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[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

think about famous (or not so famous...) songs that you know. then try to figure out if it would fit in the events of LotR or some other Tolkiens story.
(it would be nice, if you could find a link where to hear that song)

for example:
in Helm's deep Legolas doubts their changes to survive over the night. Aragorn starts to sing Madonna's 'Die Another Day'( listen here - windows media )

i hope you guys understood my confusing explanation, so happy posting!

[Arawethiel]

Well this is an interesting idea. The song that popped into my head right away would have to be Who Wants to Live Forever by Queen. It was featured in the movie Higlander which is very good. To me this song relates to Aragorn and Arwen's relationship. It kind of represents how Arwen gives up her immortality. I guess you could play it when Arwen passes on the Evenstar pendant to Aragorn in FOTR. You can go to fye.com and search for this song to hear a portion of it. I tried to link it here but when I checked it the link didn't work. *shrugs*
Here are the lyrics to the song.

There's no time for us
There's no place for us
What is this thing that builds our dreams
Yet slips away from us
Who wants to live forever?
Who wants to live forever.....?
There's no chance for us
It's all decided for us
This world has only one sweet moment
Set aside for us
Who wants to live forever?
Who wants to live forever.....?
Who dares to love forever
When love must die?
But touch my tears with your lips
Touch my world with your fingertips
And we can have forever
And we can love forever
Forever is our today
Who wants to live forever?
Who wants to live forever?
Forever is our today
Who waits forever anyway?

[ July 14, 2003: Message edited by: Arawethiel ]

[Aredhel Ar Feiniel]

Hahaha fun stuff.

In FOTR in Bree, Frodo & Strider are getting aquainted in the upstairs room

Frodo: Who are you?
Cue music: "Who are you" by the Who

(Sorry I couldn't get a link [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] )

[Sauron 666]

Every song by the band Summoning (read their lyrics and you'll know why: http://www.darklyrics.com/s/summoning.html

Any battle sequence i always think of Manowar's Blood of My Enemies:

Three sons have I,and they
Ride by my side.-The fierce,
The black, and the wicked are
their names-we ride down my
enemies on their half-hearted flight.
No voice of mercy-no evangels of light.

Mighty messengers-heathens rage
Witness our coming-gods of the dead.
I ride through the air-
I laugh as I die-with powers of evel
Dark knowledge is mine.
The 1st sin was trust.-
Kill without warning-for blood now
I lust

Strong wind-magic mist
To Asgard the Valkries fly
High overhead-they carry the dead
Where blood of my enemies lies.

Three sons have I,and they
Ride by my side.-The fierce,
The black,and the wicked are
their names-we ride down my
enemies on their half-hearted flight.
No voice of mercy-no evangels of light.

Strong wind-magic mist
To Asgard the Valkries fly
High overhead-they carry the dead
Where blood of my enemies lies.

I know its more Viking themed but it still fits the mood for me...Come to think of it, pretty much any Viking Metal goes well with Tolkein for me (Ancient Rites, Enslaved, Bathory, etc)

When I think of a tale in the Silmarillion, where some elf guy (i'm sorry, i've read it twice and i still can't keep track of ANY of the names) slays Glaurung and he himself is slain because of Glaurungs poisoned blood, and his lover comes to grieve for him i think of this song by My Dying Bride

9. For My Fallen Angel

As I draw up my breath,
And silver fills my eyes.
I kiss her still,
For she will never rise.

On my weak body,
Lays her dying hand.
Through those meadows of Heaven,
Where we ran.

Like a thief in the night,
The wind blows so light.
It wars with my tears,
That won't dry for many years.

Loves golden arrow
At her should have fled,
And not Deaths ebon dart
To strike her dead.

When Merry's looking in the Palantiri-Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath


For various episodes of The Silmarillion

And I Lust... By Anathema (more for the atmosphere of the song than for the specific lyrics)

1. ...And I lust

Stately columns standing in solemn rows
Such empty honours are suitable for those
Whose death erases all renown and fame
And vanquishes their glory with their name

Wandering aimlessly through dead filled fields
Rewards are just, who knows what absence yields?

By the golden beauty of dusk
and the sun low in our sky
By the haunting shadows of trees
and graves, mesmerized am I.

