Here is our version of J.R.R. Tolkien's poem, "The Dragon Is Withered (Part I)!" We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed singing it:) Read our description for an explanation on our interpretation of this part of Tolkien's poem.
pretty good. although my expectations for you are high. i expected it to be epic. but after the Song of Beren and Luthien it'll be hard to make anything better. still though, well done. i liked especially those low, warm, (kind of) quavering voices. yet there are some caveats, as far as i'm concerned. i'm not really sure about that, but i felt like if it was quite chaotic and some parts were quite... well, just weirdly made music. i felt like it didn't really fit well in there. and why do you include this in so many songs? 1:20
Congratulations! I was counting the days for it! Since in the book this song is sung by the Elves of Rivendel I had imagined it as a joyful theme - you know the Elves, always feasting - but your version sounds more like a hymn sung by the Dwarves. Will you make a version of "I sit beside the fire and think" mixed with the sindarin version of it that is in the rotk ending credit, please? it would be just perfect! as always! Greetings from Italy
These songs were always so simple in my head when reading, and it took me out of the world because, hey, I can't come up with elven-level music on the spot in my head. Now I hear variants on these versions, and it makes the poetry passages so much more alive.
I can just picture the remaining members of Thorin's company singing this as they tirelessly rebuild Erebor and Dale in Thorin's memory, stone by stone, while the wandering folk of yore come back to their homes. For the dragon may be withered, but the Dwarves never shall wither! BARUK KHAZÂD! KHAZÂD AI-MÊNU!
@Matheus Arruda I can't stand the elves as a yand Durinul, I was just saying that in the book the Elves sing it, a simple statement. If you ask me if I like Elves, I dislike them as well in the books as in the movies u.u
Yeah @Ich du you are right, but the song is sung by the elves in the book I just said that as a statement. I say another time: I love the dwarves I can't stand the elves. I also love this performance and Clamavi as well - Im a huge fan - and you can read my comment in reply to Clamavi too a few posts up :)
I say the dwarves are the Klingons of Middle Earth...with Thranduil's Elvish kingdom being more like Romulans and Elrond's kingdom being more like Vulcans...and the orcs as the Borg :P
This is in a really unique approach, which is breathtaking! Time to add this to "my favourite songs of all time" list. When I saw the title, I was secretly hoping it was a Tolkien piece, and I'm so glad it is! Clamavi de Profundis, you made my day brighter! Thank you so much, may Eru bless you!
2:30 Wow. That's what I call an "elven sound". The whole passage is beautiful, but the harmonies from this to "his dragon" are so lovely and layered that it truly seems like something elves could sing. When can we expect part 2? I can't wait. This may just be my favourite of your songs.
@@Mare_Man Why he should have got it? Aragorn sang of west and north because of his heritage (Numenor west, arnor north) legolas got south I dont exactly know why... and for Gimli there was eastern one but to the east is Mordor so he didnt sing
Will you consider doing a cover of the full song, "Hoist the Colours" from the Pirates of the Carribean? A professional grade version of the song exists nowhere, and with your interpretation and full range of notes can make it a masterpiece.
Wow! Never seen so many likes on something I said before! I will keep asking for it until we get a response from Clamavi De Profundis! Surely they would at least consider it.
I usually hated Smaug for the death he brought to the Dwarves of Durin but, in a second moment, I thought that in "The Battle of the Five Armies" we have seen the last of the flying dragons dying. That made me fell quite sad. P.S.: Sorry for the unusual/not correct English.
@@Gotterdammerung05 We mourn the death of humans whom arguably, should've never existed. Smaug was the last of the great drakes in middle Earth, despite his actions, he still deserves admiration and mourning.
As always, you guys rock the halls from Minas Tirith to the Lonely Mountain. I love the music you guys do. I sing along in the car when no-one else can hear me ;-)
Scott McDivitt actually if you base his power on the game lore Alduin is stronger than both of them since he's a world destroyer who ushers in a new world everyrime he destroys the old one, while smaug only had high cunning and Black only had tremendouse size.
After all, Ancalagon's breath is comparable to the Tsar Bomba if you scale up the destructive potential of Smaug's breath to Ancalagon's size, and Ancalagon is the epitome of tankiness, he took the direct bombardment of a Silmaril for twenty-four hours straight, a universal-scale feat.
