I'm reading The Hobbit to the kids right now, and whatever else I think about PJ's trilogy, it sure is nice to have "official" tunes to go with most of the songs!
Zoe: Nobody's saying that, sir. Wash: Yeah, we're pretty much just giving each other significant glances and laughing incessantly.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Dec 15, 2014 6:07:43 pm PST #12702 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
-t - Dec 15, 2014 6:12:14 pm PST #12703 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have ground veal and ground pork and ground beef right now, I think that might mean I need to make meatloaf. Not that I have ever made meatloaf like that, but I understand it is done.
Atropa - Dec 15, 2014 6:14:44 pm PST #12704 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I was introduced to The Hobbit at a very early age, and I used to have all the songs memorized.
I can still recite most of Tim Benzadrine's poem from Bored of the Rings, does that count?
(In retrospect, the fact that my dad handed Bored of the Rings over to me and my best friend when we were 10 is kind of mindboggling.)
Connie Neil - Dec 15, 2014 6:19:42 pm PST #12705 of 30000
brillig
Bored of the Rings
Pity stayed his hand. It was a pity he was out of bullets.
DebetEsse - Dec 15, 2014 6:19:52 pm PST #12706 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Ginger, me, too on the Frost from L'Engle!
erikaj - Dec 15, 2014 6:40:10 pm PST #12707 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Unfortunately, TV stuff probably took up a lot of my poetry-memorizing faculties. I totally think of Coach in re Albania also so whatever my mom thinks, I'm not really like Rachel Maddow. I did just quote that Homicide thing about Montel Williams to Montel Williams, for what that's worth.
-t - Dec 15, 2014 6:48:07 pm PST #12708 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I did just quote that Homicide thing about Montel Williams to Montel Williams, for what that's worth.
For real? What an age we live in where such things are possible.
§ ita § - Dec 15, 2014 6:50:00 pm PST #12709 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I see nothing wrong with spreading myself around!
I was the only one of us two that got spread, so...
TMI? Yeah.
Tone Loc's Spunky Cold Medina just came on, and after said ex-roomie tried to bang my BF on his way out of Montreal, I caught up with him, staying in my cousin's house near the Spadina metro stop. Oh, we sang. Spunky cold spadina!
(she's the friend that knew Zoe and posted here for sec).
As for memorisation, I do remember committing the hobbit songs to memory on a driving trip from London up through the Lake District and southern Scotland. I think I even knew my parents were driven to life-ending despair. But I was 15 at the most, so I didn't care.
I can't spell it right, but:
Ash nagz durbatuluk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nasg thrakasomething, agh b-something krimpatul.
What? It's hard.
eta:
What an age we live in where such things are possible
It is miraculous, cf wondrous man poem from whoever.
dcp - Dec 15, 2014 7:30:02 pm PST #12710 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
it sure is nice to have "official" tunes to go with most of the songs!
When I get to the Lake-men singing "The King beneath the mountains" I always hear it to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas."
erikaj - Dec 15, 2014 7:41:06 pm PST #12711 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
t, it's true, but if he hasn't heard of it, I may look crazy, even if we are now pissed off at the same jerky Senator.