About this song
- Composed & arranged by Enya/Nicky Ryan. Produced & Engineered by Nicky Ryan. Recorded in the digital domain by an analogue brain. The Fellowship of the Ring’s end credits begin with Enya’s composition, “May It Be,” wherein the broken Fellowship is offered a blessing and a faint glimpse of hope: “A promise lives within you now.” TEXT English and Quenya Lyrics by Roma Ryan 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 are you are from home Mornie utúlië (Darkness has come) Believe and you will find your way Mornie alantië (Darkness has fallen) A promise lives within you now May it be 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 Mornie utúlië (Darkness has come) Believe and you will find your way Mornie alantië (Darkness has fallen) A promise lives within you now A promise lives within you now FIRST HEARD: DISC THREE | TRACK EIGHT (in The Complete Recordings) (c) The Annotated Score (The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films) + May It Be Single Theme song from Fellowship of the Ring, Lord of the Rings Trilogy Featured at the end of the 2001 movie Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. Nominated for Best Song at the Oscars, but lost to Randy Newman's "If I Didn't Have You" from Monster's Inc. Some of the verses are in the fictional language Sindarin, which author J.R.R. Tolkien invented for his Lord of the Rings series. . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply. — lastfm
- "May It Be" is a song by the Irish recording artist Enya. She and Roma Ryan respectively composed and wrote lyrics to the song, for Peter Jackson's 2001 film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The song entered the German Singles Chart at number one in 2002, and Enya performed it at the 74th Academy Awards. — wikipedia
