9 Tiny Songs About Lord of the Rings

A project I started and never finished... should I?

Hi friends,

I was snooping through my external hard drive today for a file, and stumbled across these 9 tiny songs. 9 tiny songs about Lord of the Rings.

I thought you might like to hear ‘em!

Back in 2020, I started a 100 day project called 100 Tiny Songs, which involved me making a new song every day for 100 days, NO EXCUSES. All the songs were ‘tiny’ which meant they had to be less than 1 minute long. They also had to be very easy and fun to record, so I recorded them all on my phone. You can take a better look at the project here, and listen to all 100 songs!

After I finished 100 Tiny Songs, I still got the tiny song itch. I wanted to keep writing these little songs and, one Christmas break, I came up with an idea: why not write a tiny song for every 10 minute segment of the Lord of the Rings films? Y’know, just an easy, achievable task.

I managed to make about nine before I realised that I was watching the extended versions of LOTR and suddenly thought “fuck this.”

Will I ever continue this project? Should I ever continue this project?

If you ever wanted the first ninety minutes of The Fellowship of the Ring summed up in song-form (and then to realise how LITTLE happens in the first ninety minutes of the film), then please enjoy:

🌋 An Introduction to Sauron

Who was Sauron anyway? Why did he have to make the one ring?

If he wasn’t elf or man, who was he and what was his thing?

Did he like volcanoes, did he like metal suits?

If you could be Sauron, would you make a ring too?

🧙‍♂️ Gandalf’s Here!

GANDALF’S HERE AND HE’S READY TO PARTY

A WIZARD IS NEVER LATE TO THE PARTY GANDALF!

RIDING A CART THAT’S PULLED BY A HORSIE

SETTING OFF ALL THE FUN FIREWORKIES GANDALF!

YOU KNOW HE’S GOT A FRIENDLY FACE

HE SMOKES A LOT AND SAYS [GANDALF NOISES]

COMING TO THE SHIRE TO CHECK OUT THE PARTY

DRIVING IN HIS HORSIE AND CARTIE GANDALF!

🎂 Bilbo Quits His Own Party

If you wanna leave, then do it nicely

If you wanna go Bilbo, don’t do it quietly

Don’t leave us in the dark, wondering where you are

If you have to hit the road let us know

Do it nicely

💍 What’s The Deal With This One Ring Anyway?

The ring is alive! The ring is alive and it calls

To the firey fires of Mordor, it says ‘I wanna go home’

The ring is alive! The ring is a mind of it’s own

And Sauron is sending his nine dead men, in their big black coats

Through Middle Earth into the Shire

Gandalf threw the ring into the fire

The writing’s all around it!

The ring is alive! The ring is alive and it calls

To the firey fires of Mordor, saying ‘I wanna go home!’

🥔 Homage to Samwise Gamgee

He’s travellin’ with ya and he’s doing what he can

He’ll always protect ya cause he is your best friend

He’ll carry you when you feel low

He’s Samwise and you are Frodo

You’re the one friend he knows

🌲 GET OFF THE ROAD!!!

Oh we gotta go! We gotta get off the road!

This is more serious than I planned

Going undercover with me and my friends

We gotta cross in the Buckleberry Ferry

Those guys in black seem pretty scary

We gotta get off the road! We gotta get off the road!

🐎 The Prancing Pony Blues

Gandalf is gone, I’m here at the bar

Waiting for answers, not getting far

Who is that guy, what is his name

He’s been staring all damn day

Hey guy, why don’t you ‘stride’ on by?

Night at the Pony, gettin’ no sleep

Hear the Ringwraiths coming for me

Crossing the window, stabbing the pillows

Get my things in a bag and we’ll leave

We’ll go, never been so far from home

I’ve never been so far from home

🍃 Rivendell Checkpoint!

We’re in Rivendell we made it this far

Frodo nearly died but the elven magic saved him

Gandalf’s here he escaped Saruman

And he flew on an eagle

There are discussions and things to be done but

We’re in Rivendell we made it this far

Is this the end of our big adventure?

(Spoiler alert: it’s definitely not)

🪩✨The Fellowship Of The Ring Theme Song

Frodo Sam! Legolas and Gimli

Aragorn! Boromir and Merry

Everyone! Pippin and Gandalf

Fellowship of the Ring

Finally! Take the ring to Mordor

Rectify the failure of Isildur

Giant eye never gonna find us

Ending it once and for all!

EVERYONE WILL STAY ALIVE

Fellowship! Fellowship of the Ring!

💿 Keep Listening!

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Til next time! Be good,

Olivia 🌈✨🏔🎶