I’ve just started listening to Hamilton, it’s not bad so far, but when ‘You’ll Be Back’ came on, all I could think was ‘it’s Sauron or Saruman’s them song!’ I know you’ve done Hobbit/Hamilton things, did you consider that one or was it just me?

oh, most of the Hobbit4Ham stuff is the work of the inestimable @culturalrebel. She submits the amazingness to me, and I publish it.

She made a ‘You’ll be Back’ version from Thranduil’s POV which is absolutely goddamn delightful (so delightful I had to sing it!!!) but we haven’t tried a Sauron or Saruman one! Perhaps we should, that’s a great idea!

It’s pretty late here and I have work tomorrow, yet I’m sitting and listening to each Hamilton song on Youtube now. I promised myself I wasn’t going to do it, I can count on one hand how many musicals I’ve seen, but then I started reading your Hobbit/Hamilton things and then…I’ve been sucked in. Now I’ve got Hamilton feels in addition to my Hobbit feels.

*clinks my glass against @culturalrebel‘s*

Glad you liked, Nonnie 🙂

Hobbit4Ham (Or: @culturalrebel is a genius)

DIS

I saved every letter they wrote me.
From the moment I bore them, I knew they were mine
You said they were mine
I thought they were mine…

Do you know what Vili said,
When he heard of your plans and designs?
He said: “Be careful of Thorin, love.
He will do what it takes to survive.”

You and your words
Overrode all their senses.
Your memories left them defenseless.
You built them palaces of our relics
You built cathedrals…

I’m rereading the letters they wrote me.
I’m searching and scanning for answers in every line.
For some kind of sign, and when they were mine
The world seemed to burn…
Burn….

You took all I held dear down with you.
The whole world saw how you brought my sons into their graves.
In reclaiming our home, you have spent our line…
Do you know what Balin said,
When I saw what you’d done?
He said: “He was brave and did what he could.
But he flew too close to the sun.”

You and your words, obsessed with our legacy!
Your greed and their sacrifice, senseless!
And you were paranoid at every twist and turn!
How ‘they’ would deceive you…
You, you, you, you….!

I’m erasing myself from the narrative.
Let future historians wonder how your sister
Reacted when you broke her heart.
You have torn it all apart, I’m watching it
Burn….
Burn….!

The world has no right to my heart!
No claim to the blood that they shed!
They don’t get to know what I said!
You took every memory, took everything here
That might have redeemed you!
You stole all the joy from my heart!
You’ve left me to bury the dead!
No life, only ashes instead!
And only the memories of when they were miiine!
….I hope that you
Burn…

(I AM SORRY)


Dets says: YOU SHOULD BE, god i have to record this, i have TO, goddamn it it’s beautiful

Hobbit4Ham STRIKES BACK

Dets says: @culturalrebel are you trying to make me record all the things


[THORIN]

After a week of fighting, the Orc force and the Easterlings grow still and sullen

[THE STONEHELM]

We lower our weapons in shock as they tell us the Enemy has fallen…

[DWALIN]

And just like that, it’s over.

We tend to our wounded, we count our dead.

[FILI]

The living and the dead all wonder alike if this really means freedom.

[GANDALF]

Not just yet.

[THORIN]

The tower of Barad-Dur turns to ashes

I see the White Wizard smile…

The Easterlings go back to their homeland

They stagger home, single-file.

Tens of thousands of Free Folk flood the streets!

There are songs and bells that are ringing!

And as our fallen foes retreat,

I hear the song that they all are singing:

[ENSEMBLE]

The world turned upside-down….

The world turned upside down…

The world turned upside-down…

The world turned upside-dooown, dooown!

Down, down down!

[DAIN]

Freedom for Erebor, freedom for the West!

[ENSEMBLE]

Down, down, down!

[THORIN]

Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee have completed their Quest!

[ENSEMBLE]

Down, down, down!

[THORIN]

We won!

[NARVI]

We won…

[DWARVES IN MAHAL’S HALLS]

We won, we won!

[ENSEMBLE]

The world turned upsiiiide-down!


https://determamfidd.tumblr.com/post/142037644493/audio_player_iframe/determamfidd/tumblr_o4uk8xxrnb1rb0mtv?audio_file=https%3A%2F%2Fa.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_o4uk8xxrnb1rb0mtvo1.mp3

determamfidd:

I DID IT YESSSSSSSS

For the ongoing hobbit4ham shenanigans! This is a recorded version of ‘Wait For It’ as sung by Bilbo, with added accompaniment and chorus bc reasons.

(HEY @culturalrebel I WENT NUTS AGAIN)

(originally posted here, lyrics reproduced under the cut heeeeey)

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Trying to figure out who should sing ‘Dear Theodosia’ in the Hobbit/Hamilton mashup. I mean, Thorin singing to Fili or Kili for the one part, but who should sing the other part? Bilbo to Frodo? Gloin to Gimli? Dori to Ori? That song gets to me because it’s a rare moment when Alexander and Aaron are in accordance when they’re complete opposites otherwise.

NNNGH I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND TWO PEOPLE WHOSE FAMILIES ARE GENERALLY OPPOSED TO EACH OTHER

WHO WERE BORN AT AROUND THE SAME TIME (ISH)

IT IS HARD.


https://determamfidd.tumblr.com/post/141972781803/audio_player_iframe/determamfidd/tumblr_o4uk8xxrnb1rb0mtv?audio_file=https%3A%2F%2Fa.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_o4uk8xxrnb1rb0mtvo1.mp3

determamfidd:

I DID IT YESSSSSSSS

For the ongoing hobbit4ham shenanigans! This is a recorded version of ‘Wait For It’ as sung by Bilbo, with added accompaniment and chorus bc reasons.

(HEY @culturalrebel I WENT NUTS AGAIN)

(originally posted here, lyrics reproduced under the cut heeeeey)

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