave that to you, Sam. Or perhaps to Bilbo. But-well. I can’t talk of it any more. I can’t bear to think of bringing the news to him.”
“不，我会把这个部分留给你，或者是比尔博。但是，我不想说了。我没办法想像要如何把这样的消息告诉比尔博。”
came falling like a rain of flowers.
从空中落下一如花雨。
One evening Frodo and Sam were walking together in the cool twilight. Both of them felt restless again. On Frodo suddenly the shadow of parting had fallen: he knew somehow that the time was very near when he must leave Lothlorien.
一天傍晚，佛罗多和山姆在清凉的夜色中漫步，两人都再度觉得有些想要离开这个地方。佛罗多突然觉得自己该是离开的时候了，他知道时机已经快要到来。
“No, I am afraid not,” said Frodo. “But that is the best I can do yet.”
“不，恐怕做不到，”佛罗多说：“我的极限也不过到此而已，”
A lord of wisdom throned he sat,
智慧的王者，
“Well, Mr. Frodo, if you do have another go, I hope you’ll say a word about his fireworks,” said Sam. “Something like this:”
“好吧，佛罗多先生，如果你还要作别的诗歌纪念他，记得加上有关他烟火的诗歌，”山姆说：“就像这一段：”
The finest rockets ever seen,
最美丽的火箭，
they burst in stars of blue and green,
炸开在蓝绿色的星斗间；
his staff was broken on the stone,
权杖碎裂，未及击垮邪王
in Khazad-dum his wisdom died.
凯萨督姆，他的智慧殒落。
a weary pilgrim on the road.
疲倦的朝圣者行路万里。
who leaned upon a thorny staff.
倚着一柄王室的权杖。
Though that doesn’t do them justice by a long road.
不过这和他真正的实力还差远了。”
“You can see and feel it everywhere,” said Frodo.
“你可以感应到魔法充斥在各处。”佛罗多说。
“I have indeed!” said Sam. “And I reckon there’s Elves and Elves. They’re all elvish enough, but they’re not all the same. Now these folk aren’t wanderers or homeless, and seem a bit nearer to the likes of us: they seem to belong here, more even than Hobbits do in the Shire. Whether they’ve made the land, or the land’s made them, it’s hard to say, if you take my meaning. It’s wonderfully quiet here. Nothing seems to be going on, and nobody seems to want it to. If there’s any magic about, it’s right down deep, where I can’t lay my hands on it, in a manner of speaking.”
“的确！”山姆说：“我开始知道这世界上有各种不同的精灵，他们的确都是精灵，但性格大异其趣。这些精灵似乎不是四海为家的那一类型，和我们比较相像；他们似乎是属于这里的，像是哈比人属于夏尔一样。很难说到底是环境塑造他们，还是他们塑造环境。这里非常安静，似乎一切都停滞下来，没有事情在变动，也没有人想要事情变动。如果这里有魔法，那么就我看来，它其实是在事物的深处，不是我可以评断的地方。”
“What do you think of Elves now, Sam?” he said. “I asked you the same question once before-it seems a very long while ago; but you have seen more of them since then.”
“山姆，你现在对于精灵的感觉如何？”他问。“我之前曾经问过一次同样的问题，现在看起来似乎是很久以前的事情了，但你在那之后又见识过了许多事情。”
“Well,” said Sam, “you can’t see nobody working it. No fireworks like poor Gandalf used to show. I wonder we don’t see nothing of the Lord and Lady in all these days. I fancy now that she could do some wonderful things, if she had a mind. I’d dearly love to see some Elf-magic, Mr. Frodo! “
“这么说吧，”山姆说：“你没办法看见任何人在施展魔法，没有像是老甘道夫展现的烟火一样的东西，我们已经有一段时间没有看到皇帝和女皇了。我推测她有心的话，应该可以做一些事情。佛罗多先生，我真的很想要看看精灵魔法！”
“It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish, as my old gaffer used to say. And I don’t reckon that these folk can do much more to help us, magic or no. It’s when we leave this land that we shall miss Gandalf worse, I’m thinking.”
