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everywindintheriver:

Happy Birthday for me- here is a new song for y’all. It’s a super rough version of an original setting of another J. R. R. Tolkien poem someone asked me to do. Like Kortirion Among the Trees, it’s incredibly long and wordy and the number of lines in each stanza changes, so it sort of stumbles in places- sorry!

Lyrics are here (it’s super long and I don’t want to eat people’s dashes: http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Horns_of_Ylmir

Source: SoundCloud / Adele McAllister

sirenhome:

Reasons I shouldn’t be allowed near Tolkiens works:

1. I will want to make an OC

2. I will want to make a culture for the OC

3. I will want to make a language for the culture of the OC 

4. I will sing a song in a made-up language  for the culture of the OC 

Mamel morsel khem minas an adyuk alore
Ka khem la lyef kryov la vatyae evenia

@godbrands-boat, @musinshadw, @theotherwesley, @dragonofmordor, @first-son-of-finwe , @driftwoodprince

Counterpoint: You should do all these things very much all the time

Addendum to Counterpoint: I will put you on blast so everyone here can also encourage you do these things very much all the time and you will not escape the love and support

all-the-kili-feels:

stoneofthehapless:

Tolkien reads his poem, “Namárië”.  

Ai! laurië lantar lassi súrinen,
yéni únótimë ve rámar aldaron!
Yéni ve lintë yuldar avánier
mi oromardi lissë-miruvóreva
Andúnë pella, Vardo tellumar
nu luini yassen tintilar i eleni
ómaryo airetári-lírinen.

Sí man i yulma nin enquantuva?

An sí Tintallë Varda Oiolossëo
ve fanyar máryat Elentári ortanë
ar ilyë tier undulávë lumbulë;
ar sindanóriello caita mornië
i falmalinnar imbë met,
ar hísië untúpa Calaciryo míri oialë.
Sí vanwa ná, Rómello vanwa, Valimar!

Namárië! Nai hiruvalyë Valimar.
Nai elyë hiruva. Namárië!

Ah! like gold fall the leaves in the wind,
long years numberless as the wings of trees!
The long years have passed like swift draughts
of the sweet mead in lofty halls
beyond the West, beneath the blue vaults of Varda
wherein the stars tremble
in the song of her voice, holy and queenly.

Who now shall refill the cup for me?

For now the Kindler, Varda, the Queen of the Stars,
from Mount Everwhite has uplifted her hands like clouds,
and all paths are drowned deep in shadow;
and out of a grey country darkness lies
on the foaming waves between us,
and mist covers the jewels of Calacirya for ever.
Now lost, lost to those from the East is Valimar!

Farewell! Maybe thou shalt find Valimar.
Maybe even thou shalt find it. Farewell!

This is truly amazing. To hear Elvish the way it was supposed to be spoken. Absolutely beautiful.

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crocordile:

As a USAian I want to say we pronounce all the of the Silm names sooooooo ugly, like, really chunky and terrible X’D everyone else in the world makes the names sound better, our accent is just the absolute worst

Source: SoundCloud / jubah

elved:

elved:

Kulning – Gjallarhorn

a form of song used in some provinces in Norway and northern Sweden, primarily by women, to communicate to each other and to call livestock down from high-mountain pastures. kulning can belong to families, who have their own tones and melodies, and are passed down from relative to relative– the animals of families can recognize these calls and respond to them, and often the bells they wear are tuned to the kulning itself, making it easy to hear them coming down the mountainside and distinguish which homestead they belong to. 

i first heard this type of music on a livestream and i have been captivated ever since. i thought it was a beautiful and perfect example about how music is integral to our lives and how it runs through every part of our history and is used in every way for almost any and every purpose. 

and after that long-winded blurb, listen! 🙂

Source: estramor

crayonic:

For people who are actually interested in how viking music might have sounded, “Drømde mik en drøm i nat“ (/I dreamt a dream last night) is the earliest music (and lyrics) known in Scandinavia preserved on the last page of the (~1200-1300) Codex Runicus as rune notes.

The song and melody is still known and used today in most of Scandinavia, as a sort of folk-standard. This version, deceivingly slow in the beginning, is presented as close to the original sound of the years 900-1000 as historians think they can come.

This song might have survived because it was a gigantic hit, like the viking’s very own “Billie Jean”. A total pop slayer that stayed around long enough for music notes to be invented.

The more you know.

Source: culturenordic.com

everywindintheriver:

So here’s setting I finally got around to after someone suggested it a few months ago. I know that this is probably poem that my voice is less suited to than most of the other poems because of the darkness and fury in it, but I had a go anyways. Hope I did it at least some justice. Also – drop D tuning! Ahhh! 

Anyways, music is mine- poetry is Tolkien’s! Let me know if you liked it and you can find more LOTR poems under the tab ‘Songs from the Lord of the Rings’ on my tumblr!

