Pretend for a moment that Enya didn't sing May it Be at the end of FotR, that Phillippa and Fran didn't write Gollum's Song for the end of TTT, and there was no "Into the West" sung by Annie Lennox at the end of RotK.

Instead, imagine that Phillippa and Fran decided to make lyrics out of Tolkien's poetry. Rather than ending FotR with "May it Be" there's a new song, its lyrics put together from different pieces of poetry Tolkien included in FotR.

YOU are writing those lyrics.


Here's what to do:

Look through FotR, choose lines or sections from different poems, add in words, take out others
Put these together to make a lovely ending song for the movie Fellowship of the Ring.
It needs to summarize the movie, remember, and create the mood you want viewers to leave with!
You can compose a tune if you like, but entries will be judged by lyrics, not melodies

The road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began
Now far ahead the road has gone
And I must follow if I can

(Chorus)O! Wanderers to the Shadowed Land
Despair not! For although dark the Tower stands
All roads will lead home at last
After crossing plains and mountains vast

From Wilderland to Western Shore
That is the road I am fated to take
Ere the Dark Lord will rule forevermore
I must go for Middle-earth's sake

(Chorus)

Rain may fall and wind may blow
But many more miles are still to go
We will travel beneath moon and star
Into Mordor where the shadows are

(Chorus)

With foes ahead, behind us dread,
Beneath the sky shall be our bed
Until at last our toil be passed,
Our journey done, our errand sped.

After crossing plains and mountains vast
All roads will lead home at last
All roads will lead home at last

By the Stars

A Fellowship of friends and strangers,
Battled fear and doubt and dangers.
Sent upon a quest of hope,
Their great task, to journey far,
Into Mordor where the shadows are.

CHORUS 1:
So we take the hidden paths that run,
Towards the Moon or to the Sun
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until the journey’s end we meet.

Far over wood and mountain tall,
Fellowship of nine did heed the call.
A great destiny before them,
And round the corner there did wait,
A new road and a secret gate.

CHORUS 1,
CHORUS 2:
Home is behind, the world ahead,
Yet by the stars our feet are led,
Light to us that wander here,
In windy fields now bright and clear.
By the stars, by the stars,
By the stars our feet are led,
Until the paths of home we tread.

I sit beside the fire and think
of a lost and forgotten land.
'Twas down along under hill
where stars and shadows shimmered,
casting light to heal our hearts and drown our woe within us.

I sit beside the fire and think
of wanderers alone and sorrowing.
Darker than the darkness.
Of those of us doomed to roam,
'til the world is mended.

I sit beside the fire and think
how the road goes ever on and on.
How a light from the shadows shall be seen,
and from a glade it shall spring,
to decide what the fate of the world will be.

Home is behind
World is ahead
Wanders in the Shadow
Fire and Shadow
both shall die
Now the far ahead the Road has gone

Now let the song
Let us sing together
Wanders in the Shadowed land

Cold be hand
and the heart
we still dwell
But under a tall tree
I will lie.