Lind-in-Edhil ❖ Elvish Songs

None of these are in any Elvish language, and only a few are Tolkien-inspired. I call these Elvish songs because they are rich with the deep joy and subtle sorrow that can only come from a connection to the life and beauty of the Earth.

Progressive Rock

  • Dusk — Genesis

  • Dancing With The Moonlit Knight — Genesis

    I remember the first time I heard this song. I was in high school. My parents had put the album on to introduce me to some of the music they listened to when they were my age, and this was the opening track. I thought it was kind of weird and boring until the very end, when the haunting flute comes in, and the bells... I suddenly became aware that these Genesis guys might know something, that they might have something important to say.

  • Firth of Fifth — Genesis

  • Thick as a Brick (Side B) — Jethro Tull

    Gets good around 4m15s.

  • Stairway to Heaven — Led Zeppelin

    They probably read Lord of the Rings.

  • Jerusalem — Emerson, Lake and Palmer

  • Carpet of the Sun — Renaissance

  • Songs from the Wood — Jethro Tull

  • Visions of Angels — Genesis

  • Brothers in Arms — Dire Straits

  • After the Love Is Gone — Earth, Wind & Fire

  • High Hopes — Pink Floyd

Blues

  • Azt Gondoltam Eső Esik — Ripoff Raskolnikov

  • When the Levee Breaks — Led Zeppelin

Psychedelic and Neo-Folk

  • Hazel Steps Through A Weathered Home (Full Album) — In Gowan Ring

  • Stone Song III — In Gowan Ring

  • Lady Beyond The River — In Gowan Ring

  • Cipher's String On The Tree In The Dream of the Queen — In Gowan Ring

  • Hockwold — Arrowwood

  • Compendium (Full Album) — In Gowan Ring

  • Between Two Mysteries — Mount Eerie

  • My Heart Is Not At Peace — Mount Eerie

Traditional and World Music

  • Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór — Turlough O'Carolan / Peter Blanchette

  • Mná na hÉireann — Sinéad O'Connor

  • Thugamar Féin An Samhradh Linn — The Wolfe Tones

  • Fear a Bhàta — Alison Helzer

  • Fairhaired Child Set — Karen Ashbrook

  • Siúil a Rúin — Connie Dover

  • Scarborough Fair — Simon and Garfunkel

  • Sofia, The Saracen's Daughter — Andrew Cronshaw and Natacha Atlas

  • Repülj, Madár, Repülj (Fly Bird Fly) — Márta Sebestyén

  • Azt gondoltam, eső esik (I Thought It Was Raining) — Muzsikás and Márta Sebestyén

  • Saryglarlar — Huun-Huur-Tu

  • Elyne Road — Toumani Diabate

  • Kalevala Melody

  • Kumbin (Meeting) — Habib Koité

  • Amores Hallarás — Markahuasi

  • Två Konungabarn — Myrkur

  • Heiemo Og Nykkjen — Kirsten Bråten Berg

Classical and Early Music

  • J'ai Vû Le Loup — Baltimore Consort

  • Introducing the Baroque Theorbo – Elizabeth Kenny

  • Allegri — Miserere Mei, Deus — The Choir of New College, Oxford

  • Schiarazulla Marazulla / A Carolina — Luar Na Lubre

    This is a mashup of an old Italian dance tune by Giorgio Mainerio with a traditional Galician song.

Game Soundtracks

  • Heroes of Might and Magic IV OST — Paul Romero

  • Floating Across Water (Heroes of Might and Magic IV OST) (Dryante Cover) — Paul Romero

  • Snow Theme (Heroes of Might and Magic IV OST) — Paul Romero

  • The Prayer / Goddard / Schuttgart (Heroes of Might and Magic IV OST / Lineage OST) (Dryante and Acarianelle Cover)

  • Hope (Heroes of Might and Magic IV OST) (Dryante Cover) — Paul Romero

  • The Dungeon Master's Lair (Zork Grand Inquisitor OST) — John Beal

Indie Rock

  • Cosmic Love — Florence and the Machine

    the Stars, the Moon / they have all been blown out; / you left me in the dark.
    no dawn, no day / I'm always in this twilight / in the shadow of your heart.

  • Sandy — Caribou

  • Sixth of July — The High Water Marks

  • Taste — Animal Collective

  • An Entanglement of Weeds — Woodpigeon

    Content Warning: death, drowning

  • Silver Moons — Sunset Rubdown

Metal

  • Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan — Nightwish

    Totally off topic, but I love the font used in this video. If anyone can identify it for me, I'd be grateful!

  • Wanderlust — Nightwish

  • Ghost Love Score — Nightwish

  • Sleeping Sun — Nightwish

  • Finnish Medley — Ensiferum

  • A Sight to Behold — Gojira

    The way I see things is so simple / The fact I'm walking standing on this land... / But I still don't get the point: What's worth destroying all the world? Try not to get it anymore.

New Age

  • Ce He Mise Le Ulaingt? / The Two Trees — Loreena McKennitt

    · Lyrics ·

  • Athair ar Neamh (Enya Cover) — Taliesin Orchestra

  • Smaointe — Enya

  • Ombra — Cirque du Soleil

  • Désert — Benoit Jutras & Cirque du Soleil

  • Book of Days — Enya

    This song doesn't remind me of LotR as much as it does of LotR fanfic... most specifically Protectors of the Plot Continuum in its lighter and less gory moments. I just need a metal song to go with this one, and we'd have a soundtrack...

Pop

  • Ocean Eyes — Billie Eilish

  • Suerte — Shakira

Ambient

  • Tien Fu: Heaven's Gate (Excerpt) — Aeoliah

  • Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace (Full Album) — Brian Eno

  • New Space Music — Brian Eno

Jazz

  • Angel of Air / Angel of Water — Carlos Santana and Alice Coltrane

  • Closeness (Full Album) — Charlie Haden with Keith Jarrett, Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, and Paul Motian

  • Hip Harp — Dorothy Ashby

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