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⌈ Secret Post #5041 ⌋

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[Ghosts]

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[The Toxic World of Tess Holliday and Fat Activism | Politics, Lies... and Health? (youtube video)]

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[The Haunting of Bly Manor]

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Since there are so many LOTR fans here tonight, I thought I'd recommend this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zGTrNDVqpE

Johan de Meij's Symphony No.1: Lord of the Rings, performed in collaboration with a sand artist. It tells the entire story of LOTR using the media of orchestra music and pictures drawn live.

The symphony was written in the 1980s, so it has nothing to do with the films. It is very film-score-like, though, with themes for characters and places – for example, the theme at the very beginning is Gandalf's, and you'll hear it again throughout the symphony. The second theme, the one that's fast, is for Gandalf's horse Shadowfax, and so on.

The symphony has five movements:
1. Gandalf
2. Lothlórien
3. Gollum
4. Journey in the Dark (The Mines of Moria - The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm)
5. Hobbits
The order is not chronological for music theory reasons but for the performance with the sand artist, they played the movements in chronological order with Journey in the Dark in second place.

It's a pretty cool piece of fanart. I hope you like it! If you have any question about the music, want me to explain the themes or anything, ask!

I've played the hobbit suite and it was one of the most fun times I've ha (second clarinet ftw, even if there was a bleeding trill between a and c#, what kind of monster does that). That piece just captures hobbits in general and the Frodo's story in particular in a way nothing else ever has. I'll confess that I haven't listened a lot to the other parts of it, though. Guess ut comes with the territory of "was always into LotR for the hobbits and maybe the dwarces I guess", heh.

Hobbits is fun! It's so bouncy and warm and nice. The other movements can be more challenging to listen to, I'll admit. The first time I heard Journey and especially Gollum, I did not like them at all; too boring and too weird, respectively. But with the sand pictures they get infinitely more palatable for first-time listeners. And the movements make each other better, with themes crossing over and stuff, like how Hobbits begins with Gandalf's theme and ends with the Elves'.

Have you heard de Meij's The Wind in the Willows? All very melodious and nice, like Hobbits. Well, except for one movement, which has some comical shenanigans, like a trombone with a (toilet) plunger mute playing a drunk frog driving a car, very convincingly, with the percussion section kicking a table full of pots, tins and scrap metal off the stage when he crashes into a tree.

Whoa, that sand art is so cool. I hadn't heard the music before either, thanks for posting.

Isn't it?! I was fortunate enough to see a live performance with that artist and that piece (different orchestra, though). I bought the ticket for the music, and when I read about the "sand artist" I was like, what? Sounds stupid, but whatever. And then I saw it, and it was amazing!

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