(This is also me deciding whether I want to regularly work with Tolkien text outside of the LOTR and Hobbit, so feedback is awesome and very much appreciated!)

The Oath of Fêanor – The Lays of Beleriand, J. R. R. Tolkien

“Be he foe or friend, be he foul or clean

Brood of Morgoth or bright Vala,

Elda or Maia or Aftercomer,

Man yet unborn upon Middle-earth,

Neither law, nor love, nor league of swords,

Dread nor danger, not Doom itself

Shall defend him from Fëanáro, and Fëanáro’s kin,

Whoso hideth or hoardeth, or in hand taketh,

Finding keepeth or afar casteth

A Silmaril. This swear we all…

Death we will deal him ere Day’s ending,

Woe unto world’s end! Our word hear thou,

Eru Allfather! To the everlasting

Darkness doom us if our deed faileth…

On the holy mountain hear in witness

and our vow remember,

Manwë and Varda!”

I would blast this from my car stereo with the windows down tbh

Source: everywindintheriver

i-gwarth:

curufinwefeanaro said: || I love her too, damn. There are a couple that make me think of the Silm really a lot (War Between Brothers, Brother stand beside me, United at war)

#things you should tell me more about, curufinwefeanaro~

*chinhands*

everywindintheriver:

I haven’t posted anything for a while on tumblr, music or otherwise, so here’s a little something. It’s one of my older songs with added harmonies! Hopefully now that I’m at school, I’ll be able to start writing and recording more regularly again. Thanks for being patient and for listening!

Lament for Boromir 

(original music, poetry from The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien.)

Aragorn:Through Rohan over fen and field where the long grassgrowsThe West Wind comes walking, and about the walls itgoes.‘What news from the West, O wandering wind, do youbring to me tonight?Have you seen Boromir the Tall by moon or by starlight?’’I saw him ride over seven streams, over waters wideand grey;I saw him walk in empty lands, until he passed awayInto the shadows of the North. I saw him then no more.The North Wind may have heard the horn of the son ofDenethor.’’O Boromir! From the high walls westward I lookedafar,But you came not from the empty lands where no menare.’

 –

Legolas:From the mouths of the Sea the South Wind flies, fromthe sandhills and the stones;The wailing of the gulls it bears, and at the gate itmoans.‘What news from the South, O sighing wind, do you bringto me at eve?Where now is Boromir the Fair? He tarries and I grieve.’’Ask not of me where he doth dwell – so many bonesthere lieOn the white shores and the dark shores under thestormy sky;So many have passed down Anduin to find the flowingSea.Ask of the North Wind news of them the North Windsends to me!’’O Boromir! Beyond the gate the seaward road runssouth,But you came not with the ailing gulls from the greysea’s mouth.’

– 

Aragorn:From the Gate of Kings the North Wind rides, and pastthe roaring falls;And clear and cold about the tower its loud horn calls.’What news from the North, O mighty wind, do youbring to me today?What news of Boromir the Bold? For he is long away.’’Beneath Amon Hen I heard his cry. There many foes hefought.His cloven shield, his broken sword, they do the waterbrought.His head so proud, his face so fair, his limbs they laidto rest;And Rauros, golden Rauros-falls, bore him upon itsbreast.’’O Boromir! The Tower of Guard shall ever northwardgazeTo Rauros, golden Rauros-falls, until the end of days.’

*casually cries out all bodily fluids and becomes a raisin of grief*

misbehavingmaiar:

misbehavingmaiar:

Räven —Hedningarna

Röda läppar döljer dina tänder 
och din tunga är så sträv 
Eld och rimfrost är i dina ögon 
är du kvinna eller räv? 
Jagar slugt och vilt i natten 
Långa ärmar döljer dina klor 
Leker lystet med ditt byte 
munnen din är röd av blod 

(Kertosäe) chorus:
Nouse kirki kiimalle
perähyöry höngylle
Nouse ilman nojumata
kihko ilman kirromata 

Vild och farligt vacker är du 
Kjolen döljer knappt din svans 
Lockar längre ut i mossen 
med din galna rovdjursdans 
Just när dina kläder fallit 
och din nakna kropp jag sett 
skrattar du och öppnar käften 
ger mig djupa kärleksbett
__

Red lips hide your teeth
and your tongue is so coarse
Fire and frost are in your eyes
are you a woman or a fox?
Wild and sly you hunt in time of darkness 
long sleeves hide your claws 
with your prey you play 
your mouth is red with blood
You are wild and frighteningly beautiful
skirt barely hides your tail 
Luring deeper into the woodlands 
with your mad wild animal’s dance 
Just when your clothes fall
and I see your naked frame 
you laugh and open your jaws
and give me deep bites of love

(Chorus)
Rise now lust and rave desire 
rush on upwards, sap in birchstem 
Rise without a word of witch craft 
rush without a rune of making! 

Source: misbehavingmaiar
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