Documentary - Creating "The Last Goodbye" by Billy Boyd
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ต.ค. 2015
- This documentary was published by Internet Today.
Visit sites.google.com/site/thehobb... for more information about the soundtrack for The Hobbit.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any copyrights to this video or the music in it. I am a fan and have uploaded this purely for archival purposes. - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
Imagine recording for 9 hours straight and still having this beautiful voice and your warmth and sense of humour and energy at the end of it.
Billy is a king among men.
Absolutely! He’s a gem for sure. So humble and down to earth.
He bows to no-one.
"We need to go again." 😁
All you English, Welsh or Scotts have...well. Posh. I have My Masters from Helsinki Uni.
Did not know, before this. I loved the LOTR ending song by Annie Lenox: West.
Billy is so talented. When I first saw the video for this song I cried my eyes out. Such a beautiful song.
I have to admit I teared up too. And still get a lump in my throat at times when I listen to it. 💛
Billy's video of this song is one of my very most favorite of all videos. I still watch/listen to it often. Have never seen this documentary of it before -- lovely find!
@@rowanaforrest9792 Glad you stumbled on this. It’s a lovely little nugget. 🙂
Totally 100% agree ! Such a beautiful song, beautiful talent, beautiful way to close out the trilogy...really all 6 films....
@@scottwalker9095 Yes indeed. It’s like a farewell to the 6 films and also to a 20 year journey shared by so many of us. 🥹 💛
A wonderful way to say goodbye. Billy Boyd catches that moment perfectly with his tender, loving voice.
* 6+ years ago *
As someone who've watched the extended and deleted scenes , played all the games and watched all the clips , and even watched the production of the movies , nothing brings the trilogy (even the hobbit trilogy) together like good music . Edge of night and misty mountains are some of my favorite pieces of all time and middle earth lore will always be in my heart ever since I was a child .
I get you about the music being the fabric that binds the two trilogies together. I could close my eyes and listen to the soundtracks, and instantly be taken not just to Middle-earth but back to the time in my life when I first discovered them. Beautiful nostalgia! ☺️
@@Westminstrelsy omg you replied lmao I was not expecting that !
@@tylerduangtavanh763 Well thank you for taking the time to leave your comment. It’s always nice to know when people are discovering this content and share the same feelings about the music. 🙂
Моя любимая песня! Желаю вам больше подписчиков.
I'm sad I haven't found this coverage before now, even if it's a reupload of sorts. It solidifies every aspect of what Billy and the crew wanted to communicate and it's a beautiful collage of the struggle to represent everything they wanted shown.
It does feel very melancholic and evocative of the books for sure. Both within the story, and with regard to the production crew - the passing of an Age. Glad you found the video! ☺️
Same
This kinda stuff makes me love The Hobbit. Just the amount of time they spent on the end cards and song. It's amazing.
It is very rewarding to see the effort they put into the music and the end credits sequences. ☺️
In addition to this beautiful music, that artwork they used for the end credits is so gorgeous!
This song makes me immediately tear up. It's such a masterpiece and I can't imagine anyone else singing it other than Billy Boyd. Such an amazing last goodbye and a farewell to those films, Tolkien and the fans. It holds so many memories of us watching those movies and them making those. I genuinely think all that was such a beautiful love letter of Peter Jackson and everyone who worked on both trilogies.
You’ve summed it up beautifully. ♥️
i would have loved all of the actors who were left to do like a choir situation (just on the chorus ) x
I was literally crying when the first chord rang at the end of the movie.
It is indeed a very melancholic song and speaks not just to the ending of The Hobbit but to the end of the Peter Jackson era of Middle-earth. I think for fans of the LOTR films, this song was really a “last goodbye” in that sense. 🥲
A beautifully moving song, so beautifully composed and Billy Boyd's voice just makes it more poignant as he has worked and lived through the films, his experiences and memories come pouring through in his singing. Just like with the movies, I'll never tire of this song. Showing both Alan Lee's & John Howe's beautiful artwork was the icing on this "epic' cake.
Yes yes yes yes yes. It’s exactly all of this that really makes this song so poignant. ☺️
He crushed this song so good that it hits DEEP.
They can play this song at my funeral.
It does hit deep, doesn’t it. Every time I choose to hear it, I need to be in a certain headspace; because it’s not a song I can hear casually.
