A guy I know sings his arrangement of Treebeard's song from The Two Towers, which is perfect, as right for the words as music can possibly be for free-verse poetry.
With piano, or more traditionally? I'd no idea Swann's settings even existed until four days ago, tops; I don't know if they assimilated into filk repertoire or if they get performed at classical concerts or if the original LP is just very coveted by Tolkienistas.
I fell hard, the moment that he said, "Bonfire Night is coming. You can always tell. Swann pushed me up the road and we got four shillings and sixpence." I find it oddly badass that he could make that kind of joke about himself.
That is very fair. I am just—apparently—similarly endeared of mildly manic pianists with mad language skills who are sort of Christian mystics in their spare time.
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With piano, or more traditionally? I'd no idea Swann's settings even existed until four days ago, tops; I don't know if they assimilated into filk repertoire or if they get performed at classical concerts or if the original LP is just very coveted by Tolkienistas.
I fell hard, the moment that he said, "Bonfire Night is coming. You can always tell. Swann pushed me up the road and we got four shillings and sixpence." I find it oddly badass that he could make that kind of joke about himself.
That is very fair. I am just—apparently—similarly endeared of mildly manic pianists with mad language skills who are sort of Christian mystics in their spare time.