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It's not an adjective. I am not USING it as an adjective. I am using it as a qualifier. That is different. Abandoned Moonlit Tale would be terribly incorrect.

Look at it this way. Moonlit Tale is a series (of which, by titles alone, only two songs belong to). "The Abandonment" aspect of the title is qualifying which one it is. Eg, "Which Moonlit Tale is this?" "The Abandonment Moonlit Tale." Or, to rephrase it, "The one that's about abandonment".

If it really bothers you that much, we could try "The Moonlit Tale of Abandonment". The issue with that is that it doesn't work with the subtitle, which is my whole point (The Moonlit Tale of the Ending implies it's about an ending rather than being the final Moonlit Tale, which is what 終末 suggests). They don't mirror each other correctly any other way.

It's like in a TV show if someone called a particular episode "the Dying Game episode". "Dying game" is not an adjective, but it is being used as a qualifier.

I don't know how to explain this any clearer. Words other than adjectives can be used as qualifiers.