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2020-06-08
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Númenor Playlist

Summary:

A YouTube playlist for the island of Númenor, with a focus on the Downfall. Featuring songs inspired by: seafaring, exploring (and colonizing,) loss/lack of faith, destruction, and more.

Notes:

I am finally getting around to crossposting this from Dreamwidth; it was actually created December of 2018 for the Holiday Feast Fish Course (Art Challenge) on Silmarillion Writers Guild. This was my first fanmix. I originally wanted to use 8tracks but that proved more difficult than I expected, so it is on Youtube. Whenever possible I used either a lyric video or one with lyrics in the description.

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Tracklist:
1. Blinding by Florence + the Machine
And I could hear the thunder and see the lightning crack
And all around the world was waking, I never could go back...
No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone

2. Forsaken by Within Temptation
We lived our lives in our paradise,
as gods we shaped the world around.
No borderlines we'd stay behind,
though balance is something fragile.

3. Idumea (arr. Bjella) by Millikin University Choir
And am I born to die?
To lay this body down!
And must my trembling spirit fly
Into a world unknown?


4. Pompeii by Bastille
Oh where do we begin?
The rubble or our sins?


5. The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Númenor
Seas and the oceans between the worlds dwell
White great ships there forever in silence sail


6. Northwest Passage by Stan Rogers
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage
And make a Northwest Passage to the sea


7. Mirror Mirror by Blind Guardian
Shall we dare the dragon
Merciless he's poisoning our hearts...
The bitter end
Is just a matter of time
Note: I know this song is about Gondolin, but I feel that many of the lyrics fit Numenor just as well, if not better. Some of them change their meaning (ie; fire becomes metaphorical and water becomes literal, dragon=Sauron, etc..)


8. The Seal Lullaby by Eric Whitacre, poem by Rudyard Kipling
Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us,
And black are the waters that sparkled so green.


9. Breath of Life by Florence + the Machine
I was looking for a breath of life
A little touch of heavenly light


10. The Wild Wild Sea by Sting
And my anxious eyes searched the horizon
With the gathering sea at my back


11. This is Gospel (Piano Version) by Panic! at the Disco
Confessing their apostasies
Led away by imperfect impostors


12. End of the World by Ingrid Michaelson
When the moon breaks up
And the tide goes out of control
Will you find me in the water


13. Thistle and Weeds by Mumford and Sons
But plant your hope with good seeds
Don't cover yourself with thistle and weeds
Rain down, rain down on me


14. After the Flood by Black Gold
I try to keep it clean, but honesty is wearing thin...
It went too far and changed who we are


15. 2,000 Years by Billy Joel
One thing is certain
Nothing can hold back the night...
We're on the verge of all things new
We are two thousand years
Note: The end of the Second Age is drawing near.

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