Gimris would be all “Really? Well, there’s a thing! That’s terribly kind of you, you dinnae have to say such nice things – though if you said it in front of my Warg of a brother I’d be eternally grateful…”
Balinith would go a bit shy and bashful, I think. He’d stay close though, grinning to himself and hovering nearby, listening and learning. And when he finds his confidence again, welp! Prepare yourself to read every book, clarify all the words, listen to all the explanations, and also help with ALL the Important Experiments! You’ve been given the Balinith Seal of Approval 🙂
(ahhh thank you, thank you SO MUCH nonnie! I deliberately steered her character away from the popular Dis-depiction that was common when I first began the story, and I am SO SO GLAD you like where I took her! It felt like the most risky choice ever, at the time!!)
Dis would probably say thank you too, thank you very much. She’d say it quietly, and baldly, and with an undercurrent of steely, sad dignity.
YES THEY ARE – THEY ARE ENTIRELY AS COOL AS ANY ONE OF MINE, they are, promise and cross my heart, bc they came from your mind and imagination and love, and every character that comes from that place is 1000% amazing
(sorry if mine tend to be a bit on the pushy side…! I believe that ‘Vili’ has become a sort of fandom-wide accepted name, though 😀 )
Hrm. Er. A couple of months ago I listened to @determamfidd‘s Iron Hills Soldier’s Song (the music she writes and performs for her Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit series of fic is GLORIOUS and 100% part of my musical Tolkienverse canon) (seriously) loved it to pieces, and wondered how it would sound in a minor key.
So I hummed and sang and recorded an attempt. It’s kinda wobbly because I was kinda terrified, as I usually am when I record my voice
:3 I searched long and hard for at least one second melodic line, but since I’m pretty sure the result was responsible for the non-stop rain we got a while ago, I’m just posting the naked song, as it were.
oh my gosh this is fabulous
*presses play button repeatedly* OH WOW – I love the minor key! It has such a celtic flavour to it now, and that draws out the more melancholy aspects of the lyrics, such as ‘out we trot like cattle’ and ‘we pray that we’ll come home’, it gives it such a beauty and sadness and oh my gosh
AHHH and your voice!! HOW CLEAN ARE YOUR VOWELS, you have gorgeous gorgeous round vowels and clean dipthongs, and a sweet open tone and I LOVE YOUR VOICE OK – NO effort or pushing for the upper belt register, totally soars up there without a pause! (lmao not like dumb soprano me straining to be a belter XD )
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the music she writes and performs for her Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit series of fic is GLORIOUS and 100% part of my musical Tolkienverse canon” <- THIS? AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOUUUUUU!)
honestly I am having a minor (ba-dum-TISH) conniption here, this is completely wonderful and yes yes I want to call this a variant on the song, in-universe
bc if Silent Night can have multiple tunes, so can the Iron Hills dangit
Aw Yiss 