This is one of my favorite dwarven songs, it reminds me of older times when I used to play the lord of the rings mod on minecraft with my friends. Ever since then I am a dwarf at heart.
This is a song of triumph, echoing in the great hall of Erebor, as the king sits once more upon the throne of yore. Trumpets and dwarven horns blare with majesty, and all in the hall look to the statues of their predecessors, to the image of Thorin. If ever there was one deserving, it was he who should ever be known, as King Under the Mountain
I really love your interpretation of Tolkiens work and how you expand his legacy with songs like this. I'm not even the biggest LOTR fan but your songs always make me glee.
Fantastic work as always! Puts the already great LotR soundtrack to shame quite frankly. Your music are amongst my favorites and I'm a proud patron of yours! Will continue to support you as long as you keep making these.
why i'am not surprised.. you guys doing such amazing job on every piece of songs you never let me down .. you deserve to have you own album .. keep going
Can I leave a request for a rendition of "Down down to goblin town"? I've been utterly stumped in trying to find one, and I'm certain that of all the artists out there Clamavi De Profundis is the most capable of doing one.
I've been planing a dnd boss encounter with a great Black Dragon for a while now and I defo need to play the opening line to this when it gets down to half Hp and it's arrogance melts away into panic as it realises that this ragtag party of adventurers can and will kill it. Live your guys work and have used your songs in games all of the time. My party have all subbed
If ther dwaves of Erebor were just a little cooperative and stopped supporting my enemies, they would have been allowed to remain autonomous. As a sign of my good will, I would have even regiven them one of the seven rings!
Here is our version of J.R.R. Tolkien's poem, "The Dragon Is Withered (Part I)!" We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed singing it:) Read our description for an explanation on our interpretation of this part of Tolkien's poem.
What a pity I can only give one thumbs up. Thank you so much, CdP.
pretty good. although my expectations for you are high. i expected it to be epic. but after the Song of Beren and Luthien it'll be hard to make anything better. still though, well done. i liked especially those low, warm, (kind of) quavering voices. yet there are some caveats, as far as i'm concerned. i'm not really sure about that, but i felt like if it was quite chaotic and some parts were quite... well, just weirdly made music. i felt like it didn't really fit well in there.
and why do you include this in so many songs? 1:20
Congratulations! I was counting the days for it! Since in the book this song is sung by the Elves of Rivendel I had imagined it as a joyful theme - you know the Elves, always feasting - but your version sounds more like a hymn sung by the Dwarves. Will you make a version of "I sit beside the fire and think" mixed with the sindarin version of it that is in the rotk ending credit, please? it would be just perfect! as always! Greetings from Italy
@@polish3717 becasue that is the misty mountain theme, and evocative of the dwarves, who CDP is trying to emulate in this version here
@@Winaska it was a rhetorical question. i just thought it didn't need to be here
You say "thank you for watching", I say "thank you for singing"
Yeah, me too!
No kidding. I hope they get pulled for the tv series
I'm a simple man. I hear Clamavi De Profondis, i press like.
I'm a simple man, I see good comment, I press like.
I'm a simple man, I see a good reply, I press like.
I'm a simple man, and I think you get the idea by now.
@@heirofcaelos6698 your name declares you no simple man. ;-)
That "Here grass is still growing,
And leaves are yet swinging,
The white water flowing,
And elves are yet singing" part is so beautiful... Thank you!
*We are Durin's folk, and durin's folk do not run from a fight.*
Aye! Dwarven Kin
These songs were always so simple in my head when reading, and it took me out of the world because, hey, I can't come up with elven-level music on the spot in my head. Now I hear variants on these versions, and it makes the poetry passages so much more alive.
I can just picture the remaining members of Thorin's company singing this as they tirelessly rebuild Erebor and Dale in Thorin's memory, stone by stone, while the wandering folk of yore come back to their homes. For the dragon may be withered, but the Dwarves never shall wither!
BARUK KHAZÂD! KHAZÂD AI-MÊNU!
the Elves of Rivendel sing this in the book ^_^"
@@stefania-iscritoraeillustr314 But the Dwarves would definitely sing it better than some pointy-eared Elvish wood fairies!
