So, culturalrebel submitted this AMAZING Thranduilification of Hamilton’s King George III to determamfidd the other day, as she has been compiling all sorts of delicious and heartrending Hamilton/Hobbit mashups, and OH MY GOD. I know you already posted yourself singing it, Dets, for which I feel slightly like I’m stepping on your toes, but there are not enough words for how much King George is MY JAM. So I had to sing it too >_>
HOLD ME, CULLY
HOLD ME AND JUST SING KING GEORDUIL AT ME FOREVER
@culturalrebel alksjdgflajshdsgalj i think hobbit4ham is a thing now?!?! IT’S A THING? EEEEEE
you make a FAR better Elf Kingy than me, my Star ❤ what butbutbut how the heck, you’re a dwarf
For the delightful @determamfidd – Happy Birthday Dets, and all the hugs from the great distance of 2 hours away!
Background for this piece of weirdness: This started out with me thinking ‘Hey, I could write a dwarf version of Adam lay y-bounden’, and it was indeed supposed to be a medieval-style composition, but I was driving to work one day singing it and it turned into a twelve-bar blues. *shrugs helplessly*
HOLY SHIIIIIT FEE!!!!!!!
hoooooly oh my good god, thiS IS BRILLIANT, AHHH
Now I can suddenly imagine Durin playing upright bass, and THIS IS A BRILLIANT IMAGE, and ohhhhhhh the lyrics are fantastic, and YOUR VOICE FEE, YOUR FAB CLEAR AND PERFECTLY IN TUNE VOICE! AHHHHHHHHHHH THIS IS GENIUS!
I am going to open a north-facing window and SCREAM VERY LOUDLY
SO It is (or it was a few hours ago???) @determamfidd‘s birthday. So I recorded her a little something. I’m sorry my voice is a little rough tonight so it’s a bit Quiet.
Dets you’re a lovely lovely person and I am so happy that we’ve become friends. *hugs tight* Thank you so much for so many things.
oh my GOD LAAACE – and I LOVE this song, too, oh wow! Your lovely silky warm voice and this song, lkasjdhfadsgfa the opening line of the chorus made me go ajsdhflahsdgflsh because your placement was just so fantastic
Thank you, thank you my lovely, fabulous, insanely multi-multi-multi-skilled friend. Seriously. Thank you, this is so LOVELY and I am all lkasjdgfaljh bc OMG OMFG YOU SANG ME A THING FOR MY BIRTHDAY and oh my god, you’re a star, thank you, thank you!!!
I went for a little expedition through my blog just then, and do you know? I had totally forgotten that I had written this! It’s a general description of what I imagine Elvish dancing to look like, and the themes of the most popular holiday dances!
Dang, my memory is slipping, hehehhe.
Music-wise, I feel that the Elves would be more inclined towards collaborative music that ebbs and flows and never quite reaches a “formal” climactic moment as is common in Western classical tradition… I don’t think there’d be huge orchestras but instead small quartets, trios, chamber groups. A small group of virtuosos who know each other’s talents and thoughts so intimately that they are able to grow the music as they play it. Indonesian gamelan springs to mind, as does Bugaku (Gagaku) or Indian classical music. Music that takes its inspiration from the sounds of nature, too: the calls of birds and forest creatures, the long slow growth of trees, the sound of waves crashing upon a sandy shore…
I don’t think they’d be into short music – even folk/history songs (such as the Lay of Luthien) go on FOREVER AND EVER oh god so many stanzas, and so perhaps instrumental music is the same: slowly building, forming and increasing in intricacy, undercurrents of passion that never pierce that sense of continuity and movement… before it breaks apart, melding again in a new configuration…
Vocal music is obviously a massive part of their lives: Legolas never stops singing, and neither does Galadriel! So there’d be different songs for different clans of elf, I guess… some would be formal and some would be ‘folk’… the word ‘Lay’ suggests a bardic tradition, too.
Tra La La La Lally is an outlier and should not have been counted? IDK
We know that Maglor played harp. He also composed the lament ‘Noldolantë’… I have a feeling that a lot of the Noldorin songs are laments, tbh.
Sindar songs are likely ‘I’ll get you for that, you dirty rat’ lmao
I think that instruments like zithers and kotos would be popular: both need a lot of patience and delicacy to learn, and are incredibly evocative and beautiful. Too, we saw that harpist and flautist in Rivendell! So we can assume that those are instruments that they use commonly 🙂
IDK, that’s just some random thoughts thrown together. I hope it’s helpful, Nonnie! I am SO excited to see what you create, it is sure to be amazing! *waves pompoms*
Aw Yiss 