• blind guardianın en güzel albümü, özellikle içerdigi mirror mirror*, into the storm, noldor ve nightfall gibi süper şarkılarla dünyanın gelmiş geçmiş ilk 10-15 albümü arasına pek zorlanmadan girebilicegine inanıyorum..
  • piyasada bulunan rus malı blind guardian cd'sinde albüm the steadfast'le biter. son iki parçayı koymamıştır elemanlar. onun yerine iron savior albümlerinin taglerini blind guardian diye değiştirip albüme dahil etmişlerdir. enteresan adamlar bu ruslar.
  • blind guardian'ın doruk noktasındaki son 3 albümünden ortadaki olanıdır. 3689264984209. dinleyişinizdir baştan sona. ama hala müziğin heyecanından korolara eşlik edemezsiniz. baştan sona ben de söyleyeceğim diye başlar, orta bir yerlerde kendinizden geçer, düşüne düşüne dinlemeye başlar, orta dünya'da silmarillerin çağında tecrübe ettiğiniz anıları yad etmeyi ve sessiz durmayı tercih edersiniz.
  • blind guardian'ın en aşmış albümlerinden biri.. ayrıca bu albümdeki when sorrow sang adlı şarkının yeri de çok özeldir benim için.. bilmeyenler için, şarkı beren ve luthien'in hikayesini anlatmaktadır...
  • genclik yıllarımda su sekilde bir analizini buldugum album: *
    *

    all the lyrics on the album are about the book "the silmarillion" by j.r.r. tolkien. for those of you who don't know the book it is unpossible to understand the lyrics - it's even difficult to understand my explanations on it. that's why i have written a summary of the silmarillion (you can also read it on the tolkien page).

    | war of wrath | into the storm | lammoth | nightfall | the ministrel | the curse of feanor | captured | blood tears | mirror mirror | face the truth | noldor (dead winter reigns) | battle of sudden flame | time stands still (at the iron hill) | the dark elf | thorn | the eldar | nom the wise | when sorrow sang | out on the water | the steadfast | a dark passage | final chapter (thus ends...) |

    war of wrath

    it is about the last great battle of beleriad when the valar beat morgoth (or melkor) once and for all after earendil had brought back one silmaril to valinor. actually this war is at the end of the 'quenta silmarillion' and i am not sure why it's at the beginning of the album. here is juergen bartholomae's theory: it is in the present, and melkor and sauron are remembering past times. melkor's words about ungolianth are a good link to the following song.
    sauron:
    "the field is lost, everything is lost. the black one has fallen from the sky and the towers in ruins lie. the enemy is within, everywhere - and with him the light. soon they will be here. go now, my lord, while there is time. there are places below." the valar were victorious. the 'black one' is the first winged and greates dragon ancalagon. he fell on the towers after earendil had smashed him down. sauron, a maia and melkor's most powerful servant want his lord to flee.
    morgoth:
    "and you know them too. i release thee, go! my servant you'll be for all time." melkor releases sauron so that he shall carry on the evil.
    (as you can read in the lord of the ring - he did)
    morgoth:
    i had a part in everything. twice i destroyed the light and twice i failed. i left ruin behind me when i returned. but i also carried ruin with me. she, the mistress of her own lust. melkor destroyed the light twice in the very early days of arda. the second time was when he destroyed the trees (the 'ruin'). 'she' is ungolianth, the great spider monster who helped him to destroy the trees.

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    into the storm

    melkor and unolianth have destroyed the two trees of valinor, robbed the silmarils and slain finwe (high lord of the noldor). the song is just about the small scene when melkor tried to flee from the spider, who demands what the dark lord had promissed: the silmarils. the song is written from ungoliath's view - except the bridge: it's from melkor's view - and the chorus: from melkor's subjects view
    give it to me
    i must have it
    precious treasure
    i deserve it ungolianth demands the silmarils as melkor had promissed her.
    where can i run
    how can i hide
    the silmarils
    gems of treelight
    their life belongs to me
    oh it's sweet how the
    darkness is floating around melkor tries to run away because he never really thought of giving the silmarils to the spider.
    we are following
    the will of the one
    through the dark age
    and into the storm
    and we are following
    the will of the one
    through the dark age
    and into the storm
    lord i'm mean these are the balrogs who rushed to melkor's aid, who had been attacked by the spider.

