I like to think that the true supernatural abilities of every character in Middle Earth is the uncanny ability to sing a song together on the spot without practice
I like to think that they had little ditties that they passed down as folk songs, and only adapted them to each situation. For example, the goblins might have gone on hunts before, and chased their quarries up trees. Likewise, the dwarves might have been guests at many houses and the song "Break the dishes, smash the plates," could have been applied to whomever was hosting them at the time.
As a child, and even now as an adult, this was the song that stuck in my head the most. I knew all the lyrics to this and never forgot them. My younger brother and I will still sometimes randomly belt out together about fifteen funny birds. lol
Lyrics: fifteen birds in five fir trees their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze what funny little birds they had no wings oh what shall we do with the funny little things oh what shall we do with the funny little things roast em alive or stew em in a pot fry them, boil them, eat them hot bake em, toast em, fry em, roast em till beards blaze and eyes glaze till hair swells and skins crack fat melts and bones black and cinders lie beneath the sky so the dwarves shall die fifteen birds in five fir trees their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze what funny little birds they had no wings oh what shall we do with the funny little things oh what shall we do with the funny little things
Amen to that, especially Smaug's "My armor" speech, I've had that memorized since I saw it as a child and the Peter Jackson movie let me down there. On top of that it took 3 movies and cramming in Legolas when he was never in the book, not knocking the dude he's cool but he wasn't in the Hobbit, this cartoon movie was able to do the book in one shot and make people and kids especially interested in the book.
@@ShinKyuubi Legolas WAS there, though... Tolkien hadn't come up with the character specifically, but Thranduil was his father and he definitely lived there. A cameo made sense. But they REALLY over-expanded his part. It should have been just that... a cameo when the dwarves are in the caves, and then as a background participant in the Battle of Five Armies.
My job is literally burning piles of fir and cedar branches and fallen trees. I don't think I have made it a full day since I started doing this that I did not sing this
Your coworkers must look at you so weird....I'm just picturing you singing this and your co-workers just sighing and shaking their heads going "well..here we go again..we've lost him."
Well, the lyrics were taken from the original novel. Tolkien doesn't disappoint when it comes to worg-riding, merciless goblins in hot pursuit. For that matter, neither does Rankin and Bass.
The song is quite graphic the way it goes into colorful detail about burning the characters to death. This and Worthless from Brave Little Toaster were always some of my favorite songs from kids' movies.
Eh..there's some good things..when you actually get lyrics. The Dwarves singing Misty Mountain was pretty good, and both versions of Blunt the Knives I like. Goblin Town is meh...and considering it's not ON the soundtrack in the first place and hell Blunt the Knives is a bonus track that they straight ripped from the movie to put it on the soundtrack..My biggest thing is I prefer Smaug's speech from this cartoon movie vs. the one from the live action. I wish there was a place I could find this soundtrack online so I could Download this, if you go on amazon it's only got the live action movie soundtrack.
I definitely prefer this movie's version of Down to Goblin Town over the one where it's just.... there, phoned in. Feels awkward, in my opinion, in the live action version.
By far, this is my favourite song from the movie, along with "The Greatest Adventure". Oh wait, the whole soundtrack is worth listening over and over again! :)
re-read the hobbit, every time I got to the parts with the songs I sang it as loud as i possibly could just to annoy my poor family, I watched this movie so much as a kid I still remember all the songs by heart X3
15 Birds Lyrics: Fifteen birds in five fir-trees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! what funny little birds, they had no wings! Oh what shall we do with the funny little things? Oh what shall we do with the funny little things? Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot; fry them, boil them and eat them hot? Bake and toast 'em, fry and roast ’em! till beards blaze, and eyes glaze; till hair smells and skins crack, fat melts, and bones black in cinders lie beneath the sky! So the dwarves shall die, Fifteen birds in five fir-trees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! what funny little birds, they had no wings! Oh what shall we do with the funny little things? Oh what shall we do with the funny little things?
When I was a kid, I thought of this as the most badass song imaginable-now as a teenager I know it must be. Sad they don't write songs like it anymore.
I think Thurl was dead by the time they got around to remake the lord of the rings. It was one of the first things I looked for in the music credits. Such a powerful voice.
Between this song, "Goblin Town", "Isengard Descend" from the 1978 LotR and "When There's a Whip" from the 1980 RotK, animated orcs are amazing singers.
