This is my review of a The Lord of The Rings Soundtrack | It is called May It Be by Enya
Today I bring a great soundtrack from Lord of The Rings, and its beautiful vocals performed by Enya which she is famous and familiar in this genre and I think there are too many great songs which she released from start of her work till now. I love her voice, it is so peaceful and soulful and she performs emotionally and lovely, this soundtrack is called May It Be, and it was also one of the Soundtracks for The Lord of The Rings movie, it was released in 2001. received nominations Academy Award for Best Original Song, and Nominated as Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.
Howard Shore, Canadian composer and composer of the Lord of The Rings soundtracks suggested Enya to Director Peter Jackson and he approached Enya and he asked her if she's interested in writing a song for The Lord of The Rings movie. Enya became interested and excited about this request and she headed to New Zealand to see the preliminary edits of the film.
Then, Enya started working on that song with her producer and recording engineer, Nick Ryan and her Lyrics, Roma Ryan.
Lyrics:
May it be an evening star
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
Mornië utúlië ((darkness has come))
Believe and you will find your way
Mornië alantië ((darkness has fallen))
A promise lives within you now
May it be the shadows call
Will fly away
May it be your journey on
To light the day
When the night is overcome
You may rise to find the sun
Mornië utúlië ((darkness has come))
Believe and you will find your way
Mornië alantië ((darkness has fallen))
A promise lives within you now
A promise lives within you now
As we read the lyrics we can see that it talks about a journey which a human will go in that path and will face problems and evils and this voice is telling him/her to stand against problems and evils and you will be succeed in your path and the evil will fall and you will reach the light. which in this context it means you will reach the greatest point in your life and the promises in this song are hopes for the future as we can see each person born there is a new life and a new journey so this prayer will continue like that it is also about forgetting the problems of the past and starting fresh and trying to become better and fixing things we have lost or were destroyed. This lyrics and its music fits the LOTR movie so well as it has the same topic.
This performance is leading by the vocalist (Enya) and the Orchestral team which makes a great ambient sound with both sounds, a rich sound full of emotions and it has that power of Classical pieces which sounds are going up and down and makes the song alive and the music grows each time she sings the climax parts of the song and the music ends like a never ending song and makes you feel it will keep going on forever.
Thanks for reading this post, I hope you enjoyed! <3
Davood Faramarzi aka @davidfar