Searching deep inside trying to reach my dreams
I see a face stare back at me... oh, so serene.

By the golden beauty of dusk
and the sun low in our sky
By the haunting shadows of trees
and graves, mesmerized am I.

Those whispering shades... sad, silent glades

But not for those whose superior worth
After death extols them to the earth
I would even venture to assume
That one need not build for them a tomb
By human art, since glory heaven sent
Serves them as a living monument

Pain is a far away land,
Misery, a lifetime's journey...
...and I lust for death (judgement).

King Crimson goes well with Tolkein as well

thats all for now folks (more later maybe)

[purplefluffychainsaw]

Yeah: Avril Lavigne and I dunno what it called... no. 4 on teh album, just come out...

I'm standing on the bridge
I'm waiting in the dark

That always makes me think of Arwen and Aragorn in Rivendell **Shudders**

[Mariska Greenleaf]

How about, with the Battle for Helm's deep:

"War, owowowoo, what is it good for?
Absolutely nothing!" [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

[Elennar Starfire]

Every song by the band Summoning (read their lyrics and you'll know why:

That is so cool! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]

when Legolas shield-boards down the stairs at helms deep I think of "skater boy" by Avril Lavigne, which is annoying because I don't really like that song.

[Brinniel]

I remember making a topic similar to this several months ago. Here's a link to the thread: Songs that remind you of....

[Sapphire_Flame]

I've only got dozens of songs that would work here. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

One good one is "Crawling in the Dark" by Hoobastank. I think it works for Frodo mostly, and a bit for Aragorn...

I will dedicate
And sacrifice my everything for just a second's worth
Of how my story's ending
And I wish I could know if the directions that I take
And all the choices that I make won't end up all for nothing

<chorus>
Show me what it's for
Make me understand it
I've been crawling in the dark looking for the answer
Is there something more than what I've been handed?
I've been crawling in the dark looking for the answer

Help me carry on
Assure me it's okay to use my heart and not my eyes
to navigate the darkness
Will the ending be ever coming suddenly?
Will I ever get to see the ending to my story?

<chorus>

How much further do I have to go?
And how much longer 'til I finally know?
'Cause I'm looking and I just can't see what's in front of me
In front of me

<chorus>

Another good one is "Only the Strong" by Flaw. I'm putting the lyrics for the acoustic version here, so...

What makes you think that it'll all work out it the end?
Afraid to feel bad. Better off to try and pretend.
I'm immortal, immune to all that is wrong. Just keep on wishing.Crossing my fingers, so long.
Is this helping? I'm growing weaker each day. Can't stop whining.
Still afraid of what I might say or reactions, that control us one and all.

<chorus>
It's mine, it's pure and as decent as I can make myself
Inside, we all know, only the strong survive.

So now I'm bleeding on myself yes once again.
Seems I trusted another deceitful friend. My fault. Should've known the deal.
Keep your friends close but your enemies closer, for real.
Seems easy, but nothing could be so hard.
Trying to guess life's dealing. What's the next card? I'm surely folding.
I don't like this had at all.

<chorus>

Maybe things happen for a reason and wherein lies the answer
To overcome the grieving of life's unruly lessons.
I'm handed in sucession. It builds my pain which makes me strong.

<chorus>(3x)

I will survive
You will survive
We will survive

That's all I've got now, but I'll be back with more!

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Aredhel Ar Feiniel]

Hah, I don't know what's up with this but I keep thinking of songs by The Who that could go with Tolkien's works...

"Boris the Spider" (by The Who) for any part with a gigantic spider, ie: Ungoliant, Shelob, the spiders in Mirkwood. It goes like this:

Look, he's crawling up my wall
Black and hairy, very small
Now he's up above my head
Hanging by a little thread

Boris the spider
Boris the spider

Now he's dropped on to the floor
Heading for the bedroom door
Maybe he's as scared as me
Where's he gone now, I can't see

Boris the spider
Boris the spider

Creepy, crawly
Creepy, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly

There he is wrapped in a ball
Doesn't seem to move at all
Perhaps he's dead, I'll just make sure
Pick this book up off the floor

Boris the spider
Boris the spider

Creepy, crawly
Creepy, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly

He's come to a sticky end
Don't think he will ever mend
Never more will he crawl 'round
He's embedded in the ground

Boris the spider
Boris the spider


[img]smilies/cool.gif[/img] I know it says very small in the beginning, but we could think of it sarcasticly, har har har. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[Sapphire_Flame]

*snork* [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Nice one, Aredhel!!! I won't be able to read "Flies and Spiders" without laughing now! Right on!

