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Annatar and Celebrimbor were in Ost-in-Edhil having another round of their regular debate on works with magical properties that only holds together because of that magic (Annatar says that such a work is the perfect expression of the union of form and function. Celebrimbor says it’s lazy smithing, and if you can’t make the wire loop stay in place without magic the form does not suit the function of actually being worn.)

Annatar: “If you see laziness in body and spirit relying on each other-” He stopped suddenly, his eyes wide with fear. “Hide in the wardrobe.”
 
Celebrimbor: “What? Why, who would I hide from in my own rooms?”

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The album "All This Bad Blood" by Bastille is completely about the Silmarillion.  I have paired each song with an event/character, though feel free to propose closer matches.

• "Pompeii" - The fight against Sauron echoing the fight against Morgoth. 
  
  • 'And the walls kept tumbling down in the city that we love,’ the destruction of Formenos and Gondolin and Ost-in-Edhil
  • ‘Does it almost feel like nothing changed at all,’ refusing a powerful Ainur’s offer of knowledge and throwing him out the city.
  • ‘Does it almost feel like you’ve been here before,’ the High King of the Noldor rides out to fight the Dark Lord
  • ‘How am I going to be an optimist about this’  no actions of elves did anything more than buy time last Age.
• "Things We Lost in the  Fire" - Fingolfin’s host watching the burning of the ships at Losgar. ‘We were born with nothing / And we sure as hell have nothing now’  but we’re not going to turn back just because it’s hopeless
• "Bad Blood" - Fingon and Maedhros. ‘That those are the days that bind us / Together, forever’ and ‘All this bad blood here / won’t you let it dry.’
• "Overjoyed" -  Feanor swearing the Oath and convincing the Noldor to follow him across the sea, taking vengeance rather than grief for Finwe. ‘When you listen to my words / I see them sinking in / Oh, I see them crawling underneath your skin.’
• "These Streets" - Maeglin in Gondolin, the city his mother told him all about, the city where Aredhel and Eol both died. ‘We have stained these walls / with our mistakes and flaws’
• "Weight of Living, Pt.  II" The sons of Feanor and the second and third kinslayings.  ‘Oh, tell yourself this is how it's going to be’  ‘Now that you are here, suddenly you fear / You've lost control.’ Doriath falls, and Sirion falls the same, and this will keep happening.
• "Icarus" - Feanor, obviously ‘You put up your defenses when you leave / You leave because you're certain / Of who you want to be.’ as well as ‘Icarus is flying / Towards an early grave’
• "Oblivion" - Nienor when Glaurung reveals who she really is. ‘Are you going to age with grace? / Or only to wake and hide your face?’
• "Flaws" - Nerdanel and Feanor. ‘You have always worn your flaws upon your sleeve / And I have always buried them deep beneath the ground.’ Nerdanel, the wise, strong willed but seeking to understand. Feanor, the greatest of the children of Illuvatar, never admitted he had a single flaw.
• "Daniel in the Den" - Finrod leaving on the Quest for the Silmaril, for the title and ‘Felled in the night by the ones you think you love’  re: Curufin and Celegorm leading Nargothrond against him, and 'For every king that died they would crown another' about Orodreth
• "Laura Palmer" - Turin, realizing he’s caused yet another tragedy and going to start a new life under a new name.  ‘The night was all you had / You ran into the night from all you had’
  
  •  'If you had your gun / Would you shoot it at the sky? / Why - to see where your bullet would fall / Or would it come down at all?" Is definitely Beleg's death
• "Get Home" - Celegorm and Curufin after being kicked out of Nargothrond ‘To the morning we're cast out but I know I'll land here again / How am I gonna get myself back home?’  Fleeing somewhere that was supposed to be safe for the second time in a decade.
  
  • Also, 'The birds are mocking me / They curse my return' is definitely Celegorm
•  "Poet" - Maglor, author of the Noldolante ‘I have written you down now / You will live forever’
• "The Silence" Miriel, fading from exhaustion in Lorien as her husband and son wait for her to get better. ‘Now you've hit a wall and you hit it hard’
• "Haunt (Demo)" - Fingon and Maedhros. ‘I will try to love you / It's not like I'm above you.’ They both fought at Aqualonde, Fingon won’t put that all on Maedhros.
• "Weight of Living, Pt.  I" - Sons of Feanor and the Oath and the kinslayings. ‘Your albatross, shoot it down, shoot it down / When you just can't shake the heavy weight of living.’ Forswear the Oath, or argue that you should wait, or maybe you can’t live with yourself after all.
• "Sleepsong" - Elrond and Elros with captor/foster father Maglor, who is at least better than being lost on your own in the wilderness at age six. ‘All you want is someone onto whom you can cling / Your mother warned of strangers and the dangers they may bring.’
• "Durban Skies" - Celeborn showing Galadriel around Menegroth. ‘It’s alive / Now I understand your lives’
• "Laughter Lines" - Finrod and Amarie. He crossed the sea and she stayed in Tirion. They expected defeating Morgoth to only take a few years, and then he’d come back for her. ‘I'll see you in the future when we're older / And we are full of stories to be told.’