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    lammoth

    morgoth is calling for help after ungoliant, a giant spider, has attacked him in the far northeast of middle earth. the echos of his call should last eternally, so that this land was called lammoth (the great echo) from then on.

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    nightfall

    this song shows the situation in valinor after melkor and ungolianth had destroyed the trees. the trees, which illuminated the world up to then, are gone and darkness covered the land. the silmarils, all the proud of the noldor were stolen and their high lord finwe was slain by melkor. in my oppinion this song is written from maglor's view (one of feanor's sons) and out of his memories, since the booklet story written by hansi is also from his view.
    no sign of life did flicker
    in floods of tears she cries
    "all hope's lost it can't be undone
    they're wasted and gone" the trees are gone and yavanna, who once created them, cries for them.
    "save me your speeches
    i know ("they blinded us all")
    what you want
    you will take it away from me
    take it and i know for sure
    the light she once brought in
    is gone forevermore" this is from feanor's view. he believed in many lies melkor told him once. thus he thought the only thing the valar wanted are the silmarils. "they blinded us all" also referes to the valar.
    like sorrowful seagull they sang
    "(we're) lost in the deep shades
    the misty cloud brought
    (a wailing when beauty was gone
    come take a look at the sky)
    monstrous it covered the shore
    fearful into the unknown"
    quietly it crept in new horror
    insanity reigned
    it spilled the first blood
    when the old king was slain this is about the nightfall and the destruction of the trees. "the old king" is finwe and he was slain by melkor before he (melkor) robbed the silmarils. it was the first blood that was spilled in the following great war between melkor and the noldor. also it was the first spilled blood in aman.
    "how long shall we mourn in the dark
    the bliss and the beauty will no return
    say farewell to sadness and grief
    though long and hard the road my be"
    but even in silence i heard the words
    "an oath we shall swear
    by the name of the one
    until the world's end
    it can be broken" this is feanor's great speech to the noldor. he forced them to go with him to middle-earth to take revenge on melkor and to get back the silmarils. he swor a terrible oath in the name of ilúvatar, the one (or eru).
    just wondering how
    i can still hear these voices inside that's why i think it's from maglor's view.
    the words of a banished king
    "i swear revenge"
    filled with anger aflamed our hearts
    full of hate full of pride
    we screamed for revenge also about feanor and his reaction to finwe's (his father) death. it's a great part of the song where the lyrics and how hansi sings them fit exactly with the situation.
    "valar he is that's what you said
    then your oath's been sworn in vain
    (but) freely you came and
    you freely shall depart
    (so) never trust the northern winds
    and never turn your back on friends" when the noldor were about to leave valinor some messengers of the valar came to warn them. feanor himself said that melkor was vala too. thus his oath was in vain since no elf would have a chance against a vala. but they didn't stop him.
    "oh i'm heir of the high lord!
    "you better don't trust him"
    the enemy of mine
    isn't he of your kind and
    finally you may follow me
    farewell
    he said feanor is after his father's death the new high lord.
    he still doesn't trust the valar and thus he doesn't care about their warning. he says that melkor is a valar (as they said to him) and thus they are from the same kind. his words were so strong that the messengers bowed for him. then they left.

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    the ministrel

    this song is absolutely unimportant for the story. in my oppinion it's again maglor who stands in front of the crowd and doesn't know at all what lies in the future of the noldor.

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    the curse of feanor

    the curse of feanor in the silmarillion is a curse a messanger of the valar (many thought it was mandos himself) spoke over feanor and the noldor after they had slain the teleri to get their ships.
    taken the long way
    dark realms i went through
    i arrived
    my vision's so clear
    in anger and pain
    i left deep wounds behind
    but i arrived
    truth might be changed my victory feanor and his tribe have finally reached middle-earth. his vision is of course nothing different than revenge.
    beyond the void but deep within me
    a swamp of filth exists
    a lake it was of crystal beauty
    but arda's spring went by
    i've heard the warning
    well curse my name
    i'll keep on laughing
    no regret
    no regret deep inside him feanor knows that he has done wrong (the murder of the teleri). but even though he heard the curse he only thinks of his revenge - there is 'no regret'.
    don't fear the eyes of the dark lord
    morgoth i cried
    all hope is gone but i swear revenge
    it's my oath
    i will take part in your damned fate this is again about his oath. after melkor had destroyed the trees (and so on) feanor named him 'morgoth' (black enemy of the world) the first time.
    i will always remember their cries
    like a shadow which covers the light
    i will always remember the time
    but it's last
    i cannot turn back time
    (i) don't look back
    there's still smoke near the shore
    but i arrived
    revenge be mine here are again feanor's twingels of remorse about what they have done to their brothers, the teleri. but at once he turns his mind back to his oath (so to say).
    soon you will be free
    set your spirit free
    "suddenly i realized
    the prophecies
    i've never believed in
    my deeds were wrong
    i've stained the land
    and slain my kin
    (burning soul)
    there's no release from my sins
    it hurts
    the curse of feanor runs long
    time and only time will tell us
    tell: was i right or wrong?
    when anger breaks through
    i'll leave mercy behind " here you can see that he is really sorry about his deed and that he regrets it. it's quite strange since nowhere in the book is written anything about those kinds of feelings. but you can imagine that he really felt like this.