I remember as they described what they were gonna do to the dwarves Gandalf grabbed one of the pinecones and threw it down like a firebolt .......I like that they followed what happened in the novel in the live action version but the VHS version was just so much more badass in some spots
@@dantecaputo2629 the tree scene? oh yeah hell when the dwarves were high enough away they were throwing taunts at them thats why they lit them on fire
Thank you so much for uploading this. This was my childhood right here. I found myself singing this song earlier I'm glad I was able to find it. *Fifteen birds in five fir trees...*
Every time I watch The Hobbit (Live Action) I always play this song during that scene because Peter Jackson left it out. Makes the movie so much better lol.
The Hobbit was actually quite true to the book, similar to LotR in that they only changed what they felt would work better on film. There are some parts in the movie that aren't in The Hobbit, but ARE actually written by Tokien in other works of his. In particular, the Necromancer.
When Gandalf plucks that fir cone and uses it to cast a spell is a reference to the way spells are cast in D&D, whose original incarnation came out just three years before this movie.
I was so upset when they did not include this song or the goblin town song in the live action movie.. Actually my son and I watched the live action Hobbit the other day and when this scene came started I actually played this song.. It made that scene so much more satisfying.
There are differences, just not as many as one might expect from a movie adaptation. I'm glad they're trying their best to stay close, it's probably one of the reasons the movies are so good.
TargonTheDragon Every culture on Earth has its own musical traditions, it makes sense to me goblins would too. They have to do something in their downtime between raids. Tell me you can't imagine a goblin drinking song! :)
No this was sung when the goblins had chases/cornered the dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf up the trees and set them on fire. Hence the '15 birds in 5 fir trees'.
It's a big part of the scene in the book, so I think it will be in the movie. One thing that I would've liked to see in the LOTR movies was Aragorn with Narsil throughout the whole movie. When they set out from Rivendel, they repair it, and he has it with him through all 3 books, where as he doesn't get it until the third movie. Also, when they meet Eomer in the book, Aragorn announces himself in a much more Kingly way, and I wish they had showed that more in the movie.
While I appreciate how accurate the lyrics are to the original book source, these lyrics are actually pretty graphic for a cartoon that a kid might appreciate at surface value. Like, it's no wonder why this cartoon aired at about 7-8pm prime time on November 27, 1977. It was #AdultSwim before it was cool.
roast em alive or stew em in a pot fry them, boil them, eat them hot bake em, toast em, fry em, roast em till beards blaze and eyes glaze till hair swells and skins crack fat melts and bones black and cinders lie beneath the sky so the dwarves shall die You know a kids movie
I like to think that the true supernatural abilities of every character in Middle Earth is the uncanny ability to sing a song together on the spot without practice
Thats a good power to have.
Considering that the gods sang the world into existence it makes sense
@@nerd_patriot_disciple yep
I like to think that they had little ditties that they passed down as folk songs, and only adapted them to each situation. For example, the goblins might have gone on hunts before, and chased their quarries up trees. Likewise, the dwarves might have been guests at many houses and the song "Break the dishes, smash the plates," could have been applied to whomever was hosting them at the time.
Magic of Tolkien
You can just hear that one goblin pouring his heart into his solo.
Maybe the goblins have a glee club.
They've got a very good bass section, but no top tenors.
i bow to your cultural reference sir,; you restore my faith in humanity and the defenders of Rourke's Drift
Ken Long
what? you comment to the wrong video?
No, I made a reference to Zulu
As a child, and even now as an adult, this was the song that stuck in my head the most. I knew all the lyrics to this and never forgot them. My younger brother and I will still sometimes randomly belt out together about fifteen funny birds. lol
Villain songs are always the best. :D
I'm prone to a bout of Down Down to Goblin Town and Old Fat Spider myself.
they stuck with me too
The image of Gandolf standing in the tree calling rhe birds, with the fire rising scared me for years
@@powerbronyjr.424 Ur very correct
Lyrics:
fifteen birds
in five fir trees
their feathers were fanned
in a fiery breeze
what funny little birds
they had no wings
oh what shall we do
with the funny little things
oh what shall we do
with the funny little things
roast em alive
or stew em in a pot
fry them, boil them, eat them hot
bake em, toast em, fry em, roast em
till beards blaze and eyes glaze
till hair swells and skins crack
fat melts and bones black
and cinders lie beneath the sky
so the dwarves shall die
fifteen birds
in five fir trees
their feathers were fanned
in a fiery breeze
what funny little birds
they had no wings
oh what shall we do
with the funny little things
oh what shall we do
with the funny little things
Thank you so much! ❤
Sung by Thurl Ravenscroft, the same guy who voiced Tony the Tiger.
