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[haptalaon]

Also, this is beautiful. Satisfyingly, but not surprisingly, it is a fit for many of the things I've already put together (because Tolkien is such an influence on me that it's no longer always clear when I'm reflecting something he planted in me)

Additionally, the translation I'm reading is to the same metre as the Song of Hiawatha, and that's important because Mike Oldfield's setting of Hiawatha is one of the loveliest things I know, and it means that I can sing this too.

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I think I need to look up this Song of Hiawatha soon then. I first heard the name a couple days ago on Wikipedia looking up historical tidbits of the Kalevala, it was mentioned since it's apparently inspired by the Kalevala meter. No coincidence on that part!
Go ahead, sing the Kalevala. It was originally meant to be sung anyway. :D Rune singers were a big thing in Finland of old.