The verse is not translated in the chapter, though it is described: the sweet syllables of the elvish song fell like clear jewels of blended word and melody. 'It is a song to Elbereth', said Bilbo, and at the very end of the chapter there is a hint as to its meaning: Good night! I'll take a walk, I think, and look at the stars of Elbereth in the garden. Sleep well! A translation of the Sindarin appeared much later, in the song-cycle The Road Goes Ever On; it begins O Elbereth who lit the stars. Readers, then, were not expected to know the song's literal meaning, but they were meant to make something of it: as Shippey says, it is clearly something from an unfamiliar language, and it announces that there is more to Middle-earth than can immediately be communicated. In addition, Tolkien believed, contrary to most of his contemporaries, that the sounds of language gave a specific pleasure that the listener could perceive as beauty; he personally found the sounds of Gothic and Finnish, and to some extent also of Welsh, immediately beautiful. In short, as Shippey writes, Tolkien believed that untranslated elvish would do a job that English could not. Shippey suggests that readers do take something important from a song in another language, namely the feeling or style that it conveys, even if it escapes a cerebral focus.