⸻ 🌿 Song Draft “Before the Shadow Fell” (Chronicle of the Ents and Entwives) ⸻ ⸻ 🌄 [Intro — Low Drone + Forest Wind + Distant Horn] [Deep male hum like moving earth] [Soft female choir like wind through leaves] [Single harp notes falling like dew] (Spoken whisper:) In the elder days… the forests covered all the world… ⸻ 🌲 [Verse 1 — Male Voice | Slow Wood Drum + Bass Flute] Before the shadow crossed the plain Before the fire and iron rain The green world breathed in endless song And root and river wandered long We woke when Yavanna called our name From sleeping bark and hidden flame To guard the hills… the streams… the sky To watch the growing seasons pass us by ⸻ 🌸 [Verse 2 — Female Voice | Harp + Xylophone Pulse] We loved the bloom, the orchard bright The golden fields in summer light In ordered rows the gardens lay Where fruit and blossom crowned the day Across the river east we roamed The Green Lands fair became our home Yet winter winds would call us west To Fangorn’s shade and hibernating rest ⸻ 🌲🌸 [Chorus — Male & Female Duet | Full Cinematic Lift] Root remembers… leaf will sing Of ancient earth and growing things Yet hearts once joined may drift apart When time grows cold in forest heart Will we stand when darkness wakes? Or fall like ash in burning breaks? Oh living world beneath the sun Guard what was… or lose what’s won ⸻ 🌫️ [Verse 3 — Male Voice | Darker Tone Begins | Low Strings Pad] Axes rang where birds once cried Wide the western forests died We turned to Fangorn’s fading green Blind to what the East had seen Across the Anduin gardens grew Fields of harvest, morning dew But hungry eyes from barren land Reached toward the grain with iron hand ⸻ 🌒 [Bridge — Female Voice | Sparse Piano + Flute] Far beyond the mountain wall A shadow stirred, a silent call No root could hear… no leaf could know How deep the coming grief would grow Separation… slow and long Turned the strength of many… wrong For those who walk divided ways May meet too late in darker days ⸻ 🌲🌸 [Final Chorus — Epic Build | Choir + Drums + Harp] Root remembers… stone will tell Of gardens lost and forests fell Yet still the sap of life runs deep Through broken soil and dreamless sleep Stand together… or fade away Like dying leaves in autumn grey The green world waits… the ages turn And in the dark… the fires will burn ⸻ 🌌 [Outro — Wind + Drone + Single Harp Echo] [Male hum returns] [Female voice distant — almost memory] Before the shadow fell… We were one… [Final horn note] [Silence] ⸻
