{"id":10818,"date":"2012-11-23T15:55:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T23:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=10818"},"modified":"2012-11-23T15:55:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T23:55:23","slug":"hear-j-r-r-tolkien-sing-a-song-from-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/news\/hear-j-r-r-tolkien-sing-a-song-from-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear J.R.R. Tolkien sing a song from <em>The Hobbit<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10820\" style=\"width: 658px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/unexpected-party-by-david-t-wenzel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10820\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/unexpected-party-by-david-t-wenzel.jpg\" alt=\"Unexpected Party, art by David T Wenzel\" title=\"Unexpected Party, art by David T Wenzel\" width=\"648\" height=\"268\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/unexpected-party-by-david-t-wenzel.jpg 648w, https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/unexpected-party-by-david-t-wenzel-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/unexpected-party-by-david-t-wenzel-500x206.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unexpected Party, art by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidwenzel.com\/hobbit.html\" target=\"_blank\">David T Wenzel<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;re anything like me, the songs in <em>The Hobbit<\/em> and <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em> probably left you a little confused. I don&#8217;t have much of a musical talent, outside of being able to keep a bit of a rhythm, but melody has always escaped me, so I recited the songs in the novels more as spoken word poems than as actual melodies. I was delighted when I first heard the haunting rendition the dwarfs&#8217; song in trailers for Jackson&#8217;s upcoming adaptation of <em>The Hobbit<\/em>, but this audio clip I came across on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Fantasy\/comments\/13n8gx\/jrr_tolkien_singing_extract_from_the_hobbit_thats\/\">Reddit<\/a> really takes the cake. Thanks to HarperCollins, Tolkien&#8217;s current publisher, we can all enjoy an audio recording of <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/harperaudio\/j-r-r-tolkien-singing-extract\" title=\"J.R.R. Tolkien singing That's What Bilbo Baggins Hates\" target=\"_blank\">Tolkien himself singing &#8220;That&#8217;s What Bilbo Baggins Hates,&#8221;<\/a> one of the most memorable songs in <em>The Hobbit<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re anything like me, the songs in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings probably left you a little confused. I don&#8217;t have much of a musical talent, outside of being able to keep a bit of a rhythm, but melody has always escaped me, so I recited the songs in the novels&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/news\/hear-j-r-r-tolkien-sing-a-song-from-the-hobbit\/\" title=\"ReadHear J.R.R. 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