You gave an interesting answer to
Bęthberry's query here,
Nogrod:
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Originally Posted by Nogrod
To me it's the kind of meditativeness, the eerie feeling you can't quite fathom what it is... like is it sad or happy (without the major-minor tonality the middle-Eastern music tends to have that odd effect on an European), it sounds to me something both incorporeal and fleshy at the same time; like passion and otherworldliness in the same package. Something I could imagine the elves feeling towards this reality... Am I making any sense?
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As I said before, each of us have our own definitions of what things, including music, we regard as 'elvish'. The music you linked to was nice; and I can see the point you're making; but I don't think anyone should presume that Tolkien would have liked it.