Thread: Éowyn's song
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Old 03-17-2007, 12:15 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by Knight of Gondor
What sort of resemblance do you notice? I am listening to the tune as I write, and I note no similarity in tone, and although my ears are untrained in most foreign tongues, I cannot detect any similarity in lyrics either.
Not lyrically. Just the flow of the song reminds me of Éowyn's. I have on a CD a much better version than Wikipedia has, with background fill, so on that CD it reminds me much more of her song than does the one on Wikipedia. Perhaps if you heard it too you might hear the resemblance better.
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