Story for Hallowed be thy name, need your help!

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TheNomad10

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Hi Guys,

I'm writing a story about the classic track "Hallowed be thy name" but I have a couple questions regarding the lyrics.


1. Is the man being executed at 5 am or 5 pm? This is crucial to my story.

2. Is the bell tolling because it's 5 already or is it tolling because its midday or something?

Any responses are much appreciated!

Cheers

P.S  I'll post the story on here once I'm done :)
 
Well, what do you think? What do you think will work better for your story? A sunrise or a sunset? He dies as the day is born or he dies along with the light of yet another day? Are you just retelling the song or are you BASING it on the song? The reason being the importance accuracy.

My take on it is use the song as inspiration and trust your artisctic instincts and have the bell toll whenever you feel it appropriate. If you read this thread: http://forum.maidenfans.com/index.php?topic=4346.0 you might find it very helpful
 
It's a story based off the song, but I didn't want too change much. Cheers for the link to the other thread. 5am sounds much more likely.

Do you reckon the bell is a prison bell or a church bell?
 
TheNomad10 said:
It's a story based off the song, but I didn't want too change much. Cheers for the link to the other thread. 5am sounds much more likely.

Do you reckon the bell is a prison bell or a church bell?
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Well, IMO, it's a church bell, because of the priest... and before (obviously not nowdays), executions often take place at town's square or something like that... and churches are, in most of the cases, somewhere around there. Not sure about this, because I don't know when (century) is this execution performed...
 
Regardless of century the church bell is a much more powerfull image, specially with the character's anger towards religion/God...
 
I always thought it was 5 am as I believe traditionally that's how its been.  I'd love to hear the story when it is done.
 
I guess is the bell is chiming just before 5am to indicate an impending execution, most likely to gather the local townspeople and to let the prisoner know the hour is approaching.
 
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