When my daughter was younger, I played this on my guitar, and spoke the entire reflection. In that moment, magic was real to her. I've played this version, including the one with the sound effects, and she believes even more. She wants to be an astronaut, but she knows that magic is everywhere, and wants to take it to space with her.
Earth has been tamed and not necessarily in a good way. Space is the place for the adventurers now. I wish your daughter all the best and hope she has the chance to brave the wonders of the universe!
I envy you that. I play D&D and once recited Gandalf story for my 12 ur old son in one of our sessions, but it wasn't the same without the background music. There's something magical & timeless about John Houston's rendition of it.
@@micahp.4356 It makes a lot more sense if you read the books, and every fourth page you have a new song about whatever is happening now. I swear if you give me three months, I could figure out Tolkien: The Musical.
Gandalf: "You feel the love of beautiful things." Bilbo: "To go and see the great mountains and hear the pine-trees and waterfalls." Gandalf: "To carry a sword instead of a walking-stick." Bilbo: "Just once."
I can't believe I still remember this soundtrack, especially ths song and the Greatest adventure after like over 20 years since watching this movie. Really great ost
There's a magic in that music. And it moves through me.... You feel the love of beautiful things. To go and to see the mountains and the pine trees... ....to carry a sword instead of a walking stick.
It's weird how Peter Jackson made Gandalf look like a complete vagabond, in these series he is fearsome, he is one of the most powerful beings alive in middle earth and you can feel that.
@@Khazz81 Yes, but in the book he pretty much looks like one - on purpose, I imagine. Bilbo tries to make him go away not realizing who he was, even though he'd seen him before in his youth.
This soundtrack brings so many memories back to me. My father, who passed away in 2019, introduced this to my siblings and I. I remember it like it was yesterday; that Saturday evening, so long ago.
The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fell like ringing bells In places deep, where dark things sleep In hollow halls beneath the fells Goblets they carved there for themselves And harps of gold where no man delves There lay they long, and many a song Was sung unheard, by man or elves For ancient king and elvish lord There many a gleaming golden hoard They shaped and wrought, and light they caught To hide in gems on hilt of sword On silver necklaces they strung The flowering stars, on crowns they hung The dragon-fire, in twisted wire They meshed the light of moon and sun The pines were roaring on the height The winds were moaning in the night The fire was red, it flaming, spread The trees, like torches, blazed with light The bells were ringing in the dale The men looked up with faces pale The dragon's ire, more fierce then fire Laid low their towers and houses frail The mountains smoked beneath the moon The dwarves, they heard the tramp of doom They fled their hall to dying fall Beneath his feet, beneath the moon
new to this, but I really like how in the movie Gandalf's voice is the voice of reason, it even sounds like a wise person speaking, a mentor, somebody you can trust. Something about it says no ill will. Majestic
Stuff like that line was what really made the 77 version stand out. It highlighted the hero's tale of the Hobbit not just the story. That's where the new version missed the mark.
We still have the record AND the t-shirt screen print in storage! It's worth MORE than gold. We kept it since 1977. My sister was 5 years old and we had just come back from the VA mtns and THIS was on TV, the animated cartoon. My parents were like ~"What's this?" We watched it THEN immediately ordered the record off the TV after the cartoon program. I think it was < $20 back then .....for all this treasure. THe poster hung on our hallway wall for decades!! #memories My Dad died and never got to see The Hobbit movie in the theater :(
The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fell like ringing bells In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. For ancient king and elvish lord There many a gloaming golden hoard They shaped and wrought, and light they caught To hide in gems on hilt of sword. On silver necklaces they strung The flowering stars, on crowns they hung The dragon-fire, in twisted wire They meshed the light of moon and sun.
`On silver necklaces they strung The flowering stars, on crowns they hung` If that's the event I think it is, this is the reason Tolkien Elves and Tolkien Dwarves don't get along. For those not in the know, in the early days of elven civilization, the elves had worshiped the stars (and still consider them something akin to holy in the time of The Hobbit), and so had saved some of that early light, from before the first day, inside a collection of gemstones (mostly diamonds). These starlight gemstones were lost at one point, and some dwarves ended up with them. The dwarves, being excellent jewelers, fashioned many of them into necklaces. These starlight necklaces were a cultural treasure for the dwarves...but then when the elves found out that the dwarves had their cultural treasure, the starlight diamonds, they demanded their diamonds be returned to their rightful owners. The dwarves didn't take kindly to this, and long story short a bunch of dwarves were killed: the elves claimed the dwarves started it, the dwarves claim the elves did. Forever after each race loathed the other, adding more insults and injuries to the lists over the centuries...
