#music of lotr

[parisoonic]

i've been posting tf2 art for a whole year! waugh, how did that happen!? really enjoyed playin and drawing this silly game for a year :)) some wee sketches that took 3-5 mins each

#tf2 #tf2 fanart #team fortress 2 #im not tagging all the characters as i cant be arsed #sometimes i listen to soundtracks and challenge myself to do a colour sketch for each song #so these are drawn to the shrek musical soundtrack and took 3-5 mins each #my last post with heavy n medic under the tree was from this batch too #woah look at the gradient banding on that third image #the first one is a lotr redraw btw

[perplexingly]

A Secret Santa gift for the-daughter-of-a-wolf for the exchange organized on the Watermill Theatre musical discord fan server. It’s Legolas and Gimli visiting the northern forests and the Glittering Caves like they promised each other

#my art #tolkien #lord of the rings musical #lotr musical exchange

[emilyych]

“That’d be Ori’s hand. He could write quite well and speedily.” -Gimli

or, the final words of Khazad-Dûm

#emilyyart #this is from October 2022 #it was a challenge w my friend fi to draw Ori’s final moments in our own styles #listened to a lot of sad lotr music doing it #still rlly like it #old art #lord of the rings #lotr #the hobbit #ori the hobbit

[carterthefrog]

listen. in theory, i know that the hobbit was published in the 1930s and lotr was published in the 1950s, but conceptually, that's never fully sunk in. people were talking about bilbo baggins while world war ii bombs were flying overhead. discussing their favorite characters merry and pippin alongside the news of the brand new polio vaccine. making jokes about mordor between fireside chats. like that's absolutely crazy to me. unreal

#how did one even engage w media back then tho like they didn't even have tumblr #like “ah yes nice book now back to supporting the war effort and listening to swing music” #like what were they even doing with lotr like genuinely #lord of the rings #the hobbit #lotr #jrr tolkien

[reallyhardydraws]

legolas, as portrayed by yazdan qafouri in the watermill theatre's revival of the LOTR musical from last summer.

still obsessed with it, and very much enamoured with this south asian inspired look for legolas in his red kurta and sash. love love love it.

[commissions open!] 🧝‍♂️🏹🍃

#the lord of the rings: a musical tale #LOTR musical #legolas #LOTR #LOTR fanart #draws #WHOOOO boy after such an art block i am SO happy with this

[inthiskingdomwewillendure]

The Return of the King in 4k

The House of the Healing

#lotr #aragorn #eowyn #eomer #lord of the rings #lotredit #rotk #the return of the king #return of the king #viggo mortensen #miranda otto #karl urban #4k #4k gif #such a beautiful scene #should have been in the cinema version #and the music #live tyler singing is eteral

[nowandforalways]

Today I'm thinking about how playing Frodo Baggins is a thankless job in much the same way Frodo actually carrying the Ring was.

Like, when people talk about performances in LOTR adaptations, they talk about Sam, they talk about Gollum, they talk about Gandalf and Galadriel. All these characters that have iconic lines and big flashy moments of greatness or bravery or twistedness that let the actor show off. Frodo doesn't have any of those. What Frodo does have is the arguably harder job of making something external that is almost entirely internal, and, in most adaptations, having the most to do, just from a time-on-stage/screen/microphone perspective. But this never seems to get acknowledged and that's always kinda weird/interesting to me. I suppose people just respond to the big heroic/heartwarming/menacing moments, and not so much to littler moments of the same kinds. In the musical, in one of the dialogue breaks in "Now And For Always", Frodo says to Sam "It's not me they'll remember, you know". And that's funny because even if Sam tries to fight that in-universe with the finishing of The Red Book, it consistently ends up being true in a meta sense.

Anyway I suppose what I'm saying is appreciate Christopher Guard, Sir Ian Holm, Elijah Wood, James Loye, James Byng, and Louis Maskell or die by my blade.

#lotr #lotr musical #frodo baggins #thank you and heyday #i tried to get in as many Frodos as i could think of but i know i missed some #hit me up with Frodos from non-English-language adaptations that deserve love #also can we talk about how funny it is that both actors who played Frodo in the Drury Lane production of the musical were named James? #hehehe #for frodo

[vigilantegreen]

Everyone always says "Howard Shore didn't have to go that hard for the LOTR soundtrack" but no one ever talks about the soundtrack for The Hobbit! Are you kidding! It's amazing! It's beautiful! It brings tears to my eyes! It's so good!

#the hobbit #lotr #lord of the rings #middle earth #the shire #gandalf #hobbits #aragorn #gimli #the hobbit bilbo #the hobbit legolas #legolas #howard shore #lotr soundtrack #the hobbit soundtrack #music is wonderful

[sindar-princeling]

it fucks me up by the way that EVEN as gollum literally attacks Sam and Frodo at the Crack of Doom, the music that plays for him is his Gollum's Pity theme, also called Sméagol's Theme, rather than Gollum's Menace (Gollum's Theme). the score itself still feels pity and mercy for him even when he's at his worst

#howard shore you never cease to make me cry #lotr soundtrack #doug adams #the music of the lord of the rings films #tagging this book because reading it is what prompted this post #gollum #smeagol #it's mine my own my precious

[stormygopher]

The best possible adaptation of The Silmarillion would be musical in the style of SIX with all the kings of the Noldor singing about their horrific deaths.

