Tales from the Twilight World

Released

2 October 1990

Recorded

Early 1990 at Karo Studios

Length

40:45

Kalle Trapp

Follow the Blind
(1989)

Tales from the Twilight World
(1990)

Somewhere Far Beyond
(1992)

Tales from the Twilight World is the third studio album that was released in 1990 by Blind Guardian.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Hansi Kürsch (except for To France).

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Traveler in Time"	Hansi Kürsch and André Olbrich	5:59
2.	"Welcome to Dying"	Kürsch, Olbrich	4:47
3.	"Weird Dreams"	Olbrich	1:19
4.	"Lord of the Rings"	Kürsch, Marcus Siepen	3:18
5.	"Goodbye My Friend"	Kürsch, Olbrich, Thomas "Thomen" Stauch	5:33
6.	"Lost in the Twilight Hall"	Kürsch, Olbrich, Siepen, Stauch	5:58
7.	"Tommyknockers"	Kürsch, Olbrich	5:09
8.	"Altair 4"	Kürsch, Olbrich	2:26
9.	"The Last Candle"	Kürsch, Olbrich	5:59

Bonus track^[a]
No.	Title	Music	Length
10.	"Run for the Night" (Live)	Kürsch, Olbrich, Siepen, Stauch	3:42

2003 re-release bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
11.	"Lords of the Rings" (Demo)	Kürsch, Siepen	3:57
12.	"To France" (Mike Oldfield cover)	Mike Oldfield	4:39

2007 re-release bonus tracks
No.	Title	Music	Length
11.	"Lost in the Twilight Hall" (Demo)	Kürsch, Olbrich, Siepen, Stauch	5:58
12.	"TommyKnockers" (Demo)	Kürsch, Olbrich	5:09

a. ^ "Run for the Night" (Live) is featured on the Japanese LP release and all the CD releases. It was recorded in Braunschweig in 1989.

Kai Hansen (Iron Savior, Helloween, Gamma Ray) - backing vocals, vocals on "Lost in the Twilight Hall" and guitar solo on "The Last Candle".
Piet Sielck (Iron Savior, Savage Circus) - backing vocals & effects
Mathias Wiesner - effects and keyboards
Rolf Köhler, "Hacky" Hackmann and Kalle Trapp - backing vocals

"Traveler in Time" is based on Frank Herbert's Dune
"Welcome to Dying" is based on Peter Straub's Floating Dragon
"Lord of the Rings" is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
"Tommyknockers" and "Altair 4" are based on Stephen King's The Tommyknockers
"Goodbye My Friend" is inspired by the film E.T.
"Lost in the Twilight Hall" is about the time spent "between worlds" by the wizard Gandalf the Grey after defeating the Balrog of Moria before his reincarnation as Gandalf the White.
"The Last Candle" talks about places and events of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Dragonlance universe, specially from the "Chronicles" and "Legends" trilogies.

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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	"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

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