Narmeleth is a fictional character in Lord of the rings online. The storyline is absolutely fantastic. There is actually several times I have done volume 1 just to experience the Storyline at the book 11-15. Is quite sad, but show how powerful love is compare to all the evil that happened around Middle Earth. I was inspired to make a song of this once. Here you can hear it.
The story about Narmeleth also resulted into a concert we had in our Shades kinhouse, you can see a little part from the concert here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuzFYcBFaxU
Again I decided to make a real Audio of this song after a while. You can hear it here..
Small intro: Narmeleth is the daughter of Laerdan. Almost two millennia ago, during the Battle of Fornost in III 1975, she wielded the sword that slew Amarthiel, and the ring Narchuil of that witch vanished. It is not clear what happened after that, but slowly Amarthiel gained power over Narmeleth, infiltrating her mind. It is unknown if there is still a part of Narmeleth left in her body, eventually possessed by Amarthiel, but throughout the epic storyline her tragic fate is unwinded…
This blog is not exactly musicrealted, but it belongs to the story that many of my songs are about my characters and the roleplaying I do. I like to involve myself a lot with my characters, and make myself immerse better in to them, I like to imagine them a little different than the premade avatars in Lotro. Therefore I draw and make pictures and artwork, to give them more personality and soul. I have five characters that I Roleplay actively with, and they are no secret as they belong to the two Kinship on Laurelin that I am a part of. (The Shadows and Loth i Lonnath). My human characters Achazia and Peathiel and my elven Ladies Hallothel, Amorith and Silessa. On Laurelin Archives you can read all their biography and background.
So this is how I imagine Achazia. She is a middle-aged woman. Friendly by nature, but often lost in deep thoughts a lot because of her creative spirit.
Achazia and Erihael members in The Shades
Achazia in her usual dress
My other human character is Peathiel a Captain and Warrior that is a confused a disturbed character. She were for many years captured in a Dungeon, and that has sort of colored her life. (For me I like to RP challenging characters, not only the harmonic characters.)
The next characters I will introduce is my elven characters: Hallothel; Silessa and Amorith. Hallothel and Silessa are sisters. Amorith is my “posh” lady elf
I also post a song in this blog! Where you can see more of my artwork. The song is called The Queen made and written by me
Contrary too many I tend to do things quite the opposite. Instead of transcribing my Audioversions to ABC songs. I do the other way around. All my song has been written to Achazia and “The Shades”, as the game have brought back my joy to write music. So the songs have been written to suit the ABC system.
Meadow Breeze was written for both “the Shades” but also a dedication to my elf Amorith and her eternal love to Earinlin, which is her bethrotal. So when you hear the song you can hear the message of love during the whole song and her longing when he is not around being kept away from her, it belongs to the story that he literary were kept away from her because of the duties he had in Vanimar (this is some years ago though in a lovely kinship we were a part of) We had an awesome storyline Roleplay-wise which trigged and inspired me to write this song.
In this video you can hear the song in ABC, and Amorith wandering around thinking:
A year after I thought I should try to do my first attempt on an audio-version where I was singing for the first time:
(I hope you can hear the similarity)
I will post the ABC code as well if you like the song, Atleast is quite unique as it does not belong to knowned artists, which can be good in a Roleplay setting.
I hope everyone has a truly good day. Is weekend, and is soon summer-vacation for my sake and that means more playing in Lotro and more musicmaking.
In this blog I will show a little video made in the game that shows a chapter from Silmarillion.
I believe everyone has heard about the two characters Beren and Luthien. The love story between the fair elven maiden Luthien and the mortal man Beren. But I also assume many have not read the whole story and know exactly what they went through, and what happened to them. This will be a visualising of one of the most popular chapters in Silmarillion performed in Lotro and with ABC music.
The video is made by a very good friend of mine called Whiteberry, she has done all the editing and also is the narrator in this video. The music is from Shades/myself, you will in this video hear: “Numenor” and “Nightingale” (which is a song about Beren and Luthien, Beren called Luthien for Nightingale) and “When night falls”. More credits you will find after the video. The characters are mostly people from “The Shadows” and “Extraordinary adventure league”
Hopefully you will enjoy this video, and perhaps motivate you to read more about this story in Silmarillion. I also hope for more cooperation projects like this with Berry. It was really enjoyable, and knit many things together. Like storytelling, art, music and fun in the game. So if anyone have any ideas please poke me
In Sindarin there is a word, – Aduial. (The name means “second uial” = evening twilight, in contrast to minuial which means “first uial”, referring to the morning twilight.) So when I looked up that word, I instantly thought “Evening twilight” would be a suitable name for the song.
I love to role-play my elven characters, I find them both interesting/mystical and quite a challenge to Roleplay. The more I get a grip of the Lore, I find the elves far more interesting than the stereotypical ones we see in for example the movies. When it comes to their languages, I do not feel the urge to “alienize” myself and speak a language no one understand (Sindarin) But I like to color the English with some elvish now and then. (in a logical manner though) This is something I do to create my elves as close to Lore as possible and to immerse into them as far as I can. The more background and details I know about the elves, the easier it is to understand and develop them. I am a part of a Kin called Loth i Lonnath which is first and formost a Martial kinship located near the borders of Lindon (we are located in Falathlorn ingame). Some of their tasks is to patrol and protect the lands near Grey Havens, but also join assaults with their allies to get a wider understanding of the enemies. Regards to Patrols, I often image their lonely journeys and watches could be sometime a lonesome task sometimes. So therefore this song was shaped..
Evening twilight is a very subtle title, and since it this is an instrumental song, some are asking me what the song is about. But I do not always know the answer myself. I try to make a certain mood in the song sometimes with suitable title. My friend Hwethlenn (a fellow kin-friend- in Loth-I-Lonnath) made a text to the song. So beneath is her interpretation of the song lyric-wise. I find it excellent and suitable for the song.
The screenshot is made by Erihael/Istuir (Shades and Loth i Lonnath). I love the way he creates screenshots, you see a lot of movements/dynamic in the pictures, and he has his own way to capture the mood in them. They are very artistic, even if it’s screenies from Lotro I think. I also found them very suitable for the song, and he was kind to give me the permission to use them.
Hwethlenn’s Lyrics
Evening Twilight
He is my all mystery
Harbinger of the moonless obscurity
Neither golden augustly nor silvery
I come to see him clandestine
The hope’s idol sublime
My golden hair graced by thyme
I stand before thee grand
The darksome kiss at hand
Quenching the nightingale’s chant
And the bleakness grows
Thus Evening Twilight overcometh me
As on thy deaf ears falls my plea
I would have given myself to thee
A love in vain that has gone sere
He now haunts my fears
Unrecognized the land aged in years
A silent inkling spears
His kisses auguring sweet
But every word outspoken venomous deceit
Within gloaming where is naught but lie and cheat
And the bleakness grows
Thus Evening Twilight overcometh me
As on thy deaf ears falls my plea
I would have given myself to thee
A love in vain that has gone sere
Nightfall – Why have you forgotten what you swore?
Dawn – A princess I was in the days of yore
I will love one day again like I was never hurt before
Over the rim I surrender in dance
You cannot hurt me anymore
Some of Istuir/Erihael’s screenshot: (More is to be seen in the video)