Also did "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch" one of my favorites by him. :)
Im so glad Im not the only one who knows this any more. I used to tell people and they would go "no freakin way thats stupid"
WHAAAAT!?!?!?!?!!
Late to the party but that's really cool, thanks for that trivia!
Sadly, he wasn’t credited in the movie.
Loved how they even included the laughter from the movie in this....all the songs in the movie always set the mood for the moment that it started
this is the reason the animated movie was more enjoyable they actually USED Tolkiens work not just did stuff similar to it.
Amen to that, especially Smaug's "My armor" speech, I've had that memorized since I saw it as a child and the Peter Jackson movie let me down there. On top of that it took 3 movies and cramming in Legolas when he was never in the book, not knocking the dude he's cool but he wasn't in the Hobbit, this cartoon movie was able to do the book in one shot and make people and kids especially interested in the book.
@@ShinKyuubi : Regarding Smaug's speech....yes. The only thing amusing about the live-action was that it was Holmes and Watson bantering. ;-)
@@ShinKyuubi Legolas WAS there, though... Tolkien hadn't come up with the character specifically, but Thranduil was his father and he definitely lived there. A cameo made sense.
But they REALLY over-expanded his part. It should have been just that... a cameo when the dwarves are in the caves, and then as a background participant in the Battle of Five Armies.
I freaking love this song. The crazy bass vocals in the arrangements for this movie are epic. You don't hear stuff like that these days.
My job is literally burning piles of fir and cedar branches and fallen trees.
I don't think I have made it a full day since I started doing this that I did not sing this
You get to start fires for a living? Lucky guy.
Your coworkers must look at you so weird....I'm just picturing you singing this and your co-workers just sighing and shaking their heads going "well..here we go again..we've lost him."
Bless you
I love your Soul
Coworkers hearing "boil them in a pot"
damn these lyrics are brutal. this would be a great metal song.
Well, the lyrics were taken from the original novel. Tolkien doesn't disappoint when it comes to worg-riding, merciless goblins in hot pursuit. For that matter, neither does Rankin and Bass.
We just need Clamavi de Profundis to cover it...
Manowar or Sabaton. lol
Ah, Thurl Ravenscroft. That rumbling bass just shivers up your spine. I've always loved the soundtrack to this movie
Yeah, it was grrrrrrrreat!
Even in 2023 this is one phenomenal soundtrack
These lyrics are pretty terrifying damn :))
This was the soundtrack of my nightmares as a child! Now it's nostalgic, funny how that works.
The song is quite graphic the way it goes into colorful detail about burning the characters to death. This and Worthless from Brave Little Toaster were always some of my favorite songs from kids' movies.
The lyrics are in the original book The Hobbit. They are the words of Tolkien himself.
Not as terrifying as "Gollum's Riddle".
This is just me but I like this soundtrack better than the live action movie soundtrack
Ben Gulow what soundtrack? Feelsbad.
Eh..there's some good things..when you actually get lyrics. The Dwarves singing Misty Mountain was pretty good, and both versions of Blunt the Knives I like. Goblin Town is meh...and considering it's not ON the soundtrack in the first place and hell Blunt the Knives is a bonus track that they straight ripped from the movie to put it on the soundtrack..My biggest thing is I prefer Smaug's speech from this cartoon movie vs. the one from the live action. I wish there was a place I could find this soundtrack online so I could Download this, if you go on amazon it's only got the live action movie soundtrack.
It ain't just you
I definitely prefer this movie's version of Down to Goblin Town over the one where it's just.... there, phoned in. Feels awkward, in my opinion, in the live action version.
@@eggmannega6895 welp, theres two of us now
By far, this is my favourite song from the movie, along with "The Greatest Adventure". Oh wait, the whole soundtrack is worth listening over and over again! :)
yep
You forgot to inclu- OH GOD THEY GOT THE PONIES! (Goblintown)
re-read the hobbit, every time I got to the parts with the songs I sang it as loud as i possibly could just to annoy my poor family, I watched this movie so much as a kid I still remember all the songs by heart X3
sing it
now
ok
+Emily Abbott I remember whenever I read the book, I would always imagine the characters looking exactly like in this movie, and with the same voices.
And they said goblins couldn’t make anything beautiful.
