Stephen Colbert on "Favorite Song" and "The Silmarillion"

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Did y'all see this? It is Colbert doing an analysis of Chance the Rapper's song "Favorite Song" featuring Childish Gambino...and its connections to The Silmarillion. I hope it fills you with as much joy as it did me!

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/mu...

[Trike]

Deep nerd. Deep, deep nerd.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

He is pure, unadulterated nerd and if I hadn't already committed to becoming a dragon, I'd want to grow up to be him.

[Candice]

That was awesome! Thanks for sharing.

[Beth]

Cool! I certainly wouldn't have remembered off the top of my head that the Earendil song had internal rhyme. I *might* have remembered about Earendil's connection to Old English (I've definitely read about it somewhere before, but it's not the sort of thing I have memorized...)

I think I'm probably sufficiently nerdy that I get to keep my Tolkien nerd card anyway, though.

[Alondra]

Allison wrote: "Did y'all see this? It is Colbert doing an analysis of Chance the Rapper's song "Favorite Song" featuring Childish Gambino...and its connections to The Silmarillion. I hope it fills you..."

Every time he talks about any of the middle-earth saga, I try to sit down and take notes. It actually helps, because I have tried twice to read The Silmarillion and just CANNOT do it.

[Benjamin]

I saw that on FB. Very, very cool.

[Beth]

Slightly off topic re. the original post -- but I wanted to see if someone had set that song to music, and I found a version here (Adele McAllister):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdFbF...

It's excellent!