In the December newsletter from last year there was a link to a beautiful Tolkien inspired tune that is still one of my all time favorites.
Here it is again for those who missed it… and for those who may have somehow forgotten it.
Dale,
As a little gift to the whistle community in honor of the release of the first
movie of the Lord of the Rings trilogy,
I offer “Ithilien,” an instrumental piece for harp, viol, and whistles. The
whistles are a Clark C, and Generations
in Bb and (high) F - $19 worth in all. >
In Tolkien’s Middle-earth, Ithilien is a beautiful, garden-like strip of
forested land that belongs to the
kingdom of Gondor. It lies between the great river Anduin and the Mountains of
Shadow. The land of Ithilien should appear sometime in the third movie; Frodo
and Sam travel through it with their troublesome companion, Smeagol. A land of
great beauty, pools and streams, and a wide variety of lush green plants and
herbs, it languishes, nevertheless, under the threat of Sauron’s dark realm of
Mordor, which borders it to the West.
Tech details for those interested: the whistles were recorded in a fairly dead
room with a tube mic (AKG C-12)
placed behind my left shoulder. Thus the slightly distant tone. It was
amplified with a Drawmer 1960 (tube mic pre with compressor), moderately
compressed. From there straight to hard disk and mixed in the digital domain.
my middle son and I both greatly appreciated the cool tunes you posted. My son is soon to get his first whistle. He enjoyed hearing what a whistle is really supposed to sound like as opposed to the way I play the whistle. He is a big Tolkien fan and avid collector of LOTR stuff..Personally I think he is just in love with Arwen..
That is an absolutely beautiful piece! You can just imagine, Frodo and Sam with Faramir when they are at Henneth Annun, and that song being played as evening entertainment. Wonderful!
Just a quick bump of this thread for the newer board members who have never heard this lovely tune… since it has been over a year since I’ve mentioned it.
There are lots of new people hanging around here, and it’s been over a year since I’ve resurrected this thread.
The links are still valid, so I think it’s time for another bump!
Thanks , Gary ! Not sure how I missed this one , but , guess I was sleeping at the switch. Now , to go grab up a whistle and try to get this one running through my head and into the tube. Beautiful tune !!
I’ll bump it for you this year, Gary…I absolutely love this tune. I once wrote and asked the author for the sheet music and he was very nice and said he’d try to write it down and get it up for us…but that was years ago and he’s probably very busy or forgot.
Beautiful tune !!