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Eruanna
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| SpaceWeavil wrote: | | Eruanna wrote: |
The FLIP side of this is a serious opera of LOTR sung in Italian. The elves, those beardless beauties, would probably all be castrati! NO, cancel that...bad idea...
--Eruanna |
Apart from the castrati thing, I've always wanted someone to do LOTR as an opera...so long as it wasn't Philip Glass... |
I would want something very Donizetti and very melodramatic! (Think Lucia de Lammermoor!)
(Sorry about the castrati thing, it's just that elves are beardless...) 
I think Wagner would be a little cliche with all of the armour. I think Parsifal and Lohengrin, too.
Yes, a skillfully done grande opera would be MAGNIFICENT! Heck, I would see that! In Italian, of course. Haldir, naturally, would be a magnificent countertenor role. No male elf role sung lower than a tenor, with Galdalf as a baritone! Saruman as a bass.
Galadriel--a soprano, naturally!
--Eruanna
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SpaceWeavil
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| Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 5:12 pm Post subject: Re: Song |
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| Eruanna wrote: | | SpaceWeavil wrote: | | Eruanna wrote: |
The FLIP side of this is a serious opera of LOTR sung in Italian. The elves, those beardless beauties, would probably all be castrati! NO, cancel that...bad idea...
--Eruanna |
Apart from the castrati thing, I've always wanted someone to do LOTR as an opera...so long as it wasn't Philip Glass... |
I would want something very Donizetti and very melodramatic! (Think Lucia de Lammermoor!)
(Sorry about the castrati thing, it's just that elves are beardless...)
I think Wagner would be a little cliche with all of the armour. I think Parsifal and Lohengrin, too.
Yes, a skillfully done grande opera would be MAGNIFICENT! Heck, I would see that! In Italian, of course. Haldir, naturally, would be a magnificent countertenor role. No male elf role sung lower than a tenor, with Galdalf as a baritone! Saruman as a bass.
Galadriel--a soprano, naturally!
--Eruanna |
No, not Italian....wouldn't it be fab to have it sung in Sindarin and / or Quenya? That'd be fantastic.
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Eruanna
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| Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 5:32 pm Post subject: Re: Song |
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| Quote: | | No, not Italian....wouldn't it be fab to have it sung in Sindarin and / or Quenya? That'd be fantastic |
Yes, Sindarin!  Sindarin would lend itself very well to music. It sounds Gaelic (like Welsh!)
(I am such an Italian opera fan, though, LOL!)
How about the Silmarillion in opera!!! YES!
Sung in Quenya!
Everyone would carry a harp...and the scene of Luthien in Neldoreth would be incredible!
--Eru
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| Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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hmm. yes. i'm SURE that would happen. 
it's hard enough translating a few lines in a fic into sindarin - the WHOLE FREAKIN TRILOGY???
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just thinkning logically, you understand!
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Eruanna
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| Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 5:40 pm Post subject: wtf |
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| Texasgirl wrote: | | just thinkning logically, you understand! |
Yes, LOL!  Maybe just a short song or two to set the tone!
I know that some lines of Elvish in the films made it into the music.
The only Italian I know is from the opera (and my friend's mom from high school).
I still think the elves as countertenors would be interesting... Pretty creature singing from the treetops, their voices falling like soft rain from above.
In all seriousness, there IS A LOT of singing, esp. in the Lorien scenes. I just hope the musical does not mangle this!
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SpaceWeavil
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| Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 5:52 pm Post subject: Re: wtf |
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| Eruanna wrote: | | Texasgirl wrote: | | just thinkning logically, you understand! |
Yes, LOL! Maybe just a short song or two to set the tone!
I know that some lines of Elvish in the films made it into the music.
The only Italian I know is from the opera (and my friend's mom from high school).
I still think the elves as countertenors would be interesting... Pretty creature singing from the treetops, their voices falling like soft rain from above.
In all seriousness, there IS A LOT of singing, esp. in the Lorien scenes. I just hope the musical does not mangle this!
--Eruanna |
I started a completely pointless project some time ago - translating Les Miserables the musical into Sindarin. I know there is no point to that whatsoever, but it gave me something to do when I couldn't get the muse to strike for fics. I got the entire prologue done and I was onto Act One I believe, when I completely forgot about it.
You know, I think I might do a Sindarin short opera thing. For the same purpose - a muse restorer.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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spacey, you are one motivated woman. 
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| Texasgirl wrote: | | spacey, you are one motivated woman. |
Nah, I just have nothing better to do.
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Eruanna
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| Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 6:58 pm Post subject: song |
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| SpaceWeavil wrote: | | Texasgirl wrote: | | spacey, you are one motivated woman. |
Nah, I just have nothing better to do. |
Then again, you can always translate "Men in Tights" into Sindarin.
--Eruanna 
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| Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:30 pm Post subject: Re: song |
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| Eruanna wrote: | | SpaceWeavil wrote: | | Texasgirl wrote: | | spacey, you are one motivated woman. |
Nah, I just have nothing better to do. |
Then again, you can always translate "Men in Tights" into Sindarin.
--Eruanna |
Never say things like that to someone who's bored. 
*ahem*
Edain ned thelchammad
Rannam ned eryn, ar tiriennin dhagrad
Edain ned thelchammad
Ritham valt ar annam nan gwaith na anírad
Thuiam aen ‘weneb
Dan tirio vith, egor ed tammatham galad
Edain ned thelchammad
Ned uir tiriennin i dyr ar i leithad
I thank you. *bows*
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Eruanna
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| Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:23 pm Post subject: Re: song |
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| Quote: | Edain ned thelchammad
Rannam ned eryn, ar tiriennin dhagrad
Edain ned thelchammad
Ritham valt ar annam nan gwaith na anírad
Thuiam aen ‘weneb
Dan tirio vith, egor ed tammatham galad
Edain ned thelchammad
Ned uir tiriennin i dyr ar i leithad |
Oh, Weavil:
THAT WAS PURE MAGIC!!!!!
That was incredible. You are the goddess of Elvish and my hat is off to you!
 Now, let's set that to music!
--Eruanna, trying to sing the tune in Sindarin...
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my God...i take that back, spacey - you simply have no life.....
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Eruanna
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| Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:33 pm Post subject: Words |
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| Texasgirl wrote: | | my God...i take that back, spacey - you simply have no life..... |
How did you arrive at "sissies" in Sindarin??? What is the transliteration of that???
--Eruanna
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| Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:53 pm Post subject: Re: Words |
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| Eruanna wrote: | | Texasgirl wrote: | | my God...i take that back, spacey - you simply have no life..... |
How did you arrive at "sissies" in Sindarin??? What is the transliteration of that???
--Eruanna |
It's actually 'girl-like'
Closest I could get. 
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