fantasy

The Silver Knight – Will Sturman

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dog-of-ulthar:

Another song you can find lyrics to in Dragon Age: Inquisition, this one about the conquest of the Dales (if you don’t play Dragon Age, that means it’s about KILLING ELVES, and that’s all the context you really need).  I may have come up with this tune at 2 AM in a hotel room at Dragon Con.
Credit to @sharkalanche, who was finishing her armor in that hotel room at Dragon Con and is the reason I didn’t just go the fuck to sleep, and @mostfacinorous, who still technically owns the mandolin I’ve been using.
The lyrics are here, and my chords are Em / D / Bm A / Bm Em
(I screw up the words at one point but YOU KNOW WHAT there are A LOT OF WORDS IN THIS)

The Prophecy Hotline – Kari Maaren

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“Whenever a prophecy turns up in a story, characters behave with steady, maddening predictability, doing EXACTLY THE WRONG THING IN EVERY WAY. I have set up a musical telephone hotline for these characters. It may help, but that’s up to them.“

“The Prophecy Hotline,” by Kari Maaren

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

The Ballad of Rupert – Tom Smith

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“Not your father’s nonconformist-stands-tall song – at least, I don’t THINK so….”

I started listening to this fearing it might be hella transphobic, but it turns out it’s just kind of odd and nice, because it is, after all, a nonconformist-stands-tall song, just an unconventional one.  Three cheers for Rupert the Swishy!

The Library Bards

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Hey there!

I wanted to reach out to you because my band, The Library Bards are babies in the filking community, but would love to get more involved! We do nerdy parody songs, and you can hear one of them (about our favorite wizard) here: https://youtu.be/R7i-Cg5DiWo

We have other songs as well, and more music videos to come!

Thanks,

Xander

(A Library Bard :D)

Submitted by xanderiffic!  The video is definitely worth watching, if only to see Gandalf dance.  I mean, there are other reasons, but that should be sufficient.

You Can't Bring Your iPod to Hogwarts – Tickle the Pear

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This song came up on the Pegasus Awards brainstorming poll for Best Filk Song this year, which I say first to encourage you to listen to it, and second because the singer is a self-described Wrocker, and I’m always interested in exactly where the overlap between filk and Wrock sits.
Anyway, she makes a fair point.  You can’t bring your iPod to Hogwarts.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)