In watching The Hobbit, I noticed that in the Rivendell scene, we heard the same music as we heard in Rivendell in the Lord of the Rings movies. Now, that makes it easy for us to recognize it, and it’s certainly cheaper for the filmmakers, but what about for the elves who have to live there? Are they always playing that same music all the time in Rivendell? Is it like Muzak they can never escape, like they’re living in a giant shopping mall or elevator?
In the latter portions of the Lord of the Rings movies, the elves said they were leaving Rivendell for somewhere safer (I think that was it, or maybe it was just time for them to “move on”, because it was “a time for man”, or whatever.), but could that have been an excuse? Maybe they just couldn’t take hearing that same music playing on and on forever in an endless loop! (Maybe Sauron is behind it, trying to drive them out of Middle Earth?)