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    captured
    after feanor had died maedhros (feanor oldest son) were catched by morgoth and chained to the cruel mountains of thangorodrim. here is morgoth talking to him.

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    blood tears

    fingon, who was a friend of maedhros in earlier days, went to the mountains of thangorodrim to rescue him.
    welcome to my realm
    we are both condemned to live
    it's a dark fate
    (i can hear your calls
    i can hear your calls)
    the eternal life here is morgoth talking to maedhros - he 'welcomes' him.
    my mind's in frozen dreams
    the rotten flesh
    or bitter lies
    welcome to where time stands still
    noone leaves and noone ever will again it's morgoth talking to maedhros.
    can't hold it
    it burns
    each night i cry in pain this is maedhros and the pain he is suffering.
    it seems so clearly
    bent the bow
    cause life in me is gone
    and a cruel wind's blowing cold
    and a cruel wind's blowing cold
    in blame when fingon reached maedhros it was impossible to climb up to the rock his friend was chained to. in his pain maedhros asked fingon to shoot him with his bow. but then thorondor, king of eagles, took him up to his friend.
    and blood tears i cry
    endless grief remained inside
    cut off your old friends hand to rescue maedhros from his chains fingon had to cut off his right hand.

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    mirror mirror

    this song is about gondolin. mainly how turgon (one of fingolfin's sons) found the hidden valley of tumladen and how he built his magnificent town.
    i lies unknown
    the land of mine
    a hidden gate
    to save us from the shadow fall this is about tumladen, the hidden valley, which turgon found with ulmo's help.
    the lord of water spoke
    in the silence
    words of wisdom
    i've seen the end of all
    be aware the storm gets closer ulmo the lord of water send visions to turgon's dreams about the place he should built a place of refuge. the 'strom' (the truimph of evil) is getting closer.
    mirror, mirror on the wall
    true hope lies beyond the coast
    you're a damned kind can't you see
    that the winds will change
    mirror, mirror on the wall
    true hope lies beyond the coast
    you're a damned kind can't you see
    that tomorrow bears insanity this 'mirror mirror' has no meaning - and also no sense in the context (but i can mail you the reason why if you want to - just contact me!).
    'true hope lies beyond the cost' are the words ulmo said to turgon - since the only hope for the noldor to survive is to return to aman. morgoth's power is too great.
    gone is the wisdom of
    a thousand years
    a world in fire in chains and fear
    leads me to a place so far
    deep down it lies my secret vision
    i better keep it safe this is how turgon returned to the valley when the land lied down in agony to built gondolin - the hidden town - and to keep it safe and secret.
    shall i leave my friends alone
    hidden in my twilight hall
    (i) know the world is lost in fire
    sure there is no way to turn it
    back to the old day
    of bliss and cheerful laughter
    we're lost in barren lands
    caught in the running flames alone maybe (!) this is many years later when turgon had to make the decision either to help outside of gondolin and fight agaist morgoth's troops or to stay in his town. he stayed - the reasons you can read in the lyrics.
    shall we dare the dragon
    merciless he's poisoning our hearts
    our hearts the dragon is glaurung, the great worm, the most powerful of morgoth's creatures.

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    face the truth

    here a noldo of fingolfin's tribe is speaking - maybe fingolfin himself. he talks about the first appearance of the moon and about the noldors' destiny.