The two goblin songs are my favs,the goblins have great singing voices
Between this and "Down, Down to Goblin Town", the goblins definitely got the best musical numbers.
I still cry a little about this not being in the live-action film. :(
I LOVE THIS!!! man this was my favorite when I was a little kid. hahah.
I love this song so much.
Middle Earth was way more musical then you thought.
Is it sad that after over 20 years I still have this song memorized?
I do to
:)
Nope! It was a good movie with a memorable soundtrack.
20 years? thats it? 35 years here. Still scary as hell.
Not at all.
What's REALLY sad is the fact the versions of these songs in Peter Jackson's Hobbit don't sound as intimidating as these
15 Birds Lyrics:
Fifteen birds in five fir-trees,
their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze!
what funny little birds, they had no wings!
Oh what shall we do with the funny little things?
Oh what shall we do with the funny little things?
Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot;
fry them, boil them and eat them hot?
Bake and toast 'em, fry and roast ’em!
till beards blaze, and eyes glaze;
till hair smells and skins crack,
fat melts, and bones black
in cinders lie
beneath the sky!
So the dwarves shall die,
Fifteen birds in five fir-trees,
their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze!
what funny little birds, they had no wings!
Oh what shall we do with the funny little things?
Oh what shall we do with the funny little things?
Ah, so Gandalf & Bilbo as non-dwarves, could walk away
@@maxisaev568 Maybe if they weren’t counted among the fifteen. 😔😔😔😔😔
@@Enterprise-D666 surely they could negotiate this misunderstanding
@@maxisaev568 yes, after all the goblins seemed very understanding
"The wargs! And with goblins!" I hear this every time the song starts...
Wargs
I owned this album as a kid. I think I literally wore out the grooves from playing it so often.
I don't blame ya
one of my favorite songs from the movie
And this is supposed to be the silly animated version?! This is way more hardcore than the Jackson film!
I really wish that in the movie at very least Azog had said "Fifteen birds in five fir trees..." seeing the company scramble up the trees.
How hard would that have been? The Orcs are shown to have a sense of humor
OR STEW EM IN A POT!? That delivery was wicked.
When I was a kid, I thought of this as the most badass song imaginable-now as a teenager I know it must be. Sad they don't write songs like it anymore.
"They don't write 'em like that anymore" - The Greg Kihn Band
@emptyglass7867 and? be happy its still being appreciated to this day jackass
Thank you for posting this! Those Rankin/Bass goblins knew how to carry a tune :)
man all the songs these guys sing are my favorites! I use to sing these as a kid when playing on the schoolyard.
Rankin/Bass: We will go out of our way to never depict violence in a cartoon for kids!
Also Rankin/Bass: This song
i love the original, got it for Christmas
I love how they have such deep, manly voices singing such a childish (in a good way!) song.
still one of the best metal song of all time.
Man, why do all of the Rankin-Bass orc songs slap so hard
Solid drum track on this.
This song honestly goes so hard.
It would have been badass to hear the goblins in Peter Jackson's film singing this.
Given how badly they did "Down, down to Goblin Town" that may be a good thing...
I think Thurl was dead by the time they got around to remake the lord of the rings. It was one of the first things I looked for in the music credits. Such a powerful voice.
Best scene ever, thank you for the score!
When I heard this song, I was like, "Dayum, Goblins can sing."
Between this song, "Goblin Town", "Isengard Descend" from the 1978 LotR and "When There's a Whip" from the 1980 RotK, animated orcs are amazing singers.
I remember as they described what they were gonna do to the dwarves Gandalf grabbed one of the pinecones and threw it down like a firebolt .......I like that they followed what happened in the novel in the live action version but the VHS version was just so much more badass in some spots
True. But that actually happened in the novel.
@@dantecaputo2629 the tree scene? oh yeah hell when the dwarves were high enough away they were throwing taunts at them thats why they lit them on fire
Gotta love the orcs abiiity to spit a wicked improv dis track as a group. The original freestyle battle rap
Thank you so much for uploading this. This was my childhood right here. I found myself singing this song earlier I'm glad I was able to find it. *Fifteen birds in five fir trees...*
such a badass music
My dad showed me this when i was young and to this day i love the songs from these movies. I am now a huge lotr nerd and i believe i always will be
Help, my leg , my poor leg.
Kory Gala
My arms!
expedition: *literally dying* oh lord, what do we do?!
goblins: Yo this song lit tho
Thanks for posting!!
