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The Prophecy
Howard Shore Lyrics

Yénillor morne
tulinte I quettar
tercano nuruva

Hlasta Qyetes
Hfirimain

The Ringspell...
Translation:
The Seer Speaks...

Out of the Black Years
come the worlds
the Herald of Death

Listen -- it speaks to
those who were not born to die

The Ringspell...

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: HOWARD SHORE, PHILIPPA BOYENS

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Music by Howard Shore. Lyrics by Philippa Boyens. Translation by David Salo.

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The Seer Speaks...

Yéllinor morne | Out of the Black Years
tulinte I quettar | come the words
tercáno nuruva | the Hearld of Death

Hlasta! Qyetes | Listen—it speaks to
Hfirimain: | those who were not born to die

The Ringspell...
(c)2001 New Line Cinema (ASCAP).
(c) info from the booklet

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More info at A Magpie's Nest

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"The Prophecy" is a song composed by Howard Shore. It appears in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

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Too Lazy to make a username

3y↑185

Why isn't Howard Shore recognized for this masterpiece as much as he should be? The music really made the movies what they are.

Toni

28w

Check my 12 cellos arrangement of LOTR "The Prophecy" here on Youtube! Thanks!

Dave Jellison

33w↑1

Oscars noted but I understand what the OP really means. You want to grab people on the street and make them understand that this music will be listened to for centuries to come and we were here to to recognize. People 100 years from now will listen, and watch, and wonder what we were all like. How cool it must have been...

I bet there's all kinds of corporate interest in sequencing this into footwear or phones. I for one am glad it's just ours and the Shire's for now.

P-J Wittocx

34w↑2

This is so f*cking true!

Captain Rex

52w↑1

Adama he is underrated. For we treat him like a human when he treated like a god.

Adama

1y↑6

He is not underrated at all lmao! Howard Shore will be remembered for a very long time, well past our lifetimes.

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Ancient Occ

1y↑23

One can clearly imagine Tolkien's magical world through this short but excellent and emotional piece of art.

Samuel Leask

4y↑73

Absolutely love everything about these movies. Soundtrack is the best I have ever heard.

Toni

28w

Check my 12 cellos arrangement of LOTR "The Prophecy" here on Youtube! Thanks!

Orcahhh

46w↑2

I would rate it on the same level as ennio morricone's western soundtracks and john williams in star wars

roxanne tracey

1y↑9

Everything Howard Shore does is pure genius and simply magical. In my humble opinion he is the most underrated composer in the last one hundred years.

schatz

50w↑3

Masterpiece

Yamcha the wolf

2y↑17

I absolutely love the bit at the beginning. Does anyone know why that bit isn't in the "complete recordings"?

Toni

28w

Check my 12 cellos arrangement of LOTR "The Prophecy" here on Youtube! Thanks!

Yamcha the wolf

40w

@Mangomation That's weird though because I remember at least the bit at the beginning being in the movie, yet I can't find that bit in the complete recordings. I'm positive I've heard it in the movies, it's always been one of my favourite tracks.

Mangomation

40w↑5

A bit late, but the complete recordings are basically a presentation of the music, as it appears in the film, in the order in which it appears, in complete form of course. This was an alternative theme for the film's opening prologue, and between the album being finished and the film being finished, they had made a new track to replace it. So since this isn't actually in the film itself, it's not on the 'complete recordings', even though the name sorta makes one think they'd have every song ever recorded on it...

This also applies to any songs that were edited or cut down to fit the length of a scene that had been changed. You can hear, if you compare, the track 'Bridge of Khazad Dum' is longer on this album, and has been edited slightly clumsily on the complete recordings album and the film itself, to match the scene having been edited a bit after the music had already been recorded and such. It's neat stuff really.

Ellen Gould

3y↑21

Beautiful

Catherine yoon

28w↑1

If you love these movies, love Howard, too and let's subscribe and support him! :)

Kállai Martin

1y↑3

0:37

Marcelo Martinez

4y↑17

so good

TheInsufficientGamer

4y↑21

Please make more movies!!!!!

Jason Hess

2y↑1

There is no more to make because that is all the books that were made

Nathaniel Ashley

3y↑1

SCAR - Scholesy Hasn’t that already been done?

Scholesy’s Scale & Schematics

3y↑6

Yeah let’s film the Bible

Millez

3y↑6

Ever heard of some little things called Silmarils?

Andrew Brownell

4y↑5

TheInsufficientGamer They made all the movies according to the books

Rick W

2y↑4

Absolutely flawless composition of the scene. Even had I not seen the movie this composition, as does all of the music you composed, fully immerses the listener to imagine the exact situation and emotions. Simply a MASTERPIECE on ALL levels !!!! Thank You and Perfectly done!! Bravo

Toni

28w

Check my 12 cellos arrangement of LOTR "The Prophecy" here on Youtube! Thanks!

Jennifer Ortega

33w

tiktok

Riku

Paladin episodes 2 & 3 anyone?

Seriaz Sound

1y↑5

I don't get it.... the movie starts with a version of Galadriels or Loriens Theme slowly changing into Smeagols Theme. Why isn't this the first on the soundtrack?

Michael Pace

37w

https://youtu.be/UJNeiBaEMIE
Here you go

Default User94

It's a shame this piece didn't play over Galadriel's prologue in FoTR.

Jim D

1y↑3

Last minute changes to the film score. The CD had already been mastered by this point. The complete recordings has the actual music from the beginning of the film. I always thought this didn’t sound right. So many disc releases have slightly different music to the film, often because of last minute editing.