geekchiccinema is busy making music from my studio in the Shire, Lancashire that is... Here’s some psychedelic Renaissance revival folk music from 1970’s Britain. Today is a misty, moisty morning in the English north country, and whenever I listen to this song it makes me think of elves and dwarves and trolls and orcs and halfling hobbits and white robed wizards and the Misty Mountains from Lord of the Rings. It’s quite fitting anyway, as outside my studio window here in Lancashire is a direct view of the home of the 17th century witch trials, the beautiful Pendle Hill, which is often covered in mist and rainbows, and just on the other side is the Ribble Valley where J.R.R.Tolkien spent several years working on his masterpiece at Stonyhurst College. When I first moved here from America and Joanne and I walked from our house through the Forest of Pendle and over the hill into Clitheroe, I found the place feeling so inspiring and magical in its atmosphere that I said to Joanne that even if you didn’t believe in fairies and elves and things like that, you could almost feel like you’d stepped into a fantasy realm and they could pop out of the dampened foliage or trickling waters at any moment. Maybe that’s why this area has a strong literary tradition. These words from Tolkien nearly sum it up: “The fogs slowly gathered together and steamed up into a huge umbrella of cloud: it must have been a mile high. In the evening there was a great rainbow over the eastern hills; and then the sunset was blotted out by a thick drizzle on the mountain-sides. It all went very quiet. A few wolves howled mournfully, far away.…... It was a misty, moisty morning when we climbed down and looked round again, and nobody was about. And that is about all there is to tell. It seems almost peaceful now after all the turmoil. And safer too, somehow, since Gandalf came back.” - Pippin, Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers (Book 3, The Treason of Isengard) https://youtube/watch?v=5RHdwsKY2ic
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 10:25:25 +0000
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