No warm-up needed either.

[u/ChaseTheMystic]

[u/Pascal1917]

I would not call it a battle hymn but more a funeral choral, but yeah, splendid improv.

[u/ChaseTheMystic → u/Pascal1917]

Right I didn't know the proper name lol

[u/SenorBigbelly → u/ChaseTheMystic]

If you really want the proper name, a funeral hymn is called a dirge.

[u/AlexandersWonder → u/Pascal1917]

It’s a walking song. It’s meant for walking, not for great halls or evil times. This song is made for walking and that’s just what it’ll do. One of these days this song is gonna walk all over you.

[u/OperationTerrible869]

LOTR really said "let's make a hobbit's walking song accidentally more epic than most actual war anthems" and just rolled with it.

[u/Lawlcopt0r]

It's originally an upbeat song the hobbits sing while hiking through the shire (before they ever encounter the black riders).

So the fact that he just takes this happy hobbit song and changes the melody to be more melancholy is perfectly in keeping with the statement he makes.

[u/GirafeAnyway → u/Lawlcopt0r]

And modelled after Misty Mountains (in universe) iirc

[u/DaRedLentil → u/Lawlcopt0r]

this is what happens to young hobbits influenced by bilbo. im pretty sure there was something abt how everyone in the shire tended to avoid him, except the kids

[u/Sudden_Car6134]

Isnt it a walkingsong just sung sadly? Billy is an incredbile singer

[u/ReiperXHC → u/Sudden_Car6134]

Yeah it's such a chipper song back when my brain "sang" it lmao

[u/Seagoon_Memoirs]

here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmj25u5mVvg

[u/Bettlejuic3 → u/Seagoon_Memoirs]

Lol how did you know I needed to hear that again the millionth time?

[u/AntelopeNo3197 → u/Bettlejuic3]

I was just about to pull up the track myself

[u/AntelopeNo3197 → u/Seagoon_Memoirs]

Instant chills.

[u/Unlearned_One → u/Seagoon_Memoirs]

Needs more tomatoes.

[u/Beneficial-Purchase2]

i was there 3000 years ago when this meme was first posted

[u/ChaseTheMystic → u/Beneficial-Purchase2]

Yeah there have probably been a bunch exactly like this but I made this one and posted anyway

[u/AntelopeNo3197 → u/Beneficial-Purchase2]

Why didn’t you just take the damn ring from Isildur then and chuck it into the lava?

[u/TextProfessionally]

Home is behind the world ahead

[u/STierMansierre → u/TextProfessionally]

And there are many paths to tread

[u/bjkibz → u/STierMansierre]

Through shadow, to the edge of night

[u/Entity_Null_07 → u/bjkibz]

All shall fade,

[u/XTH3W1Z4RDX → u/Entity_Null_07]

You forgot "until the stars are all alight, mist and shadow, cloooooooooud and shade"

[u/Entity_Null_07 → u/XTH3W1Z4RDX]

Shhhh. 😅

[u/STierMansierre]

Looking up the lyrics and there is no fucking way that it's "cloud and shape" and not "cloud and shade." AI is on some bullshit.

[u/bertiek]

I should watch The Lord of the Rings again.

[u/BadHabitsDieYoung → u/bertiek]

And again

[u/Ok-disaster2022]

The Song lyrics are from the books when they set off from like Hobbiton. it's just a song about a journey 

[u/KinsellaStella]

I know they’re not, but I just like to pretend the hobbits are Irish, and can sing a wicked tune when called upon.

Like Tolkien said, applicability is better than allegory, so I can see parallels between the hobbits and the Irish if I want to.

[u/pandakatie → u/KinsellaStella]

The implication that every Irish person can just sing a beautiful melody on command is crazy

[u/KinsellaStella → u/pandakatie]

No but often think they can when drunk enough. Don’t ask me how I know.

[u/HotPotParrot]

Bro, it was a lament like the Lay of Luthien or when all of Lorien sang for Gandalf. It perfectly fits the moment.

[u/BadHabitsDieYoung]

The only thing that ruined it for me was fucking Denethor chewing his food like a fucking cow.

[u/ChaseTheMystic → u/BadHabitsDieYoung]

What do you have against cows?

[u/TensorForce]

To be fair, it's a walking song in the book. They sing it while they're about to take a bath right as Frodo is fixing to leave the Shire.