@@TheBoundFenrir Assuming you read The Silmarillion or otherwise heard the story, I like how you described it simply in a way that more people will easily understand, without using terms like Silmaril and Nauglamir. Or you told a different story that's coincidentally similar.
Goblets they carved there, for themselves and harps of gold where no man delves. there lay they long; and many a song was sung, unheard, by man or elves.
The defeat of Smaug was always Thorin's goal. Remember this wasn't a treasure hunt. It was reclaiming Thorin's rightful throne as the King (think Aragorn, but more recent). The lack of equipment is a different matter (Thror lost with an army and a ring of power, Thorin had neither) And as for the drunk elves. Tolkien's work did not portray them as lofty creatures above all mortal desires. In short, they were green-blooded unaging humans. Like those who disobeyed orders and got drunk on-shift.
the defeat of smaug was gandalf’s plan. he thought that as the dark lord (sauron) was gain more and more power the last surviving dragon (smaug) would ally himself with sauron like the dragons of old did with melkor. with the dragon defeated, sauron would have one less tool in his shed per se. the reclaiming of erebor also aided in the lesser known northern theatre of the second war of the ring. while the fellowship and the armies of men and elves fought sauron directly in the south, another army of easterlings and orcs made their way through the iron hills and attempted to take erebor and dale, then lorien and rivendell. but the kings of erebor and dale at the time (their names escape me) fought valiantly against the easterlings stalled them enough for sam and frodo to destroy the ring and sauron. with his defeat, the armies of sauron fell into disarray and either fled or surrendered. the reclamation of erebor was a calculated risk for gandalf but soon proved to be well worth it. also i’m replying to a comment that is 6 years old. that’s a weird thought
Elves are bonkers. Elrond and his twin were raised by a berserker kinslayer and his bard brother, who both kidnapped them and decided to just keep them. After Elrond's mom turned into a bird after deciding magic necklace>not at all magic children and his dad turned into the star bottle Frodo carries as a night light.
Everyone is either a dwarf or a halfling, no spellcasters. With one human wizard NPC who disappears for the hard parts but reappears to get you out of tough spots. YESSSS.
Maybe make 14 characters and have most of them be NPC's, and then when the PC's die they can take over command of one of the remaining NPCs? This has the added advantage that you can be a hardass GM and let them die when the situation calls for it, knowing that it won't ruin the campaign for them since they get to play on as one of the other dwarves.
I think a bigger problem would be that probably some of your players will have read the books/seen the movies before, and that would take much of the fun out of the plot.
@@danielkokotajlo6096 That was much the assumption, in DnD's early years. The party's regular PCs would be accompanied by a group of hirelings - as many as their Charisma scores would allow them to recruit - into the dungeons and other treacherous places. If a PC died, the player would often take control of one of their followers. In those days combat was dangerous, and death a constant companion.
that was a disappointment for me was that, despite how good it was, the new rendition of the song of Lonely Mountain didn't have the same ghostly feel the 77' version had.
I will agree, i personly like the 77 version far more than the new version, but then again i also like to rewind the tapes on my old, yet still somehow perfectly working VHS and i cant do that with the new one so i mean XD
I disagree. Although this rendition was fascinating to hearken, I have to give praise to the composition for giving a the listeners a feeling of dread, longing and that makes the listener too for a moment forget they're nay Dwarrow. I wish i could say the same about the movies however ;)
I think a big part of it is how little actual text from the book is in the trilogy. Almost every single line of this track is from the text. The only song made whole-cloth for the anime was The Greatest Adventure.. and it's so much in the spirit of the book I think most fans will be scratching their heads to remember when it was in the book, almost certain it was.. that's the level of songcraft there. That's not to say he -never- uses it, certainly the dwarves song, the misty mountains song, much of Riddles and the Smaug scene do. But there's an absence of the poetry of Tolkien's prose in the Jackson films.
Oh, the nostalgia for a childhood passed...I've got to get this movie on DVD. All I've got it on is a VHS tape, but I don't recall where it is... :( I wish we could get the book read like a radio show with music like this to it.
Everything you just said is me. We have it on tape somewhere, but the 'somewhere' is the problem. We seriously need to get it on DVD. My dad used to have a record of it, like a radio show but the exact word-for-word of what's in the video. You might could find it on Amazon.
I knew the "That's What Bilbo Baggins Hates" song before I ever saw the cartoon.. my mom, rest in peace, used to sing it whenever I would help with dishes as a little kid.
