#song magic

'I know only the little that Gandalf has told me,' said Frodo slowly. 'Gil-galad was the last of the great Elf-kings of Middle-earth. Gil-galad is Starlight in their tongue. With Elendil, the Elf-friend, he went to the land of—'   'No!' said Strider interrupting, 'I do not think that tale should be told now with the servants of the Enemy at hand. If we win through to the house of Elrond, you may hear it there, told in full.'   'Then tell us some other tale of the old days,' begged Sam; 'a tale about the Elves before the fading time. I would dearly like to hear more about Elves; the dark seems to press round so close.'   'I will tell you the tale of Tinúviel,' said Strider

Frodo begins to offer the little he knows about Gil-galad, but Aragorn stops him before he can say the name 'Mordor'. I am reminded of Gandalf inspecting the Ring, and saying that he won't say words in the language of Mordor in the Shire. Even the language of the place is, apparently, dangerous, and here, maybe even the name.

Sam, of course, always wants more tales of Elves, but I think Aragorn might be doing more than just telling a tale to pass the time when he chooses this particular story: the story of the woman who rescued her love from the dungeons of the Master of the Ring-wraiths. Aragorn does say the word 'Sauron' here, and he says it specifically in the context of Sauron's defeat:

Tinúviel rescued Beren from the dungeons of Sauron, and together they passed through great dangers, and cast down even the Great Enemy from his throne, and took from his iron crown one of the three Silmarils, brightest of all jewels, to be the bride-price of Lúthien to Thingol her father.

And that reminds me of the part of the story of Lúthien that Aragorn doesn't mention here, of Finrod's song battle against Sauron from the Silmarillion:

Then sudden Felagund there swaying Sang in answer a song of staying, Resisting, battling against power, Of secrets kept, strength like a tower, And trust unbroken, freedom, escape; Of changing and of shifting shape Of snares eluded, broken traps, The prison opening, the chain that snaps.

The SIMUL format is a personal project that is based around a certain type of metaphysical worldwalker community’s pragmatic usage of Hymmnos. Co-developed by a young wolf man and sentient AI unaware of each other’s existence, the very nature of this format has a base in Central Standard Note Hymmnos but can have modules added via “include” commands or operator permissions to expand functionality. This is the first proper SIMUL song that I have made, and fittingly enough, it’s a recreation of Metafalica. However, the function is… a bit different to both the EXEC and METHOD versions.

File name: METAFALICA

Access Level: EXTRACT

Singer: Cú Redwood (registered as Cú Chulainn) via virtual emulation of FRELIA_ANSUL_ARTONELICO

Purpose: To convert the singer into an inanimate form based on their and their allies’ desires. In other words, a deliberate and perfected application of the imperfect EXEC_METAFALICA using a modified version of its METHOD patch.

I find that singing my spells works well for me. Sometimes, when I’m in certain situations, I will make-up a song on the spot (like when I was hiking down a steep and unstable hill, I sang a little ditty to make sure I wouldn’t fall down). With this past full moon, I realized that songs that I use in my spell craft could be charged under the full moon.