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theimpossiblescheme · 2 years ago

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Thought that just came to me because I am always thinking about these books one way or another...

In my perfect live action Prydain adaptation, tons of characters would get their own leitmotifs in the score, and one of them would be Fflewddur. Something lighthearted and kind of bouncy, but bracing and warm. The musical equivalent of getting a genuinely good pep talk that sends you away smiling. And of course, it would be played on the harp with maybe some other string instruments backing it up... until the cave scene in The High King. With the loss of Flewddur’s harp, maybe another instrument picks up the melody, but there’s still that sonic gap where the harp once was. It’s still the same music, but unmistakably changed.

#Ideally everyone who gets a theme would have theirs change over the course of the series especially Taran and Eilonwy's.#Their respective motifs could start out as something relatively simple before becoming more complicated and adding a fuller sound.#And I could even imagine a theme for Gwydion (something grand but kind of melancholic like the Rohan theme from LOTR)#becoming slower and more tired as the conflicts drag on especially in 'The High King' and the Sons of Don's time in Prydain ends.#Of course there'd be one for Eilonwy's family and the House of Llyr--maybe Achren's music could be a cruel sort of variation on it.#Caer Dallben would get one and maybe that music could have some commonalities with the Witches of Morva's motif.#And maybe there would be a little melody for the bards--we first hear it with Adaon in 'The Black Cauldron' and then much later #we would hear it reprised in some form with Taliesin.#I'm just a sucker for this stuff--Howard Shore and Bear McCreary have ruined me for life. XD #the prydain chronicles #the schemer speaks

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