Both the songs in this are underrated masterpieces, albeit at opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. And, you know what? They somehow work back to back! When I re-read the Hobbit, I sang all the songs to the tunes in this adaptation too!
My dad read the books during soviet times. When 90s struck and our market got flooded with foreign movies and stuff (mostly unlicensed copies ofc), he once found a VHS with this cartoon and bought it for me to pass on his love for middle-earth. This was one of my favouties in our video library (right next to spiderman animated series on the shelf). It had a shitty amateur russian dub, but luckly the songs were left as is: I did not understand a word of lyrics, but the magic just flowed through me. Man, it's funny how 90s were one of the hardest times for our country, yet small chap like me was exposed only to good side of that time and I remember it as heaven now
And I'm so glad I knew this story before I knew Lord of the Rings, it made my experience with Peter Jacksons movies so better: oh wow, that's Gandalf! Oh and that's old Bilbo.. and he uses the invisibility ring haha! Oh wait the ring is what?! Good times
Sets you right in the heart of middle earth doesn’t it? It’s dangerous and you’re basically living in medieval times: you’re either dying at the hands of a troll or a dragon. and yet I’d give anything to live there.
The dwarves of yor made mighty spells. While hammers fell like ringing bells. In places deep where dark things sleep. In hallowed halls beneath the veils. Goblets they carved there for themselves on harps of gold or no man bells. Vairly they longed for many unsonged unheard by man or elves
This is the 1977 movie version. In the book, it's longer, and some verses are interchanged. *sung by the Dwarves* Far over the misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day To seek our pale enchanted gold . *conversation about being a burglar* *spoken by Gandalf* The dwarves of yore made mighty spells While hammers fell like ringing bells In places deep, where dark things sleep In hollow halls beneath the fells . Goblets they carved there for themselves And harps of gold, where no man delves There lay they long, and many a song Was sung unheard by men or elves . For ancient king and elvish lord There many a gleaming golden hoard They shaped and wrought, and light they caught To hide in gems on hilt of sword . On silver necklaces they strung The flowering stars on crowns they hung The dragon-fire in twisted wire They meshed the light of moon and sun . "Undoubtedly, all this wealth was what brought the dragon." -- Thorin The pines were roaring on the height The winds were moaning in the night The fire was red, it flaming spread The trees like torches blazed with light . "And below us, in the valley, lay Dale." -- Thorin (although the rhyme scheme would suggest, "dead") The bells were ringing in the dale And men looked up with faces pale The dragon's ire, more fierce than fire Laid low their towers and houses frail . The mountain smoked beneath the moon The dwarves, they heard the tramp of doom They fled their hall to dying fall Beneath his feet, beneath the moon . *sung by the Dwarves* We must away, ere break of day To win our harps and gold from him.
There's such a realness to the way this was recorded. Note the way that the word "gold" is ended at 1:35, not in unison. You get the feeling that you're right there with the singers, unlike in the studio-synced manufactured inauthenticities kids are fed now.
And those unresolved chords though! For those interested, 'Misty Mountains Cold' is in the key of E minor and the composer threw in an F natural before resolving back to E (1:52, 3:06). Some of the vocalists actually have tremors in their voices while singing too, such was their emotion.
Thorin and company, at your service. Dwalin, Balin. Kili, Fili. Dori, Nori, and Ori. Oin, sir, and Gloin, sir. Call him Bifur and him Bofur. And, uh, Bombur, at your service. We are ALL at your service!
I weigh the pros and cons of both the 1977 Hobbit and the Peter Jackson trilogy. They both have things that make one better than the other in some aspects. But this animated adaptation is far more faithful to the original as a straight up adventure story. And in regards to simple is sometimes better: the animated adaptation wins hands down.
For those who are unaware, this is the true version of Misty Mountain Cold. The very poem that Tolkien wrote about what happened that fateful night. I would have much preferred to hear this than a chopped up version, no matter how long the song is
senka2578 You have a point, but they wanted the Dwarves to be the ones singing it not a third party narrator like Gandalf, I think they adapted as much of the song as they could to a "First person" account of the night.
all the music from the animated versions are far superior compaired to the new movies...…. There is something to be said to the heart and soul of the original vision and lore of the one who created the world in which it rode.
Yeah... I think Peter Jackson was trying to gloss over the War Between Dwarves and Orcs with that. It certainly spared Jackson the need to explain what caused that war in the first place.
I prefer this tune to the one they went with for the live action movie. You could sing the whole thing to this tune, but they had to breal up the lyrics to make the new tune work.
