I wish someone had taped Renee singing that music for the movie -I would’ve loved to watched that would’ve been so cool to see her actually in the studio singing it. What an artist and what a beautiful movie.
Just love this track and Renee Fleming's voice (must be honest) didn't know it was her singing and although I like her voice whether operatic or otherwise, this is so hauntingly sad and stark which just reinforces the power of this great singer.
I didn't realize this during the film, either, that it was Renee's voice. The ethereal quality she imbues in this performance lifts the entire scene into the realms of the sublime. I can still see it in my mind when I listen to just this vocal track. Thanks to Rui for posting it.
@@tcxbeast is she really? I'm such a huge fan! I've heard her in an interview saying that she had to retrain her voice for this song because the director asked her to "turn off" her operatic vibrato so as to gain an ethereal quality that reflected the atmosphere of the film. I find that absolutely amazing! She's so talented!
1:35 LOTR Howard Shore's music combined with Peter Jackson's visuals are so powerful, I can perfectly hear and picture Arwen's horse's rhythmic clopping against the stone path towards Rivendell's gate just by listening to this. This is the power of LOTR and the reason for it's 17 academy awards, and total 475 awards out of 800 nominations.
you had renee, you had enya, you had annie lennox, you had a musical masterpiece for an epic trilogy created by a genius musician named howard shore, and you give us ED SHEERAN???? you can't be serious!! please "PJ and Crew" DON'T make the same mistake in "There and back again"...
NenyaNaryaVilya90 - I once thought as you do about Ed S. in the Hobbit movie. My opinion of the song, and how it was sung, and were it was placed, has changed greatly over time. It seems a far, better choice, even an inspired one, in hindsight. It has definitely grown on me...
This comment aged very well! They really didn't make that mistake in the third movie. Our beloved Billy Boyd sang the Last Goodbye, and it was truly wonderful.
@@cullenatwood5149 Tolkien would have hated it. Tolkien's son and literary executor said Jackson had eviscerated his father's work. Almost none of the original dialogue was used in the film. The director patronises the audience by dumbing it all down. Many parts of the book are left out while many other parts are added to the film which were not in the book - so how is this massively commercial film anything other than dreadful?
@@007EnglishAcademy I think we used the barometer of whether the majority felt entertained or not and majority ruled. I love Tolkien, I love how he waxes poetics and describes every minutia of detail in the books, I love the language and world building, I love anything with linguistics and seeing Nordic and Latin influences being refreshed into something heightened. I also liked the films. 🫠 they aren’t perfect and we can all look at the goofs and say what we like, but people shouldn’t blow their nose at them. Do I conflate it with the books to the letter? No, I go off of whether I felt entertained and inspired. my eyes were visually feasting, and I bought the acting and overall plot beats chosen to be implemented in the screenplay. I think about the costume designers, Howard shore, the prop masters, set builders and think: what amazing artists and how singular. Again: love me some Tolkien, but it would be a easier to ask to hear about what he liked vs what he hated. It’d be a shorter list. He had a negative opinion on a great many of things (most justifiably so) besides gardening, Christianity, philology, clams + lemon sauce, mythology, old English and fantasy in the traditional sense. I don’t like this narrative of people saying Tolkien was a curmudgeon man and spiteful…Disliking most things. He wrote letters of a few grievances, but you usually write of what troubles you and I’m sure there was so much he loved. He used fiction to offshoot all his research and obsessions. He took it so seriously that he saw his peers and the modern counterculture scene at the time as unserious. He was so meticulous that he didn’t even think the work he did was ready to be published. I think he had so little faith in himself at times that he perceived any one else dealing with his work or adapting it as an automatic failure. If it doesn’t involve him and his messaging wasn’t there like writing on the wall then it’s dreck. I think he’d hate our current late stage capitalist, entertainment obsessed culture, but he’s passed on and here we are. Modernity seemed an interesting dance with him In his life. Would he hate the spectacle of the wars in the films? You bet your bottom dollar he would. I’m more interested in the intention within art and What the overarching message is. I find the films didn’t scuttle away from the messaging of war being irreparable and senseless. Frodo is traumatized and physically destroyed from the experience. Also That gender norms resulting in throwing young boys into battle outnumbered isn’t valiant or cool. I’m not saying it’s super sophisticated, but it didn’t need to be and would honestly be pretentious for it. It was accessible to all ages, and succeeded in a task that had so many bumps in the road. Succeeded in introducing many young or unread viewers to pick up the books. Do I dream of a day for a film that has every character, Tolkien poem, song, and looked over quote? Yes. It seems impossible, though…judging by rings of power. A mini series would be ideal, even animation. Even with all the good intentions and trying to put a mirror up to the book, there will be complications, budgeting issues, and polarized fans. Art will never please everyone, even the artist themselves. Especially the artists. They didn’t try and gild a lily and took to creating middle earth and making it more tangible then it was before. That’s all. Sorry this is long, but your comment is an echo of many others I’ve seen and this is more of a shout-out to all the discourse.
