thank god the movies toned down the singing. thats the part of the books i hated
this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2024
382 points (99.2% liked)
Lord of the memes
10102 readers
347 users here now
The Lord of the rings memes communitiy on Lemmy. Share memes about Lord of the rings and be respectful.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I never hated the singing bits, but it bugged me since I never knew the intended rhythm or melody. Felt like I only got a part of the song every time.
I just skipped it after I realized it wasn't introducing anything new to the plot.
Reading the lyrics to a song is just reading poetry and I hate poetry.
O Orofarnë, Lassemista, Carnimírië! O rowan fair, upon your hair how white the blossom lay! O rowan mine, I saw you shine upon a summer's day, Your rind so bright, your leaves so light, your voice so cool and soft: Upon your head how golden-red the crown you bore aloft! O rowan dead, upon your head your hair is dry and grey; Your crown is spilled, your voice is stilled for ever and a day. O Orofarnë, Lassemista, Carnimírië!
People wonder why Tom Bombadil isn't in the movies. Cause he's fucking ridiculous and stupid in the books. The changes needed to make that character work on film, you may as well just not have him in it. Honestly a dumb and useless character. Ooooh he's so mysteriously powerful! He's useless is what he is
You shut your mouth! No one talks about my boy Tom that way. (I vaguely remember Tom Bombadil being one of Tolkiens daughters dolls and that’s how he came to be in the book.)
You mean like half the pages worth? Imagine. The LOTR movie trilogy could have been an extra 8 hours long.
To this very day I'm not sure if the omission of Tom Bombadil was a good thing or not.
There was singing, there also was a few tomatoes.
https://youtu.be/2TVkOfSADWY&t=1821s
Patrick rothfuss singing misty mountains
this guy will do anything but write the third book. did he train under GRRM
Apparently GRRM is just a shit writer with no discipline. I remember watching an interview with him and Stephen King where he's asking SK how he meets his deadlines cause grrm just can't do it. SK essentially just said "you give yourself writing goal, you sit down and write, you meet it. That's it. You treat it like the job that it is. Grrm treats writing like a hobby
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/2TVkOfSADWY&t=1821s
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Stress singing is a side effect of +2 to lore
Éowyn singing at Théodred's funeral.
There's a fair bit of singing in the movies, granted I haven't read the books in years to really compare.
There's more of it in the books, be peeps definitely be singing in the movies.
Tom Bombadil sang a lot, but he's not in the movie which really drops the amount of singing.
Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!
Ring a dong! hop along! Fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!
Perhaps omitting him from the movie was the right choice after all...
The only ones I can recall in the LOTR movies are the wordless chorus in Lothlorien after Gandalf passed and when Pippin sings for Denethor while he abuses a tomato.
What about Gandalf’s mumble rap?
wordless chorus in Lothlorien after Gandalf passed
Howard Shore goes to the trouble of incorporating Sindarin and Quenya lyrics into the soundtrack and you call it a "wordless chorus"?
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
In addition to what's been mentioned below, in Fellowship Bilbo sings the first verse of The Road Goes Ever On and On as he departs the Shire for Rivendell, and in the extended edition Sam and Frodo encounter a party of elves on their way to the Grey Havens who are singing A Elbereth Gilthoniel as they travel.
I think this was one of the many mistakes they made with the Hobbit movies. Or at least with the first 30 minutes or so of the first one, I never watched any of it past that lol
Honestly, them singing is possibly the only good thing to come out of those movies. It fits into my Dwarf Fortress songs fairly well.
Between the goofy musical number and the bad acting I just turned it off and never looked back. Oddly enough I really enjoyed the songs in the old Rankin and Bass animated movie lol
Yes, this. See the rothfuss misty mnts link I posted. Soulful shit.
It's like they say: "Where there's a whip there's a way"
In contrast, the early song number is the only part of the Hobbit trilogy that I didn't sleep through.
Home invasion by singing dwarfs was already hilarious in the books. That it's a quality bit of chorus singing in the film just makes it that much better, to me.
The rest of the Hobbit trilogy felt meandering and unfocused to me.
In fairness, I really desperately needed a nap the last couple times I tried to watch them.