I agree. The Lord of the Rings movies are some of my favorite movies of all time. But The Hobbit was terrible. It had so much ridiculously stupid and unnecessary crap that could and should have been cut out. I can't believe there are still two more movies that are most likely going to be just as long and just as stupid as the first one. They could have easily made one movie instead of three.
Have u even read the silmarillion ocrs and goblins are the same thing there elves that were cropped by Morgoth the first dark lord some people have different name for them in different part of middle earth
When my daughter was younger, I played this on my guitar, and spoke the entire reflection. In that moment, magic was real to her. I've played this version, including the one with the sound effects, and she believes even more. She wants to be an astronaut, but she knows that magic is everywhere, and wants to take it to space with her.
Earth has been tamed and not necessarily in a good way. Space is the place for the adventurers now. I wish your daughter all the best and hope she has the chance to brave the wonders of the universe!
@@RoyArrowood space...the final frontier....
These are the adventures of the starship enterprise.
To her future and the future of all who still hold magic in their hearts!
Perfection
I envy you that. I play D&D and once recited Gandalf story for my 12 ur old son in one of our sessions, but it wasn't the same without the background music. There's something magical & timeless about John Houston's rendition of it.
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
Too true...😢
That's why Thorin is the GOAT! (my favourite character in the book for sure)
Rankin Bass had a way of getting some pretty damn good voice actors for their various projects.
Ryan I was surprised to find out that the voice actor for Bilbo is still alive. He’s like in his 90’s now
@@charlietheanteater3918 RIP Orson Bean. He just passed away about 2 weeks ago.
And animators too who would years later work on Thundercats.
0:55
Gandalf: "There is magic in that music"
Bilbo: "And it moves through me"
Funny to think that universe was conceived and created by music.
@@micahp.4356 It makes a lot more sense if you read the books, and every fourth page you have a new song about whatever is happening now. I swear if you give me three months, I could figure out Tolkien: The Musical.
@JamesLynch-hg5kc Oh I read the books.
Gandalf: "You feel the love of beautiful things."
Bilbo: "To go and see the great mountains and hear the pine-trees and waterfalls."
Gandalf: "To carry a sword instead of a walking-stick."
Bilbo: "Just once."
This soundtrack is a big part of my childhood. For me, John Huston will always be the definitive voice of Gandalf.
I can't believe I still remember this soundtrack, especially ths song and the Greatest adventure after like over 20 years since watching this movie. Really great ost
_"Undoubtedly, this wealth was what brought the Dragon."_
Eerie and a sense of bewilderment as you listen to this gem.
I was born in 1995 and this was still my childhood. I watched this movie every week!
I was born in the 2000s and this was every movie night for 7 years lol
@@Katie-mk8uv yep 2002, and it's still my favorite movie to this day. I bought it on RUclips so I can watch it whenever I want now!
'87 (same) had this song on an old kid's record player
Yup! Same here
@@Gabeconstantinemusic so freaking good man
There's a magic in that music.
And it moves through me....
You feel the love of beautiful things.
To go and to see the mountains and the pine trees...
....to carry a sword instead of a walking stick.
Just once.
When I read LotR, in my head Gandalf's voice sort of fades in and out between Ian McKellan and John Huston.
John for serious gandalf and Ian for whimsical gandalf
Sometimes I hear it in Sir Christoper Lee's voice, ironically.
Or the Ralph Bakshi one, I don't know his name
@@jeffwolcott7815 Who originally wanted to play Gandalf.
William Squire. Got it!
This poem still gives me chills when I hear it. Pure inspiration fuel for any aspiring fantasy writers out there!
"What doe these dwarves want in Hobbiton?"
"They have come for tea, and for supper, and for you, Burglar Baggins."
It's weird how Peter Jackson made Gandalf look like a complete vagabond, in these series he is fearsome, he is one of the most powerful beings alive in middle earth and you can feel that.
@@Khazz81 Yes, but in the book he pretty much looks like one - on purpose, I imagine. Bilbo tries to make him go away not realizing who he was, even though he'd seen him before in his youth.
This soundtrack brings so many memories back to me. My father, who passed away in 2019, introduced this to my siblings and I. I remember it like it was yesterday; that Saturday evening, so long ago.
GOD THESE SONGS WERE THE BEST.
