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My fave song is The Steward of Gondor aka Pippins Song!

Upon the hearth the fire is red,
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still around the corner we may meet
A sudden standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.

Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!

Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still around the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run,
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn and nut and sloe
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell,
Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.

Then world behind and home ahead,
We'll wander back to home and bed.

Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!

Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And to bed! And then to bed!


Et Earello Endorenna utulien.
Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn'
Ambar-metta!


ENGLISH:
Out of the Great Sea to Middle-earth I am come.
In this place will I abide, and my heirs,
unto the ending of the world.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

Bilbo's Last Song (At the Grey Havens)
Day is ended, dim my eyes,
but journey long before me lies.
Farewell, friends! I hear the call.
The ship's beside the stony wall.
Foam is white and waves are grey;
beyond the sunset leads my way.
Foam is salt, the wind is free;
I hear the rising of the Sea.

Farewell, friends! The sails are set,
the wind is east, the moorings fret.
Shadows long before me lie,
beneath the ever-bending sky,
but islands lie behind the Sun
that I shall raise ere all is done;
lands there are to west of West,
where night is quiet and sleep is rest.

Guided by the Lonely Star,
beyond the utmost harbour-bar,
I'll find the heavens fair and free,
and beaches of the Starlit Sea.
Ship, my ship! I seek the West,
and fields and mountains ever blest.
Farewell to Middle-earth at last.
I see the Star above my mast!

And last but not the least, the infamous:

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them,
In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie.

infamous means famous for the wrong reasons...murder and the likes.... you suggesting suron was a bad guy ..he was just...misunderstood

LOL...infamous for some people that's why I said that, but it's not infamous for me of course! Sauron's my favorite "bad" guy..

Those are good, this one is god too

Gondor! Gondor, between the Mountains and the Sea!
West Wind blew there; the light upon the Silver Tree
Fell like bright rain in gardens of the Kings of old.
O proud walls! White towers! O winged crown and throne of gold!
O Gondor, Gondor! Shall Men behold the Silver Tree,
Or West Wind blow again between the Mountains and the Sea?

As for me, I loved all three soundtracks!!!!
My favorite songs though were.....
May It Be and Merry's song

*sing song voice*
Gil-galad was an elven king;
Of him the harpers sadly sing...

http://www.lucifer.hoolan.org/paper/painter/pic/dm-gil-galad1.jpg

I loved the song in the movie when Galadriel, Gandalf, Frodo,.... etc. went sailing off. I don't know the words, and can hardly remember the tune of it, but I remember it won a Golden Globe, I think.

Into the West-

Lay down...
Your sweet and weary head...
Night is falling...
You've come to journey's end...
Sleep now...
And dream of the ones
That came before...
They are calling...
From across the distant shores...
Why do you weep?
All of these tears upon your face...
Soon you will see...
All of your fears will pass away...
Safe in my arms...
You're only sleeping...
What can you see?
Over the horizon...
Why do the white gulls call...
Across the sea...
A pale moon rises...
The ships have come to carry you home...
All will turn...
To silver glass...
A light on the water...
All souls burn...
Hope fades...
Into the world of night...
Through shadows falling...
Out of memory and time...
Don't say...
We have come now to the end...
White shores are calling...
You and I will meet again...
And you'll be here in my arms...
Just sleeping...
What can you see?
Over the horizon...
Why do the white gulls call...
Across the sea...
A pale moon rises...
The ships have come...
To carry you home...
And all will turn...
To silver glass...
A light on the water...
Grey ships pass...
Into the West...

Gil-Galad's lament in Tengwar?

http://tengwar.szm.sk/ct/ukazky/gil-galadd.gif

Thank you Kitoky. It's such a pretty song.

Uh.....How'd you get the font?

I found it on a site - It's an IMG image...

Rats......... I have an other question, but it's on the tig party.

Holy shucks!!! jawdrop

That outfit...armor...is beyond words to describe!!! Thanks for posting that!!! drool

I'm in the process of writing a hobbit child's nursery rhyme for one of my fanfictions!

It's a nonsense song, concerning Gandalf, boxes of fireworks and cunning foxes!

I think the LOTR soundtracks are awesome. Really, really great pieces of music. Favourites for the moment:

FOTR disc:

- The prophecy
- Concerning hobbits
- A knife in the dark
- The bridge of Khazad Dum (mighty in the beginning, incredibly sad at end)
- Amon Hen (this is one of the greatest pieces of music I have ever heard.. So much feelings, emotion.. Awesome!


TTT disc:

- Foundations of stone (hell yeah, quite mighy, huh?)
- Evenstar (incredibly emotional..)
- The forbidden pool (theme from Amon Hen again, in the end of song..)
- Isengard Unleashed (Ben Del Maestro's voice is incredibly! It's he who's singing those tunes when Gimli goes up to blow in the horn of Helm, and when the ents goes out for their last war)
- Gollum's song (Emiliana Torrini is great.. "You are lost.. You can never go home.."