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Aredhel Ar Feiniel]

Why, thankya! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[Elennar Starfire]

In Les Miserables there is a song that makes me think of Helm's Deep. I don't know the title but here are some of the words:

Did you see them going off to fight?
Children of the barricades who didn't last the night
Did you see them lying where they died?
Someone used to cradle them and kiss them when they cried
Did you see them lying side by side?

Who will wake them?
No one ever will
No one ever told them that a summer's day can kill
They were schoolboys, never held a gun
fighting for a new world that would rise up like the sun
Where's the new world now the fighting's done?

[Niluial]

Lol these are really funny! I like Elennar Starfire one! But then again they are all good!! I am off to find some!

~Niluial

P.S. Ah.. my 500th post!

[Aredhel Ar Feiniel]

Congrats on your 500th, Niluial! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
Part of "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence applies to Frodo while he's in Mordor, especially when captured Cirith Ungol & the like:

how can you see into my eyes like open doors
leading you down into my core
where I’ve become so numb without a soul my spirit sleeping somewhere cold
until you find it there and lead it back home

(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I can’t wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
bid my blood to run
(I can’t wake up)
before I come undone
(Save me)
save me from the nothing I’ve become

I've a song for Sam as well- a part out of "Wherever You Will Go" by The Calling:

If I could, then I would
I'll go wherever you will go
Way up high or down low
I'll go wherever you will go

And maybe, I'll find out
The way to make it back someday
To watch you, to guide you
Through the darkest of your days
If a great wave should fall
It would fall upon us all
Well I hope there's someone out there
Who can bring me back to you

when Legolas shield-boards down the stairs at helms deep I think of "skater boy" by Avril Lavigne, which is annoying because I don't really like that song.

I've got another song that could go with part if you tried really hard *shrugs* - "Skate & Destroy" by The Faction:

Forget the light, skate and destroy
Pass the jogger, skate and destroy
Snap it back, skate and destroy
Kick that bike, skate and destroy
It's not a cause or political belief, it's something in my thinking
If you agree it's cool by me, at least I'm not a robot
I'm not afraid of things I read, I won't divide my friends up
Dictatorship of people's minds is not what I will strive for
The cops are coming after me, their sons are BMXers
They always try to stop me but urethane is faster than boots
You may be in a parking lot throwing up your contents
So what who cares I know I don't
Be a hood, don't be good.

Haha, I think "Skater Boy" goes better though.

[ July 16, 2003: Message edited by: Aredhel Ar Feiniel ]

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

"Skate & Destroy"

haha, nice!

maybe in Rivendell (like described in the Hobbit)the elves could sing: "Don't worry, Be happy"
you can find it here.
here are the lyrics:
Here's a little song I wrote, You might want to sing it note-for-note Don't worry, be happy

In every life we have some trouble, But when you worry, you make it double, Don't worry, be happy Don't worry be happy now.

Ooo-oo-hoo-hoo-oo oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry Woo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo Be happy Woo-oo-oo-oo-ooo

Ain't got no cash, aint got no style Ain't got no gal to make you smile But don't worry, be happy

'Cause when you're worried, your face will frown, And thet will bring everybody down So don't worry, be happy Don't worry, be happy now

Ooo-oo-hoo-hoo-oo oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry Woo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo Be happy Woo-oo-oo-oo-ooo

Now there, is this song I wrote I hope you learned it note-for-note, like good little children Don't worry, be happy A-listen to a-what I say In your life, expect some trouble When you worry you make it double Don't worry, be happy, be happy now

Ooo-oo-hoo-hoo-oo oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry
Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Be happy
Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry, be happy

Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't do it, be happy
Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Put a smile on your face
Don't bring everybody down like this

Ooo-oo-hoo-hoo-oo oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry
Ooo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo It will soon pass, whatever it is
Ooo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Don't worry, be happy
Ooo-oo-hoo-hoo-oo oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo I'm not worried
Ooo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo I'm happy

