lkasdgfljshdgjflassaljhfd *brain fizzes* OMG
Thank you SO much, you are incredibly kind to say so! *hugs and hugs and hugs*
(If you’re interested, Nonnie, I just uploaded some new stuff from the recital I gave late last year to my soundcloud! *gulps a little* Unnnngh, my vibrato always goes off the scale when I am nervous lmao 🙂
So, this is a thing initially composed by the lovely @notanightlight! It is a traveling song. Everyone adds a thing to it!
So far it has passed through the talented hands of @aviva0017, @the-dragongirl, @flukeoffate and @lisafer… and now it is my turn! I am the fiddle player 🙂 I hope you enjoy, it is a gorgeous tune!
2/3 Actually But it’s also a song that gets a really special treatment around holidays, the reclaiming of Erebor, Durin’s Day, etc, and so the more musically inclined dwarves get together and three dwarves sing it with the bass singing the first two stanzas, the alto/tenor (it varies) singing the middle three, and the soprano sings the last two. And what makes it really special is that the song keeps getting transposed up a seventh each stanza, to honor the seven fathers, Mahal, and Eru.
3/3 (and I mean it this time). Baris Crystaltongue’s first actual performance in front of more than family and friends is singing this as the soprano for the Dwarves of Ered Luin/Erebor the first holiday after the Erebor refugees have made it to the Blue Mountains. (Not sure if that timeline fits, but it makes sense in my head.)
That timeline fits PERFECTLY ACTUALLY OH MY GOODNESS WHAT A BEAUTIFUL IDEA <333333333
Thank you so much, Nonnie! Oh, that really makes my heart quiver… I particularly love the idea of transposing up a seventh for each verse! It would make it sound so shivery. (the poor poor basses, though!!!)
hahahah yeeeeeah don’t listen to this. @determamfidd said she wanted to hear it so she can listen to it, then I’ll probably get incredibly nervous and take it down. I recorded it at 2AM in like July and I’m way too damn quiet.
WARNING ME SINGING. I warned you.
SUCH A LOVELY VOICE, LACE! Your pitch is stupendously in-tune, and this is a difficult song to get note-perfect when singing it without accompaniment! And you have a gorgeous natural sense of the drama and dynamics of the song. Bravo!!!
Oh, thank you for sharing such a fantastic idea! I AM SOLD – HEADCANON INSTANTLY ACCEPTED.
(And may you have a wonderful day as well, Nonnie! Happy New Year!)
I actually went and listened to them all again in order to make a decision.
This has since been designated ‘a very big mistake’.
So, once I scraped my heart up off the floor, I put my muso’s hat on and gave your question a bit more thought, Nonnie.
I think they all have such powerful strengths. They chose the music for these films very carefully and very well. They’re all very different, sure. But I really do love them all. Neil Finn’s version of The Song of the Lonely Mountain has a real pride and stridency to it, and the lyrics are PHENOMENAL. I completely ADORE the buildup of texture and volume in I See Fire.
But. The winner, for me – only JUST edging ahead – is The Last Goodbye. Billy, what an adorable prat, he makes my heart ache, he sings like an angel. THE OPENING GIVES ME GOOSEPIMPLES – the violins in open fifths, the guitar twanging like an ornament straight out of ‘Concerning Hobbits’ – and then Billy’s voice: GUH.
And the orchestration hearkens back to Howard Shore’s scores so beautifully – all those warm strings – at first long suspended notes,
the double-bass entering in the second verse, and then they climb and climb, doubling the melody an octave above, soaring high… the barely-there ‘oooh’ of a lone soprano voice echoing, right at the end before Billy’s closing line…
…oh, and also, whoever put together the official music video for it is a criminal genius. I actually got a fair way into it without losing my composure, but then the first clip of Sir Christopher Lee popped up and I DISSOLVED INTO TEARS.
(of the LOTR songs, my fave is actually Gollum’s Song. By a country mile. THAT. TUNE. THAT CRY OF PURE AGONY IN MUSICAL FORM.)
oh my GOD
What an incredible idea!! I hadn’t ever thought of that, of COURSE they would use beaten metal tuned at different pitches, OF COURSE AHHH @yubiwamonogatari LOOK!
So naturally, I had to Tolkien-ize at least one Christmas song this year. ;P This is effectively a retelling of the same story as Gimli’s Song of Durin from FotR, but I figured that most Christmas music is the same story retold lots of different ways anyway. ;P Binamrâd is the Khuzdul word for “deathless,” and given that it is listed as a noun and not an adjective, I took that to mean that it was a name. Might record later with harmonies if there’s time (I love the chords in this song a lot), but right now I have to run away and do family things. XD Happy holidays, everyone! ❤
Lyrics under the cut-
-shivers up and down spine- OH AVI IT IS GLORIOUS
ooooh thank you Nonnie! I have posted quite a few songs now, heheh. Singing and music is such a gigantic part of my life! I really ought to get a single tag for all my own music, I am hopelessly disorganised when it comes to stuff like that!
soooo I am guessing you might mean either
but I’ve also recently written a theme for Jeri and Khalei, and there’s the Gounod I sang a while back, and I burbled a thing for Dain Week, and sang a thing for our dear lil @fishfingersandscarves‘ birthday, and there’s always the songs of Sansukh!
Here are the ones I have sung:
You can trawl through my music or singing tags, if you’re interested in hearing more of my warbles 🙂
Aw Yiss 