The folks at Crooked Timber (who – along with Brad DeLong – don’t need my traffic, as a look at our referrer logs will readily enough show) is talking about the latest “No way! Way!” to hit the buzzosphere: Lord of the Rings musical planned. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I tried to avoid mashing that in with any number of Broadway musicals.
I failed.
(UPDATE: I also failed to say what it was ripped off; the Terrace Duet from the musical Chess, more or less)
G: This is the one situation
I wanted most to avoid
Nothing I say will convince
him I’ve changed my mind
S: A moth on a rainy night
I relax, he smiles
There’s sudden updrafts now
Coming on
G: So with immaculate timing
I’m left to jump off the top
Embarrassed, encumbered and wet –
S: No, he can’t be flying away
I mean, hey,
he’s left his wizard’s staff behind here
but where is he?
G: Et tu, Radagast?
He set me up for this … or didn’t he?
S: Maybe he’s dumb, just as dumb
as in Valinor?
G: Ooooh, I just couldn’t care less,
he’s not in this film
Just like Tom and the rest.
S: Well at least he’s all half-frozen now…
G: What if my Eagle friend
Thinks that my plans
Are more the Rivendell kind
If I don’t say something here soon, he’ll go:
Got to go to Rohan, tonight…
Well at least they can actually try and work the Gray Havens song into something more meaningful than the credits this time.
This seems relevant.
Wagner already did that. Actually, my kid’s piano teacher recalls fondly her college days when she was called upon to study the Wagner Ring and then write a small opera based on the Tolkien Ring.
Oh my bob. Tell me this is a joke. It’s all kinds of wrong. If anyone tries this, I will personally go to NY or London or wherever and rip their cochleas out.
On the other hand, they’ve made art songs out of Rummy’s “poetry.” Click on my blog to find the link where you can listen. Like, totally surreal, dude.
Opus, thanks. I quite like the “Unknowns” song. Not exactly subtle settings, but fun.