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Anar Rises Flaming In The West / Fingolfin Arrives In Mithrim - Weekly Note Jam #1 hosted by emscottish's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #3 | 3.771 | 4.000 |
| Quality | #6 | 3.536 | 3.750 |
| Coherence to the Theme | #7 | 2.828 | 3.000 |
| Overall | #7 | 3.378 | 3.583 |
Ranked from 4 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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I'd say i'm advanced but i'm also on-purpose loose with my production
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Interesting entry! The sound was great, I liked the harsh piano chords. You seem to have a good idea of chord progressions. I personally did not found it much 'sunrise-y', but I do see what you were going for. Funny idea to go for some Tolkien-lore stuff, I believe you've been doing this for a while? Nice song :D
Well one would have to delve into the lore. The sunrise of Tolkien's Sun as the last fruit of the tree Laurelin...is kind of a bittersweet moment.
The abandoned folk of Fingolfin (and Finarfin) had to walk all through that Grinding Ice stuff and they're not happy.
Maglor is down there on the shores of Lake Mithrim dejectedly watching Fingolfin dismount his horse (with Galadriel and her elder brother's very stern gazes right beside him) and he's like 'ohhhhh lovely they're here a little earlier than we thought').
(Maedhros being detained elsewhere hanging from the cliff face of Thangorodrim at present by a band of steel around his wrist....)
that -does- put a damper on the standard cheerfulness of this sunrise. Also fun fact for the first week Anar rises in the west rather than east
(hence putting it on the left of the track art)
Glad you enjoyed.
--D
There's a feeling of grandness I get from this track. I think there's a nice progression you've made here. The style of playing feels very human, I like it especially on the piano, I personally feel the attack of the string doesn't fully develop on the super short notes, but I would maybe just say that's a difference in style as I am also someone who quantizes pretty much everything I play into midi, almost too much at times. I still think it sounds pretty cool and it reminds me a lot of fantasy themed tracks! I am not too familiar with Tolkien's works so I may not know the full concept, but I think it is cool that you chose to capture that here as well. The track is full of story-telling which I like a lot!
I'm gratified you had a good impression of it.
There is a full concept behind it and a proper list of the Silmarillion tracks i did over on Soundcloud, in fact chronologically the oldest thing placed on the platform as track 'I' is the June 2022 version of the Eärendillinwë and then through the first hundred tracks just generally I released, I tried to sneak in now and again another track which would take us to a different part of the book. There were later additions but much more slowly.
I tried to swing it during this jam in a way that people didn't really have pre-knowledge that I had made the other ones until fairly late in the rating period, re: 'don't manipulate the voting' meant for most jams
I liked the classical approach👍
there's more of that in the Silmarillion list on the SoundCloud but i was being very coy about not saying much about where it was :)