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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mycanid" data-source="post: 2928529" data-attributes="member: 40370">In Tolkien's books the dwarves would often cry out short phrases with references to famous battles or famous people at famous battles (often choosing previous battles where they were facing similiar foes as their present battle). This is the classic example of the "battle cry".But I think a question should be asked. Is this song being sung in a hall the night before the battle? To rouse the dwarves to bloody deeds on the morrow? The song's lyrics as you have listed sound like they are sung in such a setting.I had a different image in mind. I had the image of the dwarven army facing their foe on a ridge or some such in silence and the dwarven cleric letting out a verse that would be repeated by the army at the top of their lungs as the cleric was drawing out the last syllable/note, and then the cleric and the army going back and forth like this for a long time, slowly getting faster and faster until the army begins to chant the same thing over and over again at the top of their lungs, perhaps while beating their shields with their war axes to keep time. Then, when it is time to charge the war cleric shouts a verse in a raoring, high pitch disharmonious to the army and they all rush down the hillside continuing to chant at the top of their lungs until they clash with their foes when (of course) the song abruptly stops. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />In the latter case the lyrics would not be difficult, would not tell a long story, but would likely call to mind foul deeds that must be avenged in blood and gore ... or some similiar thing.</blockquote>

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