Fire inside.

Good morning everyone! It is so wonderful to wake up to the rain with dark clouds and thunder, and pick up a cup of coffee and listen to the sparkles from the Fireplace.  Then, I have all the excuses in the world to either draw, make music, write stories on Laurelinarchives.org, or actually playing Lotro. For me this is a perfect Sunday morning.

I’d thought I should show a handful of songs I have made through my time in The Shades, but then the melancholy truly overwhelmed me, so now I am sitting here and sniffle.

It’s so funny how strong memories I have regards to in-game events and my time as a role-player. There is many things I am genuinely proud of. It is one of those rare things I just cannot regret! Of course I could have done something more constructive than playing one game for six years I guess.  But actually I don’t… I hear people say that they feel they’ve wasted enough time on games, so now it’s time to stop playing and do something else. For me it has not been waste of time. No.. If it wasn’t for Lotro I suppose I would not sit here today and still play music. I dare say I have found the best hobby in the world. Thanks to The Shades and the feedback I have received over the years, I have dared to go into scary terrain and publish my own songs under my own name. Not Achazia, but Gry. No need to use the Achazia-armour anymore.

Right now I am listening to “Fire inside” a song I wrote back in 2008. I cannot quite remember the story behind it, but I know I wrote it in conjunction with our third concert “Drums in the deep” that we held in The Forges inside Thorin’s Hall. I felt we needed extra songs, and this was added as a tribute to our concert and right before Mines of Moria expansion.

This is the song in ABC form:

I have no problems with being proud of my own songs, otherwise I would not have written them and played them. I also decided not being so humble and rather be proud of everything I’ve done these years. Why shouldn’t I?

This song was a favorite of The Shades, but I discovered that many others enjoyed it too. From a journey from 2008 to 2012 so many wondrous things happened to me musically. In 2012 I began to transform my Shades tunes to more audio friendly songs.

So here is the audio version. Yes, it is me that singing and doing the choir and my good friend Lotro Stellan from Sweden alias “Grimfhrid” from “Clan Stoutbeard” playing guitar.

Speaking of inspiration, you never know what’s going on Youtube. Suddenly I found this song. (Daughter of “Joylil” from “Riders of Riddermark”)

It is when I find such videos that I know for sure that my time has not been wasted. To inspire someone is really worth everything.