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   From: jon.lennart.beck.its.my.name@mail.its.in.danmark   
      
   "Troels Forchhammer"  skrev i meddelelsen   
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   > I was very pleased to hear them actually incorporate one of   
   > Tolkien's poems in song (whether the whole poem or just the six   
   > lines we hear in the trailer of course remains to be seen). The   
   > music was, however, in my view not at all appropriate to the Dwarves   
   > and the subject. There is a kind of haunted, melancholic longing to   
   > the music that is, in my opinion, far more appropriate to the Elves   
   > than to the Dwarves. The music for a Dwarven song such as this   
   > should rather express a stemmed in anger, a repressed rage that had   
   > for the past century and a half found it's only outlet in the   
   > recitation of old songs and wrongs while pounding the hot metal on   
   > the anvil. Such music should be set to the ringing of the smith's   
   > hammer, not to the ethereal loveliness of Elves.   
      
      PJ might consider hiring Rammstein for the Dwarf-songs. :-)   
      
   Rabe.   
      
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