Battlelore
Battlelore is a Heavy Mithril band from (where else) Finland. Nearly all of their songs involve The Lord of the Rings or The Silmarillion in some way.
They even used modified Ted Nasmith illustrations (aka the man who illustrated The Silmarillion) as cover art for some of their albums.
Discography:
- ...Where the Shadows Lie (2002)
- Sword's Song (2003)
- Third Age of the Sun (2005)
- Evernight (2007)
- The Last Alliance (2008)
- Doombound (2011)
Battlelore provides examples of the following tropes:
- Folk Metal
- Instrumentals
- Heavy Mithril
- Hidden Track: First album has one by the name of "Feast for the Wanderer".
- The Noun and the Noun: "The Cloak and the Dagger" from Third Age of the Sun.
- Pirate: "Buccaneers Inn" on Sword's Song, which is about Numenorean corsairs.
- Soprano and Gravel
- The X of Y