Ainur

{Verse 1} Where no-one had ever dared to tread Under the spur of our troubled urge We came to

In a hole in the ground there was a hobbit With trees and grass all around A pint of beer talking with friends

(Fare you well for today and tomorrow You deserved your prize Look, the sun of innocence Is dead and will not

I'll have you walking straight into my trap And I will welcome you into my sphere You'll stare into my

Believe what I will lead you to believe A screen of smoke before your glassy eyes Reality is just a waking

The palace concealed within inaccessible caverns has been invaded: The precious gem has been exposed. King You

He arrived at the banks of Narog Flagless soldier without land And in Nargothrond then he planted The

He came in the wan year of lamentation Dispossessed inheritor of his lot Somberness and grimness upon his

Sit there and look down at the lands Where evil shall descend Upon your living flesh and blood From now unto

It took too long To retrace the steps Of time gone by In secluded depths No breath, no tears

Listen for her steps over the moor Call that is not heard distant contour She will walk alone where all things

Beyond the bitterness and fighting Beyond the oppression and the chain Of all the hours of sad weeping

Arise from sleep, although the night is meek And calm the breath of Earth below the stars Into the space where

They awoke in the days of twilight In a world that did not know the sun Looking up at the starlit heaven With

In the primeval dark Tumult of unformed shapes Subsiding in the harmony Of mountains, vales and capes