..I was wondering if someone could throw some light on these for me? How is the riddle and sing skill used? How does it present/come across?
I can't get my head around the fact that someone could just burst into song in a meeting!
As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning
and by magic moving through him, a fierce and jealous love, the desire of the hearts of
dwarves. Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the
great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and
wear a sword instead of a walking stick.
Sam could never describe in words, nor picture clearly to himself, what he felt or thought that night, though it remained in his memory as one of the chief events of his life. The nearest he ever got was to say: ‘Well, sir, if I could grow apples like that, I would call myself a gardener. But it was the singing that went to my heart, if you know what I mean.’
‘I have been among them,’ answered Aragorn. ‘They are proud and wilful, but they are true-hearted, generous in thought and deed; bold but not cruel; wise but unlearned, writing no books but singing many songs, after the manner of the children of Men before the Dark Years.
Now they call this land their home, their own, and their speech is sundered from their northern kin.’ Then he began to chant softly in a slow tongue unknown to the Elf and Dwarf; yet they listened, for there was a strong music in it.
"I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I
am Barrel-rider," Bilbo went on, beginning to be pleased with his riddling
Frodo told many tales, yet always he steered the matter away from the quest of the Company and from the Ring, enlarging rather on the valiant part Boromir had played in all their adventures, with the wolves of the wild, in the snows under Caradhras, and in the mines of Moria where Gandalf fell. Faramir was most moved by the story of the fight on the bridge.
[...] Do not tell him more than you need, and leave quiet the matter of Frodo’s errand. I will deal with that in due time.
It would be weird to burst into song, but I’ve quoted movies and song lyrics in meetings, to positive effect. I think that’s a rough analogue.In our world it would indeed be weird to suddenly burst into song during a meeting. I speak from experience.
A meant meeting as in a real-life meeting at work. I recite poems and songs all the time during roleplaying sessionsIt would be weird to burst into song, but I’ve quoted movies and song lyrics in meetings, to positive effect. I think that’s a rough analogue.In our world it would indeed be weird to suddenly burst into song during a meeting. I speak from experience.
It’s a way of saying, “We have a shared experience, we get each other.”
Yes, I did too.A meant meeting as in a real-life meeting at work. I recite poems and songs all the time during roleplaying sessionsIt would be weird to burst into song, but I’ve quoted movies and song lyrics in meetings, to positive effect. I think that’s a rough analogue.In our world it would indeed be weird to suddenly burst into song during a meeting. I speak from experience.
It’s a way of saying, “We have a shared experience, we get each other.”