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Hanasian

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on: November 16, 2013 06:39

Heart's cover of Led Zeppelin's Battle of Evermore sends me right into Pelennor Fields.

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on: November 17, 2013 03:47

Agreed, Arveleg. Here's something I just found: http://youtu.be/lWNTTOTgemM and then there's my heroes: Sigur Ros: http://youtu.be/NUysiCX-XZQ

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on: December 08, 2013 08:53

The score by Howard Shore for the movies. Though I certainly will not recognize what character or scenery is meant if I were only to hear the theme, I think a bell would ring for many, perhaps most of them.

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on: December 08, 2013 01:52

I love that score! Once, some other site members and I played it on our insturments (violin for me, viola for lotrelessar and EthelynnGreenleaf, and cello for RodwenAravilui5136) and when we finished it, we were all dead silent,looking at each other. It just has an amazing feel to it and when I recall playing it, tears literally come to me eyes.

We were one in the same, running like moths to the flame. You'd hang on every word I'd say, but now they only ricochet.

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on: December 09, 2013 05:53

Arveleg said:Heart's cover of Led Zeppelin's Battle of Evermore sends me right into Pelennor Fields.

That's on Zeppelin 4, the one with Stairway to Heaven.
How do the two versions compare (not that I’ve played the LP for years, might be a very good reason to do so)?

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What kind of music takes you to Middle-Earth?
on: December 27, 2013 04:52

Adele McAllister
Apocalyptica (especially their older material)
Artesia
Avalon Rising/Broceliande (from USA)
Blind Guardian (from Germany)
The Fellowship of this album
The Moon and the Nightspirit (from Hungary)
Narsilion (from Catalonia)
Summoning (from Austria)
Vangelis (some may have heard of him too..)
Zen Garden (the album 'Talking Trees' in particular)

plus a few more isolated pieces here and there . . . obviously.

As regards distinctly cinematic composers, certain entities by people like Trevor Jones, Leonard Rosenman and James Newton Howard have come closest in "saying it" for me.

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on: January 07, 2014 08:48

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Hanasian

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on: January 08, 2014 04:47

Gandolorin said:
Arveleg said:Heart's cover of Led Zeppelin's Battle of Evermore sends me right into Pelennor Fields.

That's on Zeppelin 4, the one with Stairway to Heaven.
How do the two versions compare (not that I’ve played the LP for years, might be a very good reason to do so)?

I always thought Battle of Evermore was one of the good songs on LZIV, with Stairway to Heaven being my least fav ever since I bought the album. Robert Plant & Sandy Denny do the vocals good, but maybe I'm biased toward the Wilson sisters as I think they nail this live.

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on: January 24, 2014 03:23

Obviously, the soundtracks of both trilogies takes me there.

But other than that, there is an album by Mediaeval Baebes called "Mirabilis". They remind me of feasts and elves. Specially the song "Lhiannan Shee", I can imagine a group of elven women playing/singing it.

~*You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.*~

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on: July 09, 2014 08:31

Silmelirie said:there is an album by Mediaeval Baebes called "Mirabilis". They remind me of feasts and elves. Specially the song "Lhiannan Shee", I can imagine a group of elven women playing/singing it.

In my opinion, Mediaeval Baebes do capture Middle Earth, intentionally or unintentionally, in many of their songs.

Their music video 'Veni Veni Bella' from their 2012 album 'The Huntress' reminds me of a festival ball at Meduseld.

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on: July 10, 2014 07:33

The song Gaia by Faun reminds me of Middle Earth, trekking through the deserts of Khand....

[Edited on 07/27/2014 by Arveleg]

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on: July 16, 2014 11:17

Every time I'm watching a movie and there's a scene in the countryside, my mind seems to manipulate the music into the Shire theme, and I end up humming it for the rest of the day

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on: August 12, 2014 09:28