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what is your favorite Song/tale or poem?

i am just qurious of what you think? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

By Tolkien? This thread has already been done. Good idea though! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

By Tolkien, I think mine would be Elbereth Gilthoniel.

i don't like any of the songs

yes by tolkien...
i like the song about Nimrodel, song of eärendil and the song of Beren and Lúthien...
i dont dislike any of them i read but they are my favorites.
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i like bilbo's bath song. it's funny.
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yeah it is i copleatly agree with you [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

and nice smilies [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

I have always enjoyed "the road goes ever on and on" [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

My favorite tale is the one of Beren and Luthien. Grandly romantic and full of all sort of angst!

oh I love Beren and Luthien too!!

I like everyone you´ve said. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Oh nice, eleni, to like the song about me, thanx! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
Oh well, there are loads of great songs and poems, can´t be bothered to say them all.... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

My favorite poem/song is the one sung by Frodo at the inn in Bree. The one that was the original "Cow jumping over the moon" song. I don't know the title, but you probably know what song I'm talking about. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

I think, outside of Elbereth's song, the most significant one is the one Tom Bombadil taught Frodo and company. If he hadn't, the whole story would have come to a tragic ending...not that it's the most artistic song, jst one of the most significant.

[ May 19, 2002: Message edited by: Kidd2323 ]

you are welcome Eärendil [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

I'd have to say that the song about Earendil is my favourite...

Earendil was a mariner,
that tarried in Avernien.
He built a ship of timber felled,
in Nimbrethil to journey in.
Her sails he wove of silver fair,
of silver were her lanterns made,
her prow was fashioned like a swan
And light upon her banners laid.

That's all I can remember at the moment. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Hmmm...
I put all the songs to music (which my sister then attacks, but whatever) so its really hard to say... Sam's song in the Orc tower, Bregalad's song about the rowan trees, and the one the dwarves in The Hobbit sing (y'know, "that's what Bilbo Baggins hates! So carefully, carefully, with the plates!) are my favourites.
My friend is getting a book with Tolkien's music for songs from The Hobbit (yippee!) so I'll soon know how Tolkien meant them to sound. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

I would say the Tale of Tinùviel is my favorite. I also love Namarië and Nimrodel. There are many others that I like, but these are the ones that I read over and over.

As far as funny songs, the Sam's Troll Song. You know, I had the same rythm as Tolkien did when he read it.

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The leaves were long, the grass was green,
The hemlock-umbels tall and fair,
And in the glade a light was seen
Of stars in shadow shimmering.
Tinúviel was dancing there
To music of a pipe unseen,
And light of stars was in her hair,
And in her raiment glimmering.

There Beren came from mountains cold,
And lost he wandered under leaves,
And where the Elven-river rolled
He walked alone and sorrowing.
He peered between the hemlock-leaves
And saw in wonder flowers of gold
Upon her mantle and her sleeves,
And her hair like shadow following.

Enchantment healed his weary feet
That over hills were doomed to roam;
And forth he hastened, strong and fleet,
And grasped at moonbeams glistening.
Through woven woods in Elvenhome
She lightly fled on dancing feet,
And left him lonely still to roam
In the silent forest listening.

He heard there oft the flying sound
Of feet as light as linden-leaves,
Or music welling underground,
In hidden hollows quavering.
Now withered lay the hemlock-sheaves,
And one by one with sighing sound
Whispering fell the beachen leaves
In the wintry woodland wavering.

He sought her ever, wandering far
Where leaves of years were thickly strewn,
By light of moon and ray of star
In frosty heavens shivering.
Her mantle glinted in the moon,
As on a hill-top high and far
She danced, and at her feet was strewn
A mist of silver quivering.

When winter passed, she came again,
And her song released the sudden spring,
Like rising lark, and falling rain,
And melting water bubbling.
He saw the elven-flowers spring
About her feet, and healed again
He longed by her to dance and sing
Upon the grass untroubling.

Again she fled, but swift he came.
Tinúviel! Tinúviel!
He called her by her elvish name;
And there she halted listening.
One moment stood she, and a spell
His voice laid on her: Beren came,
And doom fell on Tinúviel
That in his arms lay glistening.

As Beren looked into her eyes
Within the shadows of her hair,
The trembling starlight of the skies
He saw there mirrored shimmering.
Tinúviel the elven-fair,
Immortal maiden elven-wise,
About him cast her shadowy hair
And arms like silver glimmering.

Long was the way that fate them bore,
O'er stony mountains cold and grey,
Through halls of ireon and darkling door,
And woods of nightshade morrowless.
The Sundering Seas between them lay,
And yet at last they met once more,
And long ago they passed away
In the forest singing sorrowless.