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    noldor (dead winter reigns)

    this song is about the noldor's dark fate and mainly about fingolfin's way across the helcaraxe. it's also mainly written from his view.
    noldor
    blood is on your hands
    your bane's
    a tearful destiny just about the noldors' fate. there's blood on their hands after they have slain the teleri.
    we were lost
    on grinding ice
    i fear and hunger
    dead winter reigned
    in araman this is about fingolfin's trail through the ice mountains over the great sea to middle-earth. araman is the northern region of aman.
    (you) can't escape
    from my damnation
    (nor) run away
    from isolation i don't know what this is about. maybe it's fingolfin talking about feanor, who left him back in aman. it also can be the curse of feanor again when mandos cursed him. or it's someone cursing morgoth...
    guilty spoke the one
    this deed can't be undone
    hear my words
    fear my curse it's the same with this part. choose the version which fits best in your eyes.
    i know where the stars glow
    (and the) sky's unclouded
    sweet the water runs my friends
    (but) noldor
    blood is on your hands
    tears unnumbered
    you will shet and dwell in pain this is the way the noldor thought of middle-earth - it's just a vision. this imaginations drove them to cross the great sea towards east in any case. this 'blood' is again from their murder of the teleri. the last two lines are the actual way it developed later.
    your homeless souls
    shall come to me
    there's no release
    slain you might be
    slain you will be
    slain you will be
    and lost
    who will not reach the
    house of spirits
    (will) grow old and weary this is mandos speaking the curse.
    i've seen this bitter end
    as i've foreseen
    the storm and ice
    and i could see it
    (how) a million died
    and i?
    the blame's on me
    cause i was not there hmm... difficult. maybe this is maedhros. he (and maglor perhaps) was the one of feanor's sons who regret the noldors' deeds most.
    dead winter reigns
    and tomorrow's still unknown
    lies
    condemned and betrayed
    now everything is said
    see my eyes
    are full of tears
    and a cruel pride
    we've paid
    but still i can't claim
    that i'm innocent
    lost this is from fingolfin's view when he (and his tripe of course) had to cross the ice mountains of the helcaraxe because feanor had left him back.

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    the battle of sudden flame

    this song is about dagor bragollach - the battle of sudden flame. in this great battle morgoth made fire spreading through the lands and his creatures - glaurung (the first dragon), balrogs and thousands of orcs wasted it and murdered everything. a great victory for morgoth.
    maybe fingolfin, high lord of all noldor, is speaking. maybe he notices the great destruction and decides to leave towards angband to dare morgoth.

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    time stands still (at the iron hill)

    this song is about fingolfin who rides to angband and dares the dark lord. after a hard fight he finally was smashed down by morgoth. this is my favourite scene in the silmarillion and hansi has made really great lyrics on it.
    finally i've found myself
    in these lands
    horror and madness i've seen here
    for what i became a king of the lost?
    barren and lifeless the land lies fingolfin decides to ride against the dark lord after the battle of sudden flame.
    lord of all noldor
    a star in the night
    and a bearer of hope
    he rides into his
    glorious battle alone
    farewell to the valiant warlord just a description of fingolfin when he rode to anband.
    the fate of us all
    lies deep in the dark
    when time stands still at iron hill the iron hills are the hills around angband (later mountains in the far northeast of middle-earth were called like this - they have nothing to do with this song).
    i stand alone
    noone's by my side
    i'll dare you
    come out
    you coward
    now it's me or you well, clearly! fingolfin has reached angband and dares morgoth.
    he gleams like a star
    and the sound of his horn's
    like a raging storm
    proudly the high lord
    challenges the doom
    lord of slaves he cries again a description of fingolfin when he dares the dark lord.
    slowly in fear
    the dark lord appears
    welcome to my lands
    you shall be damned morgoth comes out of his fortress. it was the first and the last time he took a weapon and fought personally against an enemy.
    the iron crowned
    is getting closer
    swings his hammer
    down on him
    like a thunderstorm
    he's crushing
    down the noldor's
    proudest king after a long and hard fight morgoth finally hits fingolfin with his hammer grond. but before the elfen king has wounded morgoth seven times with his sword ringil.
    under my foot
    so hopeless it seems
    you've troubled my day
    now fell the pain after morgoth had smashed him down he put his foot on fingolfin (yes, morgoth was veeery big).
    the elvenking's broken
    he stumbles and falls
    the most proud and most vailant
    his spirit survives
    praise our king finally fingolfin dies. but his spirit lives on and he and his great fight has never been forgotten. he was the greates and most valiant of all noldor.

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    the dark elf

    the dark elf was eol. he married aredhel from gondolin and their son maeglin was born. he later came to gondolin. and in the end he became a betrayer.

