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Originally Posted by Huinesoron
I have now listened to the Aria and think it's wonderful. ^_^ And I've listened to versions of it enough that I can sing along, which is only a good thing.
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Meanwhile, I have sung it enough times to accept that I will never be happy with it and it will never quite live up to my expectations. I feel that I might redo it at some point in the future, but in the interest of having something rather than nothing, voila:
Aria - sung. Of all the takes, the greatest variation is probably in the madness stanza - and after all the experiments with off-beat singing I ended up choosing the version with the plainest rhythm.
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Originally Posted by Hui
:Rolleyes: but you're not wrong.
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Originally Posted by Huinesoron
Since I am never knowingly without a thought on symbolism: in Wind, Amarie has lines like "Listen: When I call your name the whole wood sings!" and "I call to thee / As the daylight fades beneath the trees." (Both fairly faithfully translated.) I wonder if this is a deliberate echo of the Lay of Leithian:
Again she fled, but swift he came.
Tinúviel! Tinúviel!
He called her by her elvish name;
And there she halted listening.
That moment doesn't seem to happen in the Zong: it's implied by both Meeting and Dream that Luthien found Beren, not the other way round. But their relationship canonically began with Beren calling her name in the woods - and now Amarie is calling Finrod's name in the woods to try and renew their own bond. It feels deliberate.
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Oh, absolutely! I don't know if it's meant as a reference to
Tinuviel! specifically, but it has a very similar feel.
Speaking of their meeting, I would say that Dream is ambiguous on that count, and could support both versions of who found whom first. "You burst into my dreams like a ray of spring" is leaning the canonical Beren-finds-Luthien way. Meeting, on the other hand, seems to be fanfic-inspired (remember the fic where Wilwarin comes from, which, with no real evidence to back the claim other than temporal correlation and a couple similarities, allegedly inspired the Zong?). Luthien's "who is this creature that just stumbled out of the thicket?" attitude is
very fanficcy, and there... well, they take turns finding each other, I suppose. I said before that I am not gonna translate that beast... but I think I will anyway. One day.
PS: Thank you on the comments on Temple! I appreciate the insights!