“永不开始的工作会耗费最久的时间，我老爸常常这样说。我也不认为这些人能够帮助我们什么，不管他们有没有魔法。我想，当我们离开这里以后，我们才会开始真正的想念甘道夫。”
Even as he spoke, they saw, as if she came in answer to their words, the Lady Galadriel approaching. Tall and white and fair she walked beneath the trees. She spoke no word, but beckoned to them.
就在他说话的时候，彷佛回应他的要求一般，凯兰崔尔女皇就这么走了过来。她穿着白袍的美丽身影在树下走着，她没有开口，只是对他们比了比手势。
“I wouldn’t,” said Frodo. “I am content. And I don’t miss Gandalf’s fireworks, but his bushy eyebrows, and his quick temper, and his voice.”
“我可不想，”佛罗多说：“我已经满意了，而且我可不怀念甘道夫的烟火，我怀念的是他的臭脾气、浓密的眉毛，和他的声音。”
“You’re right,” said Sam. “And don’t think I’m finding fault. I’ve often wanted to see a bit of magic like what it tells of in old tales, but I’ve never heard of a better land than this. It’s like being at home and on a holiday at the same time, if you understand me. I don’t want to leave. All the same, I’m beginning to feel that if we’ve got to go on, then we’d best get it over.
“你说得对！”山姆说：“您可别认为我在挑毛病，我常想要看看远古传说中的魔法，但我从来没听过比这里更美丽的地方。这里像是人同时在家中，又遇上了假期一样，我不想要离开。但是，我又开始觉得最好赶快离开这里，把一切结束。”
“I am afraid that’s only too true, Sam,” said Frodo. “Yet I hope very much that before we leave we shall see the Lady of the Elves again.”
“恐怕你说的太正确了，山姆，”佛罗多说：“但是我希望在我们离开之前，可以再看看精灵女皇的尊容。”
With water from the stream Galadriel filled the basin to the brim, and breathed on it, and when the water was still again she spoke. “Here is the Mirror of Galadriel,” she said. “I have brought you here so that you may look in it, if you will.”
凯兰崔尔利用小溪中的泉水将银盆装满，对它吹了口气。当水面的涟漪停止下来之后，她开口了：“这就是凯兰崔尔之镜，”她说：“我带你来就是为了让你观看这面镜子，如果你愿意的话。”
Turning aside, she led them toward the southern slopes of the hill of Caras Galadhon, and passing through a high green hedge they came into an enclosed garden. No trees grew there, and it lay open to the sky. The evening star had risen and was shining with white fire above the western woods. Down a long flight of steps the Lady went into a deep green hollow, through which ran murmuring the silver stream that issued from the fountain on the hill. At the bottom, upon a low pedestal carved like a branching tree, stood a basin of silver. wide and shallow, and beside it stood a silver ewer.
她转过身领着两人走到卡拉斯加拉顿南坡上，通过一个绿色的围篱，进入一个隐密的花园。那里没有生长任何的树木，是敝开在天空下的。夜间的星辰已经升起，照耀着西方的森林。女皇走上一连串的楼梯，来到深绿色的山谷，这里有着从花园外喷泉流出的潺潺小溪。在旁边，有一个雕刻的如同小树一般的台座，上面有着一个银盆，又宽又浅，旁边则是另一个银色的水罐。
“Many things I can command the Mirror to reveal,” she answered, “and to some I can show what they desire to see. But the Mirror will also show things unbidden, and those are often stranger and more profitable than things which we wish to behold. What you will see, if you leave the Mirror free to work, I cannot tell. For it shows things that were, and things that are, things that yet may be. But which it is that he sees, even the wisest cannot always tell. Do you wish to look? “
“我可以命令镜子显示出许多不同的事物，”她回答道：“对于某些人，我可以让他们看见想看的东西，但是这面镜子也会显示出意料之外的事物。如果你放任镜子自己寻找任何事物，我就不知道会有什么样的结果，因为它所显示的是过去、现在，和未来可能的情况。但即使是最睿智的人，也无法确定他究竟看见了些什么。你想要看看吗？”
The air was very still, and the dell was dark, and the Elf-lady beside him was tall and pale. “What shall we look for, and what shall we see?” asked Frodo, filled with awe.
