Sometimes a song's title alone is enough to make things a little brighter inside.
Morning Shall Come — "Morning Shall Come."
Today in our music column, we hear a meeting between the Norwegian singer AURORA and the composer Bear McCreary. Their new song was released on 6 November 2026 and was created for the third season of the series "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power." The music was written by McCreary and AURORA, the lyrics by McCreary and one of the series' creators, J. D. Payne. The composition accompanies the story of Galadriel and Celeborn.
But to meet this music, one need not know the genealogies of elves or the map of Middle-earth. Its title already contains a movement understandable to everyone: from waiting — to the possibility of a new day.
When a child's imagination finds a voice
For AURORA, taking part in the project is tied to a personal story: Tolkien's books entered her life in childhood. The singer calls the opportunity to become part of this world a great honor.
There is a special beauty in this. Once, a person opens a book and imagines forests, faces, distant lands. Years later, their own voice becomes part of a space that previously existed for them on the pages.
Thus the life of an artistic world continues. The writer leaves words. The reader fills them with their own imagination. The composer finds a musical movement, the performer — breath and intonation. The next listener brings their own experience.
Every encounter adds something inimitable.
A voice that only needs to be itself
The human voice is capable of conveying meaning even before we have parsed the words. Breath, pause, the barely noticeable change in intonation make a performance a personal address.
In AURORA's music, this possibility is especially alluring — to sound open while preserving one's own strangeness, tenderness and inner freedom. For the listener, too, space remains here: to hear one's own, to remember one's own, to feel differently.
The title Morning Shall Come can be taken as an invitation to such listening. Not to hurry to explain the experience. To let the song sound and to notice what response arises within.
For some it will bring images of Middle-earth. For others — a memory of someone close. And for someone, the very thought will be enough: morning lies ahead.
From the studio — to the treetops
The music video accompanying the song is conceived as a performance that carries the viewer from Sky Studios in London to the treetops of Rivendell. Thus the real space of the recording joins with Tolkien's imagined world.
This is a beautiful image of creativity itself. Everything begins with quite tangible things: human breath, the work of musicians, microphones, time spent together. From their combination arises a space that people all over the world can enter.
And each will hear it in their own way.
What does this meeting add to the sound of the world?
A book read in childhood, the imagination of a composer and the voice of an adult meet. What once inspired one person becomes a new source of inspiration for others.
Perhaps this is precisely how creativity continues: we receive beauty, live through it and return it to the world in our own form.
Everyone has their own voice, their own experience, their own freedom to sound. Attention to one another allows these differences to become a consonance in which something that did not exist before is born.
And dawn begins even before the first ray — when we feel the desire to sing.