The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
While hammers fell like ringing bells
In places deep, where dark things sleep
In hollow halls beneath the fells
Goblets they carved there for themselves
And harps of gold where no man delves
There lay they long, and many a song
Was sung unheard, by man or elves
For ancient king and elvish lord
There many a gleaming golden hoard
They shaped and wrought, and light they caught
To hide in gems on hilt of sword
On silver necklaces they strung
The flowering stars, on crowns they hung
The dragon-fire, in twisted wire
They meshed the light of moon and sun
The pines were roaring on the height
The winds were moaning in the night
The fire was red, it flaming, spread
The trees, like torches, blazed with light
The bells were ringing in the dale
The men looked up with faces pale
The dragon's ire, more fierce then fire
Laid low their towers and houses frail
The mountains smoked beneath the moon
The dwarves, they heard the tramp of doom
They fled their hall to dying fall
Beneath his feet, beneath the moon
Legendary
I believe it was "the bells were ringing in the Dale" not day.
@@Zartoo_3rd_Overlord_ofBlargon7 you may be right! That makes it rhyme cleanly as well.
Bro. Thank u.
new to this, but I really like how in the movie Gandalf's voice is the voice of reason, it even sounds like a wise person speaking, a mentor, somebody you can trust. Something about it says no ill will. Majestic
I miss the voice of Gandalf. He is everything a wizard should sound like, to my mind.
To wear a sword, instead of a walking stick.
Just. Once.
This is one of my favorite lines from film... short, simple, and yet speaks volumes.
@@jamesmccrea4871 You feel the love of beautiful things?
Makes me want to re-read The Hobbit.
Stuff like that line was what really made the 77 version stand out. It highlighted the hero's tale of the Hobbit not just the story. That's where the new version missed the mark.
We still have the record AND the t-shirt screen print in storage! It's worth MORE than gold. We kept it since 1977. My sister was 5 years old and we had just come back from the VA mtns and THIS was on TV, the animated cartoon. My parents were like ~"What's this?" We watched it THEN immediately ordered the record off the TV after the cartoon program. I think it was < $20 back then .....for all this treasure. THe poster hung on our hallway wall for decades!! #memories My Dad died and never got to see The Hobbit movie in the theater :(
A kingly treasure indeed .!#Thorin. Gave it to you:)
The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
While hammers fell like ringing bells
In places deep, where dark things sleep,
In hollow halls beneath the fells.
For ancient king and elvish lord
There many a gloaming golden hoard
They shaped and wrought, and light they caught
To hide in gems on hilt of sword.
On silver necklaces they strung
The flowering stars, on crowns they hung
The dragon-fire, in twisted wire
They meshed the light of moon and sun.
`On silver necklaces they strung
The flowering stars, on crowns they hung`
If that's the event I think it is, this is the reason Tolkien Elves and Tolkien Dwarves don't get along.
For those not in the know, in the early days of elven civilization, the elves had worshiped the stars (and still consider them something akin to holy in the time of The Hobbit), and so had saved some of that early light, from before the first day, inside a collection of gemstones (mostly diamonds). These starlight gemstones were lost at one point, and some dwarves ended up with them. The dwarves, being excellent jewelers, fashioned many of them into necklaces. These starlight necklaces were a cultural treasure for the dwarves...but then when the elves found out that the dwarves had their cultural treasure, the starlight diamonds, they demanded their diamonds be returned to their rightful owners. The dwarves didn't take kindly to this, and long story short a bunch of dwarves were killed: the elves claimed the dwarves started it, the dwarves claim the elves did. Forever after each race loathed the other, adding more insults and injuries to the lists over the centuries...
@@TheBoundFenrir Assuming you read The Silmarillion or otherwise heard the story, I like how you described it simply in a way that more people will easily understand, without using terms like Silmaril and Nauglamir.
Or you told a different story that's coincidentally similar.
Goblets they carved there, for themselves
and harps of gold where no man delves.
there lay they long; and many a song
was sung, unheard, by man or elves.
The defeat of Smaug was always Thorin's goal. Remember this wasn't a treasure hunt. It was reclaiming Thorin's rightful throne as the King (think Aragorn, but more recent). The lack of equipment is a different matter (Thror lost with an army and a ring of power, Thorin had neither)
And as for the drunk elves. Tolkien's work did not portray them as lofty creatures above all mortal desires. In short, they were green-blooded unaging humans. Like those who disobeyed orders and got drunk on-shift.
the defeat of smaug was gandalf’s plan. he thought that as the dark lord (sauron) was gain more and more power the last surviving dragon (smaug) would ally himself with sauron like the dragons of old did with melkor. with the dragon defeated, sauron would have one less tool in his shed per se. the reclaiming of erebor also aided in the lesser known northern theatre of the second war of the ring. while the fellowship and the armies of men and elves fought sauron directly in the south, another army of easterlings and orcs made their way through the iron hills and attempted to take erebor and dale, then lorien and rivendell. but the kings of erebor and dale at the time (their names escape me) fought valiantly against the easterlings stalled them enough for sam and frodo to destroy the ring and sauron. with his defeat, the armies of sauron fell into disarray and either fled or surrendered. the reclamation of erebor was a calculated risk for gandalf but soon proved to be well worth it. also i’m replying to a comment that is 6 years old. that’s a weird thought
curses to the dragon Smaug!