气氛变得凝滞，谷地变得相当黑暗，精灵女子的身影高大而苍白。“我们要找什么，又会看到什么？”佛罗多充满敬畏地说。
“Like as not,” said the Lady with a gentle laugh. “But come, you shall look and see what you may. Do not touch the water! “
“可能吧！”女皇慷慨地笑了：“不过，还是来吧，你愿意看什么就看什么，别碰那个水！”
Frodo did not answer.
佛罗多没有回答。
“And you?” she said, turning to Sam. “For this is what your folk would call magic. I believe; though I do not understand clearly what they mean; and they seem also to use the same word of the deceits of the Enemy. But this, if you will, is the magic of Galadriel. Did you not say that you wished to see Elf-magic? “
“你呢？”她转过身面对山姆：“因为我相信，这就是你们同胞所谓的魔法，不过，其实我不太明白他们究竟是指些什么，如果你愿意的话，这就是凯兰崔尔的魔法。你刚刚不是说想要看看精灵魔法吗？”
“And I’d not mind a glimpse of what’s going on at home,” he said in an aside to Frodo. “It seems a terrible long time that I’ve been away. But there, like as not I’ll only see the stars, or something that I won’t understand.”
“我也不介意看看家里到底变成怎样，”他瞟了佛罗多一眼：“我已经离家很久了。不过，我可能也只会看见星星，或是什么我不了解的东西。”
“I did,” said Sam, trembling a little between fear and curiosity. “I’ll have a peep, Lady, if you’re willing.”
“的确是，”山姆有些颤抖，但也有些害怕和好奇：“女士，如果你愿意的话，我想要看看。”
Sam climbed up on the foot of the pedestal and leaned over the basin. The water looked hard and dark. Stars were reflected in it.
山姆走到台座旁边，低头看着水盆。水看起来十分清澈、黑暗，里面倒映着许多的星辰。
“There’s only stars, as I thought,” he said. Then he gave a low gasp, for the stars went out. As if a dark veil had been withdrawn, the Mirror grew grey, and then clear. There was sun shining, and the branches of trees were waving and tossing in the wind. But before Sam could make up his mind what it was that he saw, the light faded; and now he thought he saw Frodo with a pale face lying fast asleep under a great dark cliff. Then he seemed to see himself going along a dim passage, and climbing an endless winding stair. It came to him suddenly that he was looking urgently for something, but what it was he did not know. Like a dream the vision shifted and went back, and he saw the trees again. But this time they were not so close, and he could see what was going on: they were not waving in the wind, they were falling, crashing to the ground.
“果然，正如同我猜测的一样，里面只有星星。”山姆吃了一惊，因为星辰开始消隐。彷佛揭开了一面黑暗的面纱一般，上面的东西渐渐隐匿，变得灰色，随即又变得澄清，里面有着太陽照耀的大地，还有摇曳的树木。在山姆来得及下定决心之前，画面又突然改变了。里面的人物变成了脸色死白，躺在黑暗悬崖上的佛罗多。而他似乎正不停的爬着永无止尽的楼梯。他突然之间发现自己的影像正急着寻找什么东西，但是他一时之间不能够确定自己要找些什么。彷佛如梦一般，他又看到了那些树木；但是这次变得更近，他这才看清楚那些树不是在摇曳，而是被砍倒，跌落在地面。
But now Sam noticed that the Old Mill had vanished, and a large red-brick building was being put up where it had stood. Lots of folk were busily at work. There was a tall red chimney nearby. Black smoke seemed to cloud the surface of the Mirror.
