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Hobbit music genres:
- Cautionary Tale About How Listening to Wizards Will Get You Eaten by A Dragon (But With a Happy Ending Because We Aren't Barbarians)
- That Time the Major Ended Up Looking Ridiculous
- My Uncle Grew The Biggest Cabbage Ever
- Making Fun of Lotho Pimple
- Something That Might Have Been a First Age Legend But Went Through Several Fairytales and Is Now Unrecognisable
- Something That Might Have Been a Newer Legend and Is (Only) Somewhat More Recognisable
- My Grandma Lost Her Prized Saucer
- I Am Not a Poet But the Lass I Love Is Pretty
- I Like Spring and Flowers
- Fireworks!
- We Are Tooks and Gandalf Is Actually Fun
- Tooks Are Weird
- Bucklanders Are Also Weird And Breelanders Are Weirder
- Cautionary Tale Why Boats Are Dangerous
- Islands Are Dangerous Too (We Heard One Drowned But We Thankfully Don't Know Any Details So We Made Up a Story About Giant Turtles)
- There Might Have Been an Elf in the Wood and We're Not Sure How We Feel About That
Gondor music genres:
- My Love Got Killed While He Was in The Army
- Let's Lament Lost Numenor
- Rousing Patriotic Song
- We Still Love The Tale of Beren and Luthien
- There Once Was a Mortal Man Who Killed A Dragon and We're Very Proud of This (The Rest of the Story Is Horrible and We Don't Want To Remember It)
- Origin Story for the Mysterious Singer By the Sea (Accuracy Level: 2/10 But At Least We Correctly Guessed It's an Elf)
- Ithilien Is Occupied By Mordor and This Is Sad
- We Will Show Sauron Not To Mess With Us
- Drinking Song With Way Too Nice a Melody (A Wandering Minstrel Made It Up and He Might Have Been an Elf)
- The King Will Return. One Day.
Rivendell Edition:
- Song About the Fall of Gondolin (Not To Be Sung in Glorfindel's Hearing)
- Lay of Leithian (Full Version, 6 Hours Long)
- I Haven't Seen Home in 7000 Years (I Could Return Any Moment But I Love Middle Earth Too)
- I Would Like to Return Home But It Would Hurt My Pride
- Hey We Are All Getting Along For Once (Where Was This Attitude When We Needed It?)
- Lord Elrond's Daughter Looks Like Luthien
- A Elbereth Gilthoniel
- A Elbereth Gilthoniel (version #127)
- A Elbereth Gilthoniel Only It's In Quenya Because I'm Feeling Nostalgic
- Old Song About The Sons Of Fëanor Being Cool Because I Got Drunk But You Know I Don't Actually Think This Anymore
- Lord Elrond's Sons' Latest Exploits
- It's Nice and Warm and The Fire Is Brightly Burning
- Song Contest!
- Tra-La-Lally
- Tra-La-Lally But It's About Current Events
- That Star Is Actually Lord Elrond's Dad
Mirkwood Edition:
- Noldor Are Weird (There Aren't Many Left Though)
- Dwarves Are Weird And Possibly Evil
- My Family Got Killed Over Shiny Rocks and I Still Hold a Grudge
- Men Are Actually Pretty
- Fine Have A Good Time in Laketown
- We Like Middle-Earth and We Will Never Leave
- I May Have To Leave One Day Because I'm Tired™ And This Is Sad
- Look At This Very Special Tree
- We Hate Spiders
- Do You Want To Walk in the Forest with Me? (I Love You)
- Our King Is Not King Thingol But We Love Him Anyway
- Lay Of Leithian Because Why Not
- A Elbereth Gilthoniel (What, We Also Love The Stars)
Dunedain of Arnor Edition:
- My Love Got Killed A-rangering
- Our Wise and Immortal Collective Great-Uncle Is Amazing
- Our Brave Rangers' Latest Exploits
- Our Wise and Immortal Collective Great-Uncle's Sons' Latest Exploits
- We Know The Old Tales Well And Are Proud of It
- Beren and Luthien (Campfire Version)
- Being a Ranger Is a Tough and Thankless Job But We Will Do It All The Same
- Bilbo Baggins Made This Up And It's An Earworm So Now Our Leader Is Singing It All The Time
- That Time They Kicked Me Out From Bree Without Good Reason
- My Love I Know the Life Of a Ranger Is Hard But Will You Marry Me
- Hobbits Are Quite Funny Actually
Non-Mordor-aligned peoples of Harad edition:
(*bear in mind that the term "Harad" covers a ridiculous area and even sticking to the people who are not fighting for Sauron of their own will, it's still like 10 different cultures)
- The Desert Is Wide And Majestic And We Are Her Children (She Can Be Cruel Too But That's a Fact of Life)
- Nothing Quite Compares to a Campfire Under Starry Desert Skies
- I Met a Pretty Girl in the Last Oasis (One Day I Will Return And Ask For Her Hand)
- The Sea Is Wide And Majestic And We Are Her Children
- Oh No, It's The Corsairs Again
- First Númenor, Then Gondor, Now Sauron, Couldn't We Be Left Alone for Once? (Elegiac Tone)
- We Are Partisans Who Fight Sauron in Secret
- My Love Got Killed Fighting Sauron's Lackeys
- My Love Got Forcibly Conscripted and Killed in Sauron's Army
- One Elephant Was Tightrope Walking, Two Elephants Were Tightrope Walking... (Are You Tired Yet?) Ten Elephants and the Tightrope Snapped
- We Also Know the Singer By The Sea (Here's An Elaborate Backstory Made To Fit Our Local Legends)
- Epic Tale Featuring a Hero and a Wizard in Blue
- There Once Was a Girl Who Persuaded Death to Return Her Lover to Her (We Have No Idea This Is Based On a True Story)
- Legends Travel Far Though Details Change: Or How Sauron Once Tried to Take the Evening Star from the Sky to Put It in His Crown But It Burned His Fingers (And Thus Evil Shall Perish)
In other words every culture has some version of the Beren and Luthien story, I guess.