Theme Songs

[Boromir88]

Just songs that connect to the characters in Tolkien's books.

Denethor- "Burn baby burn...disco inferno!"

Boromir (Carrying on the Disco family legend)- "Staying alive, staying alive"

Bombadil- "Skippety-do-da Skippety-ay, My oh my, what a wonderful day."

Legolas- "Man, I feel like a Woman!"

Helm Hammerhand- "Ice, Ice, baby!"

King Thranduil- "If I were the king of Lothlorien! What a king I would be-e-e-." (Think The lion, Wizard of Oz).

Yavanna- "Green grass grows all around, all around, and the green grass grows all around."

Gimli (I just picture as a rapper)- "I like big butts and I cannot lie..."

Varda- "Twinkle, Twinkle, little star."

[Elven-Maiden]

Oh I love those!

Here are my two cents' worth:


Arwen : Tonight And the Rest of My Life - Nina Gordon
Bormoir : Some Guys Have All the Luck - Rod Stewart
Frodo : Under Pressure - Queen
Gollum : Head Like a Hole - Nine Inch Nails

I'll add more later.

[Maeggaladiel]

Sam- I Dig a Pony

Aragorn (to Arwen)- My Immortal

Sauron- Another One Bites the Dust

Eomer- Wild Horses

Gandalf- Clorox bleach song (Gandalf keeps his whites white like the new snow, Gandalf keeps his colors bright like a rainbow, Gandalf keeps his robes clean with the magic, Gandalf's got the magic of Clorox bleach!)

[Mithalwen]

Ok - this lot will date me I am afraid

Boromir (because he IS the disco king) "I love to Boogie" T-Rex
Bombadil "All around my Hat" Steel-eye Span
Sam & Gaffer "Father and Son" Cat Stevens ( NOT Westlife - puhleaze)
Merry and Pippin - either Supergrass "Alright" or Rolfie's "2 little boys"......
Aragorn and Arwen "Through the Barricades" Spandau Ballet
Legolas - Carly Simon "You're so vain"
Gandalf - for some reason it has to be C&W so "The Gambler" Kenny Rogers
Treebeard "I want to be a tree"
Elves (as depicted in the films) "Singing meaningless songs in very high voices" The Heebeegeebees
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Frodo "Why does it always rain on me?" Travis
Eowyn "Everybody Hurts" REM /" Flowers in the Window "Travis /"Waterloo" Abba
Eomer "Wild Boys" Duran Duran
Beren "The first time ever I saw your face"
Elrond "One Tree Hill" U2
Denethor "Light my Fire"
Gimli "Thank You for the days" Kirsty McColl
Elves "Go West"
Grima "I'll be watching you" Police

[Boromir88]

I love the responses so far .

Aragorn: That Lion King Song which I just happen to forget the name of it, but...
"Oh I just can't wait to be king...."

Sam (climbing up the stairs of Cirith Ungol): "Highway to hell."

Faramir: "Papa don't preech, I've been losing sleep."

Aragorn in the Fellowship: "We're going straight to the Wild, Wild west."

Ents: "We will, we will ROCK you!"

Sam: "Aint no mountain high, aint no valley low..."

Merry and Pippin: "Hobbits just wanna have fu-un..." (Actually should be "Girls just wann have fu-un, but I had to change it to fit it's purposes ).

Frodo to Sam: "I will allllways looove youuuu."

Warg: "I aint nothing but hound dog."

[Lalwendë]

I think I need to indulge in some silliness so you might like these:

Eru - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths

Ents (and their Entdrafts) - Feed The Tree - Belly
Hobbits - Short People - Randy Newman

[The Only Real Estel]

Aragorn: That Lion King Song which I just happen to forget the name of it, but...
"Oh I just can't wait to be king...."

Love it!

Theoden (at Helm's Deep): The 'raindrops keep fallin' on my head' song

p.s. more will come later

[Boromir88]

Theoden (at Helm's Deep): The 'raindrops keep fallin' on my head' song

Ooooh, what about Theoden getting healed by Gandalf: "I can see clearly now the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way."

Saruman (with Grima at backup vocals): "I put a spell on youuuu and now you're mine" (Grima) "you're mine, you're mine, you're mine." "I put a spell on youuu it's so strong" (Grima) "so strong, so strong, so strong."

[Witch_Queen]

Legolas: "I'm too sexy for my shirt"

Gondorian soldiers: "We are the champions."

Frodo: "Follow the yellow brick road."

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man

I feel a '60s theme coming on ...