不过，现在山姆又注意到老磨坊已经消失了，一个巨大的红砖建筑代之而起，很多人正忙碌的工作。附近有一个庞大的烟囱，黑烟似乎弥漫了整个水面。
“Hi!” cried Sam in an outraged voice. “There’s that Ted Sandyman a-cutting down trees as he shouldn’t. They didn’t ought to be felled: it’s that avenue beyond the Mill that shades the road to Bywater. I wish I could get at Ted, and I’d fell him!”
“哇！”山姆愤怒地大喊：“那是磨坊主人在砍树！这些树不应该砍的啊，那些是替临水路遮荫的树木。我希望我可以抓到那家伙，狠狠地揍他！”
“There’s some devilry at work in the Shire,” he said. “Elrond knew what he was about when he wanted to send Mr. Merry back.” Then suddenly Sam gave a cry and sprang away. “I can’t stay here,” he said wildly. “I must go home. They’ve dug up Bagshot Row, and there’s the poor old gaffer going down the Hill with his bits of things on a barrow. I must go home! “
“夏尔一定出什么问题了，”他说：“当爱隆想要派梅里回去的时候一定出状况了。”突然间，山姆跳了开来，惊呼失声：“我不能留在这里了！”他忙乱地说：“我一定得回家。他们挖掉了袋边路，可怜的老爸用独轮车把他的东西一路送下小山，我一定得回家！”
“You cannot go home alone,” said the Lady. “You did not wish to go home without your master before you looked in the Mirror, and yet you knew that evil things might well be happening in the Shire. Remember that the Mirror shows many things, and not all have yet come to pass. Some never come to be, unless those that behold the visions turn aside from their path to prevent them. The Mirror is dangerous as a guide of deeds.”
“你不能够单独回家，”女皇说：“在你看到镜中的景象之前，你不想要放下主人回家，但你那时就知道夏尔可能已经遭遇了不测。请记得，这面镜子会显示很多东西，很多事情可能还没有发生。除非看见它的人放弃原先的道路，转而想要阻止它；否则有些事情永远不会发生。这面镜子并不是很好的向导。”
“Do you now wish to look, Frodo?” said the Lady Galadriel. “You did not wish to see Elf-magic and were content.”
“佛罗多，你现在想要看看吗？”凯兰崔尔女王说：“你之前并不想要观看精灵魔法。”
Sam sat on the ground and put his head in his hands. “I wish I had never come here, and I don’t want to see no more magic,” he said and fell silent. After a moment he spoke again thickly, as if struggling with tears. “No, I’ll go home by the long road with Mr. Frodo, or not at all,” he said. “But I hope I do get back some day. If what I’ve seen turns out true, somebody’s going to catch it hot! “
山姆坐在地上，捧着头说：“我真希望我永远没有来这里，我不想要再看什么魔法了。”他沉默了下来。片刻之后，他沙哑地说，彷佛正努力的和眼泪搏斗。“不，我要回家就要和佛罗多先生一起回家，否则干脆不回去。”他哽咽地说：“但是，我希望有一天我真的能够回家，看看这些事情是不是都发生了？如果是真的，有人要为此付出代价！”
“No,” she said. “I do not counsel you one way or the other. I am not a counsellor. You may learn something, and whether what you see be fair or evil, that may be profitable, and yet it may not. Seeing is both good and perilous. Yet I think, Frodo, that you have courage and wisdom enough for the venture, or I would not have brought you here. Do as you will! “
“不，”她说：“我不能够建议你任何事情，我不是你的顾问。你可能会知道一些事情，也可能会看到好事或是坏事，这是完全说不准的，旁观本来就是有风险的事情。但是，佛罗多，我认为你拥有足够的勇气进行这场冒险，否则我就不会带你来了，你自己决定吧！”
“I will look,” said Frodo, and he climbed on the pedestal and bent over the dark water. At once the Mirror cleared and he saw a twilit land. Mountains loomed dark in the distance against a pale sky. A long grey road wound back out of sight. Far away a figure came slowly down the road, faint and small at first, but growing larger and clearer as it approached. Suddenly Frodo realized that it reminded him of Gandalf. He almost called aloud the wizard’s name, and then he saw that the figure was clothed not in grey but in white, in a white that shone faintly in the dusk; and in its hand there was a white staff. The head was so bowed that he could see no face, and presently the figure turned aside round a bend in the road and went out of the Mirror’s view. Doubt came into Frodo’s mind: was this a vision of Gandalf on one of his many lonely journeys long ago, or was it Saruman?