Elves are bonkers. Elrond and his twin were raised by a berserker kinslayer and his bard brother, who both kidnapped them and decided to just keep them. After Elrond's mom turned into a bird after deciding magic necklace>not at all magic children and his dad turned into the star bottle Frodo carries as a night light.
The Hobbit adventure would be one BADASS D&D campaign
Everyone is either a dwarf or a halfling, no spellcasters. With one human wizard NPC who disappears for the hard parts but reappears to get you out of tough spots. YESSSS.
Now to see if I can get somebody I know to run it, even with all the difficulties. I mean, you would need 14 players.
Maybe make 14 characters and have most of them be NPC's, and then when the PC's die they can take over command of one of the remaining NPCs? This has the added advantage that you can be a hardass GM and let them die when the situation calls for it, knowing that it won't ruin the campaign for them since they get to play on as one of the other dwarves.
I think a bigger problem would be that probably some of your players will have read the books/seen the movies before, and that would take much of the fun out of the plot.
@@danielkokotajlo6096 That was much the assumption, in DnD's early years. The party's regular PCs would be accompanied by a group of hirelings - as many as their Charisma scores would allow them to recruit - into the dungeons and other treacherous places. If a PC died, the player would often take control of one of their followers. In those days combat was dangerous, and death a constant companion.
It still seems weird to me that such a quintessentially English story has a mostly American voice cast, but man, John Huston kills it.
I've known this poem since before I could read....there is a magic in that music, and it has moved through me as long as I can remember.
You feel the love of beautiful things
I don't think there's a remote chance that I'll find this on CD at a Zia or Bookmans. But I will look. I will definitely look.
0:21 I will never get enough of this harpsichord part.
that was a disappointment for me was that, despite how good it was, the new rendition of the song of Lonely Mountain didn't have the same ghostly feel the 77' version had.
This is John Huston narrating after all. No one can compare really.
The new version has a more folk songy feel to it.
I will agree, i personly like the 77 version far more than the new version, but then again i also like to rewind the tapes on my old, yet still somehow perfectly working VHS and i cant do that with the new one so i mean XD
I disagree. Although this rendition was fascinating to hearken, I have to give praise to the composition for giving a the listeners a feeling of dread, longing and that makes the listener too for a moment forget they're nay Dwarrow.
I wish i could say the same about the movies however ;)
I think a big part of it is how little actual text from the book is in the trilogy. Almost every single line of this track is from the text. The only song made whole-cloth for the anime was The Greatest Adventure.. and it's so much in the spirit of the book I think most fans will be scratching their heads to remember when it was in the book, almost certain it was.. that's the level of songcraft there.
That's not to say he -never- uses it, certainly the dwarves song, the misty mountains song, much of Riddles and the Smaug scene do. But there's an absence of the poetry of Tolkien's prose in the Jackson films.
Such a great soundtrack. ❤️ those 70s minor 9ths
Oh, the nostalgia for a childhood passed...I've got to get this movie on DVD. All I've got it on is a VHS tape, but I don't recall where it is... :(
I wish we could get the book read like a radio show with music like this to it.
its on iTunes. audio book is out too somewhere.
+WorldWalker128 You can purchase movie on Googleplay or Amazon instant.
MT G I couldn't find it on Googleplay
Ditto. And I accidentally recorded over the last minute of it. Whoops.
Everything you just said is me. We have it on tape somewhere, but the 'somewhere' is the problem. We seriously need to get it on DVD. My dad used to have a record of it, like a radio show but the exact word-for-word of what's in the video. You might could find it on Amazon.
Oh man.....This is the One poem I looked for forever.....
I knew the "That's What Bilbo Baggins Hates" song before I ever saw the cartoon.. my mom, rest in peace, used to sing it whenever I would help with dishes as a little kid.
Both the songs in this are underrated masterpieces, albeit at opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. And, you know what? They somehow work back to back!
When I re-read the Hobbit, I sang all the songs to the tunes in this adaptation too!
If you listen there's a dwarf in there just CROAKING out his lines and it sounds amazing. It's sublte but he's in there.