#i’m right and you know it #silmarillion #jrr tolkien #finwe #feanor #maedhros #fingolfin #fingon #gil galad #not art #silm crack #Gil galad: didn’t you abdicate? #Maedhros: yeah but I still died horribly so #feanor spends half the musical attempting to physically fight fingolfin #lotr #lotr memes #silm memes

[lordoftheringsmusical]

The Lord of the Rings is back this summer!

The WhatsOnStage Award-winning production of The Lord of the Rings is set to make its US debut this summer. Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s artistic director Edward Hall and executive director Kimberly Motes confirmed the news today that the Watermill Theatre’s new staging will debut at The Yard, running from 19 July to 1 September 2024. The American production will be directed by Paul Hart, who created and helmed the piece here in the UK in 2023.

More information on the theatre's page.

#lord of the rings musical #lotr musical #news #chicago shakespeare theater

[sewn-with-lilies-fair]

As a holiday gift, I commissioned Aoife O'Dea to sing Luthien's Lullaby from the Lay of Leithian musical.

There couldn't be a more perfect fit- Aoife, who played Arwen in Watermill Theatre's Lord of the Rings musical last year, and Luthien, Arwen's elven ancestor, using the magic of song to send us off to sleep.

Dreams, on the wings of music hover...

Voice and harp- Aoife O'Dea Original music and lyrics- Skadi English lyrics- @nereb-and-dungalef, @quixoticanarchy, and @sewn-with-lilies-fair

Lyrics under the cut.

Day fades to night, Sunset hides its light ‘til dawn’s unveiling. Stars out of sight Shine over those whose strength is close to failing.

I sing before the lord of darkness, Minstrel in the halls that echo starless. Dreams on the wings of music hover- Sleep, bow your head to peaceful slumber. Sleep…

On gentle wings Mist turns the mountains sapphire as the ocean. Like waves I sing, And from the strands of fate my verse is woven.

Over the night the moon is sailing Onward, to the shores where sleep is waiting. Dreams on the wings of music hover- Wait, bow your head to peaceful slumber. Wait…

Fine threads of rain Upon your window weave a satin curtain. Lay down your pain, And let oblivion relieve your burden.

Hear how the restless wind is sighing- Quiet, for the storm has ceased its crying. Dreams on the wings of music hover- Hush, bow your head to peaceful slumber. Hush…

#happy holidays everyone <3 #lay of leithian #lay of leithian rock opera #lol the rock opera #beren and luthien #silmarillion #tolkien #лэ о лэйтиан #lord of the rings #lord of the rings musical #lotr the musical #watermill theatre #idk what other tags this needs but as long as emerald finds it we're good

[perplexingly]

Now that I'm rereading LotR, I'm kinda amazed that even being familiar with all the poetry in this book I still heavily underestimated the amount of singing there is. Like, besides the times when we are given the lyrics of the songs, there's just SO many mentions of characters singing - singing when they're content, quiet singing when taking a watch at night, walking songs, war songs, magic songs, singing as a history lesson, singing out of grief, singing because poetry is their hobby, or their friend's hobby (as in case when Frodo had attempted his hand at poetry in private conversation with Sam), the entire Tom Bombadil sequence is almost completely sang-through including the barrow-wights's songs. Just. SO much singing

#the song:dialogue ratio in lotr is larger than in some musicals I've seen

[theartofmetal]

179./180. Anthronomicon & Helionomicon - Ulthar (Blackened Death Metal, 2023 - two LP's, released on the same date)

Art by Ian Miller

Miller is primarily known for his artworks in Tolkien & H.P. Lovecraft books!

Ulthar is a village in the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft.

#metal #blackened death metal #death metal #art #artwork #music #painting #heavy music #artist #cover art #heavy #ian miller #lotr #tolkien #lovecraft #futuristic #aliens #ulthar #cthulhu

[must-be-mr-boggins]

Imagine Bilbo and Thorin fighting Azog together…! The true Power Couple™️ of Middle Earth, honestly.

#bilbo baggins #the hobbit #thorin oakenshield #bagginshield #thorin x bilbo #lotr #books #movies #fanfic #tolkien #kiliel #peter jackson #thilbo #dwarves #elves #fili and kili #book #howard shore #music #soundtrack

[reallyhardydraws]

gimli, as portrayed by folarin akinmade in the watermill theatre's revival of the LOTR musical from last summer.

for @the-daughter-of-a-wolf - thank you! this is a partner piece to legolas. fun fact for those who didn't get to see this production: the designs on gimli's jacket reflect those on the gates to moria.

[commissions open!] 🪓💎⛰️

#the lord of the rings: a musical tale #LOTR musical #gimli #LOTR #LOTR fanart #draws #let's be real. legolas needs his bf.