Oberon - Hollow Hills & Barrow-downs - Astronomy Domine

Oberon, also Auberon, King of Shadows and Fairies, is best known as a character in William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, written in the mid-1590s. He is Consort to Titania, Queen of the Fairies.

• Oberon is mentioned by name in the song "Hollow Hills" by Bauhaus. The song references burial mounds similar to the Barrow-downs in The Lord of the Rings.
• The line "Oberon, Miranda and Titania" is included in the lyrics of Pink Floyd's "Astronomy Domine"

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Hollow Hills

by Bauhaus

Ancient earthwork fort and barrow
Discreetly hide their secret abodes
The most fearful hide deep inside
And venture not there upon Yuletide

For invasion of their hollow hills
That music hold and Oberon fill
Is surely recommended not
For fear of death in fear of rot

Hollow hills
Hollow hills
Hollow hills
Hollow hills

Baleful sounds and wild voices ignored
Ill luck disaster the one reward
Violated sanctity of supermen's hills
So sad love lies there still
So sad
So sad
Hollow hills
Hollow hills
Witches too and goblins too and speckled sills
Lament repent oh mortal you
So sad
So sad

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The song references burial mounds similar to the Barrow-downs in The Lord of the Rings.

Role in the Lord of the Rings

Traveling from the Old Forest to Bree, Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin were ensnared with travelling through the downs by a barrow-wight, probably in the same cairn which held the grave of the last prince of Cardolan^[1]. They were rescued by Tom Bombadil, and from the burial treasure received enchanted daggers — designed to slay the evil servants of Angmar.

Merry used his weapon to help destroy the Lord of the Nazgûl (aka. Witch-king of Angmar) in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, Sam left his beside Frodo in Cirith Ungol but it was later returned to him by Gandalf, while Pippin made use of his dagger in the Battle of the Black Gate to slay a Troll-chief.

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Astronomy Domine

Pink Floyd
(Barrett) 4:12

Lime and limpid green, a second scene
A fight between the blue you once knew.
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground.
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda
And Titania, Neptune, Titan.
Stars can frighten.

Blinding signs flap,
Flicker, flicker, flicker blam. Pow, pow.
Stairway scare Dan Dare who's there?
Lime and limpid green
The sounds surrounds the icy waters underground
Lime and limpid green
The sounds surrounds the icy waters underground.

www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/

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