Music videos are hard; realistic music videos are even harder. This tune is an original of mine from the POV of Merry and Pippin from Lord of the Rings. It was a quick cut - the process of creating it is collaborative with Grok, and then prescriptive to Suno+Runway "Back to the Shire" Grok+Suno+Runway Once the lyrics were honed in, I recorded myself humming the melody as a guide to lock in the melodic hook of the song in Suno; then it was a process of fine tuning. The video editing process is not the long part of the process anymore, it is the songwriting and getting the tune perfect in Suno. Grok is instrumental in helping get it done as a collaborative tool.

— Mark Soares (@marksoares) October 24, 2026