@Matheus Arruda I can't stand the elves as a yand Durinul, I was just saying that in the book the Elves sing it, a simple statement. If you ask me if I like Elves, I dislike them as well in the books as in the movies u.u
the dwarves wouldn sing like that @@stefania-iscritoraeillustr314
Yeah @Ich du you are right, but the song is sung by the elves in the book I just said that as a statement. I say another time: I love the dwarves I can't stand the elves. I also love this performance and Clamavi as well - Im a huge fan - and you can read my comment in reply to Clamavi too a few posts up :)
This is so triumphant. You guys are awesome. Take that, Smaug.
I say the dwarves are the Klingons of Middle Earth...with Thranduil's Elvish kingdom being more like Romulans and Elrond's kingdom being more like Vulcans...and the orcs as the Borg :P
Lol I thought Smaug had written that message. I missed the "take that" part XD
"Where there's a whip there's a way", that's also a nice epic song that you could cover as well.
Or Taking the Hobbits to Isengard, a truly legendary work.
True or standing at the feet of the towers of the Teeth is another good choice
After your fabulous; The Song of Durin, I just blindly like each of your songs. Am I alone in that guys?
Song of Beren and Luthien did it for me
The Song of Durin is, for a Dwarves hard-fan like me, the best thing I ever heard
@@gimrrin8724 Same for me.
@Marysol Alvarez I think Lament of the Rohirrim come in the 3rd place, behind Song of Durin (1st) and Road go ever on (2nd)
@@gimrrin8724 I liked the lament forBoromir alot
This is in a really unique approach, which is breathtaking! Time to add this to "my favourite songs of all time" list.
When I saw the title, I was secretly hoping it was a Tolkien piece, and I'm so glad it is! Clamavi de Profundis, you made my day brighter! Thank you so much, may Eru bless you!
A LOTR amazon series is coming up... I REQUIRE YOUR SONGS IN IT.
Wait seriously?
oh god pls no...
Now, that would be helping the series in the right direction! Awsome idea!
@@felixmustermann790 Why not? At least there would be good music
@@felixmustermann790 have faith. I'm sure it'll be just fine.
😄 hahahahahahahaha
2:30 Wow. That's what I call an "elven sound". The whole passage is beautiful, but the harmonies from this to "his dragon" are so lovely and layered that it truly seems like something elves could sing.
When can we expect part 2? I can't wait. This may just be my favourite of your songs.
It shouldn't really be a surprise, since the whole song was sung by the elves in Rivendell in the book
Beautiful if dwarves and elves sang together
@@semp224 I never understood why Gimli didn't get the West Wind verse of the Lament for Boromir
@@Mare_Man because Gimli is a fat dwarf who probably can't sing, being scottish and what
@@Mare_Man Why he should have got it? Aragorn sang of west and north because of his heritage (Numenor west, arnor north) legolas got south I dont exactly know why... and for Gimli there was eastern one but to the east is Mordor so he didnt sing
This makes me feel like I'm watching a battered and bleeding bard cleaning his sword while singing next to a dragon's corpse.
Actually very fitting since the one who slayed Smaug was named Bard, albeit with a bow lol,
1:21 you can hear the trumpet player "from Misty mountains cold" ❤️😮
Will you consider doing a cover of the full song, "Hoist the Colours" from the Pirates of the Carribean? A professional grade version of the song exists nowhere, and with your interpretation and full range of notes can make it a masterpiece.
YES PLEASE. God there's this horrible version and I need a good one!
Oh please. This is needed.
Yesss please!
Very good idea👍👌
Wow! Never seen so many likes on something I said before! I will keep asking for it until we get a response from Clamavi De Profundis! Surely they would at least consider it.
I usually hated Smaug for the death he brought to the Dwarves of Durin but, in a second moment, I thought that in "The Battle of the Five Armies" we have seen the last of the flying dragons dying. That made me fell quite sad.
P.S.: Sorry for the unusual/not correct English.
Smaug was the mightiest of the great drakes spawned of Morgoth, yet he was far from the last...
@@lordbonney9779 Smaug was the puniest of the great drakes spawned from the Black Foe of the World and he was the last who flew through the air of Eä.