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    thorn

    this song is about maeglin and how he bacame a betrayer. the lyrics of this song are quite difficult to understand and thus i'm not sure at all whether everything i have written is correct...
    a black swan
    is born in that night
    the misty pond
    (has) got a new king
    got a new king
    so what can we do
    with our lifes
    when it all begins
    it's hard and
    it's cruel
    will grace die in pain?
    will light ever rise again? mainly this is about maeglin's burth.
    i'm trapped in darkness
    still i reach out for the stars
    i'm moving in silence
    i leave it all far behind maeglin secretly left the dark forest he was born and went to the glorious town of gondolin. or it could be when maeglin left gondolin several times against turgon's order..
    let us march on
    to the fields of sacrifice
    (i'm) wondering why
    i'll carry on
    will i betray myself
    to rise
    in the silence
    it's time to explain
    (and) search for truth in lies
    useful lies
    needless love's damned this is (maybe) about the fight inside of maeglin about what to do. this 'love' is his love to idril, turgon's daughter. but she doesn't love him at all.
    later meaglin was catched by morgoth who promissed him to become a great king under his command if he told him where to find gondolin.
    come and follow me
    and you will see
    how it will be
    when all the pain is gone away this is morgoth talking to maeglin when he catched and tortured him.
    let us march on
    though there's no hope at our side
    let us be brave
    though by glory we are denied
    but don't you think
    it's time for us
    to bring to an end
    come play the song of death
    the wisdom in us both
    will make it
    special guaranteed
    play the song of death it's again the fight inside maeglin. in some parts morgoth talks to him to make him betray gondolin.
    i'm lost in the depth of this eyes
    i can't flee
    inner pain caused insanity
    it's deep within
    the fear and the hunger
    enslaved and denied
    by my love and my enemies
    i'm the illgotten son this is maeglin when he couldn't endure the torture any more and betrayed gondolin.

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    the eldar

    'the eldar' is about finrod (finarfin's son) who died in minas tirith (it's not the one mentioned in 'the lord of the rings') after a fight with one of sauron's wolfs who was about to kill beren. finrod, who was the first who met the men coming from the east, was dead. it's a very emotional song.
    i've seen the moon
    and the first sunrise
    i'll leave it to the memories
    and kiss the wind goodbye finrod is about to die. he remembers earlier days when the sun and the moon appeared.
    i've tasted poison
    when i drank the wine of fate
    but fear was in my heart
    i realized too late
    the house of spirits' call this very metaphoric part says that he dared too much by trying to get one of the silmarils in morgoth's crown (that's why they were prisoned in minas tirith).

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    nom the wise

    here beren is mourning for his dead friend finrod. he was a very good friend of men and they called him 'nom the wise'.

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    when sorrow sang

    this is about the story of lúthien (thingol's and melian's daughter) and beren. in order to be allowed to be together beren had to bring thingol one of the silmarils in morgoth's crown. thingol wanted beren to do this in order to get rid of him since he wanted to give his daughter to a human. but they (lúthien went with him) finally managed this incredible task. but after that beren was killed by a great one of morgoth's wolfs.
    the song is now about beren's death and how he returned to the world of living. it's one of the very few "bright" stories in this dark time of evil.
    so let me out of it
    out of the cold
    to bring back light and hope for all
    and so if i could get you in
    just for a little while
    into my songs of sorrow
    you might understand
    where am i now
    beyond the dawn
    (where) hope's turned to dust
    at all
    immortal love's
    fooled by the hands of doom
    that love means death
    i realized too soon this is beren and he realizes that he is dead.
    caught in the afterlife
    i've gone too far
    when sorrow sang softly and sweet
    the air was filled with tears
    full of sadness and grief
    when sorrow sang softly and sweet also beren who is 'caught' in the afterlife while his love (lúthien) is still in 'real life'.
    i feel like screaming
    but i can't breath in
    shall i wane right now
    i will not leave this
    world of living
    till she has said
    goodbye beren doesn't want to leave until he has said goodbye to lúthien.
    out in the cold
    i still wait for her call
    and her last kiss
    it shall be release
    i can't forget her
    her face will not leave
    from the depth of my soul
    i long for her beren waits at the shores of the great outer sea for a last kiss from lúthien.
    so i heard all about it
    her voice's so clear
    she's woven both themes in there
    moved me to tears
    the world shall hear this sad song
    song of sorrow song of grief
    can't change the way of his kind
    can't change the way of her kind this is from mandos' view. lúthien went to his halls in order to get beren back. and she sang a sad song in which she wove both the theme of elves and the theme of men. and manwe let her choose either to become mortal and return with beren to middle-earth or to return immortal (just like before) without beren. she has chosen the first one.