[ July 17, 2003: Message edited by: dancing spawn of ungoliant ]

[Aredhel Ar Feiniel]

Good one! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] And I've got another song too- it goes out too all the little hobbit children of Middle-Earth:

"Bless the Beasts & Children"
by The Carpenters

Bless the beasts and the children
For in this world they have no voice
They have no choice

Bless the beasts an the children
For the world can never be
The world they see

Light their way
When the darkness surrounds them
Give them love
Let it shine all around them

Bless the beasts and the children
Give them shelter from a storm
Keep them safe
Keep them warm
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(by the way, "Bless the Beasts & Children" is a most wonderful book- this song is from the movie version.)

[Sapphire_Flame]

Actually, there is a song by Rush that's actually called "Rivendell". Here's some of it:

<chorus>
You feel there's something calling you
You're wanting to return
To where the Misty Mountains rise and friendly fires burn
A place you can escape the world
Where the Dark Lord cannot go
Peace of mind and sanctuary by Loudwater's flow

I've traveled now for many miles
It feels so good to see the smiles of
Friends who never left your mind
When you were far away
From golden light of coming dawn
'Til twilight where the sun is gone
We treasure every season
And ever passing day

There's another one by Rush called "The Trees" which I think is kind of an Fangorn Forest song...:

There is unrest in the forest,
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas.

The trouble with the maples
(And they're quite convinced they're right)
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light.
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If the like the way they're made.
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade.

There is trouble in the forest,
And the creatures all have fled,
As the maples scream "Oppresion!"
And the oaks just shake their heads

So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights.
"The oaks are just too greedy;
We will make them give us light."
Now there's no more oak oppresion,
For they passed a noble law,
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw.

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Sharkû]

Don't refer to illegal acquiring of copyrighted material.

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

There's a Finnish band called Nightwish and they have made a song called the Elvenpath.I think it's just awesome.


Spoken, female:
In the sheltering shade of the forest
Calling calming silence
Accompanied only by the full moon
The howling of a night wolf
And the path under my bare feet...
...The Elvenpath

Sung, female:
Hearing music from the deepest forest
Songs as a seduction of sirens
The elf-folk is calling me

Tapio, Bear-king, Ruler of the forest
Mielikki, Bluecloak, Healer of the ill and sad
Open the gate and let me follow the uncarven path

The way to the lands
Where as a hero I stand
The path where Beauty met the Beast
Elvenpath
It's the honesty of these worlds
Ruled by magic and mighty swords
That makes my soul long for the past
Elvenpath

The moonwitch took me to a ride on a broomstick
Introduced me to her old friend home gnome
Told me to keep the sauna warm for him

At the grove I met the rest - the folk of my fantasies
Bilbo, Sparhawk, goblins and pixies
Snowman, Willow, trolls and the seven dwarves
The path goes forever on

The way to the lands
Where as a hero I stand
The path where Beauty met the Beast
Elvenpath
It's the honesty of these worlds
Ruled by magic and mighty swords
That makes my soul long for the past
Elvenpath

Spoken, male:
Long ago,
In the early years of the Second Age,
Great elven smiths forged rings of power.

Sung, female:
As I return to my room
And as sleep takes me by my hand
Madrigals from the woods
Carry me to neverland
In this spellbound night
The world's an elvish sight
In this spellbound night
The world's an elvish sight

Spoken, male:
But then, the Dark Lord learned the craft of ringmaking and made the master ring.

I wish i could get a link for you...
You guys have brilliant posts to this thread, keep on!!! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

[Aredhel Ar Feiniel]

Sounds like a great song. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] This next one goes out to good ol' Strider:

"Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to be Cowboys"
by Willie Nelson

Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love
Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to hold
And they'd rather give you a song then diamonds or gold
Lonestar belt buckles and old faded Levi's each night begins a new day
And if you don't understand him and he don't die young
He'll probly just ride away
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love
Cowboys like smokey old pool rooms and clear mountian moringin's
Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night
And them that don't know him won't like him
And them that do sometimes won't know how to take him
He ain't wrong he's just different
but his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
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[Sapphire_Flame]

Cool one, dancing spawn! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Where did you find that?

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[Brinniel]

As I mentioned in another thread, the song "My Immortal" by Evanescence reminds me of both Sam and Frodo.

