Talk:Music of Middle-earth

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Review: January 4, 2022. (Reviewed version).

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Reviewer: Jens Lallensack (talk · contribs) 16:59, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Will read soon. --Jens Lallensack (talk) 16:59, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Music is at the heart of the Ainulindalë, Quenya for – hard to understand for a non-expert. I suggest to explain these terms, especially here in the lead.
- Simplified and linked.

Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy is – should "Peter Jackson" be in italics?
- Fixed.

"most obviously" in the Ainulindale – link at first mention (also: legendarium), and here it has a different spelling?
- Fixed.

Eorl the Young – link?
- Linked.

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism treats the song as "fantasy medievalism" – which song? Several are listed.
- Ramble On.

reflected in the music of several rock bands – not all discussed in that section are rock music (only Led Zeppelin is, I think). Stick with "popular music" instead?
- Fixed.

That's all I have, looks good otherwise. --Jens Lallensack (talk) 18:50, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks! Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:03, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

icymi for another editor[edit]

Piotrus the Simarillion in particular may be of interest wrt your fictional religions Elinruby (talk) 18:35, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I did ask Chap about it. But thanks for the ping here, this is relevant to fictional music! _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:22, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Works missing from the article[edit]

There seem to be some notable works missing that ought to be mentioned in this article. In particular, the soundtrack to the Bakshi animated LOTR film (and also The Hobbit and ROTK from around the same time), and Paul Corfield Godfrey's opera cycle adapting tales from The Silmarillion. No doubt there are others.

Perhaps more broadly, I would question whether this page makes sense, since the in-universe music of Tolkien's world (eg the Ainulindale, the songs sung in LOTR, etc) is categorically quite a different topic than music inspired by Tolkien or made for adaptations of his work. Genedecanter (talk) 04:29, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Articles are never complete in a changing world, and they are limited in what can be said by whether citeable authorities have bothered to discuss certain works... but we can certainly seek to fill in a gap or two. I don't see an issue with the different categories as long as we mention that fact. Chiswick Chap (talk) 05:18, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]