#the lord of the rings: a musical tale

[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.

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#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

[reallyhardy]

louis maskell as frodo baggins & nuwan hugh perera as samwise gamgee in the lord of the rings: a musical tale.

#LOTR musical #lord of the rings musical #the lord of the rings: a musical tale #frodo baggins #samwise gamgee #louis maskell #nuwan hugh perera #gifs by me #AWOOOOOO i miss them #also it's literally so hard to make gifsets from a production with like. 3 show clips and a dream #thanks audience videos from instagram and youtube.

[iconuk01]

From: "The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale" at the Waterside Theatre, Bagnor, near Newbury.

Video is not mine, but this show was AMAZING

When you arrive at the theatre, you don't go into the theatre at first, you all gather in a large garden area behind the theatre, which is set up with wooden benchs and tables, and a large, raised, circular stage.

This is the setting for the opening ten minutes, as the cast arrive, in character, and help set up for Bilbo's birthday, playing ringtoss games on the stage, or just wandering the tables, saying hello to the audience.

Then we start the folk music, and the cast join in on their instruments (Nearly every one of them plays at least two instruments as the show progresses, so they're providing their own music as they go along, with cast not involved in a scene usually providing background music from just off stage) as they have the birthday party, Bilbo gives his speech, disappears, and then the audience enters the theatre for the rest of the show (Well, almost, but that would be telling)

The choreographer, Anjali Mehra, combines English folk dancing, Morris dancing, as well as many elements from various Indian dancing that I don't know the names of, but recognise as being from there, and some just fun random stuff. (See video above)

Sam and Frodo

Legolas arriving at Lothlorien

The Lady Galadriel

I need to sleep now, or I'd try to describe how they did the Nazghul on a budget as well as a stunninly effective, if abstract, Balrog, and an utterly TERRIFYING Shelob, all in a tiny theatre (it only seats 220)!

But I will say their Sam (Nuwan Hugh Perera) is utterly endearing, and at the other end of the scale, their take on Gollum (Matthew Bugg) is astonishing, an utterly physical performance with the actor crawling around the stage, the galleries, the balcony itself, all whilst screeching or wheedling. He even gets a sort of duet with himself... and the later scene where, listening to Sam and Frodo sing "Now and for Always", a song of quiet Hobbit heroism, Gollum starts to relax and smile to himself and somehow visibly starts to come round to his Smeagol side again, before the encounter with the angry, distrustful Sam which drives him away, is heartbreaking.

Sam is singing lead here, with Frodo (Louis Maskell) sitting in front, Bilbo (John O'Mahony) and Rosie (Charlotte Grayson) in the background, with Pippin (Amelia Gabriel) on lute, Merry (Geraint Downing) on cello, Arwen (Aoife O'Dea) on harp and Elliott Mackenzie (ensemble) next to them.

Just beautiful!

Is it perfect? Well, it crams a lot into it's three hours, but cuts quite a lost of bits out, especially character development and quite a few major characters. As one critic noted, intros and motivation are basically reduced to "I am Xxxxx, I'm a zzzzzz and I'm friends with him but I don't like him and here's why"

So Rohan doesn't feature at all, Theoden and Denethor are sort of combined into one "Steward" and and Faramir isn't there at all... I guess if you're on a budget, the cavalry are the first to go. I also suspect if you don't know the story already, it's a bit of a skip over a LOT of things you need to know.

But that being said, the cast are sincere, the music is great and the staging is STUPENDOUS, so all in all, a great evening.

#The Lord of the Rings: a musical tale #The Lord of the Rings #theatre #Youtube

[eyeinthemirror]

Thinking about this performance again…

Oh, I miss them so very much.

…

These were my immediate thoughts after seeing the show:

(And I still don’t think that I’ve fully recovered from the whole ordeal-)

#lotr #the lord of the rings #lotr musical #lord of the rings musical #the lord of the rings: a musical tale #frodo baggins #samwise gamgee #louis maskell #nuwan hugh perera #a. r. rahman #christopher nightingale #musicals #musical theatre #yes. yes. I know #I was fangirling HARD #(I still stand by everything that I said) #Youtube

[jessiwiththeheadphones]

Since it’s now February and 13 days until Vanilla day (Valentines day),Let’s play some ship bingo!!

Give me ANY ship from ANY fandom,and we’ll see what they get!

#starlight express #ride the cyclone #25th annual putnam county spelling bee #the lord of the rings: a musical tale #around the world in 80 days #the wind in the willows #the dark crytsal: age of resistance #the dark crystal #fandoms lol

[strawberryghostlight]

They finally bring back the lotr musical and I can't even see it. It's reinterpreted in exactly the way I would have hoped and there's like a fandom for it now but no bootleg? no fucking bootleg??? I spent years harboring forbidden knowledge of that show and it's finally back only to be dangled just outside my grasp. and apparently it's got really good sound design too. Just to rub salt in the wound ig. Yes I know this is like the fourth post I've made about this in the last few months but you must understand. I want to see hobbit show

#tagging this like crazy in case anyone wants to drop bootleg clips (pls) (pls) (pls) #lord of the rings #lord of the rings musical #lord of the rings: a musical tale #lotr musical #lotr #lord of the rings watermill

[history-obssesed-boy-over-here]

If someone ever wants to talk about any of the fandoms in the tangs, feel free to send me a message! Im open at all times

