Ar sindarnóriello caita mornië, Ar ilye tier unduláve lumbule...
And out of a grey country darkness lies, And all paths are drowned deep in shadow
The song starts off mourning a death. The leader of the elf reinforcements has been overun -- and in fact, the entire castle is being stormed, inch by inch. Hope had been ignited when the elves had come, remembering an old duty; yet there simply isn't enough power to stop the attacking orcs.
Isengard is on the rise. The city will fall. Nothing can be done to stop. Evil has won. To paraphrase, what can humanity do against such cruelty? A cruelty that would swallow cities, kill all the children, and march on. A cruelty that would have the entire world destroyed.
A new power is released upon the world, a power that can not be stopped by anything; and it will kill everything.
Then...something shifts...around 1:47 the beginning attack slows...then stops! Amazingly enough, it has stalled! But what could do such a thing?
Why? The reason in the song is "Rithannen i geven Thangen i harn Na fennas i daur Ôl dûr ristannen Eryn echuiannen I ngelaidh dagrar Ristar thynd, cúa tawar Dambedir enyd i ganed Si linna i 'waew trin 'ylf Isto i dur i chuiyl I ngelaidh dagrar
Earth shakes Stone breaks The forest [is] at [your] door The dark sleep is broken The woods have awoken The trees have gone to war Roots rend, wood bends The Ents have answered the call Through branches now the wind sings Feel the power of living things The trees have gone to war
As Isengard's forces bash against the fortress their old ally of the Ents has come to strike them down. The Ents have realized their duty gone to war, and Isengard will fall!
The forces at home are nothing. One Ent is set on fire -- then the water is unleashed, and Isengard swamped! The factories of death destroyed, Sarumoun helpless.
This song goes from death to hoplessness to amazement that the Ents have come forth to help then to victory. That depth and beauty is amazingly rare in modern music; Howard Shore is a genius for creating it.
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Anyone enough of an Elvish geek to know how close the pronunciations are in the song? I can't even pick out individual words with my terrible ear.
Also one of my faovrite parts of the score. Thanks for the explication.
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The pronunciations are pretty acurate from what I can tell. It's hard to pick out what she is saying though.
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