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The credit for this week’s choice goes to my sister in law. She has extensive knowledge of hard rock and metal music, so I asked her for a song about the moon and stars. Next to a piece from Lindemann, she gave me this tip: “Song of Durin” by Clamavi De Profundis. In all honesty, I had never heard of the song, but since I have blogged about Tolkien and Lord of the Rings before, I thought it’d be a perfect match for my blog.
‘Song of Durin’ is a poem by Tolkien from ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’, a reply from the dwarf Gimli as the hobbit Samwise Gamgee complains about Moria. When I play Lord of the Rings Online, I always complain about Moria as it’s dark, and I always lose my way. So I have to agree with Sam here. But I love this poem. As stated in this informative blog post, it gives the race of dwarves depth and their own background. They are a race of beings with pride and a shared identity. Only Tolkien has managed to write so beautifully about this race. I hope you enjoy the poem and the musical version.
Song Lyrics Sunday is a prompt by Jim Adams, other entries can be found here: https://jimadamsauthordotcom.wordpress.com/2021/10/09/celestial/
The dwarf Gimli sounds Scottish to me, but this is a lovely song filled with beautiful harmonies. I really enjoyed listening to this music Liz, thanks for joining in again.
Thank you. I have no idea where Tolkien came up with the name Gimli, but as a gifted linguist I’m sure he had a decent source 😉
Love this 💜
The Lord of the Rings is one of the most complete stories I have read and seen, and I agree that the world of the dwarves is really great.
Yes, I love Middle Earth. Especially now, the darker the real world becomes, the more I feel the need to hide in Middle Earth 😉
Unfortunately, it is true that many of us share the same feeling about what it seems, that life, as we know it until now, seems to become more gray every day, wrapped in news that is increasingly sad.
We will have to recover our arcane knowledge and put on the path of the emerald path, the path of unconditional love.