Frodo to Sam: Stand by me (Ben E King, John Lennon and many others)

Sam to Frodo: You'll never walk alone (Gerry and the Pacemakers)

Sauron: Paint it Black (The 'Stones) - "I see a White Tower and I want to paint it Black" or Black is Black (Los Bravos) - "Black is Black, I want my One Ring back"

Tom Bombadil - Anything hippy, perhaps San Francisco (Scott McKenzie) - "If you're going to Old Man Willow, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair"

Orc (having just made Aragorn's acquaintance at Helm's Deep) - Bits and pieces (Dave Clark Five) - "Bits and pieces, I'm in bits and pieces"

She-Warg (about Warg who's just gone over the cliff with Aragorn) - Leader of the pack (Shangri-Las) - "Hey, is that Jimmy's nose ring you're wearing"

Gandalf (the White) - Whiter shade of pale (Procol Harum) or I'm Alive (The Hollies)

The Balrog - Fire (Crazy World of Arthur Brown) - "You're gonna burn"

Legolas (the film one) - Surfin' USA - "All the Elves are shield surfin', surfin' Middle Earth"

Balin - Khazad Dum (New York) Mining Disaster (the Bee Gees)

Frodo (at Ammon Hen) - I can see for miles (The Who)

Oh, and one from the 70s ...

Bard the Bowman (having just killed Smaug): Smoke on the water (Deep Purple)

(LOTR Musical: what songs????)

[Nimrodel_9]

Gollum: Follow Me- Uncle Kracker
Gandalf: Pilgrim- Enya
Arwen(or Galadriel): Only Time- Enya
Aragorn: I Just Can`t Wait To Be King- The Lion King

I`ll stop.

[Boromir88]

Eowyn to Aragorn: "I've spent so many nights....of thinking how you did me wrong."

Witch-king with breakdancing Wraiths in the background: "We are the Men in black."

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

This is not funny in anyway, but it seems appropriate:

Lúthien: Iris by Goo-Goo Dolls.

And I'd give up forever to touch you . . .

Need I go on?

~*~

Thorin and Co.:

Heigh ho, heigh ho. To Smaugie we will go.
We'll take our hoe and strike him 'low
Heigh ho, heigh ho.

Or something like that. I don't know the title and the correct lyrics.

[Hama Of The Riddermark]

Sauron: Black Sabbath, by...unsurprisingly, Black Sabbath

Nazgul: Back In Black - AC/DC

Frodo et al: Bohemian Rapshody (See end)

Sam: Changes - Black Sabbath


The words to my accalimed parody of Bohemian Rapshody



To the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody,

Chorus: Is this the real life, is it just fantasy, caught in a legend...no escape from reality, ooopen your eyes, look up to the skiiiiiies and seeeeeeeeeeee.....

Frodo: I'm just a hooooobbit, I need a fellowship...

Gandalf: 'Cause it is easy come, easy go, little high, little low...

Sam: Anywhere the wind blows, doesn't really maaaaatter to me...toooo meeeeee...

Frodo: Gandaaaaalf, what should I do? This ring around my neck, will bring the world to wreeeck...

Gandalf: Frooodoooo, you must take the ring...and throoow it into Mount Doom on your own!!!!!!!

Frodo: Gandaaaalf, oooohooohooohoooo, I didn't mean to let you die, if im not back at Minas Tirith somehooooow, carry on, carry on, 'cause nothing really matters.

(piano plays)

Frodo: Too late, my time has come....sends shivvers down my spine my body's aching all the time....Gandaaaalf and my good sam, I've got to prove, that I can do this job that no-one coooooouuuuld! Gandaaaaalf! Ooohooohooohooo, I don't want to die, in fact I wish I'd never come here at aaaaaall....

(guitar plays)

Sam : I see a little sillhouette of a man!

Frodo: Scaramouche scaramouche, Sam I thing we're being followed! Nagul, fighting, Gollum's really frightening ME!

Sam: Faramir!

Frodo: Faramir!

Sam: Faramir let him gohooohoooohoooo!

Frodo: I'm just a hobbit, nobody loves me!

Sam: He's just a hobbit, get your greasy hands off him! Spare him his life from you monstrosity!

Frodo: Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?

Rangers: Of course not NO! we will not let you go!

Sam: Let him goooo!

Rangers: Of course not NO! We will not let him go!

Sam: Let him go!

Rangers: Of course not NO! We will not let him go!

Frodo: Let me go!

Rangers: Will not let you go!

Frodo: Let me go!

Rangers: Will not let you gooohooohooohoooo...
Frodo (in unison): You'll never ever ever ever let me gooooohoohooo...

Rangers: NO, NO NO NO NO NO NO!

