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[cormack12]

As title, when you're reading a book and it has a few pages of a culturally important song, what do you do?

e.g. an Elvish song in TLOR

 

[Doom85]

Edit: okay, seeing the poll, it looks like you just poorly worded the thread title. Singing (which would suggest out loud, otherwise it would be "singing it in your head") and reading it as a song are two completely different things.

 

[Lunarorbit]

I've read a lot of bad fantasy over the years and I almost always skip/skim songs or poems. So many of them are horrible.

I'll watch a musical reluctantly in person cause I like plays but I won't watch one on TV. I took my wife to see Wicked at the theater last year before the movie but I refuse to the movie. Same thing

 

[Superkewl]

The only ones I recall are LOTR, and I just skip them.

 

[DKehoe]

Yes. At the top of my voice. It makes the plane rides go by so much quicker.

 

[Plies]

Putonahappyface

 

[Trogdor1123]

No… just no.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Either read as a poem or just skip that shit, depends on the mood.

 

[jason10mm]

It's hard to sing a written song without knowing the rhythm or beat to it. Sometimes if I work at it I can come up with something but mostly I'll skip songs if they are really long.

Same with poems embedded in prose, very few authors can make a poem that's any good. Even Tolkien's stuff I skip sometimes, though I admit that they do add a lot of flavor to the story at times.

Another are long winded "prophecies", virtually all are rubbish at feeling authentic within the world. Sooooooooooo many bad fantasy works are saddled down with nonsense prophecy statements.

Best are short segments used to add a little color to the start of each chapter. Be it a quote, a snippet of song, or whatever.

 

[Putonahappyface]

Putonahappyface

 

[Kilau]

Try reading LOTR without sing...

The only ones I recall are LOTR, and I just skip them.