#literally. this is. AWOOOOOOO my HEEEAAAARRRRTTTTT

[reallyhardy]

cici, i gratefully accept your hand in marriage. 🤣🤣🤣 BUT SERIOUSLY:

this is absolutely mind bogglingly wonderfully tremendously splendid, and yes i am more than a little teary eyed as i watch this from under my blankets on this the morning of jolkien rolkien tolkien's birthday. i'm just a little speechless - the harmonies!!! the new verses that are so perfectly in character to the way they speak about each other in the musical. the little indignant 'PIPPIN!' gave me such a chuckle. PERFECT siblingly vibes. also LOVE that mrs bracegirdle gets her well deserved dues in a proper song verse. and rosie waiting 'for you too' i love crying!!!! and i love the imagined setting, the campire vibe, perfectly perfectly captured. and just! wonderful job too on the animatic aspect! i love the changing poses and the warm glowy colours during the chorus and of course, our beloved watermill stage.

a thousand million thank yous! we'll all be loving and listening to this, now and for always i am sure. 💖💖💖💖💖

A fan animatic/recording/extra verses of Now and for Always, based on the Watermill 2023 production of Lord of the Rings: a Musical Tale :)

I imagine our four main hobbits finding a quiet spot on the Field of Cormallen, away from all the celebrating, and having a little campfire as they think about the journey home, and singing a song to each other.

Happy Tolkien's birthday, @reallyhardy !!!

I hope you like it, I showed it to my mum and she said "and are you planning to marry this person?" but this is just what happens when you give me three months to do a thing in. I spend all of those months doing it. And having an excellent fabulous time doing so.

I was already planning on doing something like this eventually, and then you said that you loved the "besties forever" vibes of our four hobbits, the "siblingy" vibe of Merry and Pippin, and Samfrosie (good), and I though that this song could be exactly that. Well. I thought I'd just write some new verses. Then I thought I could record it. Then I thought I could write some harmonies. Then...

P.S. Let me know when you're planning to post the last chapter of Summer's Last Party and I can record Pippin's new verses if you want to add them into the fic ;)