Frodo: Oh Faramir, Faramir!

Sam: Faramir let him go!

Frodo: The flaming eye has a nazgul set aside for meeeeeeee! for meeeeeee, for meeeeeeee!!

(guitar plays)

Gollum: So you think you can hurt me and hit my eyeeeees? So you think you can hit me and leave me to diiiiiiiie?

Frodo: Gollum, always faithful Gollum! I've got to get out, just got to get right out of Mordor!

(guitar plays)

Sam: Oooh yeah, oooh yeah.

Frodo: Nothing really matters...anyone can see...nothing really matters...nothing really matters, to meeeeeheeeeeeheeeeee....

[The Barrow-Wight]

This goes along with the last post. A comic I did a couple of years ago: Baggins Rhapsody

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Elves in general during the Third Age: Somewhere Only We Know by Keane.

I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete

Oh simple thing where have you gone
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

I came across a fallen tree
I felt the branches of it looking at me
Is this the place we used to love?
Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?

So Eldarinly melancholic. Keane rocks.

[Sapphire_Flame]

For Sauron, "Every Breath You Take" by The Police:

"Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take

I'll be watching you

Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay

I'll be watching you

Oh can't you see
You belong to me
How my poor heart aches with every step you take

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake

I'll be watching you

Since you've gone I've been lost without a trace
I dream at night I can only see your face
I look around but it's you I can't replace
I feel so cold and I long for your embrace
I keep crying baby, baby please

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake

I'll be watching you"

*~~~~*~~~~*

Heheheh...

A couple of others:

Frodo: "My Immortal" by Evanescence

Faramir & Eowyn: "Broken" by Seether (feat. Amy Lee)

I'll be back with more later.

~ Saphy ~

[Mithalwen]

A few additions

Dwarves "Can you dig it?"

Theoden and co en route from Helm's Deep "We're off to see the Wizard"

Gandalf "Rocket Man"

Saruman "True Colours"

Celeborn "Being Boring"

Theoden to Grima "Don't stand so close to me"

Rosie Cotton "Everytime we say good bye"

Elves "Shiny, Happy people" REM

Beren & Luthien "Moondance"

Everard Took and Melilot Brandybuck "Safety Dance" 'We can dance if we want to' Men without Hats

Earendil "Star Trekkin"

[Witch_Queen]

Here are some more:
Bilbo: "The itsy bitsy Spider"
Theoden: "I saw the light"
Legolas: "Never too old to be young"
Arwen: "I'm wishing"
Legolas and Gimli: "Following the leader"
Boromir to Frodo: "Trust in me"
Sauron's army: "Steady as the beating drum"
Gollum: Just around the riverbend" and "Mine, mine, mine"
Arwen and Aragorn "Beauty and the Beast"
Thranduil: "Be our guest"
Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli (Halls of the dead): "Poor Unfortunate Souls"
Aragorn: "I've got the power"
Sam to Frodo: "Friend like me" and "Friends for life"

I think thats enough. Too much for my mind to comprehend.

[Evisse the Blue]

Sorry to go a bit OT here, but:

Sam & Gaffer "Father and Son" Cat Stevens ( NOT Westlife - puhleaze)

. Mith, t'was Boyzone who did a remake of Father and Son. Quite good, IMO.

Back on topic now!

Aragorn and Arwen - Over the hills and far away (take out the pistol part, and the rest goes well, especially the chorus!)
Denethor - I 'm going slightly mad (Queen) - slightly, eh!
Speaking of Queen:
Dwarves: 'We will rock you' (that one was kind of cheap, I know... )
Aragorn/Frodo/Gandalf: Wanted dead or alive (Bon Jovi)

You know what would be Shelob's perfect theme song though? 'Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me'. What, think it's too cheesy?

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Evisse the Blue

Sorry to go a bit OT here, but: . Mith, t'was Boyzone who did a remake of Father and Son. Quite good, IMO.

Actually quite glad I didn't know that ..... boy bands ... eeeeeek .... not quite my thang.....

And to go back to a band of real men..

How about "The doors" "Endless Night" for Feanor (ripped from blake) "Realms of Bliss, realms of Light, some are born to Sweet delight... some are born to the end of thenight.."

[Sapphire_Flame]

Originally Posted by Evisse the Blue

You know what would be Shelob's perfect theme song though? 'Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me'. What, think it's too cheesy?

How about "Thriller"?

