Oh, make no mistake: you have both disgraced yourselves thoroughly in this debacle. Were he not the enemy and you my kin, I would have the two of you cleaning the floor of my forge with your tongues.
“We found it to be exceedingly elegant, and melancholy…”
“I liked the colors!”
“You have true grace in your movements. The motions were evocative of great sadness and fading splendor–”
“It needed more pyrotechnics!”
“–two diametric opposites drawn inexorably apart, despite their desire.”
“Do you need someone to help you with the fire next time? I think I can help. You don’t need the whole stage, right? Or the orchestra pit?”
“All in all, a moving piece of artistry. I hope to see it again someday, perhaps extended and polished to perfection. A true dance of contrasts, envy, magnetism…”
“What if we got flames to shoot out of the balcony? And like, twelve smoke machines? I think that would really add something to the piece.”
“We are honored to have been the subject of your choreographic masterpiece”
A compilation of all versions of Tolkien’s tale of Beren and Lúthien will be published next year, HarperCollins has announced.
Edited by Christopher Tolkien and illustrated by Alan Lee, Beren and Lúthien will bring together material scattered throughout the 12-volume History of Middle-earth series.
The earliest version of the tale of Beren and Lúthien was written in 1917, when Beren was an Elf not a Man and the equivalent of Sauron was a large evil cat.
The story underwent considerable revision throughout Tolkien’s life, and was reworked in both prose and poetry. The new book will demonstrate this evolution in full.
Beren and Lúthien will be published 100 years since Tolkien’s wife Edith danced for him in a small woodland glade filled with hemlocks in East Yorkshire, an event he later acknowledged was the inspiration for the meeting of the immortal Lúthien Tinúviel and the mortal Beren in the glades beside Esgalduin.
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Beren and Lúthien will be published on 4 May 2017.
The Singing Ringing Tree is a musical sculpture in Lancashire, England. It is made of galvanized steel pipes that produce a dischordant choral sound that simultaneously resonates a range of several octaves whenever the wind blows through. Source
EXCELLENT. We’ll need at least sixteen more. And can you equip them with vuvuzelas?
….Why did we, as a race, do this? This is DEFINITELY going to summon something down from the void beyond the stars to feed upon us all.
Why are we so sure that this void-dwelling horror is coming to eat us, tho? Prey drawing in a predator with vocalizations is not usually how things work. (Granted, most preys are less stupid than humans, but the point stands.)
It’s more likely that the Singing Ringing Tree is going to accidentally function as a transgalactic mating call, a siren song that resonates into the void and draws some monstrous alien leviathan from the abyss between stars to copulate with the Earth, hoping our planet will sire a vicious clutch of discordant-voiced offspring to unleash upon the stars.
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