The
Way is Shut
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Dwimorberg – The
Haunted Mountain
(CR-ROTK Disc 2- Track 9)
Music by Howard Shore
Translated into Sindarin by David Salo Text by J.R.R.
Tolkien
The title, English Original and
Sindarin translation can be found in the
AS-ROTK.
Sung by
the men of
The London Voices
Sindarin
Original English Key:
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indicates English translation and, for the Sindarin lyrics, that
what is sung is undetermined.
ROTK, Book 5, Chapter
3, The Muster of Rohan
It is said that when the Eorlingas came out of
the North and passed at length up the Snowbourn, seeking strong
places of refuge in time of need, Brego and his son Baldor
climbed the Stair of the Hold and so came before the Door. On
the threshold sat an old man, aged beyond guess of years; tall
and kingly he had been, but now he was withered as an old stone.
Indeed for stone they took him, for he moved not, and he said no
word, until they sought to pass him by and enter. And then a
voice came out of him, as it were out of the ground, and to
their amaze it spoke in the western tongue:
The way is shut.
'Then they halted and looked at him and saw that
he lived still; but he did not look at them.
The way is shut, his
voice said again It was made by
those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes.
The way is shut.
'And when will that time be? said Baldor.
But no answer did he ever get. For the old man died in that hour
and fell upon his face; and no other tidings of the ancient
dwellers in the mountains have our folk ever learned. Yet maybe
at last the time foretold has come, and Aragorn may pass.' In the
movie, Legolas reads these words that are written over the Door and
then, later, the King of the Dead recites them again.
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