"It's Close To Midnight And Something Evil's Lurking In The Dark
Under The Moonlight You See A Sight That Almost Stops Your Heart
You Try To Scream But Terror Takes The Sound Before You Make It
You Start To Freeze As Horror Looks You Right Between The Eyes,
You're Paralyzed

'Cause This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
And No One's Gonna Save You From The Beast About To Strike
You Know It's Thriller, Thriller Night
You're Fighting For Your Life Inside A Killer, Thriller
Tonight

You Hear The Door Slam And Realize There's Nowhere Left To Run
You Feel The Cold Hand And Wonder If You'll Ever See The Sun
You Close Your Eyes And Hope That This Is Just Imagination
But All The While You Hear The Creature Creepin' Up Behind
You're Out Of Time

'Cause This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
There Ain't No Second Chance Against The Thing With Forty Eyes
You Know It's Thriller, Thriller Night
You're Fighting For Your Life Inside Of Killer, Thriller Tonight"

~ Saphy ~

[Lalwendë]

I've not been silly today yet, so here are a few more, the joke's in the titles :


Grima - Creep- Radiohead
Grima to Aragorn - Get Your Hands off my Woman - the Darkness
Beren/Luthien - Ever Fallen in Love With Someone (You Shouldn’t Have Fallen in Love With) - Buzzcocks
Earendil - Ray of Light - Madonna
Frodo - I started Something I couldn’t Finish - The Smiths (a bit mean...)
The Ring - How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead
Goldberry - Down by the Water - PJ Harvey
The Balrog - Firestarter - prodigy


EDIT: and for Shelob and all her kind, what about the creepiest spider song of all time? Lullaby by the Cure? "the spider man is having me for dinner tonight".

[Encaitare]

Grima - Creep- Radiohead

Ah, yes. I've been trying to work that one into a series of Grima-centric songfics I've got, but alas, anything I think of is all too cliche....

So Eldarinly melancholic. Keane rocks.

Aye. Applies very nicely.

I wish I could think of something to add, but my mind is not really working properly tonight.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Fading Elves: Everybody's Changing

You're gone from here
And soon you will disappear
Fading into beautiful light
Cause everybody's changing
And I don't feel right

~*~

Grima - Creep- Radiohead (Lalwendë)

COFLGOHAHA! How appropriate!

[THE Ka]

hmm... where to start...


Aragorn: "I was born on the other side/of a town ripped in two/i made it over the great divide/now i'm coming for you..." ~ John Cameron Mitchell

I really don't know why but, I tend to compare "divide" by the fact that Aragorn spent most of his time in the north (the two different kingdoms that were ruled by the numenoreans) before the fellowship. Another is "town ripped in two" (the fact that men where 'divided' in middle earth, or in other words, too many past disputes and grudges.)

Faramir: "The perfect Fit" ~ Dresden Dolls... A lovely piano rock song about a not-so-perfect being, forced to be. "i can't fix a car/but i can fix a flat/i could fix alot of things/but i'd rather not get into that"... "

Another for Aragorn is: "Half Jack" ~ Dresden Dolls

Well, i've done my share. Until next time...

~Musing Ka~

[Encaitare]

Hah! Thought of one.

"Comfortably Numb" by the ever-glorious Pink Floyd describes Theoden under the influence of Saruman and Grima. Of course, the extent of his deterioration and helplessness depends on whether you go by the book or movie version of Theodon, but either way it's applicable. Lyrics hither for those of ye who are unfamiliar with the lovely tune.

I wonder if that's a crime in M-E... RUI: Ruling Under the Influence. Hah. Oh, don't mind me, too much history and a surplus of Supreme Court cases are making me delerious. Four AP American History essays down, one to go. I'm so efficient.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Balrogs: Fallin' by someone (I forgot--too many local versions!)

I'm afraid to fly
And I don't know why
I'm jealous of the people who are not afraid to die
It's just that that I recall
Back when I was small
Someone told me that I could fly
But then it's really false
And now I'm fallin'
Fallin' fast again . . .

~*~

Arwen and Aragorn: Beauty and the Beast

That'll fit better for Legolas and Gimli.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Boromir88

Gimli (I just picture as a rapper)- "I like big butts and I cannot lie..."

Funny - I always picture Gimli as being a member of ZZTop!

[The Only Real Estel]

I picture Gimli as that big guitarist on Bowling for Soup .

[Maeggaladiel]

Balrog- You are the Wind Beneath my Wings (??)

Frodo and Sam while in Cirith Ungol- Boris the Spider by The Who.

Nasgul- Ride of the Valkyries (sp?) or Flight of the Bumblebee I know they can't sing it, but I think it would be cool to have that playing in the background every time they rode somewhere.

Grima- I Can't Get No Satisfaction

Sauron- These Eyes... er... maybe This Eye.