I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all of my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
Because your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone

[CHORUS]
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I've held you hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me

You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
But now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away my once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away all the sanity in me

[CHORUS]

I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
And though you're still with me
I've been alone all along

-----------------------------------------

And then there's the song "Haunted" also by Evanescence, which can apply to either Frodo or Gollum.

Long lost words whisper slowly to me
Still can't find what keeps me here
When all this time I've been so hollow inside
I know you're still there

Watching me wanting me
I can feel you pull me down
Fearing you loving you
I won't let you pull me down

Hunting you I can smell you - alive
Your heart pounding in my head

Watching me wanting me
I can feel you pull me down
Saving me raping me
Watching me

[ July 17, 2003: Message edited by: Brinniel ]

[elven maiden Earwen]

Evenecences has a lot of songs that remind me of LOTR. The chourus of the song Whisper by Evnescence kinda reminds me of Frodo:

don't turn away
don't give in to the pain
don't try to hide
though they're screaming your name
don't close your eyes
God knows what lies behind them
don't turn out the light
never sleep never die

listen here

-Earwen

P.S.: Brinniel: I love your sig [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

[Sauron 666]

I've come up with a couple of more, both are from Bathory's Blood, Fire, Death album released in 1989 (i think)


this one (again) makes me think of the Gondorians (?) and the Rohirrim gathering before the Black Gate, waiting for the battle to commence


1. A Fine Day To Die

Orgy of silence
Conspiracy of peace
Only the sound
Of the cold northern breeze

Twinsun sink fading
Behind the black lake
Asleep is the mountains
Yet the night is awake

Strange is the night
Now black stars rise
And many moons circle
Through silent the night

Along the black mountainside scattered
By the campfires awaiting the dawn
Two times a hundred men in battles
Tried by the steel in the arrow axe and the sword

By battle worn hunger torn awaitening
For the sun to break through the cold haze
And for the banners of Ebal to appear
On the hill in the suns first warm rays

The elder among the men looked deep into
The fire and spoke loud with pride
Tomorrow is a fine day to die

Now the morning advance from far east
Now the sun breaks through dustclouds and haze
Now a forest of spears appears on the hill
And steel shines bright in the suns first rays

Die
Die
Die
Die

this next one makes me think of the Nazgul:

6. Dies Irae (latin for Day of Wrath)

[Secret message: first letters of each line compose phrase "CHRIST THE BASTARD
SON OF HEAVEN]

Creed of eternal life I swore
Held my candle of life to the void
Risen from the dead I deaths powers wed
In the name of the one with horns on head
Sleep of eternity withdrawn as dark upon
The life of mine drew the very end so near

The price another life the gospel of the
Horned one to spread shore to shore
Eternally his words let hear

Be silent listen to the wind crying out the
Answer to all mankind call from other
Side speach of horned divine
To end your search in hope to find
As sure night divides the day and as sure day divides the night
Raging flames is allthat awaits us on the other side
Doomed the very moment he calls

See his star ablaze his children
On the night the flames reach for the sky
Night is comed to enter the never ending burning fire

Onto you all his word is given
Fear not reach to take his hand

Hear our master calling us his children
Eternal life is given death withdrawn
As wolves among sheep we have wandered
Victory lies beyond their spit and scorn
Even the heavens shall burn when we are gathered
Now when the flames reach for the sky

Dies Irae


more to come later

[Sauron 666]

I just thought of another one (so quickly this is a rarity LOL)

This is from Burzum's Filosofem album, doesn't this just strike you like an Elf contemplating his own immortality? (however i'm not sure if this is something original or something Tolkein himself wrote....)

5. Beholding The Daughters Of The Firmament

[Musikk og tekst skrevet Januar 1993 a.y.p.s.]

