Shines down upon you
May it be when darkness falls
Your heart will be true
You walk a lonely road
Oh! How far you are from home
Believe and you will find your way
Mornie alantie (darkness has fallen)
A promise lives within you now
Will fly away
May it be you journey on
To light the day
When the night is overcome
You may rise to find the sun
Believe and you will find your way
Mornie alantie (darkness has fallen)
A promise lives within you now
Okay im sorry, but if one more christian starts doing a god and harsh times of the christian path comparison i am going to hurl. I am a huge enya fan and I'm sorry but there are so many different ways to praise the song without bringing religion into it. No offense to the Christian religion though.
@derek808 Tolkien was an ardent Catholic. The Lord of the Rings is not explicitly allegorical - Tolkien even said he had a disdain for allegory - but the Catholic/Christian worldview is most definitely at play within the Lord of the Rings. Of course you can enjoy this tune for its aesthetic beauty - but, to give credit where credit is due, the story from which this tune derives its inspiration is one suffused by the Christian worldview.
@derek808 Tolkien was an ardent Catholic. The Lord of the Rings is not explicitly allegorical - Tolkien even said he had a disdain for allegory - but the Catholic/Christian worldview is most definitely at play within the Lord of the Rings. Of course you can enjoy this tune for its aesthetic beauty - but, to give credit where credit is due, the story from which this tune derives its inspiration is one suffused by the Christian worldview.
@derek808 Please don't hurl. Only a few posts were from a Christian perspective. They certainly have the right to express their feelings from their hearts on any subject, as do all people who have posted on such a lovely and beautiful song. Peace be with you...
@derek808 Please don't hurl. Only a few posts were from a Christian perspective. They certainly have the right to express their feelings from their hearts on any subject, as do all people who have posted on such a lovely and beautiful song. Peace be with you...
This song reminds me of hard times and never giving up and looking for hope. And also discusses personal sacrifice for the better of people around you. Which makes it perfect for Lord of the Rings. Since LOTR is based off dark times and looking towards hope. This song makes me emotional. The video can almost make you cry.
I haven't seen LoTR, and I don't know if I intend on doing so, but I love this song. I spend a lot of time drawing (not as a living, of course, I'm only 12) and it really inspires me when I listen to this song, because I do a lot of fantasy pictures... I definitely love Enya, and I wish more of my 12 year old friends would stop listening to their pop and rap and try listening to Enya...
@BritneySpears Sucks I love that you had the musical maturity at 12 to love Enya when all your friends were listening to very different stuff. It's kinda amazing to think you were 12 when you wrote this and you'd now be 33! Hope you still love Enya.
@BritneySpears Sucks I love that you had the musical maturity at 12 to love Enya when all your friends were listening to very different stuff. It's kinda amazing to think you were 12 when you wrote this and you'd now be 33! Hope you still love Enya.
This song is great! It matches perfect with the movie "The lord of the rings: The fellowship of the ring". It had to take the oscar!
The first time that I heard this song I cried so hard... it's so beautiful, and the meaning is clear and true. It can be about so many things, but the way I interpreted it was about being a Christian and how hard it can be. Christians truly do walk a lonely road, and alot of times you can crack under the pressure of this world. But if you just hold on, "you may rise to find the sun," which to me means Jesus. I think that Tolkien would have loved this song, with him being a Christian and all.
With all due respect, while there was indeed a Christian influence about Tolkien, it is not only Christians who walk a lonely road, every man, woman, child from every religion walks at one time or another a lonely road. Think about the jews in their persecution, africans in the diaspora. Don't be vain.
With all due respect, while there was indeed a Christian influence about Tolkien, it is not only Christians who walk a lonely road, every man, woman, child from every religion walks at one time or another a lonely road. Think about the jews in their persecution, africans in the diaspora. Don't be vain.
@Evening star I agree with Vishakantha. You guys have it good. Everywhere you look there's a Christian church, and you've got your Jesus. You guys haven't been pursecuted since the old days. I'm a part of the most discriminated against religion in America these days. I can't wear the symbol of my religion without anyone yelling "Illuminati confirmed!" At me. On my most important holiday people paint their faves green and taunt us. While you guys might not be able to have pre marital sex or anything like that, at least people support you.
@Evening star I agree with Vishakantha. You guys have it good. Everywhere you look there's a Christian church, and you've got your Jesus. You guys haven't been pursecuted since the old days. I'm a part of the most discriminated against religion in America these days. I can't wear the symbol of my religion without anyone yelling "Illuminati confirmed!" At me. On my most important holiday people paint their faves green and taunt us. While you guys might not be able to have pre marital sex or anything like that, at least people support you.
