#pippin singing

[autistook]

Lyrics from the Fellowship of the Ring book + the scene from the Return of the King movie

[secretmellowart]

"The Last Goodbye" Pippin animatic! The fact that Billy Boyd sings The Last Goodbye always makes it feel like a 'missing Pippin song' to me. The line "I saw the light fade from the sky" always reminds me of the moment in Gondor where Pippin sees the stars vanish behind the clouds of Mordor. This animatic is also directly based on/is a study of shots in ROTK-- so if you're really Deep Into It you might be able to pick out exactly what specific scenes I'm referencing. I may continue drawing out the full song, but I've had this opening bit in my head very vividly for a while.

[gandalf-the-fool]

[anghraine]

I doubt I'll live to see it, but I was just thinking of how interesting it would be to have an adaptation of LOTR with largely diegetic music. Not ironically, either! There's so much music in LOTR, and Middle-earth's world-building is so deeply interwoven with literal music—and it's not that I don't really enjoy a lot of the non-diegetic Middle-earth music that exists, but a version in which you really feel how deeply musical the world is for the characters would be so cool.

[fuckyeahelijahwoodfan]

Elijah wood and Billy boyd at Atlanta comic con singing 😍

[morecaffeineplease]

hot take: the lord of the rings movies should've been musicals

[daftmooncretin]

saw a post on here that was basically like oh frodo and sam were suffering on the quest meanwhile merry and pippin just partied and its like yeah frodo and sams journey was terrible but are we forgetting Merry and Pippin:

watched Boromir die trying to save them

got kidnapped and starved and beaten by orcs

got separated just after getting reunited with the others (didnt know if they would see eachother again)

WENT TO WAR (pippin is basically a teenager in hobbit years)

fought in the shire uprising.

Like yeah of course it was worse for Sam and Frodo but my poor hobbits went through absolute life changing trauma why are yall acting like all they did was get wasted in rohan.

[richie-shitlips]

woah, a non-marvin trilogy cover??? wow!

extraordinary the npd anthem

[tobbogan-13]

WHY IS THE E5 AT THE END OF SIMPLE JOYS SO BELTY?????

[sing-you-fools]

I like how sometimes we say things like, okay, opinions aside, which one's better? As if that's not inherently a matter of opinion when it comes to pretty much anything we have these conversations about. We may be able to take a step back and say "okay, I like [thing] a lot but can recognize that it sucks," but even if a lot of people agree that something is both likable and terrible (Twilight, maybe), the criteria we use to determine something’s quality just aren't going to line up perfectly from person to person.

You can take a piece of writing and have two people with literature degrees disagree about whether it's well written, because as much as some people like to pretend, that's simply not an objective thing. We can put aside our particular biases about specific pieces of media for the sake of a conversation, but we can't put opinions aside entirely.

When I think about what makes a song good, for example, the biggest factor for me is: How fun is it to sing? Because for me, that's the point of a song. (Oh, I don’t mean fun like wheee yay giggle. It's more broad than that. Interesting? Challenging? Stimmy? I'm not sure exactly how to put it, so I'm sticking with fun.) My brain doesn't get a whole lot out of just listening to a song, especially if it's not one I already know (#autism), and I don't really know what else to go by. In my head, a song being Good To Sing Along To means it has fulfilled its purpose well and is therefore a Good Song.

All of this is to say that the Best Queen Song Tournament is going to kill me. Because my main criteria is "which one's more fun to sing along to?" and the answer to that is invariably "Freddie Mercury," because he knocked that out of the park every fucking time. It's not helpful.

Is this entire post a convoluted excuse to point out that when I say Was It All Worth It should be winning on instrumentals alone, that should mean something, dammit? I don't have to answer this.

[softlyapollo]

@ broadway: revive pippin again you cowards

[laneynoir]

Had a dream last night that I went to a concert. Like Symphony concert. And they just played the LOTR sound track.

[danger-xylophones]

I did an A Capella cover of Pippin's song lol

With a shit ton of reverb cause it sounded cool

[tiredesperdad]

Me watching lotr alone: crying so much I give myself a headache

Me watching lotr with friends: did you know that hobbits love mushrooms?

[obaewankenope]

It's the dichotomy between the scenes. The dissonance of a lord eating with nary a care while soldiers ride to death and despair with an "innocent" mourning them and the lord caring not for the song and its meaning, only that it entertains him while he eats.

Just-

I don’t think any movie will make me feel the same ethereal sense of otherworldly sorrow and disembodied awe as that scene in Lord of the Rings where the loyal son is sent off into a doomed battle to please his vindictive father while Pippin sings a mourning song of his people

I was like 12 and high off this shit

[art-of-firefly]

Thinking of how Legolas began to feel the call of the sea, irresistible and overwhelming, during the quest and yet waited until everyone in the fellowship died before leaving. Except Gimli of course, who he took with him.

He waited decades out of love and friendship.

Thinking about Merry and Pippin buried next to Aragorn.

Thinking about Eomer who called for Merry at the end of his life, to see him one more time before he passed away.

Thinking about Sam who, after Rosie passed away, left Middle Earth to see Frodo one more time before his own death.

Thinking about Legolas and Aragorn singing for Boromir, Merry and Pippin who owe their lives to him praising his deeds and bravery.

Thinking about Gimli, who walked the Path of the Dead out of love of Aragorn and visited Fangorn forest out of love of Legolas.

Thinking about Gandalf, who feels responsible for the heavy burden he placed on Bilbo and Frodo, and who took them with him to Aman, traveling with them one last time to bring them somewhere where they will finally know peace.

The love i have for them.