🎶Music for Middle Earth

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

Oromë: Lord of the Hunt
An instrumental piece by The Fellowship.

This is my jam!
*Starts dancing*

 

[Andromadus the Invictus]

It this thread for music that should be in middle earth or music that is?

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

It this thread for music that should be in middle earth or music that is?

Just any music based on Tolkien's works.

 

[Andromadus the Invictus]

Just any music based on Tolkien's works.

ok, that makes sense.
Has anyone read Bilbo's last song?

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

ok, that makes sense.
Has anyone read Bilbo's last song?

The one he sings in the grey havens? I think they have actually, and this one was even Tolkien approved apparently. I don't have the link to it now though.

 

[Andromadus the Invictus]

The one he sings in the grey havens? I think they have actually, and this one was even Tolkien approved apparently. I don't have the link to it now though.

Does he sing it in the movie? Must be the extended edition. Yes, the lyrics were actually written by Tolkien, I have a copy of the illustrated book.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

It this thread for music that should be in middle earth or music that is?

I intended it originally for music that might actually have been heard in Middle-earth , but a lot of people apparently thought electric guitars were a thing then. 😄

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Just any music based on Tolkien's works.

See my post above. 😄

 

[Andromadus the Invictus]

I intended it originally for music that might actually have been heard in Middle-earth , but a lot of people apparently thought electric guitars were a thing then. 😄

The power of the Maiar was grand, perhaps they brought electricity? And electric guitars?

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

See my post above. 😄

Can you imagine a bunch of mad Noldor not listening to rock music? That's historically inaccurate.

(Although personally, I do prefer the more middle earthy kind of music too)

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I'm pretty sure Tolkien considered electric guitars a creation of Melkor.

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

I'm pretty sure Tolkien considered electric guitars a creation of Melkor.

@Maedhros_Nelyafinwë the Melkor Song needs electric guitar in the background.

 

[Andromadus the Invictus]

I'm pretty sure Tolkien considered electric guitars a creation of Melkor.

Melkor? That makes electric guitars as old as the First Music, at least...

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Tolkien complained in a letter about a "Beatles group" practicing next door -- which led to the legend that he lived next door to the Beatles. 😄

Anyway, there have been at least a couple of threads on Tolkien-inspired rock; here's one:

Led Zeppelin and References to the Lord of the Rings

Many people do not realize that one of the best and most famous rock bands ever, Led Zeppelin, wrote many songs directly referring to or cleverly hinting about LOTR material. This would make sense, due to the fact that the band itself was British and into the mystical and fantasy. Just thought...

thetolkien.forum

 

[Andromadus the Invictus]

Tolkien complained in a letter about a "Beatles group" practicing next door -- which led to the legend that he lived next door to the Beatles. 😄

Anyway, there have been at least a couple of threads on Tolkien-inspired rock; here's one:

Led Zeppelin and References to the Lord of the Rings

Many people do not realize that one of the best and most famous rock bands ever, Led Zeppelin, wrote many songs directly referring to or cleverly hinting about LOTR material. This would make sense, due to the fact that the band itself was British and into the mystical and fantasy. Just thought...

thetolkien.forum

I liked led zepplin before... my respect for them has been doubled 🤣.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

 

[Eljorahir]

 

[Server Room Gremlin]

 

[Server Room Gremlin]

Айрэ и Саруман - Гондолин

'Gondolin', a song by 'Aire & Saruman'

The lyrics according to Google Translate:

Gondolin is a stone bell of a mountain valley.
Look up into the sky - there are the stars of the past
They have woven a forgotten name in a fine pattern,
The wind has scattered the forgotten word with a handful of ashes...

Beating like a heart, a stone bell,
Echo of centuries - Gondolin... Gondolin...
In the mirror of the sky on a moonless midnight
Your reflection is freezing, Gondolin...

Gondolin - a mountain bowl - a fragment of the sky...
Starry icicles fly down to the ground with a ringing sound...
Hurting transparent fingers on sharp rocks
The blind soul searches for the past by touch...

Beating like a heart, a stone bell,
Echo of centuries - Gondolin... Gondolin...
In the mirror of the sky on a moonless midnight
Your reflection is freezing, Gondolin...

Gondolin - the foam of time frozen in stone,
Music that has become proud walls light,
The word of a forgotten, broken song...
You shout - but the echo will not answer you...

Beating like a heart, a stone bell,
Echo of centuries - Gondolin... Gondolin...
In the mirror of the sky on a moonless midnight
Your reflection freezes, Gondolin...

 

[Server Room Gremlin]