I kind of agree with this sentiment about the Dwarven song from the Hobbit movie:
…it should sound pretty much just like this:
The only problem is that the above comment was actually from a spambot.
Guess it just shows that even spambotters have opinions about the Hobbit movie…
I am assuming they don’t want to make a remake of the 1977 Hobbit.
The two things I liked best about the ’77 “Hobbit” were Richard Boone as Smaug and the irreplaceable Hans Conried as Thorin. Most of the rest was middling to forgettable, though I have to admit that their setting of “Far Over Misty Mountains Cold” is pretty good.
I remember the way my mom sang it when she read the book aloud to me and my brother; it was much more jaunty and up-tempo. I’m only just now realizing that a) just how incongruous that it, and b) that’s how she sang all the songs in all the books she ever read to us. 😛