Mirror Mirror (Blind Guardian song)

"Mirror Mirror"

from the album Nightfall in Middle-Earth

Released

7 February 1998

Length

27:19

Blind Guardian singles chronology

"Mirror Mirror"
(1998)

"Mirror Mirror" is a single by the German power metal band Blind Guardian, released in 1998. Cover art was painted by Andreas Marshall. The song was composed for the 1998 album Nightfall in Middle-Earth. Lyrics of "Mirror Mirror", based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion, recount how Turgon, in view of inevitable defeat, builds the city of Gondolin, aided by Ulmo ("The Lord of Water").

The single also includes two songs from Imaginations from the Other Side album of 1995 and a cover version of Judas Priest song "Beyond the Realms of Death" that was also released on A Tribute to Judas Priest: Legends of Metal split tribute album.

Track listing

Blind Guardian

Hansi Kürsch André Olbrich Marcus Siepen Frederik Ehmke Thomen Stauch Oliver Holzwarth Thomas Kelleners Markus Dörk Christof Theißen Hans-Peter Frey

Studio albums	Battalions of Fear (1988) Follow the Blind (1989) Tales from the Twilight World (1990) Somewhere Far Beyond (1992) Imaginations from the Other Side (1995) Nightfall in Middle-Earth (1998) A Night at the Opera (2002) A Twist in the Myth (2006) At the Edge of Time (2010) Beyond the Red Mirror (2015)

Live albums	Tokyo Tales (1993) Live (2003)

Compilations	The Forgotten Tales (1996) Memories of a Time to Come (2012)

Box sets	A Traveler's Guide to Space and Time (2013)

Singles	"Banish from Sanctuary" (1989) "A Past and Future Secret" (1995) "Bright Eyes" (1995) "Mr. Sandman" (1996) "Mirror Mirror" (1998) "And Then There Was Silence" (2001) "The Bard's Song (In the Forest)" (2003) "Fly" (2006) "Another Stranger Me" (2007) "A Voice in the Dark" (2010) "Twilight of the Gods" (2014)

DVDs	Imaginations Through the Looking Glass (2004)

Other	Discography Demons and Wizards Sinbreed Tales From the Underworld