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Noldor ( Dead Winter Reigns ) Lyrics

Artist: Blind Guardian
Album: Nightfall In Middle-Earth

Noldor
Blood is on your hands
Your bane's
A tearful destiny

Black clouds will carry
Rain of blood
I've seen it rain

We were lost
On grinding ice
In fear and hunger
Dead winter reigned
In Araman

prebridge:
(You) can't escape
From my damnation
(Nor) run away
From isolation

bridge:
Guilty spoke the one
THis deed can't be undone
Hear my words
Fear my curse

chorus:
I know where the stars glow
(And the) sky's unclouded
Sweet the water runs my friend
(But) Noldor
Blood is on your hands
Tears unnumbered
You will shet and dwell in pain

Your homeless souls
Shall come to me
There's no release
Slain you might be
Slain you will be
Slain you will be
And the lost
Who will not reach the
House of spirits
(Will) grow old and weary

prebridge

bridge

chorus

I've seen this bitter end
As I've foreseen
The storm and ice
And I could see it
(How) a million died
And I?
The blame's on me
Cause I was not there

prebridge

bridge

chorus

Dead winter reigns
And tomorrow's still unknown
Lies
Condemned and betrayed
Now everything is said
See my eyes
Are full of tears
And a cruel price
We've paid
But still I can't claim
That I'm innocent

Lost

Comments/Interpretations

by Noldor on 7/9/2008 9:37am
Song makes me cry :)

by ariel on 9/24/2008 12:32pm
hell, its capable of evokin a great number of feelings, mostly desperation, just dont hear it if you have separation anxiety

by Kalia on 10/29/2008 8:33am
Great song!
I've read J.R.R. Tolkien's book many times and I think this song perfectly pictures history of Noldors - their betrayal, massacre of Teleri elves and flight from Valinor.
Indeed - it can make cry.

by Greg Huey on 10/3/2009 9:50pm
"The blame's on me
Cause I was not there"

I've puzzled over this - maybe the speaker here is Feanor, and he is blaming himself because he was not present when Morgoth stormed Formenos, slew his father and stole the Silmarils? Perhaps he thinks if he were present he could have prevented these events - thus he blames himself?

Other interpretations welcome...

Like many of the other BG - NFiME songs, I agree this one is very moving.

by Tatyana on 5/27/2010 10:37am
I initially liked the band thanks to this song. It's a little masterpiece

by Lotr on 7/18/2010 3:36am
Beautiful song and beatiful book Silmarillion!

by Cee on 9/5/2010 2:19am
Tatyana:
Yeah, Blind Guardian has a masterpiece for everyone. Mine's "And then there was silence". Its simply awesome.

by Agarwa�n on 9/6/2010 3:07pm
What I love about Blind Guardian is that they portray the Noldor as more (for lack of a better word) villainous than most people think when they think of Elves like Fingolfin and Galadriel.

by Ringil on 9/12/2010 11:53am
One of the best lyric ever written by Blind Guardian. It perfectly portraits Noldor's mistakes and cursed fate.
I have always identified myself with Fingolfin, so this speaks right to my heart with empathy.

by jouzinka on 12/21/2010 6:31am
To Greg Huey:

Since it's clearly Fingolfin speaking, I'd rather think that he relates that his part in the Kinslaying of Alqualond� was because he initially wasn't there to witness it all from the beginning: when the Teleri refused to give away their ships and F�anor tried to steal them. Fingon and Fingolfin arrived later right into the heat of the battle and without asking questions or looking right or left took F�anor's side, to be later banished with him for the massacre and betrayed by him - left to cross the ice of Araman and Helcarax� on foot, while he burned the stolen ships in Losgar.

by Carharoth on 6/15/2011 1:57pm
It's my destiny

by Vali on 12/31/2013 1:22pm
I actually think it's Mandos himself speaking - pronouncing his Doom upon the Noldor.

by Istar Magus on 3/7/2014 9:13pm
The song is, in fact, both the Doom of Mandos and the Lamentation of Fingolfin.

by Lilith L� on 5/27/2014 2:49pm
Can't get this song out of my head... it is truely beautiful.

by Ann on 4/22/2017 1:34am
I've puzzled over this - maybe the speaker here is Feanor, and he is blaming himself because he was not present when Morgoth stormed Formenos...

- It's Feanaro. But I don't believe he's sorry about Helkarasse. But lyrics're about that.