@@ratelvora8014 I meant of the ones still alive, but I forgot to say that integral part
I don't think we should really mourn the loss of evil. They should never have existed to begin with.
@@Gotterdammerung05 We mourn the death of humans whom arguably, should've never existed. Smaug was the last of the great drakes in middle Earth, despite his actions, he still deserves admiration and mourning.
As always, you guys rock the halls from Minas Tirith to the Lonely Mountain. I love the music you guys do. I sing along in the car when no-one else can hear me ;-)
More like from Rhun to Valimar and Tirion
I sing their song in public at the top of my lungs so everyone hears me.
I can't stop listening to this song. I can't believe it isn't more popular
I can imagine this being sung in the Halls of Dragonsreach after the Dovahkiin's triumph over Adluin
Adluin has nothing on Old Smaug...or Ancalagon the Black 😁
Scott McDivitt actually if you base his power on the game lore Alduin is stronger than both of them since he's a world destroyer who ushers in a new world everyrime he destroys the old one, while smaug only had high cunning and Black only had tremendouse size.
After all, Ancalagon's breath is comparable to the Tsar Bomba if you scale up the destructive potential of Smaug's breath to Ancalagon's size, and Ancalagon is the epitome of tankiness, he took the direct bombardment of a Silmaril for twenty-four hours straight, a universal-scale feat.
@@heirofcaelos6698 Alduin literally can feed off the souls of the dead and in the lore would be like 10 times bigger than ancalagon
that's skyrim tho
I want the lotr movies added with your songs
I want this too!
the whole song is fantastic, but the elven verse gave me actual goosebumps. absolutely stunning, another song incredibly well done!!!
Your songs are so addictive and well composed. I admire your splendid voices.
This is one of my favorite dwarven songs, it reminds me of older times when I used to play the lord of the rings mod on minecraft with my friends. Ever since then I am a dwarf at heart.
I too, am a extraordinarily humble dragon.
2:15 I hear "Yggdrasil still growing" each time this passage come, I cannot help it.
When your Aesir are mightier than your Valar :D
@@glishev That's it :D
yes...i hear as well...enlightened ears
@@glishev The Æsir are pretty similar to the Ainur: Magni/Tulkas, Tyr/Eonwë, etc.
The music behind the voices is so powerful and shifts seamlessly from battle to pastoral back to battle/victory.
I was really impressed with the smooth transitions at 2:17 and 3:01. Thanks for another wonderful interpretation and arrangement.
This is a song of triumph, echoing in the great hall of Erebor, as the king sits once more upon the throne of yore. Trumpets and dwarven horns blare with majesty, and all in the hall look to the statues of their predecessors, to the image of Thorin. If ever there was one deserving, it was he who should ever be known, as King Under the Mountain
Oh man I've been waiting for this for a long time!
I love your music! Your songs would have made the Lord of the Rings world alive many times over.
awesome!
I still want to suggest you to do Mounds of Mundburg :D
Honestly I'd like some HttYD songs, like I Lost my Boot in the Rainy Bog, The Sky in America, or For the Dancing and the Dreaming.
Don't think I didn't notice the bit of "Misty Mountains Cold" that was slipped in there! Nice touch :)
This is one of my favorite. Can't wait for part II, great work!!
I’ve been looking forward to this! Chills!
i sense a prequel memer here! a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one
Can you do "That's what Bilbo Baggins hates" full
I really love the opening trumpets at the beginning of this piece! They're quite lovely!
I really love your interpretation of Tolkiens work and how you expand his legacy with songs like this. I'm not even the biggest LOTR fan but your songs always make me glee.
Awesome!...as always!
Next Mounds of Mundburg please!!!!
5 years from here... still give me chills !
Very nice, buy I never imagined the tra-la-la-lally songs with such serious melody.
There is only Tom Bombabil's song missing now, isn't it ?
Which one? there are many.
@@regokakas4470 The one in the Lord of the Rings, I have not read the book about Bombadil yet.
There's quite a few songs they haven't done yet, don't worry
This is so gorgeous...truly amazing
Bringing alive the world of Tolkien in this song! Well done! Epic song
I am PUMPED!
