The most Tolkien-Oriented music you make

[mark12_30]

My band is actually considering sticking the small tune from Bilbo's Birthday Party into our repetoire.

I missed that first time thru, sorry! I thought the tune had promise, although repetitive. You could do the usual trick of making it part of a set. I wonder if there are other LOTR themes that would go well in a set like that?

Alasdair Fraser frequently takes airs (or even, sometimes, laments) and speeds them up into reels (or vice versa.) There's one place (Skyedance) where he plays what sounds like a lament, then another tune, then plays the first tune as a speedy reel. It hardly seems like the same tune but it is. I wonder if that would work for other LOTR themes. When you do it with a lament, you get a wild melancholy in the dance. Very celtic.