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This song is part two of the song cycle Melissa Mielfée and the Omphalonian Orchid, a Harry Potter x Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fanfic.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman
after the Sorting Hat Song from Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone
set to "The Frozen Logger" by James Stevens

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This song is part one of the song cycle Melissa Mielfée and the Omphalonian Orchid, a Harry Potter x Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fanfic.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman
ttto: "Tell the Bees" by Talis Kimberley
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A setting of Tolkien's hymn, in the Elvish language Sindarin, to Elbereth (Varda), the Queen of the Valar (Powers) and Kindler of the Stars.

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One of the catchiest tunes from The Secret of Mana.  I spent a long time working on the instrumental sections, and only wrote the lyrics afterwards.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman
ttto: "A Curious Tale" from The Secret of Mana by Hiroki Kikuta
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The Fool's son has taken up the family trade and become a Cartographer himself.  But the art is changing, and the world with it.  In case it's not clear, in this context this is a villain song.  Will the Cartographer, or one of his children after him, earn redemption?  That part of the story remains unwritten.

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The story continues...  Years have passed.  The Fool and the Dragon have become fast friends.  But the world is changing.  Mortally wounded and no longer able to protect her last clutch of eggs, the Dragon makes a perilous choice.

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Picking up the story right where "Here Be Dragons" left off, the Fool has fallen into a dragon's lair...

lyrics and music by Benjamin Newman

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The song that introduces the story of the Here Be Cartographers cycle.  The Fool, son of a map-maker, sets out into the world to seek his fortune.

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A playful but meaningful reversal of the roles of cartographers and the dragons they so carelessly scatter across their maps.  Originally written to stand on its own, this song became the seed of a song cycle which is still being written.

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The "Here Be Cartographers" cycle began as a single song, playfully reversing the roles of map-makers and the dragons they so carelessly scattered at the edges of their maps.  It grew into the story of generations of a family of map-makers, as the craft of cartography hardened what had once been a fairy-tale world into a more definite and less wondrous shape.  I eventually realized that this story is about colonialism, and that I'm not sure that a happy-ending redemption arc for the map-makers is mine to write.  The end of the story remains unwritten... for now.

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With apologies to Paul McCartney and Garth Nix.  The introduction is adapted from passages in Sabriel and Lirael.

(content note: horrible things done to animals (fictional))

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Only a few lines of Paul Simon's "American Tune" needed to be changed to make it about Neil Gaiman's novel.

lyrics and music by Paul Simon, adapted by Benjamin Newman
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The lore of the Legend of Zelda series was invented to make a cool background for a video game and not to make sense as a mystical system. Certainly, its problematically simplistic idea of how evil reapppears works better in a game that needs a clear villain than it will in your actual worldview.

However, the association of three (!) elements (water, fire, and wind) with three divine attributes (wisdom, power, and courage) does echo some real-world magical systems, and I'm the kind of pagan who will take that and run with it, especially if there's a catchy tune to set it to.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman
ttto: "The Legendary Hero" from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker by Kenta Nagata, Hajime Wakai, Toru Minegishi and Koji Kondo
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At the halfway point of Final Fantasy VI, the world is shattered by a magical cataclysm. This is a lyric for the musical theme that introduces the "World of Ruin", where the rest of the game takes place.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman
ttto: "The Day After" from Final Fantasy VI by Nobuo Uematsu
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This classic from The Muppet Movie always makes me think of the Elves sailing into the West, so I updated it a little.

lyrics adapted by Benjamin Newman
from "I'm Going to Go Back There Someday" by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher
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Did you fall asleep reading the Silmarillion? I'll sum it up for you — as an epic rap ballad!

lyrics by Benjamin Newman
after "It's All About the Benjamins" by Puff Daddy
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Chocobos are mostly flightless avian steeds from the Final Fantasy multiverse.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman
ttto: "Chocobo Chocobo" from Final Fantasy IV by Nobuo Uematsu
 
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The town of Zozo in Final Fantasy VI is a terrible place. Everyone there always lies, even about the time of day, and then they try to beat you up. Enjoy your visit!

lyrics by Benjamin Newman
ttto: "Slam Shuffle" (the theme of Zozo) from Final Fantasy VI by Nobuo Uematsu
 
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The song of a younger, spunkier Galadriel, setting out from the West to Middle Earth.

lyrics and music by Benjamin Newman
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From Final Fantasy IV, a song for Rydia, an apprentice caller (or summoner).

lyrics by Benjamin Newman
ttto: Rydia's theme from Final Fantasy IV by Nobuo Uematsu

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