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We ride on the street  

That curves around the lake  

I turn to you  

My eyes wrap around you face

This moment of bliss  

Seared into my memory

Now is

An euphoric allegory

The flame of our love

Only warming the world under those trees

A moment of peace

Before I bent the knee.

Damn I’m fucking sad right now  

Why you clouding my mind?

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Peleaban  

Dormían

Las noches se alargaban y el sol no salía

Las llamas del inferno todo consumían

Hasta que un día  

El ataco  

Pero defensa no encontró

Un vacío lo recibió

Donde su furia se reflejo

Ella camino  

Y la noche termino

El sol ilumino las ruinas de lo que una vez existió, sin embargo, como cenizas en el viento

Solo un fantasma  

Page Break

A man a woman a child

A marriage, a family, a home

Responsibility, Passion, and Freedom  

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Old rambling

Hi, my name is redacted blessed with the opportunity to study here thanks to a green card and few other lucky breaks along the way. It’s cool and all, but if I’m being honest. I’ve had some shitty years. Alright you can’t sour a year on a few events. So let’s just call them bumps here and there. Some are bigger than other fo’sho. Heavier, colder, sometimes you think you’re going so fast you might be soaring, but they are always there, waiting for you. Then you trip, and you fall, and you fall hard. Everything comes crashing back down and you remember where you really are. That’s cliché and dramatic. Or at least that’s what I tell myself a lot of the times. But honestly? It be like that sometimes.

These bumps, these hurdles, they go by many names. Everyone has them. Some ripple and shift and turn into dark monsters that rear their heads and bear their fangs. They put your back against the wall, corner you and isolate you. They make you so small your screams turn to whispers and sobs turn into silent tremors. You can do nothing other than cower and shiver. Everyone has them. And I happen to call one of mine Dad.

Oof that’s fucking harsh. He would be so hurt to read that. I’ve confronted him about it sometimes. I’ve gathered my strength and rallied my troops. Nothing I have said to him has described his hooked claws or mercurial tongue. I’ve spoken of my wounds, at which he has stared in disbelieve. For he looks down at his hands and sees nothing more than gloves. He looks at his reflection in the mirror and sees the rising sun cast its light upon his back, a protective halo of confidence and arrogance. Ok I’m going on a tangent here.

Point is, living with that thing has been a bitch. I gotta tell ya I love the beast, but damn! If you want to survive you gotta crawl. It’s been a dark few years. I’ve tussled with it and bled. I tried distancing myself and it seeked me out. I don’t know where I’m going. I’ll get back to ya on this.

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Fun Random Facts About the LOTR Soundtrack

Most composers spend just 10-12ish weeks working on a film’s music. John Williams spent around 14 weeks on each Star Wars movie, 40ish weeks total for the whole OT……but composing the LOTR trilogy’s soundtrack took four years

The vocals you hear in the soundtrack are usually in one of Tolkien’s languages (esp. Elvish). The English translations of the lyrics are all poems, or quotes from the book, or occasionally even quotes from other parts of the films that are relevant to the scene

When there were no finished scenes for him to score, Howard Shore would develop musical themes inspired by the scripts or passages from the book. That’s how he got all Middle-Earth locations have their own unique sound: he was able to compose drafts of “what Gondor would sound like” and “what Lorien would sound like” long before any scenes in those places were filmed

Shore has said his favorite parts to score were always the little heartfelt moments between Frodo and Sam

Shore wrote over 100 unique leitmotifs/musical themes to represent specific people, places, and things in Middle Earth (over 160 if you count The Hobbit)

The ones we all talk about are the Fellowship theme, the main Shire Theme, and the themes for places like Gondor, Mordor, Rohan, and Rivendell…but a lot of the more subtle ones get overlooked and underappreciated

Like Aragorn’s theme. It’s a lot less “obvious” than the others because, like Aragorn himself, it adapts to take on the color of whatever place Aragorn is in: it’s played on dramatic broody stringed instruments in Bree, on horns in  battle scenes, softly on the flute with Arwen in Rivendell….

Eowyn has not just one but three different leitmotifs to represent her

Gollum and Smeagol both have their own leitmotifs! Whose theme music is playing in the scene can often tell you whether the Gollum or Smeagol side is “winning” at the moment

The melody for Gollum’s Song in the end credits of the The Two Towers is the Smeagol and Gollum themes smushed together (it’s Symbolic)

And then there’s the really obscure ones. Like there’s a melody that plays at Boromir’s death that shows up again in ROTK in scenes that foreshadow a major death or loss

Wikipedia actually has a list of these leitmotifs, click this link and scroll down to check it out if you’re bored

Shore wanted the theme music to grow alongside the characters– so that as the characters changed, their theme music would change with them.  

You can hear that most clearly in the Shire theme. Like the hobbits, it goes through A Lot 

Like compare the childish lil penny whistle theme you hear in Concerning Hobbits/the beginning of FOTR with (throws a dart at random Beautiful Tragic Hobbit Character Development scene because there WAY TOO MANY to choose from) the scene when Pippin finds Merry on the battlefield, where you hear a kind of shattered and broken but more mature version of that same theme in the background 

I could write you a book on how much I love the way the Shire theme grows across the course of these films 

Unlike the hero’s themes, which constantly change and grow, the villain’s themes (The One Ring theme, the Isengard theme, etc) remain basically the same from the very beginning of FOTR to the end of ROTK. Shore said this was an intentional choice: to emphasize that evil is static, while good is capable of change

Shore has said that between all the music that made into the movies and the music that didn’t, he composed enough for “a month of continuous listening”……..where can I sign up