I wish there was more of Renee singing this type of stuff. it’s truly beautiful.
Exactly! This one is absolutely unique.
........and there's me thinking I had finally found a video of Renee singing the most beautiful piece of music ever writing!!
I wish someone had taped Renee singing that music for the movie -I would’ve loved to watched that would’ve been so cool to see her actually in the studio singing it. What an artist and what a beautiful movie.
Love this. The lachrymose quality to her tone is so lovely...
Just love this track and Renee Fleming's voice (must be honest) didn't know it was her singing and although I like her voice whether operatic or otherwise, this is so hauntingly sad and stark which just reinforces the power of this great singer.
I didn't realize this during the film, either, that it was Renee's voice. The ethereal quality she imbues in this performance lifts the entire scene into the realms of the sublime. I can still see it in my mind when I listen to just this vocal track. Thanks to Rui for posting it.
Yah, listen to her version of summer time, shes my aunt so i got dragged to opreas growing up haha
Fleming is absolute top tier. Such a moving singer. Everytime I hear her sing I'm just astounded.
@@tcxbeast is she really? I'm such a huge fan! I've heard her in an interview saying that she had to retrain her voice for this song because the director asked her to "turn off" her operatic vibrato so as to gain an ethereal quality that reflected the atmosphere of the film. I find that absolutely amazing! She's so talented!
Same here - I hadn't realised it was her singing this. It's beautiful!
1:35 LOTR Howard Shore's music combined with Peter Jackson's visuals are so powerful, I can perfectly hear and picture Arwen's horse's rhythmic clopping against the stone path towards Rivendell's gate just by listening to this.
This is the power of LOTR and the reason for it's 17 academy awards, and total 475 awards out of 800 nominations.
Voice of an angel!
Breathtaking 💖
So very beautiful 🤩🎼❤️
Waiting for eternal joy
0:51 una verdadera paz y nostalgia.
Siento que me desprendo de esta dimensión cuando oigo este tipo de piezas musicales!.
you had renee, you had enya, you had annie lennox, you had a musical masterpiece for an epic trilogy created by a genius musician named howard shore, and you give us ED SHEERAN???? you can't be serious!! please "PJ and Crew" DON'T make the same mistake in "There and back again"...
NenyaNaryaVilya90 - I once thought as you do about Ed S. in the Hobbit movie. My opinion of the song, and how it was sung, and were it was placed, has changed greatly over time. It seems a far, better choice, even an inspired one, in hindsight. It has definitely grown on me...
Don't forget about Emiliana Torrini singing Gollum's Song, which sets the perfect tone for who/what Smeagol/Gollum is all about.
And Elizabeth Fraser in Gandalf’s Lament! So many talents
This comment aged very well! They really didn't make that mistake in the third movie. Our beloved Billy Boyd sang the Last Goodbye, and it was truly wonderful.