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    out on the water

    from then on lúthien and beren lived an small island in middle-earth. this land was called 'the island of the dead that live'. they lived there until they died there together.

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    the steadfast

    this is morgoth speaking to húrin, the greates warrior of all men. he was called 'húrin the steadfast'. morgoth talks here about his final victory after the fifth great battle.

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    a dark passage

    this song is about the fifth battle, nirnaeth arnoediad (battle of the unnumbered tears). it was a devastating battle in which morgoth won about the elves. he only could do this because among the men there were the ones form ulfang's house who betrayed the elves and fought on morgoth's side. actually this song is after this battle when the evil has already won.
    i feel cold
    facing the darkness
    the light's gone away
    deep in his castle he said
    all land'll be mine
    there's one thing for sure
    the triumph of shadow is near
    deep in his castle they sang
    we shall not rest
    until all will be thyne this is about morgoth enjoying his great victory
    smashed down the light
    i will not rest till i'm king
    valinor's empty now
    allied the elves and men
    they shall be damned here morgoth talks about or thinks of this victorious battle.
    just wondering how
    in the darkness
    they found their way
    to the right place
    children of the sun
    second kindred
    we call their race
    treat them kindly
    born in the east
    (are the) nightfearer
    they moved westwards
    towards the sunshine
    (they are) morning breath like
    short's their life
    (like) dawn passes by
    when the day comes this is a description of the men when they came from the east. it's in the song since because of the men's betrayal this victory was possible for morgoth.
    the field was lost
    (and) hope had passed away
    the sun went down
    beyond the sea
    dark was the hour
    but day shall come again here the battle from the elves view
    clean my wounds
    wash away all fear
    let courage be mine
    noone hears me crying maybe this is húrin. morgoth caught him after this battle.
    sit down on your chair
    and look out for your kin
    with my eyes you'll see
    and with my ears you'll hear
    you troubled my day
    and you've questioned my strength
    (but) don't mess
    with the master of fate when morgoth caught húrin, the dark lord put him onto a chair on the top of the mountains of thangorordrim to watch his dying tribe and family and all the agony in the destroyed land.

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    final chapter (thus ends...)

    this is a narrator who tells the end of the story
    "thus ends the fifth battle. by the treachery of men the field is lost. the night falls and great is the triumph of evil. the league is broken.the last vestige of hope lives in the hidden king. only he troubles the dark one's mind. only he could bring ruin to the black foe. though the land lies down in agony and the curse lives on, a new star shall arise. and a new day shall come again." the treachery of men is the betrayal of uldor (ulfang's son). the only hope lives in turgon in the hidden town of gondolin. the start that shall arise is earendil who later brought a silmaril back to valinor and fought with the valar in the following great battle (war of wrath) against melkor.
  • j.r.r. tolkien & hansi kursch imzalı mükkemmel bir albüm.tüm zamanların en güzel blind guardian albümü olduğuna inanırım.mırror mırror ,nightfall gibi klasiklerin dışında son kısımdaki şarkılar beni daha bi derinden etkiler.(bkz: eldar)(bkz: thorn) (bkz: noldor)(bkz: sorrow sang)
  • silmarillion'u hakkiyla anlatan, hissettiren, yasattiran albüm
  • sanırım kült olmayı hakkıyla başarabilmiş son zamanların ender albümlerindendir... ne kadar dinlenilse de, ne kadar zaman sonra dinlenilse de kesinlikle sıkmaz. hem müzik hem de içerik olarak dopdolu bir albümdür. bir fon müziği olarak da silmarillion'u tüylerim diken diken olarak okuyuşumu daha da etkileyici bir ritüel haline getirmiştir.
  • kanımca imaginations'dan sonra en güzel 2. bg albümüdür.
  • guzel olan bir yani da bazi sarki sozlerinin birebir kitaptan alinti olmasidir. bu yuzden albumu dinledikten sonra kitabi okudugunuzda kelimeler direk olarak kafanizdaki play tusuna basar ve de kitabi melodili okumaya baslarsiniz.
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