翻译1 （未完）《西尔凡精灵中的辛达贵族》（THE SINDARIN PRINCES OF THE SILVAN ELVES）
——选自第二节《凯兰崔兰和凯勒鹏的历史》（THE HISTORY OF GALADRIEL AND CELEBORN） 附录B 《西尔凡精灵中的辛达贵族》（THE SINDARIN PRINCES OF THE SILVAN ELVES）
在《指环王》一书的附录B《第二纪的传说》中，有这样一则批注说道：“在巴拉多塔Barad-dûr 建立之前，许多辛达精灵向东方迁徙，有一些在遥远的森林里建立了王国，在那里他们的人民绝大部分是西尔凡精灵。长久居住在幽暗密林Greenwood the Great北部的瑟兰迪尔就是他们中的一员。”（译注：大绿林即为幽暗密林，直到被索伦的魔影笼罩之后。森林变得黑暗，充满了邪恶生物。）
更多关于这些统治西尔凡精灵的辛达贵族的历史，可以在我父亲晚年的文献随笔中找到。于是在一篇文章中说瑟兰迪尔的王国在从莫利亚流亡来的矮人到来以及恶龙入侵之前，曾一直延伸至孤山the Lonely Mountain附近和及长湖the Long Lake西岸。居住在这个王国的精灵从南方迁徙而来，他们是居住在罗斯洛立安的精灵的亲戚和邻居。（译注：原文为lórien即Lothlórien的简称，中文译罗斯洛立安又名萝林或者罗瑞尔。是凯兰崔尔和凯勒鹏的统治地，居住着诺多族、辛达族和南多精灵。）但他们已经在安都因河Anduin以东的幽暗密林定居多年。在第二纪元，他们的国王欧罗费尔Oropher（原文注：瑟兰督伊的父亲、莱格拉斯的祖父）将国土向北收缩至格拉顿平原the Gladden Fields。这样做使他的王国不受莫利亚矮人的强权和入侵的影响，那里的矮人已经发展壮大，建立了历史上记载的最雄伟壮观的莫利亚殿堂。同时也是因为他凯勒鹏和凯兰崔尔夫妇闯入罗斯洛立安一事深感不满。不过在那个年代，幽暗密林与山脉之间还不存在令人恐慌的东西。所以直至最后联盟之战the War of the Last Alliance爆发时，他的人民与河对岸的亲族（译注：即凯兰崔尔和凯勒鹏的人民）都还一直保持着连续稳定的往来。
尽管西尔凡精灵不愿意插手南多族或辛达族的事务，或者其他种族，矮人、人类或半兽人等等，但是欧罗费尔也已十分睿智地预见到，在索伦Sauron被最终战胜前，真正的和平不会重新降临。
原文
APPENDIXB
THESINDARIN PRINCES OF THE SILVAN ELVES
In Appendix B to The Lord of the Rings, in theheadnote to the Tale of Years of the Second Age, it is said that "beforethe building of the Barad-dûr many of the Sindar passed eastward, and someestablished realms in the forests far away, where their people were mostlySilvan Elves. Thranduil, long in the north of Greenwood the Great, was one ofthese."
Something more of the history of these Sindarinprinces of the Silvan Elves is found in my father's late philological writings.Thus in one essay Thranduil's realm is said to have
extended into thewoods surrounding the Lonely Mountain and growing along the west shores of theLong Lake, before the coming of the Dwarves exiled from Moria and the invasionof the Dragon. The Elvish folk of this realm had migrated from the south, beingthe kin and neighbours of the Elves of Lórien; but they had dwelt in Greenwoodthe Great east of Anduin. In the Second Age their king, Oropher [the father ofThranduil, father of Legolas], had withdraw northward beyond the GladdenFields. This he did to be free from the power and encroachments of the Dwarvesof Moria, which had grown to be the greatest of the mansions of the Dwarvesrecorded in history; and also he resented the intrusions of Celeborn andGaladriel into Lórien. But as yet there was little to fear between theGreenwood and the Mountains and there was constant intercourse between hispeople and their kin across the river, until the War of the Last Alliance.
Despitethe desire of the Silvan Elves to meddle as little as might be in the affairsof the Noldor and Sindar, or of any other peoples, Dwarves, Men, or Orcs,Oropher had the wisdom to foresee that peace would not return unless Sauron wasovercome.
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