I love all 6 end credit songs, and though Annie Lennox’s Oscar is totally deserved and though Enya is my private Goddess of Music, this song is the one which touches me the most.
I feel you on this. This song is really the culmination of a journey that, for many of us, began in the early 2000s. I think it has an added layer of nostalgia because of that. 🙂
His voice is so beautiful
Yes it is. So light and emotive. So very Hobbitish. 🥹
Billy's voice and his part in the movies really put the emotion in the song for the audience, brilliant!
Yes for sure. It was a brilliant idea picking him for the end credits song.
The song acts as closure to a portion of our lives watching these films and saying goodbye to Middle Earth for the last time.
Yes, yes it does. I think we all have personal stories that go along with these films and the 20 years that span them.🥹
@@Westminstrelsy I picture a montage of my childhood rolling in slo-mo with the song playing in the back. 🥹
@@elliot7593 Oh gee! That’s really so lovely. 🥹 For me it’s memories of lazy college days when my world was simpler and life felt full of promise. ☺️
I will never stop loving these films
They’re nostalgic for sure. ☺️
Me too bro.
nothing wrong to revisit them
@@Westminstrelsy well for me I just saw them a few weeks ago so I can confirm that they’re also awesome without that
@@jaypaint4855 How lovely to hear this. I’ve always wondered what it would be like to watch the Hobbit films without having experienced the LOTR films.
This is why The Hobbit & LOTR is the best cuz THE CAST it's not only about them IT"S ALSO ABOUT TOLKIEN
I couldn’t agree more. 😎
I remember hearing this song and immediately going “omg it’s pippin!” And started crying, what a beautiful song to end the adventure
Yes, yes I know what you mean. His voice evokes such nostalgia. 🥹
Billy's song from LOTR always gives me goosebumps and yet it is so simple. This is a truly blessed ability, to build such an emotional load through music. And the Hobbit song.. not even ashamed to say it makes me cry everytime.
Brings me to tears about every time that I hear it. A reminder that this is an end of an era, which brings nostalgic sadness and joy all at the same time.
Oh gosh I know exactly what you mean. This is nostalgic on sooooo many levels. 🥹
This, and Lord of The Rings is something “writers” at Amazon could never amount to in their entire lives.
This song was AMAZING!!!!! The best farewell song I feel they couldve made for such an elegant series with rich history and lore. Very well done
You’ve said it well! This song was certainly a farewell to Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth that began in 1999. 🥹
I love the songs in these movies. Especially Billy Boyd 🥰🥰
Billy is a Hobbit at heart. 😆
ah i remember hearing this song for the first time in the theatre after watching tbotfa. it brought back so much memories from reading the books and watching the movies. reminds me of the hardships these characters went through and how they come off it in the end. it captures the heart and spirit of middle earth so beautifully i couldn't help but cry. what a beautiful song.
This song does indeed get one emotional - it makes the end of an age, in a manner of speaking. 🥹
Beautiful song - still makes me cry. These movies remain the best ever made.
It is a lovely song indeed - very reminiscent of the feelings Tolkien’s poems and songs evoke.
My life is tied up in this. It has been the culmination of three generations; My grand children now but my children before, and my own before them. Thank you Professor, thank you Peter, and thank you Billy, for the fond farewell.
That’s lovely. ☺️
Holy Lord 430 takes the dedication of Billy is mind blowing and the team involved
Indeed. That’s dedication for sure. ☺️
one of the most beautiful songs ever written!
Yes! So heartfelt and nostalgic and Tolkienesque. 🥹
This song always makes me sad, because it means the Hobbit movies are over.
Into the West makes me sad too.
Oh gosh yes. The Last Goodbye and Into the West are both really moving in their own way. 💔
The tone and rhythm similarities of this with Into The West are uncanny.
Yeah, and they both have that melancholic vibe, of endings and of finality.
Selbst der Text hat was ähnliches. 9:29
Immer wenn ich in das Gesicht von Martin Freeman sehe,erinnert mich das an Billy Boyd. 11:05
A genuinely nice person.
Billy is indeed extremely humble and down to earth.
Billy Boyd is an amazing guy.
Indeed he is. A real Hobbit at heart. 🙂
These are my all time favorite movies. They always will be.
I feel you. 💛
All the songs in these movies are so great.
