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Rings of Power/Tolkien and music
Nov. 13th, 2022 05:17 pmPeter Jackson's LOTR films were great and all, but my first ever Tolkien adaptation was the BBC radio drama from the early 1980s. My local library had it on cassette and I used to borrow it over and over and over again. One thing that did really really well, and that I missed from the film versions, was the use of Tolkien's songs - done not as background music but sung by the characters as part of the narrative. Here's Sam singing 'Gil-Galad Was An Elven King':
So one of my absolute favourite moments in Rings of Power was Poppy (one of Sam's distant ancestors?) (I will CRY FOREVER if Smeagol/Gollum ends up being one of the harfoots we've met) sings this:
It's not one of Tolkien's songs (although it lifts some words from his) but there's something wonderfully Tolkien-ish about the spirit of it, and it captures the feeling of those radio drama songs in a way I did not realise I had been missing.
Also also I am really loving some of the shippy fanmade music vids (I believe the youth of fandom call them 'edits' these days) that Rings of Power is producing. ( Putting these behind a spoiler cut because even the static image is spoilery )
So one of my absolute favourite moments in Rings of Power was Poppy (one of Sam's distant ancestors?) (I will CRY FOREVER if Smeagol/Gollum ends up being one of the harfoots we've met) sings this:
It's not one of Tolkien's songs (although it lifts some words from his) but there's something wonderfully Tolkien-ish about the spirit of it, and it captures the feeling of those radio drama songs in a way I did not realise I had been missing.
Also also I am really loving some of the shippy fanmade music vids (I believe the youth of fandom call them 'edits' these days) that Rings of Power is producing. ( Putting these behind a spoiler cut because even the static image is spoilery )
