hi!!! first time posting so idk if anyone is going to be actually interested in this, but
some time ago i created this playlist that i'm quite proud of and that basically follows the story of the four hobbits (and then mainly sam and frodo's) in LOTR. it's meant to be listened to in order since every song, or couple of songs, are tied to specific chapters of the books.
so yeah, here's the playlist and below im gonna list the chapters and explain which songs are tied to which chapter, in case anyone's curious :) (sorry if it's incredibly long, i just got too excited about it heh)
(i also have a samfro playlist, maybe i'll share that one too in the future)
The Fellowship Of The Ring
"Concerning Hobbits" (this is meant to be an introduction to the shire, hobbits and shire life and, of course, bilbo <3)
Prelude
The clouded annals Of History
Pazu's fanfare
The Shire
Bag End
The ballad Of Bilbo Baggins
Trois pommes
"A Long Expected Party" (soundtrack to bilbo's 111th birthday party!! also yes i know "the green dragon" is sung in rotk, but we're mainly following book canon here so it doesn't matter)
Hobbit festival
Party in the Shire
Hobbit tunes
Bilbo Baggins' birthday background
Flaming red hair
The Green Dragon
Hobbit's dance
"Three Is Company / A Short Cut To Mushrooms" (frodo, sam & pippin leave hobbiton)
The journey begins
The greatest adventure
Like a hobbit in a mushroom field
"A Conspiracy Unmasked" (stopping at crickhollow + dinner with fatty bolger)
We must away!
"The Old Forest / In The House Of Tom Bombadil" (i know some of these songs don't quite follow book canon, but i wanted something that sounded like it could be sung by all four hobbits together, (also the songs are too good to leave out))
Hobbit walking song
The road goes on
Patient is the night
Adelaide's trap
Tom Bombadil's song (I)
Old Tom Bombadil
(i left out "fog on the barrow downs" (as well as a few other chapters, you'll see) because as much as i love the wight's chant, especially the tolkien ensemble's version with christopher lee, i wanted this playlist to be something that could be listened to in the background while reading or drawing or even driving and i felt that it didn't quite fit the vibe i was going for)
"At The Sign Of The Prancing Pony"
The cat and the moon
"A Knife In The Dark"
Weathertop
"Flight To The Ford" (i'll never leave out sam's singing in this chapter, it's one of my favorite scenes ever <3)
Sam's rhyme of the troll
"Many Meetings" ("come back to the valley" is actually from the hobbit, but i think it fits here too, maybe bilbo forced the elves to sing his praises to the four hobbits? i feel it's something he would do)
Rivendell
Come back to the valley
"The Ring Goes South" (listen, it's a lotr playlist, "soldier poet king" had to be there)
I sit beside the fire and think
Soldier, poet, king
"The Mirror Of Galadriel"
Lament for Gandalf
"The Breaking Of The Fellowship"
May it be
The Two Towers
(there's not much here except for some samfro stuff, since i absolutely love book IV and, again, i wanted to put something entish here, but everything i found didn't quite fit the vibe. all the same, i couldn't leave the rohirrim out)
"The King Of The Golden Hall / Helm's Deep"
The riders of Rohan
"Journey To The Cross-Roads" (also called "sam and frodo flirting")
Samwise the Brave
Now and for always
"Shelob's Lair / The Choices Of Master Samwise"
Come wayward souls
The Return Of The King
(here i mainly followed the timeline of the movies i guess)
"The Tower Of Cirith Ungol" (i cant even begin to explain how much this chapter and this song specifically have affected my life, but they're so so so so special to me)
In Western Lands
"The Siege Of Gondor / The Battle Of The Pelennor Fields" (i had to put in something for faramir and eowyn, i couldn't leave them out of the playlist <3)
The sacrifice of Faramir
Merry's simple courage
The battle of Evermore
The Rider
"The Black Gate Opens / Mount Doom"
For Frodo
Mount Doom
The Sun yet shines
"The Field Of Cormallen" ("there beneath" sounds how ithilien looks to me)
The Sun also rises
There beneath
"The Steward And The King" (the farawyn song!! i couldn't resist, i love them your honor)
Would that I
"Homeward Bound" (sorry if this one is too obvious but i had to, it's too perfect) (also yes i left out the scouring, but i think "sing all ye joyful" could fit as the victory song after saruman's death)
Homeward bound
Sing all ye joyful
"The Grey Havens" (i could, and probably will, make a million playlists about post-quest frodo and post-quest samfro only, but i think these three songs encapsulate my feelings about them well enough)
Old black train
Thus always to tyrants
The road goes ever on... pt. 2 / In dreams
and if someone's still here to read this, thanks for sticking with me through my ramblings lol <3 !!!
i love this story and these characters so so much and i wish i could talk about them all day everyday but for now doing stuff like this will have to do
They curled up in their cloaks and blankets, and were soon fast asleep. A fox passing through the wood on business of his own stopped several minutes and sniffed.
“Hobbits!” he thought. “Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a hobbit sleeping out of doors under a tree. Three of them! There’s something mighty queer behind this.” He was quite right, but he never found out any more about it.
reading lord of the rings isn't enough anymore i need to be carried around frodo's neck for months and then cast back into the fiery chasm whence i came
"No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the world of savage beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate."
