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| Nightshade Forests | |
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| Album | Dol Guldur |
| Credits | |
| Composed by | Summoning |
| Written by | J.R.R. Tolkien, P.K. |
| Performed by | Summoning |
| Track Info | |
| Duration | 10:49 |
| Track No. | 2 |
| Previous | Angbands Schmieden |
| Next | Elfstone |
| Media | |
Nightshade Forests is the second track of the album Dol Guldur by the band Summoning. The song name is taken from Taur-nu-Fuin, the name given to the forest of Dorthonion after it fell into darkness in the First Age, and the dark forest of Mirkwood in the Third Age. Like the song Lugburz from the album Minas Morgul, the lyrics directly reference the incantation chanted by a Barrow-wight who had trapped Frodo, Sam, Pippin and Merry in the Fog on the Barrow-downs chapter of The Fellowship of the Ring.
Lyrics
And in the glade a light was seen
Of stars and shadows shimmering
Immortal maiden elven-wise...
Long was the way through iron halls and darkling doors
And woods of nightshade morrowless
Elven-wise dance with me...
Cold be hand, heart and bone
And cold be my sleep under stone
Never more I'll wake on a snowy bed
Never - 'til the sun fails and the moon is dead
In the black winds the stars shall die
And still on gold here let them lie
'Til the dark lord lifts his hand
Over dead seas and withered land
And I'll fly away...
Where I dwell none can say
For into darkness fell my star
In Mordor where the shadows are