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Post by Elvawen on Feb 23, 2005 20:16:52 GMT -5
It took me a month...and I finished ten minutes ago...but YES! I finally memorized ALL 125 lines of Bilbo's Song of Earendil! w00t! Talk about what to do when you're bored...lool...
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Post by Ktstar on Feb 23, 2005 20:41:34 GMT -5
Wow! That's a long time...but that's cool!
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Post by Arien Elensar on Feb 24, 2005 2:20:21 GMT -5
That's awesome Elvawen! Sadly, I don't have the time.
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Post by Lendril on Feb 25, 2005 21:53:35 GMT -5
Congrats! Sadly i dont have the time or attention span to memorize any of the songs/poems in the books.
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Post by Alassiel on Feb 26, 2005 20:05:15 GMT -5
Good for you Elvawen ;D I don't think I will ever find the time to do that  |
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Post by CirelondielElendil on Feb 26, 2005 21:35:51 GMT -5
but have you learned the ring poem? (duh!)
3 rings for the elven kings under the sky,
7 for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone.
9 for the mortal men doomed to die,
1 for the dark lord upon his dark throne.
in mordor where the shadows lie.
one ring to rule them all,
one ring to bind them.
one ring to bring them all,
and in the darkness bind them.
in mordor where the shadows lie
i think every LotR fan has! o well, i know stuff..........
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Post by Alessae on Feb 27, 2005 9:30:05 GMT -5
Yeah, I've learned the ring poem, thats probably the only one, thoug. Oh - and the song in the book Pippin sings to Denethor. Hey Elva - can you do cool things, like if I told you to tell me the twelfth line of the poem, would you be ble to do it?  |
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Post by Elvawen on Feb 27, 2005 9:42:51 GMT -5
Of course I've learned the Ring Poem! Lool. I've done a lot of LotR poems but this was the longest. - Song of Beren and Luthien - Lay of Gil-Galad - Ring Poem - Bath Song - Lament for Boromir - Elven Hymn to Elbereth Gilthoniel - Frodo's Lament for Gandalf - Drinking Song - Malbeth the Seer's Words - Bilbo's Song of Earendil. No, Alessae, I can't do that. ( ) But the twelfth line is "To set all wounds and harm from him." Maybe I'll work on doing that next.  |
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Post by CirelondielElendil on Feb 27, 2005 17:36:24 GMT -5
i could never be able to do that!
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Post by Annemari on Feb 27, 2005 18:26:27 GMT -5
Congrats! I don't know if I could do that.  I can memorize songs and poems easily (I was born from a family of folk musicians and rune-singers) but the stuff I memorize is always in Finnish. My native tongue. I'm not sure if I could remember an English poem 125 lines long. Maybe I should give it a try. After all, I have memorized the Drinking Song, the Ring Poem, and quite a few lines (dialogues) from the LotR movies and they are in English. ;D |
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Post by CirelondielElendil on Feb 27, 2005 20:46:45 GMT -5
Finnich, i only speak ENGLISH!!! but i can say like 3 things in Spanish maybe more and im taking french in 2 yrs
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Post by Inwë Eärfalas on Mar 1, 2005 14:59:03 GMT -5
I don't often deliberately try to memorize a song, but you just do,... From one moment to another, you seem to know it by heart.
Poems I can deliberately memorize, but for the moment I have other important things to stuff my brain with.
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Post by vikingmaiden on Mar 2, 2005 16:19:04 GMT -5
wow, that's great! i only know about one or two of the poems from lotr. i've set some to music too, but that's all.
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Post by Alessae on Mar 4, 2005 13:46:11 GMT -5
Exactly! From one moment to the other, you just KNOW IT.
I remember thinking Pippins song was brilliant, but I couldn't remember the lyrics for the life of me, but you know, I started to sing the first line th othr day and it all came flowing back!
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Post by Herenya on Mar 4, 2005 21:37:50 GMT -5
Elvawen! - that's impressive!
I've always memorised things - not always intentionally. (I write them out in the back of my school books when I am dying of boredem.) The first thing I remember memorising was a book called "Game over" when i was eight. I had totally forgotten it, but I came out with almost ALL of it the other day...
Then I memorised things from the Narnia books. I tried to remember the song Legolas sings (in the book) at the end of rotk, ("to the sea! the the sea! etc.) but there are two lines I never can remeber!
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