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The Mewlips (Tolkien recital)

from Moergrobbenmysticisme by Walpurgisnacht

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Free! Because it's dedicated to Tolkien, and his original voice is in there.

Tolkien reciting The Mewlips poem with piano from Walpurgisnacht The Mewlips put in there, looped (2014). Also added: Marsh Monster music from Dolby Surround Film Themes. Walpurgisnacht The Mewlips video full version with Tolkien intro can be watched at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zop3UlOAj24 Original Walpurgisnacht The Mewlips without(!) Tolkien intro appears on Vergheldinghens Crachte, Aratron Productions CD 2014.

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The Mewlips
(Text by: J.R.R. Tolkien)


The shadows where the Mewlips dwell
Are dark and wet as ink,
And slow and softly rings their bell,
As in the slime you sink.

You sink into the slime, who dare
To knock upon their door,
While down the grinning gargoyles stare
And noisome waters pour.

Beside the rotting river­strand
The drooping willows weep,
And gloomily the gorcrows stand
Croaking in their sleep.

Over the Merlock Mountains a long and weary way,
In a mouldy valley where the trees are grey,
By a dark pool's borders without wind or tide,
Moonless and sunless, the Mewlips hide.

The cellars where the Mewlips sit
Are deep and dank and cold
With single sickly candle lit;
And there they count their gold.

Their walls are wet, their ceilings drip;
Their feet upon the floor
Go softly with a squish­flap­flip,
As they sidle to the door.

They peep out slyly; through a crack
Their feeling fingers creep,
And when they've finished, in a sack
Your bones they take to keep.

Beyond the Merlock Mountains, a long and lonely road,
Through the spider­shadows and the marsh of Tode,
And through the wood of hanging trees and the gallows­weed,
You go to find the Mewlips ­ and the Mewlips feed.

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from Moergrobbenmysticisme, released November 22, 2021
J.R.R. Tolkien (lyrics/voice) and Walpurgisnacht (piano/tuba and guitar by Heer Halewyn, drums by Marchosias).

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Walpurgisnacht NB, The Netherlands

'Witching Dutch Black Metal.' Walpurgisnacht is a raw yet melodic black metal band from the Netherlands. After their succesful underground CD Die Derwaert Gaen En Keeren Niet (Those who go there don't return) in 2005, Walpurgisnacht finally released their 2nd CD Vergheldinghens Crachte (Power of vengeance) in 2014. Lyrics written in (traditional) Dutch. Split up. Houtekiet offered 3 more releases. ... more

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