ROTK disc:

- A storm is coming (awesome title, awesome music! Really great! How beautiful!)
- Hope and memory (also very good. Was my favourite on the Rotk soundtrack before I started to like "A storm is coming" more. )
- The steward of Gondor (the sequence in the film is one of the greatest that ever has been done in film history, and this "song" is soooo god damn good!)
- Twilight and shadow (like Evenstar, this one's also emotional)
- The fields of the Pelennor (how mighty can a song be? Not mightier than this one..)
- The grey heavens (also a very good piece of music.. sad, fits perfectly in the movie)


Howard Shore has said the have about 12 hours of unpublished music.. I want that music!

So.. that was my first post here.

M inas Morgul, Shelob's Lair, Evenstar, The Return of the King and The Breaking of the Fellowship.

All of those re my all time favourite ones from the soundtrack.

Songs/laments in the book: Bilbo's 'I sit beside the fire and think' song that he recites in The Ring Goes South. Also, the song of Luthien and Beren is great!

COUGH FIRST PAGE COUGH

mine is a knife in the dark, but i dont think it has any words in it

the song frodo sings in the fotr in the book any way

There was an inn, a merry old inn
beneath an old grey hill,
And there they brew a beer so brown
That the Man in the Moon himself came down
one night to drink his fill.

The ostler has a tipsy cat
that plays a five-stringed fiddle;
And up and down he runs his bow,
Now squeaking high, now purring low,
now sawing in the middle.

The landlord keeps a little dog
that is mighty fond of jokes;
When there's good cheer among the guests,
He cocks and ear at all the jests
and laughs until he chokes.

The also keep a hrned cow
as proud as any queen;
But music thurn her head like ale,
And makes her wave her tufted tail
and dance among the green.

And O! the row of silver dishes
and the store of silver spoons!
For Sunday there's a special pair,
And these they polish up with care
on Saturday afternoons.

The Man on the Moon was drinking deep,
and the cat begain to wail;
A dish and a spoon on the table danced,
The cow in the garden madly pranced
and the little dog chased his tail.

The Man in the Moon took another mug,
and the rolled beneath his chair;
And there he dozed and dreamed of ale,
Till in the sky the stars were pale,
and dawn was in the air,

Then the ostler said to his tipsy cat:
"The white horses of the Moon,
'They neigh and champ their silver bits;
But their master's been and drowned his wits
and the Sun'll be rising soon!"

So the cat in his fiddle played hey-diddle-diddle,
a jig that would wake the dead:
He sqeaked and sawed and quickened the tune,
While the landlord shooke the Man in the Moon:
It's after three' he said

They rolled the man slowly up the hill
and bundled him in to the moon,
While his horses galloped up in rear
And the cow came capering like a deer
and a sidh ran up with the spoon

Now quicker the fiddle went deedle-dum-diddle:
the dog began to roar,
The cow and the horses stood on their heads:
The guests all bounded from their beds
and danced upon the floor

With a ping and a pang the fiddle-strings broke!
the cow jumped over the Moon
And the little dog laughed to see such fun
And the saturday dish went off at a fund
with the silver Sunday Soiin,

The round Moon rolled hehind the hill
as the sun raised up her head
She hardley belived her fiery eyes;
fore thought is was day, to her surprise
they all went back to bed!

wow that was longer then i thought it was going to be

*fixes forum*

Tall ships and tall kings
Three times three
what brought they from the foundered land
over the flowing Sea?
Seven stars and seven stones
And one White Tree

lovely poem

... Then the gloom gathered; Darkness growing
In Valinor, the red blood flowing
Beside the Sea, where the Noldor slew
The Foamriders, and stealing drew
Their white ships with their white sails
From lamplit havens. The wind wails,
The wolf howls. The ravens flee.
The ice mutters in the mouths of the Sea.
The captives sad in Angband mourn.
Thunder rumbles, the fires burn ---
And Finrod fell before the throne


("He chanted a song of wizardry" - singing competition of Sauron and Finrod Felagund in Tol-i-Ngaurhoth)

i have such a lovely singing voice

if you say so

would you like me to sing for you
i will pick a song, sing it, talk randomly...then post it here

nah it's ok sauron lol

well if you insist i will do it!

not singing though that was a joke i will talk so you can all hear me

I'm thinking of writing melodies for the songs of Tolkien... what does anyone else think? Should I be shot?

no, just do it!

sauron we meet again

Here's one from Luthien in elvish:
Ir Ithil ammen Eruchin
menel-vir sila diriel
si loth a galadh lasto din
A Hir Annun Gilthoniel, le linnon im Tinuviel

Some wors I can translate, but I can't put it all together.

Any idea what mine says? I can only get "moon" from it.

does any one have the leriks to the song pippin and merry sing about the old green dragon in the return of the king

Oh, you can search far and wide
You can drink the whole town dry
You'll never find a beer so brown
But you'll never find a beer so brown
As the one we drink in our home town.
As the one we drink in our home town.
You can keep your fancy ales.
You can drink em by the flagon.
But the only brew for the brave and true
Comes from the Green Dragon!

I never noticed how much legolas's song of the sea looked like Into the West. Is it just me?

Into The West mostly uses quotes and half-quotes from the books; for example the part "and all will turn to silver glass" (like also in the film itself) is from the last few paragraphs in the book when Frodo indeed comes to Valinor

It also has the same topic as Legolas' Song - wonderful use of different quotations combined to a pwettyful song

Hey, could anyone give me the songtext of the song at the beginning of FOTR Extended?