return whence ye came, i care not journey on, o brave explorer

Fulfill your oath and I shall release you!
Army of the Dead, painted by Ted Naismith

Paths of the Dead



Elrond..."Bid Aragorn remember the words of the seer,
and the Paths of the Dead."


Over the land there lies a long shadow,
westward reaching wings of darkness.
The Tower trembles; to the tombs of kings
doom approaches. The Dead awaken;
for the hour is come for the oathbreakers:
at the Stone of Erech they shall stand again
and hear there a horn in the hills ringing.
Whose shall the horn be? Who shall call them
from the grey twilight, the forgotten people?
The heir of him to whom the oath they swore.
From the North shall he come, need shall drive him:
he shall pass the Door to the Paths of the Dead.

Thus spoke Malbeth the Seer, in the days of Arvedui, last king at Fornost.

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Text for song pages is © J.R.R.Tolkien,
excerpted from The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King.

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