#epic the musical #the owl house #to the stars and back webtoon #truly devious #greek mythology #norse mythology #lord of the rings #the hobbit #the land of stories #Nevermoor #jackson’s diary #nimona #heartstopper #A tale of magic #Trollhunters #taylor swift #Marvel #Atsv #the two princes podcast #lego monkie kid #night at the museum #She ra #Percy jackson

[emeraldskulblaka]

Tolkien Stage Adaptations - Performance Calendar

~ October 2023 ~

The Lord of the Rings (musical; Newbury, UK)

1-15

exceptions: Mondays

additional matinees on Wednesdays and Saturdays, 8

Relaxed Performance: 1

Audio Described Performance: 7 (matinee)

BSL Interpreted & Close Captioned Performance: 8 (matinee)

The Hobbit (play; Jefferson City, MO, USA)

5-7 (two shows)

teen & adult version

Финрод (rock opera; St. Petersburg, Russia)

7 (two shows)

Сказание о Берене и Лютиэн (equestrian NOTmusical; Plaskinino, Russia)

15 [postponed from 8]

The Hobbit (marionette play; Hunter, NY, USA)

18-19

The Hobbit (play; Quincy, IL, USA)

19-22

A Tale of Fellowship (musical concert; London, UK)

20, 21

Performance dates and times are subject to change; please check the original post for up-to-date information.

For a general overview of Tolkien stage adaptations, see this post.

#tsa performance calendar #lord of the rings musical #lotr musical #mtc hobbit #Финрод #finrod rock opera #Сказание о Берене и Лютиэн #b&l equestrian show #no strings hobbit #quincy hobbit #a tale of fellowship

[spyskater]

Stop equating high fantasy with historical fiction 2k23!

#willow #willow 2022 #if i see one more person complain about modern music in willow or their use of denim #this isn't historical fiction #this is fantasy #they can do whatever the fuck they want #also a knight's tale is not fantasy #stop using it as an example of such #not every fantasy thing needs to be lord of the rings or game of thrones

[jeandejard3n]

The Silmarillion | Ambient Music

#silmarillion art #fantasy city #dark fantasy #fantasy art #fantasy #sword and sorcery #sword and fairy #medieval fantasy #skyrim #the two towers #middle ages #rivendell #lotr books #lotr aragorn #lotr fanart #lotr movies #the lord of the rings #dark fairytale #dark fairycore #fairycore #fairy cottage #fairy tales #fairy aesthetic #cottagecore #fairy tail #medieval art #medieval #medieval music #lotr #lotr shitpost

[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.

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

[reallyhardy]

"you have so much to enjoy, and be, and do."

"i thought we'd do it together."

the lord of the rings: a musical tale at the watermill theatre, 2023.

bonus:

#LOTR musical #the lord of the rings: a musical tale #the lord of the rings #gifs by me #theatreedit #lmao everybody say thank you andrew howells on youtube for this #this isn't a full video boot! just a clip from the ending. link to the vid in notes! #louis maskell #nuwan hugh perera

[iconuk01]

Sometimes a song goes straight from the stage into your head to live there rent free... that happens to me a LOT.

And ths one has been living in my head since seeing "The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale" last week. I latched on to a few of the lyrics, just enough to keep the rhyhm in my head, but the lyrics themselves are, as you can see, tortuous tongue-twisters that would have given pause to Sondheim afficianados. But such FUN!

It's based, loosely, on a Tolkein poem, The Man in the Moon stayed up too Late which Frodo sings at The Prancing Pony

Happily it was also on the original soundtrck album from the 2008 run, so here you can hear it. The version I saw was more low key, with no orchestra, just the instruments the cast were playing which makes it sounds a lot more like something played at folk night in a pub like The Prancing Pony.

Based on some other videos on youtube, whilst the original was bigger and used a lot more space (because they had it), the dancing I saw was actually MORE complex, and embracing the South Asian influence you can hear in some of the music and lyrics, so it's like folk dancing with a lot more rhythmic arm gestures thrown in.

#The lord of the rings: a musical tale

[flynnwiththeonering]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers (no pressure) <3<3

1. Emo music :p

2. Httyd

3. ToA

4. LoTR

5. My friends (as cringy as that is to say Xd)

#lotr #httyd #how to train your dragon #lord of the rings #toa trollhunters #tales of arcadia #music #emo

[fawkes-rinzler]

Me: I love tumblr!

Also me: *vehemently avoids every single piece of media I enjoy because I fear the fandom*

#cats the musical #cats 2019 #Final Fantasy XIV #FFXIV #FFVII #Final Fantasy VII #final fantasy 7 #Final Fantasy Unlimited #Lord of the Rings #LOTR #The Hobbit #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #Borderlands #tales from the borderlands #Homestuck #if you ever see me spam a bunch of aesthetic photos assume I'm trying to purge my dash of recommended content

[elen-galad]

One of my 12 year-old students told me this morning that « music has no use ».

Now, I am an ESL teacher, music is not my specialty buuuut that struck a nerve.

So I told them to close their notebooks and we watched The lighting of the Beacons and the charge of Rohan in the battle of Pelennor. By the end of the video they were hooting and clamoring like *they* were on the battlefield. Three of them asked me if they could watch the movies at home.

It was a good day.

#lord of the rings #music #teaching tales