I wonder how winter will be
with a spring that I shall never see
I wonder how night will be
with a day that I shall never see
I wonder how life will be
with a light I shall never see
I wonder how life will be
with a pain that lasts eternally

In every night there's a different black
in every night I wish that I was back
to the time when I rode
through the forests of old

In every winter there's a different cold
in every winter I feel so old
so very old as the night
so very old as the dreadful cold

I wonder how life will be
with a death that I shall never see
I wonder why life must be
a life that lasts eternally
I wonder how life will be
with a death that I shall never see
I wonder why life must be
a life that lasts eternally


as well anything that has a medival atmosphere goes well with Tolkein like stuff by Die Verbantannen Kinder Eva's, Dargaard, Dead Can Dance, Braveheart soundtrack, Wagner (I know Tolkein himself would shudder at the suggestion but i find Wagner's music appropriate to Tolkein's writings), Ulver's Bergtatt and Kveldsjaner albums, as well as anything by In The Woods..., Opeth.... i think t hats enough from me [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[Lily Bombadil]

There's this song from The Last of the Mohicans called "I Will Find You". It reminds me of Frodo & Sam. I don't really know all the words by heart.
"I Stand Alone" by Godsmack makes me think of Frodo when Galadriel tells him "...to bear a ring of power is to be alone."
"Going Under" by Evanescence makes me think of Frodo when he loses conciousness on the banks of Bruinen.
Theses are the words to "Going Under":

Now I will tell you what I've done for you
50 thousand tears I've cried
Screaming, decieving and bleeding for you
And you still won't hear me
Don't want your hand this time I'll save myself
Maybe I'll wake up for once
Not tormented daily defeated by you
Just when I thought I'd reached the bottom
I'm dying again

I'm going under
Drowning in you
I'm falling forever
I've got to break through
I'm going under

Blurring and stirring the truth and the lies
So I don't know what's real And what's not
Always confusing the thoughts in my head
So I can't trust myself anymore
I'm dying again

I'm going under
Drowning in you
I'm falling forever
I've got to break through

So go on and scream
Scream at me I'm so far away
I won't be broken again
I've got to breath I can't keep going under

[Shy Hobbit]

The Josh Groban song "To Where You Are" reminds me of Finwë after the death of Míriel. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] Forgive me if it seems sappy.


Who can say for certain
Maybe you're still here
I feel you all around me
Your memories so clear

Deep in the stillness
I can hear you speak
Your still an inspiration
Can it be

That you are my
Forever love
And you are watching over me from up above

Fly me up to where you are
Beyond the distant star
I wish upon tonight
To see you smile
If only for awhile
To know you're there
A breath away's not far
To where you are

Are you gently sleeping
Here inside my dream
And isn't faith believing
All power can't be seen

As my heart holds you
Just one beat away
I cherish all you gave me
Everyday

Cause you are my
Forever love
Watching me from up above

And I believe
That angels breathe
And that love will live on and never leave

Fly me up to where you are
Beyond the distant star
I wish upon tonight
To see you smile
If only for awhile
To know you're there
A breath away's not far
To where you are

I know you're there
A breath away's not far
To where you are

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

this one goes to Aragorn and Arwen when they have their 'stupid' dream scene [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] ...ahem.
Sung by Celine Dion, My heart will go on

Every night IN MY DREAMS I SEE YOU I FEEL YOU, that is how i know you go on.

Far across the distance and spaces between us You have come to show you go on.

Near, far, wherever you are, I believe that the heart does go on...(and so on.)

well, maybe it's a bit too used [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
I couldn't find that song you mentioned by evanecences, elven maiden Earwen but i heard two other songs from them and they were nice!And to Sapphire_Flame, I'm finnish so I know that band, i have one of their cd's.I'll keep on seeking the link for you!

[Sapphire_Flame]

Thank you, dancing spawn! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

For everyone else, I have just two words: Blind Guardian. Nearly all of their songs are actually based on LotR and the Silm. I definitely recommend them.

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[steve]

Oh my God Sapphire Flame, I thought I was the only person in the world who knew that rush song Rivendell. I dont know any songs that remind me of LotR but I have found a few sounds that are about LotR: (my playlist)
Radiohead:Ballad of Bilbo Baggins (very funny)
Nickle Creek: House of tom bombadil (celtic like music)
Blind Guardian: Lord of the Rings
Stratovarius: Lord of the Rings (instrumnetal)
Styx: lord of the rings (very embarasing)

[Sauron 666]

the onyl problem with Blind Guardian (and this is symtomatic of all power metal methinks) is that they're too cheesy by ME standards [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] and at best nothing more than 4th rate Iron Maiden ripoffs. I need only reitirate my praise for Summoning, a band whose entire artistic existence is centered around Tolkein and Middle-Earth and do it sounding very original and not cheesy at all [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

[Sapphire_Flame]

Styx: lord of the rings

Does Styx seriously have a LotR song? [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] Huh. I had no idea. Is it any good?