Every time I watch The Hobbit (Live Action) I always play this song during that scene because Peter Jackson left it out. Makes the movie so much better lol.
when i watched the movie at 5 years old this song was my favroite :D
The Hobbit was actually quite true to the book, similar to LotR in that they only changed what they felt would work better on film. There are some parts in the movie that aren't in The Hobbit, but ARE actually written by Tokien in other works of his. In particular, the Necromancer.
Arkenstone is missing that's about it
@@mauimudpup I think he is talking about the live-action, as he mentioned the necromancer.
I was looking for this forever ty @GlennReturns
I love this song 😻😻😻😻😻
I love the music for this film
every song on this album is just a banger without equal
Well, at least they don't look like hyenas any more. Granted, both designs of wargs looked pretty terrifying.
This song comes to mind when I see videos of prison riots at Pelican Bay or Quentin
Oh what shall we do? With the funny little things
This is a vocal style that is completely gone from modern music.
I’m reading the book right now and every time these scenes come up I have to play the song! 😂
When Gandalf plucks that fir cone and uses it to cast a spell is a reference to the way spells are cast in D&D, whose original incarnation came out just three years before this movie.
"To Serve Dwarf". Perfect book for these Gordon Ramsay Wannabes
All time tune
Just a reminder that the goblin is MOTHERFUCKING TONY THE GODDAMN TIGER
Man, would be great if this stuff was on ITunes. 😔
I was so upset when they did not include this song or the goblin town song in the live action movie.. Actually my son and I watched the live action Hobbit the other day and when this scene came started I actually played this song.. It made that scene so much more satisfying.
That's awesome. This cartoon was my introduction to LOTR, and it wouldn't of been the same without the songs.
♫Bake&toast them 'till beards blaze and eyes glaze♫
Who could resist!?
fat melts & bones black
probably my favorite song in the movie!
This and Goblin Town are the most epic!
Third best song in the entire soundtrack
thanks
I wanted this in the live action version *so* bad
There are differences, just not as many as one might expect from a movie adaptation. I'm glad they're trying their best to stay close, it's probably one of the reasons the movies are so good.
I love this movie always did
the song they picked for this part of the movie, just cracks me up XD
Man i just love the voices in this song. they go so deep. i agree with TheLordmep though, i didn't really imagine goblins as musical.
TargonTheDragon Every culture on Earth has its own musical traditions, it makes sense to me goblins would too. They have to do something in their downtime between raids. Tell me you can't imagine a goblin drinking song! :)
Favorite part of the entire movie.
This is probably the best song on the soundtrack.
This is my favorite in the whole movie
the beginning is like a 70s cop show theme
All of the songs from the Rankin-Bass film are great, but the goblin songs go hard as fuck.
Good thing Gandalf was the pitcher for the Dwarves' baseball team. Whipping out those flaming pinecones at the goobers.
This rocks.
I couldn't agree more...
Still scares the living shit out of me
Lol
This song was my introduction to heavy metal.
Someone please dub over the PJ version with all these songs
No this was sung when the goblins had chases/cornered the dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf up the trees and set them on fire. Hence the '15 birds in 5 fir trees'.
It's a big part of the scene in the book, so I think it will be in the movie. One thing that I would've liked to see in the LOTR movies was Aragorn with Narsil throughout the whole movie. When they set out from Rivendel, they repair it, and he has it with him through all 3 books, where as he doesn't get it until the third movie. Also, when they meet Eomer in the book, Aragorn announces himself in a much more Kingly way, and I wish they had showed that more in the movie.
You know I love
While I appreciate how accurate the lyrics are to the original book source, these lyrics are actually pretty graphic for a cartoon that a kid might appreciate at surface value. Like, it's no wonder why this cartoon aired at about 7-8pm prime time on November 27, 1977. It was #AdultSwim before it was cool.
roast em alive
or stew em in a pot
fry them, boil them, eat them hot
bake em, toast em, fry em, roast em
till beards blaze and eyes glaze
till hair swells and skins crack
fat melts and bones black
and cinders lie beneath the sky
so the dwarves shall die
You know a kids movie
I used to sing this while I chased my younger siblings around.
Tony the Tiger joins the Goblins
Why is this song so catchy when it is all messed up?
I liked the old orc/goblin characters.
I want to hear the goblins sing Christmas carols. The grinch song would slap
an awsome old cartoon song if ever there was one.