“我愿意看！”佛罗多走到台座旁边，低头向着水盆内看去。镜子立刻变得清晰，让他看见了一块微明的土地，远方的山脉衬在黑色的天空之下，一条长长的灰色小径延伸出视线之外，极远的地方有个人影缓缓的走来；一开始人影很小，但慢慢地变大变清楚，突然间，佛罗多发现这让他想到甘道夫。他几乎就要脱口而出的时候，又发现对方穿的不是灰袍，而是白袍，是种在黑暗中会闪闪发光的质料；而且，他手上还拿着一柄白色的手杖。他的头非常低，从画面上根本看不清楚长相。接着他转了个弯，就消失在镜子中。佛罗多心中开始忐忑不安，这显示的究竟是甘道夫在许多年前的旅程，还是萨鲁曼？
“Do you advise me to look?” asked Frodo.
“你建议我看吗？”佛罗多问。
Then there was a pause, and after it many swift scenes followed that Frodo in some way knew to be parts of a great history in which he had become involved. The mist cleared and he saw a sight which he had never seen before but knew at once: the Sea. Darkness fell. The sea rose and raged in a great storm. Then he saw against the Sun, sinking blood-red into a wrack of clouds, the black outline of a tall ship with torn sails riding up out of the West. Then a wide river flowing through a populous city. Then a white fortress with seven towers. And then again a ship with black sails, but now it was morning again, and the water rippled with light, and a banner bearing the emblem of a white tree shone in the sun. A smoke as of fire and battle arose, and again the sun went down in a burning red that faded into a grey mist; and into the mist a small ship passed away, twinkling with lights. It vanished, and Frodo sighed and prepared to draw away.
然后，突然间一切都停了下来，紧接着出现了一大串连续的画面，佛罗多下意识的知道这是自己所卷入的大历史中的一部分。迷雾散去之后，他看见了一个之前从未见过的景象，却立刻知道那是什么：那是海。黑暗落下，大海遭逢到巨大的风暴，然后他又看见太陽血红的落到云朵之后，一艘破烂的巨舰从西方航出，然后是一条巨大的河流穿越过一个大都市，然后是个拥有七层高塔的要塞，然后又是一艘拥有黑帆的船只。但现在又是早晨了，海面上反射着金光，陽光照着一面白色圣树在太陽下茁壮的徽记之旗帜。一阵预警着战争的狼烟升起，太陽又以血红的面貌再度落入灰色的迷雾中，一艘小船航进这迷雾中，上面点缀着许多的灯火，它渐行渐远，最后消失了。佛罗多叹了口气，准备转身离开。
The vision now changed. Brief and small but very vivid he caught a glimpse of Bilbo walking restlessly about his room. The table was littered with disordered papers; rain was beating on the windows.
画面现在又改变了，他看见比尔博在房间内不安地踱步，桌上堆满了各种各样的文件，雨点打在窗户上。
Then the Eye began to rove, searching this way and that; and Frodo knew with certainty and horror that among the many things that it sought he himself was one. But he also knew that it could not see him-not yet, not unless he willed it. The Ring that hung upon its chain about his neck grew heavy, heavier than a great stone, and his head was dragged downwards. The Mirror seemed to be growing hot and curls of steam were rising from the water. He was slipping forward.