Fantastic work as always! Puts the already great LotR soundtrack to shame quite frankly. Your music are amongst my favorites and I'm a proud patron of yours! Will continue to support you as long as you keep making these.
why i'am not surprised.. you guys doing such amazing job on every piece of songs you never let me down .. you deserve to have you own album .. keep going
Simply great. You've done yet again, my friends. I listen and get goosebumps. Again.
Thanks again for making a masterpiece! Always good to see during breakfast that a new song came out!
I would love a part 2 or complete version in this style!
Absolutely fantastic ... this has lifted me up. Thank you!
New upload, everything else is put on hold to enjoy this.
An awesome way to end a painfully average day. You guys are almost as good at timing as you are at singing (which is to say: very good!)
I just can not fall in love with each song you guys make. You guys need more appreciation. Yall better than professional orchestras.
I didn't think it was possible due to your constant quality output, but somehow you still manage to amaze me!
Can I leave a request for a rendition of "Down down to goblin town"? I've been utterly stumped in trying to find one, and I'm certain that of all the artists out there Clamavi De Profundis is the most capable of doing one.
Oh please they should do it
@@anonymus_knight4417 If there is anyone who can improve on Rankin-Bass's 1977 version (which I am very fond of) it is them :)
A powerful performance and beautiful arrangement, just as we can always expect from you
Wonderfull, magnificient, great.
Laudate Clamavi de Profundis!
What a masterpiece! It's really a call from the deep. Thanks for this gift!
I listen to this when im coming up with new ideas for my book. Thanks Tolkien, Thanks Clamavi
I've been planing a dnd boss encounter with a great Black Dragon for a while now and I defo need to play the opening line to this when it gets down to half Hp and it's arrogance melts away into panic as it realises that this ragtag party of adventurers can and will kill it. Live your guys work and have used your songs in games all of the time. My party have all subbed
GOOSEBUMPS!
Not even halfway through!
This is the quality of art I live for.
Some moments it sounds like "far over the misty mountains cold" ^^
A great song again, we love that :D
Can't wait for part 2
It's wonderful.
As always....magnificent!
Best CdP song in a while!
Another amazing Tolkien masterpiece, with great composition
Your singing manages to blow me away each time, it's honest to god amazing.
Everytime I listen to this, it just gets more and more epic!
my respect for profundis is off the charts, love this stuff
Thank you thank you thank you for thiiiiis. Excellent piece!
Uh-Oh, Smaug's ghost made two accounts just to dislike this.
That WORM!
I think you mean "That WYRM!"
The other 72 accounts belong to Ancalagon the Black because due to his size, RUclips counted him as 72 dragons.
Smaug is dead ! Erebor is free, but how long for ?
Gwendill Lanaelynn *but for how long
@@nerdragexx1069 Are you sure ? Is English your first language ?
@@Hobbit_libertaire Both are fine.
If ther dwaves of Erebor were just a little cooperative and stopped supporting my enemies, they would have been allowed to remain
autonomous. As a sign of my good will, I would have even regiven them one of the seven rings!
thorin did not wish for the dragon to be killed....just out of erebor...stupid bard
There’s always been a good kind of animosity between dwarves and dragons, as it should be and as it will always remain.
This is AMAZINGLY EPIC! I love it!
I can't stop listening to this!
This song is epic
There we go!
That is incredibly awesome
Simply EPIC!!!
Amazing music as always! Keep up the phenomenal work!
Rest in Piece Smaug the true king under the mountain!
lol (?)
@@themaskedmortal3561 Just for shits and giggles lol.
This is awesome!
This is amazing. I am so excited for tge second part!
That intro is amazing! Another well done video.
You’ve never failed us once! another job so well done!
Toujours aussi magnifique.
This is your best effort yet! keep up the good work.
Sounds awesome. So heroic.
I WAITED FOR THIS FOR SO LONG
Can you please do a song for the poem ‘A walking song’? I think with your interpretation it could sound amazing!!
Could you do Wight's Chant please? I really like that.
2:44 just awesome
Absolutely beautiful!
A work of art as usual, keep up the good work!
I’ll just keep asking. Can you do a song version of the Charge of the Light Brigade?
Love the bombastic brass
It should not be possible for a verse containing the lines 'tra la lalley' to sound unutterably epic and heartmoving but dagnabbit, YA DID IT~