I just discovered this a few days ago. Stupendously awesome.
Also, I woke up fine and perky yesterday morning and within an hour had developed a hideous, bone-aching, chilling, nauseous, eyeball-stabby, headachey, hysterical flu. Not impressed. I am somewhat better today, but it doesn’t really matter; I already told my little sister on the phone what must be done with my remains and personal possessions.
Is this sort of awesome, or awful? I really don’t know. Bear with it for a verse or two - her voice is, ah, Raw and Untutored - but let me know what you think. Is it fanfiction - which I hate, loathe, despise and abominate - or somehow cooler than that? You tell me. I know it’s filk, but I’m so new to that concept I actually don’t have an opinion about it yet. Which pretty much puts the universe in a state of flux.
Patchy, I’d say. Some of the lyrics are touching, and some of them just sound obnoxiously faux-Jossian - too many damns, for one. I hate it when fans try to emulate a writer’s writing style - it’s like all those commenters on Pioneer Woman who talk about their punks with self-conscious beeziness and say “dadgum”. Weedy, is what it is… which is largely why I hate fanfiction. The other reason is that I’m a LOTR fan, and to see people who think they can emulate Tolkien’s bleak, spare, deceptively arid writing style by keyword-stuffing “glimmering” and “fey” into descriptions of violet-eyed half-Elven princesses, well, it makes me want to cause messy death. Which is not the case with this song, I hasten to add. At its worst it just makes me wince a bit and go “Puh-leese”.
And that’s what I look for in a song.