然后，那只眼睛开始转动，四下搜寻着；佛罗多很确切的知道自己绝对是目标之一。但他也知道，除非他起了这念头，否则对方是看不见他的。戴在他脖子上的魔戒变得十分沉重，远远比一块大石头还要重，他的头开始被拉向前。魔镜似乎开始沸腾，阵阵青烟冒起……他快要滑进水中了。
But suddenly the Mirror went altogether dark, as dark as if a hole had opened in the world of sight, and Frodo looked into emptiness. In the black abyss there appeared a single Eye that slowly grew. until it filled nearly all the Mirror. So terrible was it that Frodo stood rooted, unable to cry out or to withdraw his gaze. The Eye was rimmed with fire, but was itself glazed, yellow as a cat’s, watchful and intent, and the black slit of its pupil opened on a pit, a window into nothing.
但突然间镜子变得一片漆黑，彷佛有一个黑洞在他面前开启了，佛罗多瞪视着这一片虚无。在那无底深渊中出现了一只慢慢变大的独眼，直到它几乎充满了整个水盆。佛罗多害怕地不能动弹，既无法移开视线，也无法发出任何的声音。那只眼睛笼罩在火焰之中，本身也散发着如同妖猫一样的黄色光芒，仔细地凝视一切。而在瞳孔的地方则是一个深洞，通向无尽的虚无。
“Do not touch the water!” said the Lady Galadriel softly. The vision faded, and Frodo found that he was looking at the cool stars twinkling in the silver basin. He stepped back shaking all over and looked at the Lady.
“别碰水！”凯兰崔尔女皇柔声说。那影像消失了，佛罗多发现自己眼前的景象又变成银盆中的星辰，他浑身发抖地后退，看着凯兰崔尔女皇。
“I know what it was that you last saw,” she said; “for that is also in my mind. Do not be afraid! But do not think that only by singing amid the trees, nor even by the slender arrows of elven-bows, is this land of Lothlorien maintained and defended against its Enemy. I say to you, Frodo, that even as I speak to you, I perceive the Dark Lord and know his mind, or all of his mind that concerns the Elves. And he gropes ever to see me and my thought. But still the door is closed! “
“我知道你最后看见了什么，”她说：“因为那也出现在我的意念中。别害怕！但也别以为罗斯洛立安对抗魔王的唯一防卫，就是森林间的歌声和纤细的箭矢。佛罗多，即使在我和你说话的时候，我也能够知道黑暗魔君的思想，或者至少是他所有顾及到精灵的思想。而他照旧使尽全力想要看见我、知道我的想法，但那门户依旧是关闭着的！”
She lifted up her white arms, and spread out her hands towards the East in a gesture of rejection and denial. Earendil, the Evening Star, most beloved of the Elves, shone clear above. So bright was it that the figure of the Elven-lady cast a dim shadow on the ground. Its rays glanced upon a ring about her finger; it glittered like polished gold overlaid with silver light, and a white stone in it twinkled as if the Even-star had come down to rest upon her hand. Frodo gazed at the ring with awe; for suddenly it seemed to him that he understood.
她举起洁白的玉臂，朝向东方作出排斥和拒绝的手势。埃兰迪尔，精灵最钟爱的暮星闪动着明亮的光芒，炽烈的星光甚至让精灵女皇的身体，在地上投下了淡淡的影子。那光芒照着她手指上的一枚戒指，那枚戒指看起来像是黄金外面包着银光，而中央则嵌着一枚如同暮星一般闪亮的白色宝石。佛罗多敬畏地看着那枚戒指，因为他突然间明白了一切。
“Yes,” she said, divining his thought, “it is not permitted to speak of it, and Elrond could not do so. But it cannot be hidden from the Ring-bearer, and one who has seen the Eye. Verily it is in the land of Lorien upon the finger of Galadriel that one of the Three remains. This is Nenya, the Ring of Adamant, and I am its keeper.
