Kurt,

I am right now in the process of putting my soundtrack analysis on the web. (I'm happily learning how to use my new web page maker as I do so.) I was doing a quick search for something and stumbled across this thread. (I've never visited this site before.) I don't have time at the moment to thoroughly look over your analysis. But I think we may disagree just a little (which is good... that means I have someone to explain the things I'm unsure about. )

I will say this though. Fellowship of the Word-Smith https://www.elvish.org/gwaith/movie.htm is a wonderful, fantastic source of information. It got me started on this quest. But I wouldn't trust everything without verification (actually listening carefully to the lyrics yourself, I mean). I have corrected information they had, (kindly published and credited by Ryszard), I consider some information still there wrong, and I have found conflicting lyrics at Elfling https://groups.yahoo.com/group/elfling/ posted by Danijel Legin. I find Danijel's lyrics more credible (to my ears).

Anyway, if you bear with me while I compile myself , we could have a glorious conversation. I'm looking forward to it.

Magpie