Lúthien in the Halls of Mandos

About the Song

The song Lúthien in the Halls of Mandos is a parody of Everything but the Girl‘s Missing.

Lúthien in the Halls of Mandos describes a scene from Tolkien’s Silmarillion: when princess Lúthien journeys to the Halls of Mandos to plead for the life of her fiancée, Beren. 

Lyrics

Lúthien in the Halls of Mandos

V1:

Named Tinúviel
In Doriath I lived and danced and played.
So all was well.
Until by Beren’s love I was waylaid.
His Doom I could foretell –
For my hand Thingol forced him make a trade
A Silmaril.
For this a high price would be paid.

Ch:

Doom will pursue
Us over earth and sea and sky.
What will ensue?
Only the Vala can descry.

V2:

Traveling with Huan
To the north out from hidden Nargothrond
Our only plan
To liberate Tol Sirion.
By songs of power I can
Bind black spirits – even of Sauron
To save my man
Then into peril we go on.

Ch:

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