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

[steve]

No the song is not good at all, it has nothing to do with LotR, but they named it lord of the rings FROM THE PIECES OF 8 ALBUM IT GOES
(sorry for caps)


All hail to the Lords of the Ring
To the magic and mystery they bring
To the music in their story

All hail to the Lords of the Ring
To the magic and mystery they bring
To the lands of ancient glory

In the year of the Lords
The message came from above
The heavens opened with their mighty sound
that shook the people in the town

And so we came from everywhere
The young and old the rich and poor
To hear the legend of the magic ring
and of the powers it could bring, they sing

All hail to the Lords of the Ring
To the magic and mystery they bring
To the music in their story
All hail to the Lords of the Ring
To the magic and mystery it brings
May we someday wear its glory

And now the message is clear
For I became a Lord this year
And though the legend was pure fantasy
We still need the hope that it brings, so let's sing

All hail to the Lords of the Ring
To believe is a wonderous thing
May we always sing their glory

All hail to the Lords of the Ring
To the magic and mystery they bring
To the promise of their story

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

To Sapphire_Flame and others who are interested in Nightwish...trythis out.

I would really like to hear that song by Stratovarius...I have to start seeking for it!

[Orominuialwen]

The 1st line of the Beatles song "Taxman" goes "Let me tell you how it will be/There's one for you, nineteen for me." My little brother and I realized that it was like Celebrimbor singing to Sauron about the Rings of Power. We wrote a whole parody of "Taxman" entitled "Sauron." I'll post it later (gotta go now).

[Orominuialwen]

I'm back! Here's our song.

Sauron, by Orominuialwen & Balësirion
(to the tune of "Taxman," by The Beatles)

Let me tell you how it will be
There's One for you, nineteen for me

'Cause you are Sauron, yes you are Sauron

If you take our rings, we'll kill your orcs
If you wreck Hollin, we'll kick your butt [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]
As long as Imladris will shelter us

'Cause you are Sauron, yes you are Sauron

Annatar you are not
And Orodruin is not too hot

'Cause you are Sauron, yes you are Sauron

You made One Ring to rule them all
Now Lindon we must call

'Cause you are Sauron, yes you are Sauron

We have others, but they are all to the tune of commercials on the radio and I doubt anyone would recognize them.

P.S.Will someone please rate me? Thanks.

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

If you take our rings, we'll kill your orcs
If you wreck Hollin, we'll kick your butt
As long as Imladris will shelter us

WOW, that's really great [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
I almost rolled of my chair when I read that!

If someone knows a link where listen to Radiohead:Ballad of Bilbo Baggins or Stratovarius: Lord of the Rings I would really appreciate if that person put the link here!!

[Sauron 666]

I found the perfect song for the Isengard Orcs. Its by Graveland from the Following the Voice of Blood album.

1. White Hand's Power

The white hand, proud and strong by ruling the realm of Isengard, White as
consciousness of illuminated mind spirit became flesh, symbolized by the hand.
That's true cleanness, being able to raise the world out of its hinges and
create it new: Behold the banner's flying, it calls to join, because the
white hand prevails...

White Hand's Power to the realm of Isengard, White Hand's Elegance to the
Kings of Isengard White Hand's Supremacy to the ancestors of middle-earth
White Hand's Dominion to the end of the world...and to universe at next!!!

Marching southwards, orkish battlecries in air, heavy boots crush down
weakness in dust. Warriors executing inferior lifes by fireword: Submit or
die. Creatures of odd... Creatures of ill... Creatures of mud...
Degenerated by mixed blood! Submission, Submission, Submission
To the splendid kings of Isengard, to the race born of ice and flames!

White Hand's Power to the realm of Isengard, White Hand's Elegance to the
Kings of Isengard White Hand's Supremacy to the ancestors of middle-earth
White Hand's Dominion to the end of the world...and to universe at next!!!

[Orominuialwen]

My best friend found this LotR parody of American Pie on the internet- it's hilarious!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] The Day the One Ring Fried
I also found another parody-Sauron Pie Enjoy!