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Carven Throne
05:48
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Many Pillared Halls
08:59
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The world was young, the mountains green
No stain yet on the Moon was seen
No words were laid on stream or stone
When Durin woke and walked alone
He named the nameless hills and dells
He drank from yet untasted wells
He stooped and looked in Mirrormere
And saw a crown of stars appear
As gems upon a silver thread
Above the shadow of his head
The world was fair, the mountains tall
In Elder Days before the fall
Of mighty Kings in Nargothrond
And Gondolin, who now beyond
The Western Seas have passed away
The world was fair in Durin's Day
A king he was on carven throne
In many-pillared halls of stone
With golden roof and silver floor
And runes of power upon the door
The light of sun and star and moon
In shining lamps of crystal hewn
Undimmed by cloud or shade of night
There shown forever far and bright
There hammer on the anvil smote
There chisel clove, and graver wrote
There forged was bladed and bound was hilt
The delver mined the mason built
There beryl, pearl, and opal pale
And metel wrought like fishes' mail
Buckler and corslet, axe and sword
And shining spears were laid in horde
Unwearied then were Durin's folk
Beneath the mountains music woke
The harpers harped, the minstrels sang
And at the gates the trumpets rang
The world is grey, the mountains old
The forge's fire is ashen-cold
No harp is wrung, no hammer falls
The darkness dwells in Durin's halls
The shadow lies upon his tomb
In Moria, in Khazad-dûm
But still the sunken stars appear
In dark and windless Mirrormere
There lies his crown in water deep
'Till Durin wakes again from sleep
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3. |
The Sunken Stars
02:55
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Beneath the Stone
06:12
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"Fair were the many pillared halls of Khazad-dûm in elder days, before the fall of mighty kings beneath the stone."
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Lamps of Crystal Hewn
06:46
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Ashen-Cold
07:50
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7. |
To Delve Too Deep
07:19
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"Here alone in the world was found Moria silver, or 'true silver' as some call it. Its worth was ten-times that of gold; but as Mithril was the foundation of their wealth, so also it was their destruction. They delved too greedily and too deep and disturbed that from which they had fled: Durin's Bane, a Balrog, the most powerful and terrible of the servants of Sauron."
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8. |
A Life of Labor
06:02
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