“是的，”她知道了他的想法。“这是封印的知识，连爱隆也不能够透露。但是，对于曾经看过魔眼的魔戒持有者来说，这是无法隐藏的秘密。精灵三戒其中的一戒，正是隐藏在罗瑞安的土地上，戴在凯兰崔尔的手指上——这是南雅，钻石魔戒，我是它的持有者！”
“He suspects, but he does not know — not yet. Do you not see now wherefore your coming is to us as the footstep of Doom? For if you fail, then we are laid bare to the Enemy. Yet if you succeed, then our power is diminished, and Lothlorien will fade, and the tides of Time will sweep it away. We must depart into the West, or dwindle to a rustic folk of dell and cave, slowly to forget and to be forgotten.”
“他的确怀疑这戒指在我这边，但他还不能够确认。你应该明白，为什么你们的到来如同末日的号角一般？因为如果你们失败了，我们就会曝露在魔王的魔掌之下。但，如果你们成功了，我们的力量将会减弱，罗斯洛立安将会消逝，历史的洪流将会把此地给冲刷殆尽。我们必须要遁入西方，否则就会成为居住在山洞或是谷地中的民族，遗忘一切，也被一切所遗忘。”
“That what should be shall be,” she answered. “The love of the Elves for their land and their works is deeper than the deeps of the Sea, and their regret is undying and cannot ever wholly be assuaged. Yet they will cast all away rather than submit to Sauron: for they know him now. For the fate of Lothlorien you are not answerable but only for the doing of your own task. Yet I could wish, were it of any avail, that the One Ring had never been wrought, or had remained for ever lost.”
“我们不能干涉历史的定数，”她回答道：“精灵对于土地和自己所创建功业的挚爱，比大海还要深，但是，我们宁愿舍弃一切也不愿向索伦低头。因为，我们知道索伦的真面目。你不需要为了罗斯洛立安的命运负责，只需要为自己任务的成败负责。但是，虽然没有多大用处，我只能希望，至尊魔戒当年没有被创造出来，或者永远没有被人发现。”
Frodo bent his head. “And what do you wish?” he said at last.
佛罗多低下头。“您想要怎么做？”他最后终于说。
“You are wise and fearless and fair, Lady Galadriel,” said Frodo. “I will give you the One Ring, if you ask for it. It is too great a matter for me.”
“凯兰崔尔女皇，你果然睿智、无畏而又美丽，”佛罗多说：“只要你开口，我就可以把至尊魔戒交给你，这对我来说是太沉重的责任了。”
Galadriel laughed with a sudden clear laugh. “Wise the Lady Galadriel may be,” she said, “yet here she has met her match in courtesy. Gently are you revenged for my testing of your heart at our first meeting. You begin to see with a keen eye. I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired to ask what you offer. For many long years I had pondered what I might do, should the Great Ring come into my hands, and behold! it was brought within my grasp. The evil that was devised long ago works on in many ways, whether Sauron himself stands or falls. Would not that have been a noble deed to set to the credit of his Ring, if I had taken it by force or fear from my guest?
凯兰崔尔突然间笑了。“或许凯兰崔尔是很睿智，”她说：“但眼前的这位并不逊色啊！阁下温柔地回报了我初次见面时对你们的试炼，你的心思十分细密。我并不否认我真的非常想接受你的提议，我曾经为此思考了很多年：如果有一天，统御之戒到了我的手上，我会怎么做？现在它就在我的眼前，不管索伦成功或是失败，当年铸造它的邪恶之力都没有丝毫的放松。如果我用暴力、或是恐惧的力量强夺走客人的宝物，这岂不正是向魔戒低头的行为？”
“And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair! “
“现在，这机会终于来了。你愿意将魔戒送给我！你打倒了黑暗魔君，让女皇登基。而我将不会陷入黑暗之中，我将会美丽、伟大，如同晨曦和暮色一般！如同海洋、如同太陽、如同群峰间的白雪！像是暴风和闪电一样的恐怖！比大地还要坚牢！万民万物都将敬畏、尊敬我……”
They stood for a long while in silence. At length the Lady spoke again. “Let us return!” she said. “In the morning you must depart for now we have chosen, and the tides of fate are flowing.”
