#basically a musical retelling in the bedtime story way tolkien intended

[disphoriasweater]

okay so i really want to sleep but this won't get out of my brain so guys the hobbit (book version mostly) would adapt into a musical brilliantly!! Like okay so im litterally hashing this out while typing but the first scene starts off really dark and gruesomey with like red lights flashing and smoke n shit and the first song is sung by the dwarves about Smuag reigning fire and killing everyone, then the scene shits to a happier hobbit song with lots of dancing and joy and cheer. We get introduced to Thorin and Bilbo here and establish their characters being different (Bilbo completely and utterly respectable and hobbitish and Thorin brave and strong and the picture of dwarven royalty) and then song ends in Bag End when Bilbo receives a knock on the door and in enters Gandalf. quick interaction here maybe Gandalf sings a quick ditty about Belladonna Baggins and her bravery before scratching a rune on the door.

Next scene is Bilbo singing a song about adventures- or other Hobbits singing a song about adventures having no place amougst a sensible hobbit society. idk maybe OH WAIT Bilbo alone in his house laughing about gandalf and singing about what its like to be a baggins while cooking himself dinner. Towards the end of the song you start hearing knocking on the door and it ends with Bilbo opening the door and seeing a big ol scary looking dwarf maybe he lets out a little shriek and slams the door shut "was that a dwarf?" opens the door again takes a peeks maybe the dwarf lets out a little "hi" before he slams it shut again.

i love broody movie Thorin but Book Thorin whose prone to dramatically monologing and is the picture of royalty is litterally to good of an opportunity to give up. He sings a song very dramatic song about needing Bilbo to steal from a dragon.

The three trolls sing a cooking song about how to cook various beings. Bilbo temporarily steals their tune when trying to convince them how to properly cook a dwarf.

The Elves of Rivendell sing the same song they do in the books. Mirkwood gets their own song as well but in opposition to the way the dwarves sing.

When Bilbo fights the Spiders he sings a similar song to the one Gandalf sung about a Tooks bravery thus acknowledging his mothers side and naming his sword Sting.

The beginning of act 2 song is sung by the other Company dwarves insulting Elves. They get into shitty Elves costumes at some point.

Bilbos song about being a baggins is a reoccurring theme when he needs to make a decision. It plays then stops when he decides to make a unhobbitish move. his theme changes slightly when he gets the Ring. Not too much but it has a note that sounds slightly unnatural.

Thorin has this reoccurring noble sounding theme but when he has gold sickness it becomes warped and dark.

Laketown sings a song very similar to the ones that the Hobbits sang in their half of the prologue but its a lot more brutal and very insulting towards the king.

The Battle of Five Armies is combines all the tunes of Laketown, The Elves, Dwarves, Orcs and Bilbo into a chaotically beautiful song where the previously battling armies now work sing in a haunting harmony.

Thorins death song is very sad:( and he sings solely to Bilbo about dwarven afterlives and also lands flush with life and plants and commanding Bilbo to return home.

thats all i can be bothered to write<3

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