The Lord of the Rings - In Dreams Song

When the cold of winter comes Starless night will cover day In the veiling of the sun We will walk in bitter rain But in dreams (But in dreams) I can hear your name And in dreams (But in dreams) We will meet again When the seas and mountains fall And we come to end of days In the dark I hear a call Calling me there I will go there And back again End of the movie/credits song for FOTR, sung by Edward Ross. In “Treebeard” from FOTR, Book 3, Chapter IV, Treebeard relates to Merry and Pippin the Song of the Entwives. He begins by saying: “There was an Elvish song that spoke of this, or at least so I understand it. It used to be sung up and down the Great River. It was never an Entish song, mark you: it would have been a very long song in Entish! But we know it by heart, and hum it now and again. This is how it runs in your tongue…” He then sings the call of the Ent and the response of the Entwives for the seasons of Spring and Summer. The call of the Ent for Winter goes: ENT: ‘When Winter comes, the winter wild that hill and wood shall slay; When trees shall fall and starless night devour the sunless day; When wind is in the deadly East, then in the bitter rain I’ll look for thee, and call to thee; I’ll come to thee again!’ The response of the Entwives mentions the darkness of the starless night, evoking the line of In Dreams that reads, “In the dark I hear a call”: ENTWIFE: ‘When Winter comes, and singing ends; when darkness falls at last; When broken is the barren bough, and light and labour past; I’ll look for thee, and wait for thee, until we meet again: Together we will take the road beneath the bitter rain!’ At the end of the song, Ent and Entwife, presumably reunited at last, sing together: ‘Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.’ Again, this hearkens to the line, “We will meet again.” In the dark the Entwives heard a call and they went. It also leads us directly to life beyond this world, or the world of Middle-earth. The song strongly implies the ‘next step’ of existence. In the Quenta Silmarillion, Chapter XIX, “Of Beren and Lúthien”, HobbitLove writes: “Seas and mountains comes from a phrase in the Silmarillion referring to Aman. Finrod Felagund says to Beren. I go now to my long rest in the timeless halls beyond the seas and the Mountains of Aman…” She continues: “Can we assumes that when they "fall” it is the end of the world as the elves know it?“ The Song of the Entwives and the quote from the Silmarillion both deal touch on what comes after life as we know it: when we come to ‘end of days’”.