Song of Durin | Full 8-Dwarf Crew | Singing Only | Dwarven Veneration Song Lyrics | Return to Moria

A full 8-dwarf crew octet singing the Song of Durin, a dwarven veneration song from Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria. This version includes the singing only without backing music track. Version with background music/choir: Lyrics: 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 of 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