G-i-P Report: Tolkien’s languages in The Hobbit soundtrack

08.11.12, 21:34, dodany przez Galadhorn

Source: TORn

Today we’ve received a big gift of 60-seconds pieces of the tracks from The Hobbit soundtrack (listen to them here). The music is terrific! And we can hear some fragments of the lyrics in the languages of Middle-earth. We’ve tried to find out which languages we can soon able analyze (let us only wait for December and see the lyrics from the CD booklet!).

Here you can see which languages we could find in the soundtrack:

CD 1:

1. My Dear Frodo
2. Old Friends (Extended Version)
3. An Unexpected Party (Extended Version)
4. Blunt the Knives performed by The Dwarf Cast :: English
5. Axe or Sword?
6. Misty Mountains performed by Richard Armitage and The Dwarf Cast :: English
7. The Adventure Begins
8. The World is Ahead
9. An Ancient Enemy :: Adûnaic or Black Speech
10. Radagast the Brown (Extended Version) :: Sindarin
11. The Trollshaws
12. Roast Mutton (Extended Version)
13. A Troll-hoard
14. The Hill of Sorcery
15. Warg-scouts

CD 2:

1. The Hidden Valley :: Sindarin
2. Moon Runes (Extended Version)
3. The Defiler
4. The White Council (Extended Version)
5. Over Hill
6. A Thunder Battle
7. Under Hill
8. Riddles in the Dark
9. Brass Buttons :: Black Speech?
10. Out of the Frying-Pan :: Sindarin?
11. A Good Omen :: Sindarin?
12. Song of the Lonely Mountain (Extended Version) performed by Neil Finn :: English terrific!
13. Dreaming of Bag End

BONUS TRACKS

1. A Very Respectable Hobbit
2. Erebor
3. The Dwarf Lords
4. The Edge of the Wild

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G-i-P stands for Gwaith-i-Phethain, ‘The Fellowship of the Word-smiths’ or the linguistic website devoted to post-Tolkienian constructions in the “reconstructed” languages of Middle-earth [link].

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