Paris Paloma Drops Teaser For 'The Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim' End Credits Song

TV & Film

Nov 11

The War Of The Rohirrim poster — Image Source: Wallpapers Den

Singer Paris Paloma, whose 2023 song, Labour, went viral, has been officially identified as performing the end credits song for the upcoming Lord of the Rings-animated spin-off film, War of the Rohirrim. The end credits song, Rider, was composed by David Long and performed by Paloma. A 47-second teaser of the song, previously the subject of much speculation in regards to who would be chosen as its singer, was just released and can be viewed on YouTube:

Previous entries in the Lord of the Rings film series have featured various popular singers performing end-credit songs. Enya performed the end credits song, May It Be, for The Fellowship of the Ring, Emiliana Torrini performed Gollum’s Song for The Two Towers, and Annie Lennox performed Into the West for The Return of the King. Paloma is known to weave feminism and mythology into her music, seemingly making her ideal for performing a song for a fantasy film featuring a strong female character living in a patriarchal society.

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Paloma discussed her creative influences for her debut album, Cacophony, which was just released this year, in an interview with Guitar.com in September:

“I love Madeline Miller as a writer and her two books, Circe and [The] Song of Achilles, are two of my absolute favourites. Circe inspired a lot of the world-building and setting of Labour in the island and this domestic paradise that Labour talks about. Mythos by Stephen Fry is such a wonderful account of Greek mythology. He talks in the first chapter about the Greek creation myth of chaos and that partially inspired the naming of the album, Cacophony, this idea of creation springing out of chaos and the way he describes it like this yawning void, this chasm of noise and darkness and chaotic things and cacophony of sounds – that’s what the inside of my head felt like.

“The album is a result of writing music in order to cope with that, or in order to make sense of that chaos. There’s a couple of other books like Mona Chollet’s In Defence of Witches: Why Women Are Still On Trial. That’s a book I adore. It’s a really accessible and wonderful read that talks about modern-day feminism and modern-day patriarchy, but related to the witch hunts and the ways in which the witch embodies modern-day archetypes of women as well. That is a book that’s really closely linked to songs on the album like as good a reason or knitting song, where it’s more overtly to do with communities of women and individual women in responding to patriarchy.”

Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim is expected to be released in theaters on December 13th, 2024.