The Lord of the Rings, the Celtic music ethic, and “providence”
I’ve been reading LotR since 1965, about once a year – the four “main” books, and sometimes everything else published/available at the time…. that’s 40+ years of Tolkien’s masterwork, and every time I read the books, I find something new (or at least something I didn’t remember from the first – or last – time I read them).
Then the movies came along. A lot of people, some of my family included, got a bit miffed (or more than that….) at the “liberties” taken with the books to make movies out of them. Now, I don’t do theaters. I never see movies until they come out on dvd. So by the time the movies were viewable here in my home, I’d heard it all. And it’s all okay – because the movies “fit” me the way the books always have…. sure, there are things that are different from the books – but it’s a different medium, with different needs and intentions. So I don’t have a problem with those parts where the books seem to have been “rewritten/reframed”…. it’s all okay, the movies are – magnificent…. only word for them.
And that brings me to the music “link”. I’ve loved Enya, Clannad, Sinead O’Connor, et al ever since I began hearing them. It made perfect sense to me that some of the music for LotR would be of that genre/feel. And now, I’m hearing the pieces from the movies on my pandora stations. Which strikes me as being the most wonderful sort of providence….