Great news for fantasy television and indie music fans alike: Fiona Apple has released a new Tolkien-inspired song that will appear in next week’s Season 1 finale of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.”The song is inspired by a poem written by J.R.R.
Tolkien that appears in the original books.
The music was written by Bear McCreary, who composed all of the music for the Prime Video series, and performed by Apple.“The musical legacy of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ brings to mind ethereal vocals carrying lyrical melodies over evocative harmonies, so it was my natural inclination to compose such a song for ‘The Rings of Power,’” McCreary wrote in an Instagram post announcing the song.
“Inspired by J.R.R.
Tolkien’s iconic Ring-verse Poem, I wrote the song ‘Where the Shadows Lie’ as a theme for the titular Rings of Power, for the magic of Mithril,
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