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Thought you guys might appreciate this: the misty mountains song from the hobbit, sung with all the lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ymgFyz ... k1R8iikNfF

Not bad for having been done by a guy with his dad and brother.

Cool. I saw one on YouTube done by a young woman with a rather shrill voice and couldn't sit through it.

I loved Howard Shore's music for Tolkien's poem, but really disliked the version at the end of the film- it was too 'pop' music for me, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Wow I really like this one, I have been wanting to find one that used the same arrangement but had all the verses, this one is great! I want to use this at Bardic circles!

Outstanding!! Love the video editing.

WELL DONE! Stirs the blood, be ye dwarf, elf, hobbit, or man!

I love that song. What a fine composer, I have all the soundtracks....like to listen to them when I'm fletching arrows.

Personally, I'm a pretty big fan of this one. Have you guys seen it? There's something... different... about it.

I guess if anyone is gonna wear one Mythril mail glove and sing "Beat It" it is gonna be a Dwarf!
and if we have moon runes why not moon walk?

I have all 3 of the Lotr soundtrack music albums as well as Hobbit-Unexpected Journey. Working on getting Desolation of Smaug music.

Kiriana wrote:I have all 3 of the Lotr soundtrack music albums as well as Hobbit-Unexpected Journey. Working on getting Desolation of Smaug music.

I've listened to the LotR soundtrack music so many times. However, much like the movies overall, I've found the Hobbit music to be a bit flatter (with the exception of the Misty Mountains song). So far, I think that they're 0 for 2 on the songs at the end of the films- they're too 'Europop' for me. The One Ring.net announced as their April Fool's joke that Leonard Nimoy was going to reprise his 'Song of Bilbo Baggins' from the 1960s for the end song on "There and Back Again." Couldn't be any worse than what they'll probably tack on.

And just in case you were lucky enough to miss that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC73PHdQX04

I love the LOTR soundtracks, them having been ingrained in my my mind for 10 years, but usually now it's the Complete Recordings for me - all the music recorded for the extended editions. I also have the special editions for both hobbit soundtracks. Neither of them seem as good as LOTR, but AUJ is much better than DOS, IMO. You don't get much of Bilbo's theme in the DOS soundtrack, nor do you get the heroic dwarf theme. And I was somewhat disappointed that music from the preview tracks on the AUJ didn't really show up - hopefully in the third movie. A lot of the musics in DOS just seems kind of bland and "conflict-y" - so I guess it's the same reason I like the FOTR complete recording better than the ROTK. Really, I thought Tauriel's theme was the best part of the DOS soundtrack, and the credits track was the best sample of it.

I have the extended editions music for lotr. I will have to double check my hobbit music as I don't remember if I have the special edition.

I too have the complete recordings version of all 3 LotR films, but are there any such things for the Hobbit films as of yet?

Not that I'm aware of. The special edition soundtrack has a couple of extra tracks, and a couple of the others are extended/alternate to the OST. If you haven't heard the track "Erebor" from the extended AUJ soundtrack, it's worth looking up, for a simple reason: bagpipes in middle-earth!