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from ickplant@lemmy.world to lotrmemes@midwest.social on 02 Feb 15:55
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dotslashme@infosec.pub on 02 Feb 16:25 next collapse

Father of the year!

KillerTofu@lemmy.world on 02 Feb 16:28 next collapse

It should be read no other way.

MutilationWave@lemmy.world on 02 Feb 18:55 collapse

You can’t read it that way though, because that’s from the movie.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s awesome.

KillerTofu@lemmy.world on 02 Feb 19:35 collapse

Clearly I mean the intensity and commitment, not the words.

Metostopholes@midwest.social on 02 Feb 16:36 next collapse

The real question is if he’s singing all the songs.

photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 02 Feb 17:02 next collapse

What melodies can the songs be sung well to?

mcforest@feddit.org on 02 Feb 17:14 next collapse

Not knowing this always annoys me

Visstix@lemmy.world on 02 Feb 17:17 next collapse

I listened to the audiobook read by Rob Inglis and he sang all the songs. They made melodies for all of them.

grillgamesh@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 02 Feb 18:38 next collapse

I have epubs of the whole series, there are audio attachments titled “jrr Tolkien sings <poem / song>”, but sadly I’ve never been able to get them to play… :(

Techranger@infosec.pub on 02 Feb 21:33 collapse

Have you tried VLC?

grillgamesh@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 03 Feb 02:58 collapse

…no? its an epub, its embedded in the text of the book… I have tried MPV though, and it just spits out garbage.

notthebees@reddthat.com on 16 Feb 02:51 collapse

Open it with 7zip. Epubs are just zip files If it’s embedded in the file you’ll find it

gofsckyourself@lemmy.world on 02 Feb 21:13 collapse

Andy Serkis also narrated some audiobooks, but I have not listened to them. I hope he also sings.

TheOctonaut@mander.xyz on 02 Feb 18:31 next collapse

Mambo No 5

jaybone@lemmy.world on 02 Feb 19:58 collapse

The House of Bamboo.

Ok now I totally want to see a lounge / cocktail version of LOTR. Bilbo would be like an Austin Powers style 1970s spy swinger. Ya baby.

Apeman42@lemmy.world on 02 Feb 20:08 next collapse

Legolas’ song about Nimrodel is in the common meter, and thus can be sung to the tune of Gilligan’s Island.

Edit: Or House of the Rising Sun, if you prefer.

Hupf@feddit.org on 03 Feb 18:29 collapse

Pachelbel?

Absolute_Axoltl@feddit.uk on 02 Feb 20:27 collapse

I’m literally doing this for my boys at the moment (l finished tonight’s installment a few minutes ago) and can honestly say I’m definitely trying! Sometimes I pick a meter or melody (?) and just hope it’s going to roughly work!

EarMaster@lemmy.world on 02 Feb 17:02 next collapse

So he shows them the movies…because that’s not at all how it’s phrased in the books…

lunarul@lemmy.world on 02 Feb 18:24 collapse

Or she didn’t read the books and that’s the quote she could come up with.

Thalion@lemmy.ca on 03 Feb 00:41 collapse

Or the whole thing is made up because it’s the internet.

TheMinions@lemmy.world on 02 Feb 17:23 next collapse

What age would you all suggest for reading LOTR to your kids?

I remember watching the movies when I was around 7 or 8 and the scene with the Urak-Hai hatching freaked me out so bad I didn’t watch the rest of the movies until I was 18.

phdepressed@sh.itjust.works on 02 Feb 17:31 next collapse

Every child is different and reading is different than watching. The movies were pg-13, the books probably fit that determination as well. But when a particular child is actually “ready” has to be determined by parent and to some degree the child.

There’s no uruk-hai hatch scene in the books at least. I read them starting at 7 or 8ish myself and don’t recall any related nightmares.

hydrashok@sh.itjust.works on 02 Feb 17:38 collapse

I read it to my kids when they were each around 7-8 years old. They still have not yet watched the movies.

There are scary parts, but it makes the resolution that much sweeter. But they were also prepared for it because we were reading at that level. I didn’t go from Dr Seuss to Tolkien.

(Also, as a casual book nerd, if you’re at the point of reading LOTR to your kids, I’d also highly recommend reading them Moby Dick.)

Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world on 02 Feb 19:33 collapse

I wish my kid could sit still for that kind of thing. We have been at the Hobbit for over two months and we just now got to the trolls.

hydrashok@sh.itjust.works on 02 Feb 17:29 next collapse

It’s like the coolest scene in the movie, too. Bernard Hill crushed it.

Norin@lemmy.world on 02 Feb 17:39 collapse

He puts on an acting master class throughout.

The scene where he weeps over his son’s grave is straight up heartbreaking.

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today on 02 Feb 18:40 collapse

“Alas, that these evil days should be mine. The young perish and the old linger. That I should live to see that last days of my house.”

😥

Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee on 03 Feb 00:01 collapse

Sing a goddamn LOTR song, lose your American citizen ship immediately, and forced to work in the cartel tunnels. You have been warned.