steamy-bunz:

Okay, sooo about a year ago when the Sansukh podfic was auditioning voice actors, I auditioned for Thorin. Thankfully they didn’t choose me (because the person they did choose is amazing and awesome and holy smokes), but when I would practice the lines, I would read through the whole section, to get a feel for the atmosphere. The lines for Thorin were taken from the end of chapter 10, which ends in a song sung by Bilbo, called “I Sit Beside the Fire and Think”. The first 2 stanzas were written by Tolkien, and the last 2 are by @determamfidd

“I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen,
Of meadow-flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been.

I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago,
And people who will see a world
That I shall never know.

I sit beside the fire and think
Of words I never said,
Of promises and wishes made
All locked up in my head.

I sit beside the fire and think
I hear him now and then.
But still I wait to hear that knock
Upon my door again.”

It felt off to end the chapter by just reading the song, so I came up with a little melody to sing it to. Please note that I am not a musician, so if anything is off about the melody, blame my inexperience. I’m pretty sure it’s a melody I came up with myself, but if I subconsciously took it from somewhere, pls let me know.

(Since I have no idea where my recording equipment is, and I don’t want to re-learn how to use it just for this, I took a video of myself singing it in my car. Enjoy.)

oh mysdljhyafasdjhgfajh oh my gosshshshsshhshshshshsh

!!!!!!! 

THIS IS THE SWEETEST, oh my god, i can imagine old!Bilbo humming this lovely sweet tune in his cracked old voice and OH

*APPLAUSE* I gotta give it a crack, oh my gosh I LOVE IT, thank you FOREVER, and also YOU GENIUS!