Popeye snuck into the recording session lol
oh i hear's him. he in my left ear he is
3:26 Exactly as this part was playing the sirens of my local firehouse started blaring. lmaooo... guess Smaug is attacking my town!
This is so profound it disturbes
Me like that world really exist this musical arrangements aren't from this World
My dad read the books during soviet times. When 90s struck and our market got flooded with foreign movies and stuff (mostly unlicensed copies ofc), he once found a VHS with this cartoon and bought it for me to pass on his love for middle-earth. This was one of my favouties in our video library (right next to spiderman animated series on the shelf). It had a shitty amateur russian dub, but luckly the songs were left as is: I did not understand a word of lyrics, but the magic just flowed through me. Man, it's funny how 90s were one of the hardest times for our country, yet small chap like me was exposed only to good side of that time and I remember it as heaven now
And I'm so glad I knew this story before I knew Lord of the Rings, it made my experience with Peter Jacksons movies so better: oh wow, that's Gandalf! Oh and that's old Bilbo.. and he uses the invisibility ring haha! Oh wait the ring is what?!
Good times
This plus Dwarf Fortress makes for quite a groovy time.
Great Post! I Will Never Forget The Run Of Gandalf Of The Lonely Mountain!!!
1:00
OMG
this is the song!
This is the song that made the remake's trailer SUPER good!
Both versions are real good.
Let me just thank you so so much for sharing this soundtrack. It’s hugely nostalgic for me.
i had this on record when i was young. about 25 years ago. thank you for this!
Rest in Peace John Huston.
So eerie!
There's a magic in that music
And it moves through me
And it moves through me
This music makes me feel like i'm in the middle-earth surrounded by dwarves, thinking about journey to Erebor. This music is of the best
the best
I get goosebumps every time after the dinner song
I love this movie even if if was before my time
Sets you right in the heart of middle earth doesn’t it? It’s dangerous and you’re basically living in medieval times: you’re either dying at the hands of a troll or a dragon. and yet I’d give anything to live there.
All the nostalgia. Can't contain.
Bilbo wakes up with a start realizing it was all a dream. "Dwarves have peculiar manners," he mumbles to himself.
thanks you sooo much for uploading the entire OST. this is such a treasure
Gandalf got a lot of use out of that rhyming dictionary.
Bought the vinyl in 99, got some good samples of it
Katata Fish's riddle will soon be told.
South park introduced me to this movie
Wow! It sounds like its fresh from the studio!
The music in the beginning is very reminiscent of some of the songs used in Thundercats (1984)
I've been working on a tablature version of some of the songs on this soundtrack.
I love that you have all of them!
The dwarves of yor made mighty spells. While hammers fell like ringing bells. In places deep where dark things sleep. In hallowed halls beneath the veils.
Goblets they carved there for themselves on harps of gold or no man bells. Vairly they longed for many unsonged unheard by man or elves
This is the 1977 movie version. In the book, it's longer, and some verses are interchanged.
*sung by the Dwarves*
Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day
To seek our pale enchanted gold
.
*conversation about being a burglar*
*spoken by Gandalf*
The dwarves of yore made mighty spells
While hammers fell like ringing bells
In places deep, where dark things sleep
In hollow halls beneath the fells
.
Goblets they carved there for themselves
And harps of gold, where no man delves
There lay they long, and many a song
Was sung unheard by men or elves
.
For ancient king and elvish lord
There many a gleaming golden hoard
They shaped and wrought, and light they caught
To hide in gems on hilt of sword
.
On silver necklaces they strung
The flowering stars on crowns they hung
The dragon-fire in twisted wire
They meshed the light of moon and sun
.
"Undoubtedly, all this wealth was what brought the dragon." -- Thorin
The pines were roaring on the height
The winds were moaning in the night
The fire was red, it flaming spread
The trees like torches blazed with light
.
"And below us, in the valley, lay Dale." -- Thorin (although the rhyme scheme would suggest, "dead")
The bells were ringing in the dale
And men looked up with faces pale
The dragon's ire, more fierce than fire
Laid low their towers and houses frail
.
The mountain smoked beneath the moon
The dwarves, they heard the tramp of doom
They fled their hall to dying fall
Beneath his feet, beneath the moon
.
*sung by the Dwarves*
We must away, ere break of day
To win our harps and gold from him.
There's such a realness to the way this was recorded. Note the way that the word "gold" is ended at 1:35, not in unison. You get the feeling that you're right there with the singers, unlike in the studio-synced manufactured inauthenticities kids are fed now.