@Evening star You're certainly right that Tolkien was a devout Christian — Roman Catholic, to be precise. I agree that there are themes of his stories and elements of the universe where they take place that are, if not specifically Christian, related to and in some cases, inspired by, his religious beliefs. One example is how he made a point of making the religion of the Elves consistent with monotheistic beliefs such as those of Christianity and other Abrahamic religions (although he did not include anything resembling the uniquely Christian theological idea of the Trinity), as...
@Evening star You're certainly right that Tolkien was a devout Christian — Roman Catholic, to be precise. I agree that there are themes of his stories and elements of the universe where they take place that are, if not specifically Christian, related to and in some cases, inspired by, his religious beliefs. One example is how he made a point of making the religion of the Elves consistent with monotheistic beliefs such as those of Christianity and other Abrahamic religions (although he did not include anything resembling the uniquely Christian theological idea of the Trinity), as well as with pagan-style polytheism (he borrows a number of elements from Germanic and Celtic forms of paganism, in particular).
Anyway...I don't really understand why you think being a Christian is particularly lonely, though. Although you didn't say where you're from in your SongMeanings profile, I'm going to hazard a guess that you live in a Western country. If so, it seems to me that you would likely be surrounded by fellow Christians. It seems to me that while life in general is tough, those of us who don't follow a majority (or at least, plurality) religion have it harder than those who do. The "pressure of this world" that you mention could refer to a lot of things, but life is tough for everyone: it's not only Christians who experience such pressure, and I agree with the other replies that in Western nations, as the majority religion, Christians have it easy compared to those of us who aren't.
The song in the context of the books and movies is indeed religious, but it isn't Christian. The evening star in the first line refers to Varda, the elvish Queen of the Heavens. This is supported by the Quenya in the refrain.
@Wiccanbabe You're definitely right that there's nothing particularly Christian about this song; maybe that was an influence on the lyrics or maybe not, but certainly it's reading too much into it to try to claim that anything in the lyrics is particularly Christian. Some people just see what they want to see. (This is not the same as individual Christians seeing bits that bring to mind their own feelings about their faith, but people should recognise that their personal feelings about a song are not the same as what is actually present in the lyrics!)
@Wiccanbabe You're definitely right that there's nothing particularly Christian about this song; maybe that was an influence on the lyrics or maybe not, but certainly it's reading too much into it to try to claim that anything in the lyrics is particularly Christian. Some people just see what they want to see. (This is not the same as individual Christians seeing bits that bring to mind their own feelings about their faith, but people should recognise that their personal feelings about a song are not the same as what is actually present in the lyrics!)
I thought it was a...
I thought it was a reference to Arwen Undómiel, who has a much bigger role in the films than she does in the books. (Personally, I liked this particular change: even though Tolkien included female characters who were relatively cool for his time (like Eowyn the shieldmaiden), women, especially the queen-to-be Arwen, were still very much overlooked in the books.) In both the film and the book FotR, she makes a gift of a jewel (actually called the Evenstar in the film), but the huge difference is who she gives it to: in the book she gives this jewel to Frodo, while in the film, she gives it to her boytoy...err, beloved :) Aragorn. Either way, it doubtless represents hope, and especially a source of hope when it seems there is none. (I've had times when I could something like that!)
Firstly, I would like to point out songs mean different things to different people, sometimes they are merely for enjoyment, sometimes they are for stress, sometimes we speak through them. The point is , we all will have different opinions and one is not more right than another.
My personal interpretation of this song is that it is not a religious one, I feel that it has to do with hope, and the feeling of being surrounded in darkness, and being alone wherever one turns. I feel it represents having faith in the future, and believing that there is a calm after the storm, and that ships will sail in safer waters once the tide has come down.
Its a very well composed song, the voice is beautiful, I enjoy this.
this song is so absolutely beautiful. it does fit very well with TLOTR. ilike it without it though. i just seriously cannot describe how beautifil it is.
This song is the anthem of the beauty that can exist in this world, and in the next. Hope, it last forever, through the test of time. You really can feel every word of the book.
As an LOTR fan, i'm impressed that it includes some lyrics in Tolkien's Elvish language, Quenya. Enya's lyricist had to study the language for writing the song. The Quenya language lyrics sound beautiful when Enya sings them. There should be more such songs. I think Tolkien designed the language to be well-suited for music and singing, and to be reflective of his Elves, who were written as inherently musical and having been created by song.