This is an awesome song in the LOTR trilogy. Sad, mournful, haunting...it's my favorite song from the movies. There's a similar scene from the books, where Frodo hears them singing and meets up with them. Alan Lee drew a fantastic illustration, below:
The sadness is mingled with joy and beauty. This is a recurring theme in the Lord of the Rings. James Gurney wrote this in his blog:
Sublimity is mixed with banality; joy with suffering; kindness with cruelty; beauty with ugliness. That is what our life is like. We are composed of light and clay. ~ James Gurney
The beauty of the soul, the ugliness of the body. The purity of mercy, the ugliness of sin. Light and clay.
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