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OK, I feel the need to blame someone for this, so I'm going to blame @Maedhros_Nelyafinwë for posting that Paul Corfield Godfrey Opera thread to begin with, and and @Fingon_Findekáno for not applying appropriate restraints to my exhuberance.
That said, I'm really here to solicit your help over the next couple years.
The help? Please keep encouraging me to 'get on with' and 'keep on with' the below from time to time.
1. I've been driven back to Music, from long ago days of yore. Particularly classical musics.
2. I've been led into the world of opera, one I always admired from a distance, but didn't pull in as a study.
3. I've been enticed (by my own senility) to actually get into composing at last as well.
4. I've always wanted to write a poem along the line of an 'epic.'
5. I've determined I need to combine my music with my writing, to satisfy all these fields of interest, SO:
6. I'm beginning an enterprise in writing a short (but for me long) Epic Poem featuring Sauron.
The Poem will all be told 'first person thinking' by Sauron - sharing what's in his mind.
It will begin from before he learns the Ring has again been found - touching on his rise again to the point where he reveals himself at last.
A dramatic point occurs, picking up at the point where he learns the Ring has been found.
It will walk through his great fears the ring will come to be in the hands of someone who can control its power... and will continue to focus on the agonies of his efforts to get at it before anyone else can.
It will speak specifically to several of the scenes we encounter along the way - the dispatcing of the Nine, the searching of the Shire, the events at the Inn, and all along the way. There are so many to speak to.
It will ultimately end with the ring being destroyed of course, giving us Sauron's thoughts at his ending, as he rises somewhat as a 'cloud,' above the crumbling tower, stretching his arm out toward the West where the battle now is mostly at a standstill watching the event - and then is blown away by an arising wind into the 'nothingness' he had hoped to avoid.
It all sings loudly in my head..!!
During all the time of the writing of this, I will be researching and studying composition, and eventually hope to have gotten where I need to be to set it to music... yes, as in an 'opera' style thing.
Anyway, I think this will be my next endeavor - putting me into essentially 'all new ground' in a way, though neither music nor writing are 'new' to me. But taking them into these fields and depths is new, so... a worthwhile endeavor to keep the brain working perhaps.
That said, I'm really here to solicit your help over the next couple years.
The help? Please keep encouraging me to 'get on with' and 'keep on with' the below from time to time.
1. I've been driven back to Music, from long ago days of yore. Particularly classical musics.
2. I've been led into the world of opera, one I always admired from a distance, but didn't pull in as a study.
3. I've been enticed (by my own senility) to actually get into composing at last as well.
4. I've always wanted to write a poem along the line of an 'epic.'
5. I've determined I need to combine my music with my writing, to satisfy all these fields of interest, SO:
6. I'm beginning an enterprise in writing a short (but for me long) Epic Poem featuring Sauron.
The Poem will all be told 'first person thinking' by Sauron - sharing what's in his mind.
It will begin from before he learns the Ring has again been found - touching on his rise again to the point where he reveals himself at last.
A dramatic point occurs, picking up at the point where he learns the Ring has been found.
It will walk through his great fears the ring will come to be in the hands of someone who can control its power... and will continue to focus on the agonies of his efforts to get at it before anyone else can.
It will speak specifically to several of the scenes we encounter along the way - the dispatcing of the Nine, the searching of the Shire, the events at the Inn, and all along the way. There are so many to speak to.
It will ultimately end with the ring being destroyed of course, giving us Sauron's thoughts at his ending, as he rises somewhat as a 'cloud,' above the crumbling tower, stretching his arm out toward the West where the battle now is mostly at a standstill watching the event - and then is blown away by an arising wind into the 'nothingness' he had hoped to avoid.
It all sings loudly in my head..!!
During all the time of the writing of this, I will be researching and studying composition, and eventually hope to have gotten where I need to be to set it to music... yes, as in an 'opera' style thing.
Anyway, I think this will be my next endeavor - putting me into essentially 'all new ground' in a way, though neither music nor writing are 'new' to me. But taking them into these fields and depths is new, so... a worthwhile endeavor to keep the brain working perhaps.
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