Orcs and Elves compete in Song Contest

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Rune

Right now the Eurovision loving part of the Danish population is cursing the easterlings to Mordor and people are actually talking about that Denmark should quit Eurovision and things like "eastern european song-mafia" is being uttered.

There's similar talk here, though to a lesser extent since everybody's talking more about how well the thing was organised and gloating because Finland was better than Sweden.
I think it's a bit unfair that while Western European countries give lots of points to the Eastern Europeans and not only to their neighbors (I don't claim that there's no giving-the-best-points-for-the-neighbour-ing, but to a far lesser extent) the Eastern countries give almost without an exception all their points to their neighbours. It kind of ruins the point of the whole comptetion. I agree that many Western European countries deserved their pitiful amount of points, but not all did. (Compared to the other contestants, I think that for example Finland and Sweden should have done better and Switzerland should have made it to the finals.)

Bulgaria's entry (which I liked a lot since it was so weird) reminds me (in some weird way) of Dunlendings, or maybe actually the people who became the wights in the Paths of the Dead. The song has the right creepy, archaic and rhytmic atmosphere I connect with them.

Originally Posted by spawn

Anyway, I think it's great deal of the fun that many of the songs are plain hideous, but I was happy for Georgia that was a first timer and did so well.

Agreed.