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Oddwen · 05-02-2008, 11:27 PM

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Great!

Just hold your horses while you narrate. In the clip you sent us a long ago you were speaking like the devil himself was at yout tail. You have a nice voice so let it do the work and read slowly, easily, enjoying every word you speak.

Thanks! But how do you know he wasn't?

I'll see if I can get a bit from The Ring Goes South up within the next few days.

Legate of Amon Lanc · 05-03-2008, 01:58 AM

I think I'm going to, if I have time, record and post some samples where I put some effort to acting at last... so that you have some more backup material for choices...

Thinlómien · 05-03-2008, 06:18 AM

I like Nogrod's music, too. And I don't think it ever was too gloomy in the first place.

And I just re-listened to the Merry and Pippin dialogue. Greenie is amazing and I have amazignly contagious yawns. But it really made me laugh because it sounds like regular quarreling between me and Greenie...

PS. Looking at the Xanga page, I see Nogrod has decided to follow Farael's example and start calling me Loomy...

Legate of Amon Lanc · 05-03-2008, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Thinlómien

And I just re-listened to the Merry and Pippin dialogue. Greenie is amazing and I have amazignly contagious yawns. But it really made me laugh because it sounds like regular quarreling between me and Greenie...

Quite. I just listened to it and it's fantastic

And Nog, the music is very good, too! I really like it. Very well done and well connected!

Macalaure · 05-03-2008, 02:58 PM

I think Nogrod should definitely play both, Gimli and Bilbo (unless we have people left who don't get to play anybody). He's doing them both magnificent, and the two characters interact only very little.

Lommy and Lily made a quite marvellous Merry and Pippin. The only slight problem I had was telling the two apart.

You have rather similar voices, I have to say.

Nogrod, I think the music is excellent, too (definitely not too gloomy for this scene), but don't you think it's a little too loud? I had problems understanding your voice now and then.

I'm looking forward to finally hearing Nerwen, and also very much to Volo's version of Gandalf and more of Legate. I'm soon (using a very loose definition of "soon" here) going to send a few more takes of mine. I had a cold recently and my voice went bad, but now I'm ok again.

Nogrod · 05-03-2008, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Macalaure

Nogrod, I think the music is excellent, too (definitely not too gloomy for this scene), but don't you think it's a little too loud? I had problems understanding your voice now and then.

Thanks. And sure the clips I've made had the intention of showing what the music might be. In the "final" version the music should be more in the background and the narrator hopefully articulates English better than I do...

Hoping to hear your new takes - as well as Legate's... and anyone.

Let's get this started!

PS. McCaber, do you have any ideas how the beginning of the "Ring goes south" in Rivendell might sound like?

Thinlómien · 05-04-2008, 04:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Macalaure

Lommy and Lily made a quite marvellous Merry and Pippin. The only slight problem I had was telling the two apart. You have rather similar voices, I have to say.

I know. Even my best friends used to mix up our voices on the phone...

But we can try to do something about it - in that recording we were talking in voices very close to our normal ones, but I think we'd be able to alter them a little.

Legate of Amon Lanc · 05-04-2008, 10:45 AM

Well, I have just sent some clips to Nogrod. I recorded some Aragorn in Hollin and also Elrond. I realised three things: a) I have no idea how should I act Elrond. I think he should be rather "soft" but not sure about the outcome... b) The Fellowship is composed of such dully "normal" characters! I would know really well how to act types like Bill Ferny could be, but these Main Heroes are just too "normal" that I can't lay myself fully into the acting. c) I never realised that Aragorn has sentences which can be so easily misquoted, like: "I have a sense of watchfulness, and of fear, that I have never had here before." Try to speak it over several times. I couldn't stop myself mispronouncing it as "I have a sense of watchfulness and of fear that I have never had beer before"

05-03-2008, 01:58 AM	#2
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	I think I'm going to, if I have time, record and post some samples where I put some effort to acting at last... so that you have some more backup material for choices... __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

05-03-2008, 06:18 AM	#3
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	I like Nogrod's music, too. And I don't think it ever was too gloomy in the first place. And I just re-listened to the Merry and Pippin dialogue. Greenie is amazing and I have amazignly contagious yawns. But it really made me laugh because it sounds like regular quarreling between me and Greenie... PS. Looking at the Xanga page, I see Nogrod has decided to follow Farael's example and start calling me Loomy... __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

05-04-2008, 10:45 AM	#8
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	Well, I have just sent some clips to Nogrod. I recorded some Aragorn in Hollin and also Elrond. I realised three things: a) I have no idea how should I act Elrond. I think he should be rather "soft" but not sure about the outcome... b) The Fellowship is composed of such dully "normal" characters! I would know really well how to act types like Bill Ferny could be, but these Main Heroes are just too "normal" that I can't lay myself fully into the acting. c) I never realised that Aragorn has sentences which can be so easily misquoted, like: "I have a sense of watchfulness, and of fear, that I have never had here before." Try to speak it over several times. I couldn't stop myself mispronouncing it as "I have a sense of watchfulness and of fear that I have never had beer before" __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

05-03-2008, 02:58 PM	#5
Macalaure Fading Fëanorion Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: into the flood again Posts: 2,911	I think Nogrod should definitely play both, Gimli and Bilbo (unless we have people left who don't get to play anybody). He's doing them both magnificent, and the two characters interact only very little. Lommy and Lily made a quite marvellous Merry and Pippin. The only slight problem I had was telling the two apart. You have rather similar voices, I have to say. Nogrod, I think the music is excellent, too (definitely not too gloomy for this scene), but don't you think it's a little too loud? I had problems understanding your voice now and then. I'm looking forward to finally hearing Nerwen, and also very much to Volo's version of Gandalf and more of Legate. I'm soon (using a very loose definition of "soon" here) going to send a few more takes of mine. I had a cold recently and my voice went bad, but now I'm ok again.