{"id":66017,"date":"2026-07-04T20:44:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=66017"},"modified":"2026-07-06T19:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:33:54","slug":"revontulien-alla-a-song-in-finnish-and-spanish-inspired-by-the-work-of-j-r-r-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/07\/04\/revontulien-alla-a-song-in-finnish-and-spanish-inspired-by-the-work-of-j-r-r-tolkien\/","title":{"rendered":"'Revontulien alla', a song in Finnish and Spanish inspired by the work of J.R.R. Tolkien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've been listening to Finnish music for a while now, a language that really catches my attention because of its unique sound.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/12\/19\/song-of-gondor-a-danish-song-based-on-a-beautiful-poem-by-j-r-r-tolkien\/\">'Song of Gondor', a Danish song based on a beautiful poem by J.R.R. Tolkien<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/02\/19\/namarie-the-most-spectacular-version-of-the-farewell-song-written-by-tolkien\/\">'Nam\u00e1ri\u00eb': The most spectacular version of the farewell song written by Tolkien<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>I read a while ago that J.R.R. Tolkien drew inspiration from Finnish (with some elements also taken from Latin) to create his language Quenya, also known as High Elvish. So, <strong>a Finnish song is the closest thing you'll ever hear to a High Elven song...<\/strong> A few weeks ago, while experimenting with artificial intelligence, I generated <a href=\"https:\/\/suno.com\/song\/a6d2159b-8623-4d99-b1cf-439fcd42303f\" target=\"_blank\">a Finnish song titled \"Revontulien alla\" (Under the Northern Lights)<\/a> on suno.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The song is based on Tolkien's stories about the Huorns<\/strong>, tree-like beings who inhabited the ancient Fangorn Forest and who, unlike the Ents, had become feral and could barely speak or move anymore. <strong>The song tells the story of a man taking a nighttime walk through a forest in Lapland, watching the Northern Lights and letting his dreams take flight<\/strong>, unaware that these ancient sentinels of the forest are watching him.<\/strong>Here you can listen to the Finnish version<\/strong> (the video has English subtitles):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Revontulien alla\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b46kmcyLAHo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The difficult part of generating these two songs came with the Spanish version, titled \"Bajo la aurora boreal\".<\/strong> The Finnish version was entirely generated by artificial intelligence, based on the ideas I proposed and my stylistic instructions (I wanted a Nordic folk song using <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kantele\" target=\"_blank\">the kantele<\/a>, a stringed instrument traditional to Finland), but <strong>I wrote the Spanish version based on the Finnish lyrics, but it's not a translation<\/strong>, since I tried to adapt the meter to make it sound good, and that always involves changing some things (the video has English subtitles):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bajo la aurora boreal\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vDias7KKqXQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Anyway, I hope you like them.<\/strong> Lately, I've been generating songs with AI in different styles. You can listen to them on <a href=\"https:\/\/suno.com\/@elentirvigo?page=songs\" target=\"_blank\">my suno.com profile<\/a>. Both the songs I've included in this article and the ones you can see on my suno.com profile are free to download without asking permission or paying anything. I'm not a member of SGAE (the Spanish copyright society).<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Image: OpenArt.ai.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been listening to Finnish music for a while now, a language that really catches my attention because of its unique sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11348],"tags":[27358,13611,27359,461,27357,18266],"class_list":["post-66017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-fangorn","tag-finland","tag-huorns","tag-jrr-tolkien","tag-kantele","tag-lapland"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-31 05:35:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}