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zarabia
Tol Eressea
Jul 24 2014, 6:57am
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Do you have a personal anthem/theme song? (A music thread of sorts)
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I don't necessarily mean a favorite song, but rather one that reflects your attitude towards a certain situation or your general outlook on life. Or maybe one that inspires you when things are tough.
Okay, don't laugh, but mine is Fighter by Christine Aguilera. I've not been "done wrong" by someone; but I have a medical condition that, though I'd much rather do without, I am in a way grateful to for the strength it's shown me I possess.
So do any of you have an anthem? They can be silly or serious. 
Only when we stop stopping our lives can we begin to start starting them. - Prof. Whitman, Community
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Tol Eressea
Jul 24 2014, 7:16am
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In case you aren't familiar with the song or if you've never paid attention to the lyrics
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBOJpIwF47Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Here's the address of the video with lyrics. (I don't know how to make an actual link using my phone) Of course not all of the words are germane. It's the attitude that inspires me.
Only when we stop stopping our lives can we begin to start starting them. - Prof. Whitman, Community
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Starling
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Jul 24 2014, 7:22am
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But if I could only choose one it would be Heroes.
Great question!
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zarabia
Tol Eressea
Jul 24 2014, 7:48am
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zarabia
Tol Eressea
Jul 24 2014, 7:51am
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That's an excellent choice! One of Bowie's best, which is saying something considering how many fantastic songs he's put out.
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Maciliel
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Jul 24 2014, 11:37am
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what a great question, thanks for posing it, zarabia.
mine, most firmly, would be the battle of the pelennor fields, with the lighting of the beacons as a prelude. i'd also say it's the battle of the pelennor fields right through the houses of healing. i have a long anthem.
cheers --
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aka. fili orc-enshield
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the scene, as i understand it, is exceptionally well-written. fili (in sort of a callback to the scene with the eagles), calls out "thorRIIIIIIN!!!" just as he sees the pale orc veer in for the kill. he picks up the severed arm of an orc which is lying on the ground, swings it up in desperation, effectively blocking the pale orc's blow. and thus, forever after, fili is known as "fili orc-enshield."
this earns him deep respect from his hard-to-please uncle. as well as a hug. kili wipes his boots on the pale orc's glory box. -- maciliel telpemairo
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sevilodorf
Tol Eressea
Jul 24 2014, 12:13pm
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About a million years ago- I have never found the authors if anyone knows more about this song please let me know. The song's refrain:
One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready as off into the world I go
The verses tell of the butcher,the baker and the candlestick maker
If I were a butcher I would be able to set the world down at my table. I'd work all night and not go to bed til the world was the color of the very well fed.
If I were a baker in a bakery shoppe I'd work all night and never stop til all the world had cookies and pies and love was the color of the children's eyes.
A candlestick maker I shall be and light a candle for the world to see and one fine day when the darkness is gone the world will be the color of dawn
Not sure I've lived up to he ideals during my life but I've tried
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Magpie
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Jul 24 2014, 1:51pm
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The Happy Man which is a traditional English song often used for Morris Dancing. How happy's that man that's free from all care
That loves to make merry, that loves to make merry
O'er a drop of good beer
With his pipe and his friends puffing hours away
Singing song after song 'till he hails the new day
He can laugh, dance and sing and smoke without fear,
Be as happy as a king 'till he hails a new year.
It's a bit dated (who smokes a pipe anymore) and male skewed, but I relate to the state of mind and camaraderie it promotes.
I paired it with a quote from the Hobbit: If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. ...in my Tolkien quote cards project. You can see the lyrics for the entire song and listen to it by visiting this page of my website:http://www.amagpiesnest.com/a/quotecards/41.htm
The bells you hear in the song are the ones tied to the legs of the Morris Dancers and the clacking is the striking of their sticks.
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Annael
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Jul 24 2014, 3:53pm
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This song got me through my divorce, for instance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxu6wJe2ACY
To be sane we must recognize our beliefs as fictions.
- James Hillman, Healing Fiction
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Kim
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Jul 24 2014, 3:59pm
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A friend assigned that one to me a long time ago - still mostly fits.  
"Jagatud rõõm on topelt rõõm - a shared joy is a double joy". ~Estonian saying
“As such, you will address His Majesty as His Majesty, the Lord of Silver Fountains, the King of Carven Stone, the King Beneath the Mountain, the Lion of Erebor, the High King of the Dwarves, the True Treasure of Erebor, the Face that Launched 10,000 Sighs, or Thorin the Majestic..."
