For @everythingquenya: their wonderful translation of Pippin’s song Edge of Night, from Return of the King (from this post here!)
My Quenya pronunciation is probably wonky, but I tried! 🙂 I hope you enjoy it!
Tag: music
*FAINTS*
*revives… only to faint again*
AO3 user ElladPlyr has done an amazing, amazing thing. Because they are amazing.
Look! It’s Neo-Khuzdul translations of the Iron Hills’ Soldiers Song and the Broadbeam Cradle Song.
aND THAT’S NOT ALL. THERE’S THE RIDDLE OF STRIDER, THAT’S WHAT BILBO BAGGINS HATES, AND MORE.
*deep breath*
*ETERNAL SHRIEKING*
I listened to your playlist and “In the Halls of the Mountain King” gave me the strongest Thorin feels ever. I know it’s supposed to be an Evil Baddie song, but for me it’s more a song of Thorin, as he could’ve been if he survived the battle: King of an unapologetically mighty kingdom under the mountain, where the most secretive of races of Middle Earth rises above the poverty and exile and thrives again under the firm kindness of their charismatic king. It’s about their culture: (1/2)
It’s about dancing, singing, building and creating and simply coming together to be one again. It’s a rich and strange and extraordinary culture of strong people. And I can see Thorin, in the middle of this celebration, tears in his eyes and smile on his lips, watching his people sing and play and dance again. And he’s so proud, if little overwhelmed, because he did it, he brought his people home again. Goddamnit Tolkien, that’s what we should’ve had. (2/2)
Oh my god, whoa. WHOA. I am always honoured to hear the reactions people have to music, because they’re always so subjective and personal… and this is beautiful.
I mean, yeah i put it on the Evil Overlord’s Mixtape, bc it’s hella fun and thumpetty-thump! I would probably put it on a Dwarven Classical playlist as well, bc… well, Mountain King. And well, intellectually I know that it tells the story of Peer Gynt running away from a mountainful of pissed-off trolls…
(but I LIKE YOUR VERSION MUCH BETTER)
So, a silly little something we did this morning? For the fab and wonderful @poplitealqueen. *hugs* Hope it brings a smile or two.
(I wanted to record her saying ‘Poplitealqueen’ but tbh that might take a little longer! 😉
I’ve clearly lost my mind and decided to post this one too. This has a little intro for @determamfidd . Take advantage of my tired state and enjoy, (but this one had better acoustics anyway lol)
*shrieks*
OH WOW THAT IMPROV
THAT IMPROV ROCKS MY SOCKS SO HARD THEY FLEW RIGHT OFF MY FEET
this song!! SUITS your voice so perfectly!! GORGEOUS relaxed vibrato, the whole range so beautifully showcased (hellllllllllllooooooo low note *swoons* and HELLO SUSTAINED HIGH NOTE) and lksadflajshd
wonderful, WONDERFUL WORK LACE! Thank you sos os soooo much, I am so honoured and thrilled to hear your pipes in full flight, they’re absolutely beautiful!
I promised @determamfidd that I would record something at full volume the next time I had the opportunity. So I recorded her two songs. she picked this one. I’ll decide weather or not I want to put the other up later.
I love this song, it reminds me of Good Omens (angels dining at the ritz lol)
OH GOD LACE
THIS IS GORGEOUS, oh wow – you have such a silky, classic jazz style!!! Lovely open vowels, great tone and awesome diction… alkdsflajsgfakjdkajhfda BEAUTIFUL – thank you so so so much for sharing this!
*runs to listen again*
A long long time ago I was in a production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. I played Feste. At the end of the play he sings this song(the piano broke). I sang it a cappella in front of many parents and students and it was horrifying. But that’s something that sticks with you; I still know the whole song. posting me singing makes me nervous as hell but I’m in the right mood tonight.
I recorded this because I was talking to @the-dragongirl about missing acting. So I present this as a gift for her. I’ll also tag @determamfidd because she seems to like it when I sing.
I LOVE IT WHEN YOU SING, LACE!!!
Dear Dets, I don’t believe that after Sansukh anyone will look at death scenes quite the same way again. You’ve certainly grabbed our heartstrings and yanked, do you have any favorite tear-jerker moments from fiction or media? Thanks!
asldfgaljshfda ahhh, thank you! It’s tricky, with death and close-to-the-bone emotional scenes. I agonise over them a lot, because it’s so easy to get bogged down in them. So this message was a very nice surprise and a real boost for me *hugs* Thank you so much!
Oh god. Um. Yeah? I actually cry really easily. Always have! Music makes me cry regularly. Dammit.
Too many scenes from Doctor Who to count have made me weep like a child.
Also, the ‘tears in rain’ speech from Blade Runner. How dare. How dare.
Maus, the graphic novel by Art Spiegelman, never fails to make me cry.
And I don’t know how many people out there are familiar with I, Claudius but it has some of the most POWERFUL acting I have ever seen. William Hurt as Caligula,
Siân
Phillips as Livia, Derek Jacobi as Claudius, George Baker as Tiberius, Patrick Stewart as Sejanus – god, all of these incredible performances – and one of the most agonizing death scenes I have ever seen (Augustus’). It is gut-wrenchingly, horribly, spell-bindingly good.
Every frame of The Last Emperor is like being crushed slowly by the inevitability of history, for me. And the music is gloriously heart-rending.
Rabbit-Proof Fence. We are sorry. I am sorry. We are sorry. (We can never, ever be sorry enough.)
Boromir, of course. Masterfully shot and acted. One of the most affecting and powerful moments in the whole trilogy.
IDK, there’s a lot more – like I say, I cry really easily. But here’s some from the top of my head! Thanks for asking me :)))
Hi, your Evil Overlord playlist is spectacular :D Helped me find that one piece i’ve had stuck in my head for weeks but couldn’t remember the name <3 Also, I sent it to my mother and she was delighted:) Your playlisting skills (Is that a thing? It should be a thing.) are awesome ^^
Awwwwww, thank you so much, Nonnie! I’m thrilled you and your mum enjoyed it – and that you found the piece you’d been looking for!
It’s a bit of a mix of the Big Obvious and the less-known, and I am really happy that people seem to like it! (I am still rocking out to that Schnittke, and the Liefs is pure nightmare fuel, I love it so much ❤ )
Because the Evil Overlord’s mix has been met with such enthusiasm I am now tentatively looking out for classical pieces that remind me of Tolkien’s Dwarves now yes, combining two things I love again – I dunno though, I sure hope my playlisting skills are up to it!
(HEH, AND THE ANVIL CHORUS IS THE FIRST THING I THOUGHT OF NATURALLY)
Could you make your “Evil Overlord mix” on Spotify?
Hey Nonnie! I’ve been really gratified by the response to the mix, it’s been so awesome! I’m thinking I could do something similar in future for other subjects/themes: Classical music for Dwarves, classical music for heartbreak, etc etc. I dunno, maybe!
I’ve never used Spotify, I am so sorry… and I simply cannot afford an account this year. We are budgeted down to the last cent at the moment!!!
But absolutely anyone is welcome to make the playlist on Spotify if they so wish, I am totally down for that.
Aw Yiss 