And those unresolved chords though! For those interested, 'Misty Mountains Cold' is in the key of E minor and the composer threw in an F natural before resolving back to E (1:52, 3:06). Some of the vocalists actually have tremors in their voices while singing too, such was their emotion.
Thorin and company, at your service.
Dwalin, Balin. Kili, Fili. Dori, Nori, and Ori. Oin, sir, and Gloin, sir. Call him Bifur and him Bofur.
And, uh, Bombur, at your service.
We are ALL at your service!
What do these Dwarves want in Hobbiton?
@@ianfinrir8724 they have come for tea and for supper and for you burglar baggins
sooo wonderful
I agree
I weigh the pros and cons of both the 1977 Hobbit and the Peter Jackson trilogy.
They both have things that make one better than the other in some aspects. But this animated adaptation is far more faithful to the original as a straight up adventure story.
And in regards to simple is sometimes better: the animated adaptation wins hands down.
Agree
Wow.... the audio is so clear that it seems like John Huston just finished his voice over for Gandalf barely a minute ago!
Far, far superior to the version in Peter Jackson's movies.
I love this version but I think that version was good too. It was the only good part about the Hobbit movies.
@@danielkokotajlo6096 Agreed, the downsides of each are just their shortness.
For those who are unaware, this is the true version of Misty Mountain Cold. The very poem that Tolkien wrote about what happened that fateful night. I would have much preferred to hear this than a chopped up version, no matter how long the song is
senka2578 You have a point, but they wanted the Dwarves to be the ones singing it not a third party narrator like Gandalf, I think they adapted as much of the song as they could to a "First person" account of the night.
all the music from the animated versions are far superior compaired to the new movies...…. There is something to be said to the heart and soul of the original vision and lore of the one who created the world in which it rode.
Is this available anywhere now to own? Re-issue or something? Love this music from this version of the hobbit - reminds me of when I was a kid.
Whenever I watch this version, I can't get this song out of my head... 0:28
Loved this part of the movie.
I'll see if I can buy the book. Thanks a million, Falcrist!!!
I read it in their voices. A great line.
omg i needed to hear this
This was one of my favorite songs in the animated The Hobbit!
Yeah... I think Peter Jackson was trying to gloss over the War Between Dwarves and Orcs with that. It certainly spared Jackson the need to explain what caused that war in the first place.
the Hobbit teaser trailer sent me here!
R.I.P.
John huston
god bless him!
I prefer this tune to the one they went with for the live action movie. You could sing the whole thing to this tune, but they had to breal up the lyrics to make the new tune work.
I love that movie.
goosebumps.
This movie made some silly decisions, but picking this man to voice Gandalf was not one of them. He's not Ian McKellen, but damn, he's great xD
I like this version of "Chip the Glasses" best
What do these dwarves want in hobbiton?
2:40 to 3:08 such shivers this is good
I agree. The Lord of the Rings movies are some of my favorite movies of all time. But The Hobbit was terrible. It had so much ridiculously stupid and unnecessary crap that could and should have been cut out. I can't believe there are still two more movies that are most likely going to be just as long and just as stupid as the first one. They could have easily made one movie instead of three.
Perfect song to sing whilst doing the dishes.👌
Except by having a white orc, who was dead by the time the book was going on, cutting off heads, and threatening over the top gory violence.
A lot of this sounds like the moody blues
Such a Nights in White Satin vibe!
Cursess to the Dragon!
Cursess to Smog!
He killed our men
And stole our gold!
Curses to the dragon smaug!
Catatafish story will soon be told.
I already did when i got it from the Library once!
Between the two of them, I think Rankin Bass got Dwarven music right on the mark... less so for the elves.
I wish I could buy this movie but it's not available in my country
0:52 onward is all I wouldwant in a track
Dam... I cant wait for the movie xD
Curses to the dragon! Curses to Smaug! He killed our men and stole our gold!
Curses to the dragon Smaug
Have u even read the silmarillion ocrs and goblins are the same thing there elves that were cropped by Morgoth the first dark lord some people have different name for them in different part of middle earth
Gareth Canfield the orcs and goblins in the hobbit and lord of the rings are not elf’s they are Sauron orcs not Morgoths
i hope they put this kind of music in the new movie, not the breach and kill everything music, but the mystic calm music
Tolkkiens poetry is far beyond any poeat ever
especially that ladder scene, the parts with bilbo were ok, but that is because his actor is good.
Jake the alligator man’s lesser known cousin
This is all straight out of the Hobbit! :D
I don't know the name, but it's halfway through the first chapter.