[ May 20, 2002: Message edited by: Joy ]

LOL--Sam's troll song--or the "Lay" (is that the word?) of Gil-galad.

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Suddenly a low voice murmured:
"Gil-Galad was an elven-king.
Of him the harpers sadly sing:
the last whose realm was fair and free
between the Mountains and the Sea.

His sword was long, his lance was keen,
his shining helm afar was seen;
the countless stars of Heaven's feild
were mirrored in his silver shield..

But long ago he rode away
and where he dwelleth none can say
for into darkness fell his star
in Mordor where the shadows are. "

The others turned in amazement, for the voice was Sam's.

I love all of them but my favorites are Strider's song "all that is gold doesn't glitter"
Gil Galad's song, the Ent' s list and....

The oliphant from Sam!! The first one I' ve known by heart when I was as tall as a hobbit, héhéhé
I couldn't resit to post it in French: Gris souris...

Quote:

Gris comme une souris,
Grand comme une maison,
Le nez comme un serpent;
Je fais trembler la terre,
Quand je piétinne dans l' herbe;
Les arbres craquent à mon passage.
Cornes dans la bouche,
Je marche vers le Sud,
Battant de mes grandes oreilles.
Au-delà de tout compte d' années,
Je marche lourdement, toujours, toujours.
Sans jamais me coucher sur la terre,
Pas même pour mourir.
Je suis l' oliphant,
Le plus grand de tous,
Enorme, vieux et haut.
Si jamais tu me rencontrais,
Plus tu ne m' oublierais.
Si tu me vois jamais.
Tu ne me croiras pas réel;
Mais je suis le viel oliphant,
Et je ne me couche jamais.

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Hey Samwise, thanks for posting the lay [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
I do like it, yeah!
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You're quite welcome, stone of vision. An' welcome t' our little meetin' place, too! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

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Sam sat tapping the hilt of his sword as if he were counting on his fingers. "It's very strange," he murmured. "The moon's the same in the Shire and in Wilderland, or it ought to be. But either it's out of it's running or I'm all wrong in my reckoning. "

The poem/song about Gil-Galad is easily my favorite.

Ulairi, it's certainly one of my favorites, too--o' course, it reminds me of old Mr. Bilbo....*sighs*

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"That's all I know." stammered Sam, blushing. "I learned it from Mr. Bilbo when I was a lad. There was a lot more,all about Mordor. I didn't learn that part, it gave me the shivers. "

I love them all, but I really like Bilbo's "The Road goes ever on and on" It just kind of sticks to you. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

I liked all of them, but my fav were bilbos bath song, and the riddle of strider

I like The Road goes Ever On because it is so true abouyt life! (I love road metaphors for life [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] ) I also like The Man In The Moon Stayed Up Too Late (the cat and the fiddle song in Bree)

Mine would defiantly Sams Gil-Galad song. That and the Bath song [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

"...But still the sunken stars appear
In dark and windless Mirrormere;
There lies his crown in water deep,
Till Durin wakes again from sleep."

That, and Bilbo's "I sit beside the fire and think...", the tale of Eärendil, and Galadriel's farewell song.

mine's the goblin song form the hobbit
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I love all of Tolkien's songs, but my favourites are the song of Nimrodel and Legolas' song of Valinor:

To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying,
The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.
West, west away, the round sun is falling.
Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling,
The voices of my people that have gone before me?
I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me;
For our days are ending and our years failing.
I will pass the wide whaters lonely sailing.
Long are the waves on the last shore falling,
Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling,
In Eressëa, in Elvenhome that no man can discover,
Where the leaves fall not: land of my people forever!

It just goes right to my heart, it's so sad [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] , but also very beautiful

[ June 30, 2002: Message edited by: Nimiriel ]

I too love them all. But I guess some of my favorites are (again, I will most likely leave a good one out!)They're not in order just yet:

~Beren and Luthien's

~Legolas's Song of the Sea

~The one of Nimrodel

~one of Bilbo's Walking Song's

~Sam's Song in the Orc tower

~Gil-Galad's

~Earendil's

~The Riddle of Strider

I have so many favorites, but these are just a few.

My favorite song/poem would have to be The Road goes ever on, I find myself humming/singing it to myself while im walking/biking somewhere or doing chores 'round the house

The Balrog-Durin's Bane! Hullo! *waves* Have a good time wandering 'round the 'Downs!

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"Once I do get to sleep," said Sam, "I shall go on sleeping, wether I roll off or no. And the less said, the sooner I'll drop off, if you take my meaning. "