[ninlaith]

Mine is a little different....I just put parts of songs that I think of when i see certain parts of the movie

Denethor: Come on baby light my fire

Pip and Merry: The run is on, the jig is up, they've finally found me

Boromir: Walk like a man

Gandalf: Fly like an Eagle

Frodo: If I could turn back time

Arwen: And I need you now tonight, and I need you more than ever

Aragorn: Wanderer, yeah I'm the wanderer

Sam: Whenever you're in trouble won't you stand by me

Gollum: Why can't we be friends

Legolas: Walk this way!!! (he's just far too swell for any other song)

Gimli: Hit me with your best shot

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Haldir, Rúmil, and Orophin: My Band by D12.

These chicks don't even know the name of my bros
But they're all on me like they wanna hold hands
Coz all they know is what they see in the film
All because PJ wants me dead in Helm's Deep.

[Evisse the Blue]

Originally Posted by Nilpaurion Felagund

Haldir, Rúmil, and Orophin: My Band by D12.

*chokes with laughter*

Got a few more (I've been watching cartoons, if you're wondering )

Hobbits: (esp. Pippin): 'The Bare Necessities': Look for the bare necesities/ forget about your worries and your strife/, Old Mother's nature recipes'...etc

the Fellowship: That's what friends are for: "We're your friends/ till the bitter end...'

Saruman (and/or Grima) - Kaa's (the snake) song - come to think of it, Grima strikes me as a very reptilian sort of person : 'Trust in me, just in me, you can sleep safe and sound, Knowing I am around.'

And for the Nazgul: "Walking in the air": We're walking in the air/ We're floating in the moonlit sky/ And people all around/ Will great us as we fly.' (yeah, with yells and arrows)

Oh and for Aragorn and Arwen this would be their theme song: Once upon a dream, because it illustrates very well the fact that their love mirrors that of Luthien and Beren. Check out the lyrics: (corny as they may be):
I know you
I walked with you once upon a dream.
I know you
The gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam
Yes, I know it's true
that visions are seldom all they seem
But if I know you, I know what you'll do
You'll love me at once
the way you did once upon a dream

Ok now- enough of a Disney fest, Tolkien would have been very annoyed cause he hated Disney. Oh well...

[The Only Real Estel]

Gandalf on Orthanc: I want to fly away- Lenny Kravitz

Frodo: Paranoid- Linkin Park
It's like I'm...paranoid, looking over my back,
It's like a...whirlwind inside of my head;
It's like I...can't stop what I'm feeling within,
It's like a Wheel of Fire is right beneath my skin!

[Boromir88]

Elrond healing Frodo- And a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down, the medicine go down...

[Sapphire_Flame]

Originally Posted by The Only Real Estel

Frodo: Paranoid- Linkin Park
It's like I'm...paranoid, looking over my back,
It's like a...whirlwind inside of my head;
It's like I...can't stop what I'm feeling within,
It's like a Wheel of Fire is right beneath my skin!

Oo, good choice!

How about this for Grima?

"Imagine me and you, I do
I think about you day and night, it's only right
To think about the girl I stalk, both day and night
So happy together...

I can't see me stalking nobody but you,
For all your life!
When you're with me, baby, the skies will be blue,
For all my life!"

'Tis a parody, by a local group called InsideOut, of a more well-known song. I thought it worked for Grima sneaking around after Eowyn...

Abedithon le,

~ Saphy ~

[The Only Real Estel]

Aragorn: Rohirrim Women (American Women-Lenny Kravitz)

Rohirrim Women, stay away from me-eeee;
Rohirrim Women, mamma let me be-eee...

Gollum: 2463 (1985-Bowling for Soup)

...and bring back:
Eggses, and fishing, not knowing 'bout the One Ring,
There was grandma, and Deagol, back when they still called me Smeagol;
My two sides, they argue, 'bout what they think I 'oughta do,
'Cause I'm still regretting me--in 20...20...2463.

[Morgul Queen]

Gollum: Behind Blue Eyes. The cover by Limp Bizkit a'cause somehow it seems more Gollumish when they do it, don't ask me why.

Lotho: The Man Who Sold the World, David Bowie!

Gandalf while plotting to 'dispose' of Boromir: Bring me the Disco King, David Bowie!

[Encaitare]

Gollum: Behind Blue Eyes. The cover by Limp Bizkit a'cause somehow it seems more Gollumish when they do it, don't ask me why.

True, true. The cover has a sadder sound because it doesn't include the middle part that's in the original... "When my fist clenches, crack it open" and all that. *Enca rocks out inside her head, having no tunes with her at present*