'Sleeps a Song in Things Abounding', Julian Eilmann

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Originally Posted by Faramir Jones

The author ends by saying that ‘Poetically gifted individuals’ like Frodo ‘enchanted by linguistic magic, can hence achieve for a brief moment an impression of the world in a romanticized condition'. (Ibid.)

Reminds me of sehnsucht, that quality of barely-expressible longing that is present in so much of Tolkien's works. It is wrapped in song. Sometimes it is only expressible in song.

Have you read -- I think it's in the Sil-- that the music of rivers (by Ulmo?) brings a longing to the heart of men? Elsewhere it says that the horns of Ulmo awaken the sea-longing. Makes sense to me.

How often was Frodo "peirced" by music!