他们沉默了很久很久。最后，女皇终于再度开口：“我们走吧！”她说：“你们明天一早就必须出发，因为我们刚刚已经做出了选择，命运的巨轮又再度开始运转。”
“I would ask one thing before we go,” said Frodo, “a thing which I often meant to ask Gandalf in Rivendell. I am permitted to wear the One Ring: why cannot I see all the others and know the thoughts of those that wear them? “
“在我们离开之前，我还有最后一个问题，”佛罗多说：“我在瑞文戴尔一直想要问甘道夫的问题，我获得配戴至尊魔戒的资格：为什么我不能看见、了解所有其他魔戒持有者的心思和身份？”
She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white, whose gentle voice was soft and sad.
她举起手，从她所戴着的魔戒上投射下一道光柱，让所有的一切陷入黑暗中，只剩光柱中的光芒。她站在佛罗多面前，身形高大得难以描述，美丽得超越生物极限，恐怖而又崇高。然后她放下手，让光芒消逝，突然间她又笑了，咻地一声，她缩小了，恢复成原来那名纤瘦的精灵女子，穿着简单的白袍，声音带着温柔与感伤。
“You have not tried,” she said. “Only thrice have you set the Ring upon your finger since you knew what you possessed. Do not try! It would destroy you. Did not Gandalf tell you that the rings give power according to the measure of each possessor? Before you could use that power you would need to become far stronger, and to train your will to the domination of others. Yet even so, as Ring-bearer and as one that has borne it on finger and seen that which is hidden, your sight is grown keener. You have perceived my thought more clearly than many that are accounted wise. You saw the Eye of him that holds the Seven and the Nine. And did you not see and recognize the ring upon my finger? Did you see my ring?” she asked turning again to Sam.
“那是因为你没有试过，”她说：“自从你继承魔戒之后，你只有戴过它三次。千万别贸然尝试！这会毁了你的。难道甘道夫没有告诉过你，魔戒赐与的力量是随着拥有者而改变的吗？在你可以使用魔戒前，你必须要变得更强大，磨练自己的意志去操控他人。但即使没有这样，由于你戴过魔戒，你的所有感官能力都变得更为锐利，你比许多智者都要更清楚我内心的想法，你看到了控制九戒和七戒的魔王之眼。你不也是一眼就发现、认出了我手上的戒指吗？你看得见我的戒指吗？”她转过身面对山姆。
“I pass the test,” she said. “I will diminish, and go into the West and remain Galadriel.”
“我通过了试炼，”她说：“我愿意随历史消逝，遁入西方，继续保有凯兰崔尔的名号。”
“I would,” she said. “That is how it would begin. But it would not stop with that, alas! We will not speak more of it. Let us go!”
“我会的！”她说：“一开始都是这样的。但并不会以此做结束，唉！我们不要再讨论这个话题了。我们走吧！”
“No, Lady,” he answered. “To tell you the truth, I wondered what you were talking about. I saw a star through your finger. But if you’ll pardon my speaking out, I think my master was right. I wish you’d take his Ring. You’d put things to rights. You’d stop them digging up the gaffer and turning him adrift. You’d make some folk pay for their dirty work.”
“不，女皇，”他回答道：“说实话，我一直搞不清楚你们在说些什么，我看到有颗星辰停留在您的手上。但如果您容许我发言的话，我想说，我觉得我的主人说得对，我也希望您接下他的魔戒。你会导正一切的。你会阻止他们赶走我老爸，不会让他四处流浪，你会让那些犯错的人们付出代价！”
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