And the great armenian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian in Evenstar
Muito bom este filme merecia vários Oscas .🤗
Verdaderamente hermosa voz
БРАВИСИМООООООО!!!!!!!
divinamente precioso...
Stupendo
PRECIOSO
esta melodia me dopa!!!! ☺☺☺
Quelle jolie voix...
Забираю в коллекцию 💫😇
Renee Fleming kicks ass
totally depression
De verdad la interpreta RENEE FlEMING???
***** Woaooo pense que igual lo hacia Enya.....
The music was the only good thing about this dreadful film - listen to it while you read the book.
You’re joking
@@cullenatwood5149 Tolkien would have hated it. Tolkien's son and literary executor said Jackson had eviscerated his father's work. Almost none of the original dialogue was used in the film. The director patronises the audience by dumbing it all down. Many parts of the book are left out while many other parts are added to the film which were not in the book - so how is this massively commercial film anything other than dreadful?
@@007EnglishAcademy at least we dont have black elfs like amazon
@@RangerFPS Elves not elfs
@@007EnglishAcademy I think we used the barometer of whether the majority felt entertained or not and majority ruled.
I love Tolkien, I love how he waxes poetics and describes every minutia of detail in the books, I love the language and world building, I love anything with linguistics and seeing Nordic and Latin influences being refreshed into something heightened.
I also liked the films. 🫠 they aren’t perfect and we can all look at the goofs and say what we like, but people shouldn’t blow their nose at them.
Do I conflate it with the books to the letter? No, I go off of whether I felt entertained and inspired. my eyes were visually feasting, and I bought the acting and overall plot beats chosen to be implemented in the screenplay. I think about the costume designers, Howard shore, the prop masters, set builders and think: what amazing artists and how singular.
Again: love me some Tolkien, but it would be a easier to ask to hear about what he liked vs what he hated. It’d be a shorter list. He had a negative opinion on a great many of things (most justifiably so) besides gardening, Christianity, philology, clams + lemon sauce, mythology, old English and fantasy in the traditional sense. I don’t like this narrative of people saying Tolkien was a curmudgeon man and spiteful…Disliking most things. He wrote letters of a few grievances, but you usually write of what troubles you and I’m sure there was so much he loved.
He used fiction to offshoot all his research and obsessions. He took it so seriously that he saw his peers and the modern counterculture scene at the time as unserious. He was so meticulous that he didn’t even think the work he did was ready to be published. I think he had so little faith in himself at times that he perceived any one else dealing with his work or adapting it as an automatic failure. If it doesn’t involve him and his messaging wasn’t there like writing on the wall then it’s dreck.
I think he’d hate our current late stage capitalist, entertainment obsessed culture, but he’s passed on and here we are. Modernity seemed an interesting dance with him In his life. Would he hate the spectacle of the wars in the films? You bet your bottom dollar he would.
I’m more interested in the intention within art and What the overarching message is. I find the films didn’t scuttle away from the messaging of war being irreparable and senseless. Frodo is traumatized and physically destroyed from the experience. Also That gender norms resulting in throwing young boys into battle outnumbered isn’t valiant or cool.
I’m not saying it’s super sophisticated, but it didn’t need to be and would honestly be pretentious for it. It was accessible to all ages, and succeeded in a task that had so many bumps in the road. Succeeded in introducing many young or unread viewers to pick up the books.
Do I dream of a day for a film that has every character, Tolkien poem, song, and looked over quote? Yes. It seems impossible, though…judging by rings of power. A mini series would be ideal, even animation.
Even with all the good intentions and trying to put a mirror up to the book, there will be complications, budgeting issues, and polarized fans. Art will never please everyone, even the artist themselves. Especially the artists.
They didn’t try and gild a lily and took to creating middle earth and making it more tangible then it was before. That’s all.
Sorry this is long, but your comment is an echo of many others I’ve seen and this is more of a shout-out to all the discourse.