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Otaku-sempai
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Jul 24 2014, 5:08pm
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The closest thing I have to a personal anthem is probably "I Won't Back Down" by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. It represents an ideal that I would like to live up to more often.
'There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.' - Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Jul 24 2014, 11:15pm
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Hmmmm....maybe "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"
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though my favorite song of all time is "Over the Rainbow'.
A while back my daughter and I each sat down and made up a list of songs that we called our personal hymnals. Here was my list, divided into songs that aren't really hymns but feel like it, and actual hymns:
Not-really-hymns:
Over the Rainbow
Handyman
Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Rainbow Connection
Bitola [a Macedonian folk dance song of longing for a hometown]
Kendime [a Turkish folk dance song about being true to one's self]
In Western Lands [Sam's song of hope in Mordor]
Under African Skies [from Graceland. The wordless chorus is what transports me]
Gonzo's Wishing Song
I See the Light [from Tangled]
There's a Light [from Rocky Horror Picture Show]
Well I Wonder [from Cotton Patch Gospel]
Iridescent [Linkin Park]
Row On ["Row on, another day may shine with brighter light. Ply, ply the oars and pull away; there's dawn beyond the night."]
Song of Seikilos
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
Hymns:
We are a Gentle Angry People [we sang this at the candlelight vigil for Matt Shepard when he was dying]
Dona Nobis Pacem [we sang this at the candlelight vigil for Matt Shepard when he was dying]
O We Give Thanks for this Precious Day [I sang this to my mom before she died]
May We Have Safe Passage [I sang this to my mom just after she died]
How Great Thou Art [sung at services for my great-grandmother and my two grandmothers]
This is my Song, Oh God of all the Nations [we sang this at Buckhorn after 9-11]
May Nothing Evil Cross this Door [we sang this after Columbine and 9-11]
Amazing Grace [we sang this when Tom Sutherland came home from captivity]
A Long Long Way the Sea-Winds Blow
This is my Father's [or Mother's] World
Abide With Me
Now on Land and Sea Descending
Now the Green Blade Riseth
Be Thou my Vision
God of Grace and God of Glory
Stables [Peter Mayer's great Christmas carol]
Blue Boat Home
Lord of the Dance
Lady of the Seasons' Laughter
We Shall Overcome
There's a River Flowing in my Soul
There is More Love Somewhere
How Can I Keep from Singing
Long Live God [from Godspell]
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Jul 24 2014, 11:21pm
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I'll have to see if I can find it anywhere.
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DaughterofLaketown
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Jul 24 2014, 11:45pm
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Mine is Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aNO6yd66PpA
It defines me very well. I have known this song for many years.
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Dame Ioreth
Tol Eressea
Jul 25 2014, 12:18am
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Mine is more of a playlist for different situations...
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Little Wonders when I need to remember to enjoy the small moments of life
Drops of Jupiter for when I'm missing someone I've lost. it was written after the composer lost his mother to cancer
You Raise Me Up This one is interesting and seems to have very very different meanings to different people. For me it reminds me that my children rely on me and I cannot fail.
Defying Gravity for when this small town really gets me down
La Vie Boheme from Rent (language/content warning) ditto above. And while I don't necessarily advocate all that goes on in the song, "To being an us for once, instead of a them..." strikes a chord
Listen Just because sometimes I need the reminder
Vincent because there is usually more to someone than what we see initially
Broadway so I can remember the resilience of my hometown roots. It's actually about Buffalo, NY and the closing of the steel mills and auto plants.
Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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sevilodorf
Tol Eressea
Jul 25 2014, 12:29am
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and I like your list.... my immediate reaction to seeing Gonzo's Wishing Song was to think of Ernie.... Rubber Ducky....
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Dame Ioreth
Tol Eressea
Jul 25 2014, 1:05am
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Plain and simple - I love her voice.
Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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Ethel Duath
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Jul 25 2014, 4:54am
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(Yeah, Karajan . . .)
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Jul 25 2014, 12:28pm
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I posted the words on facebook asking for group wisdom to help me identify it (that seems to be the best way to get obscure information). Nobody knows it, but they want to know the tune. Is there any way you could think of to share that? I understand abc tune notation, or maybe you could make a quick recording and send it to me some time.
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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leleni at hotmail dot com
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zarabia
Tol Eressea
Jul 26 2014, 7:16am
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Some of the most stirring music in a trilogy full of stirring music.
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zarabia
Tol Eressea
Jul 26 2014, 7:19am
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Tol Eressea
Jul 26 2014, 7:23am
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You just have to smile
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Yarrr.
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