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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mycanid" data-source="post: 2930049" data-attributes="member: 40370">Well ... as far as dwarves singing. Tolkien describes the dwarves in the Hobbit as slowly rocking side to side and singing in unison. (And the rhyming and meter he pulls off is incredible ... if you haven't recently read it, take a look at the Hobbit again for the dwarves' songs.)I must admit that whenever someone mentions it the sound of the chorus singing the dwarven songs for Rankin n Bass' version of the Hobbit is what comes to mind. A deep throated, slow singing that is almost like a mixture between ancient Gregorian chant and those repetitive Celtic folk songs of a tragic natured theme - you know, so and so loves so and so, but her brothers won't stand for it and go and kill her lover, and when she finds out she dies of grief. Stuff like that. (Of which I am a great fan, btw....)So on a personal level I am having a hard time "hearing" what you have written song wise. Can you give me a reference for what it will sound like?But again, the question I have is ... what are the surroundings he will be singing this in? What will be his audience? In battle I just cannot picture a detailed song like you have written (very nicely, I might add) somehow "fitting" if it is going to be sung in a battle....</blockquote>