 The same year, Ralph Vaughan Williams opined that "In any other country, such a work as "The Immortal Hour" would have been in the repertoire years ago".Dalua, the Lord of Shadow, is seen in a dark and mysterious wood.He is known as the Amadan-Dhu, the Faery Fool, the Dark One, and is an agent of unseen and fateful powers, whose touch brings madness and death to mortals.