I think so too. ☺️☺️☺️
I came here to see him signing "to the seeeeeeea"
Hahah! I’ll never not hear it that way anymore. 😆
I'll never forget watching these movies with my oldest, going to see the 5 armies in theaters and then this came on....we just froze....
It is extremely poignant and so very Tolkienesque… I know exactly what you mean. ☺️
how come this don't have more views !
Haha indeed. It’s a very moving one for sure - I myself keep re-watching it. ☺️
I’m all goosebumps and teary eyes
Tbh I haven’t watched this video in a while because I get somehow emotional. 🥹
I always have to listen to this song when I am alone because I become a disaster of tears!
It’s very touching indeed, and I know what you mean about it bringing you to tears.
Just so beautiful no matter how many times you listen to this song and I love being able to listen to how much they all enjoyed creating and recording it. Namaste
Yes indeed, it is really beautiful even on repeat listens. It’s so melancholic and reminiscent of Tolkien’s own poems and songs. Glad you enjoyed revisiting it through this video. 🙂
I can't listen to this song without absolutely crying my eyes out
probably the most touching, best fitting movie theme I have ever heard. best choice to give the job to a singer, who is emotionally so connected with the movie. gets me every single time, that I hear it. Great work there!
Yes I know right? It’s just too nostalgic and emotive on a different level. It gets me every single time too. 🥹 Glad you found this video and liked it. ♥️
Billy, you are awesome.
So beautiful. In the lord of the rings and hobbit trilogies they always had the most creative brilliant people who loved the whole world that tolkien created and peter brought to us.
Yes indeed! The films were genuine labours of love. Glad you found the video and liked it. ☺️
Beautiful finale song for a beautiful story (both TLoTR & The hobbits)
This is the greatest song I’ve ever heard
It is high up on my list too, for sure. ☺️
this was the best thing to come out of the hobbit movies.
This ☝️ and Far Over The Misty Mountains Cold. 😏
One of THE most beautiful songs ever recorded! ❤
I couldn’t agree more. ♥️
No it isn’t 😂😂😂😂
I will forever be astonished, that Sir Jackson and Crew, were handed this amazing Story, and excelled so efficiently with it!
" Come back to me, come back......TO ME and say my land is best! " Treebeard
Peter, Fran, Philippa and every single other person that worked on these movies/acted in them, WE LOVE YOU ALL DEARLY!!!!! I salute each and every one of you good sirs and dames. Every single thing about all six movies is OUT-F'N-STANDING and not one single person will ever change my mind.
@@leemiller6977 Absolutely agree Lee! These movies were passion projects. And now they are full of nostalgia. Thanks for stopping by and commenting. It’s lovely to know that people are still enjoying these videos. ☺️
@@WestminstrelsyPassion projects is putting it lightly, hehehehehe. No matter how many times I've seen the six movies, within a few months or so I restart the marathon over again!!! Thanks for the reply and thanks for the insights into the greatest world of lore ever made. Now I've got to check out your other videos.
@@leemiller6977 Please do! I think you’ll like them. 🙂 And yes, the word passion is indeed adequate. ☺️
@@Westminstrelsy Fine, well played.
IT MAKES ME CRY
"Acoustically in the bathroom. " Lol I know
Hahah! Don’t we all! 😆
This is great
It’s really a nice little documentary isn’t it? 😀
Not only is this an amazing song for the middle earth classics, I used it for a very personal video for my ex wife and son as the music to a montage of videos to their dog that died 2 years ago. It hit the spot and will always be extra special to us
Timeless piece❤️
Yes indeed it is. ☺️
Billy is a star in the move and that beauty song as well
Yes he is. And such a beautiful voice. I loved Edge of Night in ROTK as well. ☺️
I love this video. I have loved the songs from the lord of the rings and the hobbit for so long. I am going to start taking vocal lessons so I can sing the last goodbye. So excited about it :) I just subscribed too.
The songs really are lovely, aren’t they? And The Last Goodbye is indeed very melancholic. Hope your piano lessons go well - the basic melody is quite easy to play. ☺️
@@Westminstrelsy thank you! they will be voice lessons 😁
How has it been 8 years already? 😩😭❤
I loved this movie
Very nostalgic!
8 ppl who disliked are not human beings and dont feel music
I can’t see the number of dislikes, but in any case, I’m always more interested in the people who do like this music. ♥️
so goood. watching end of may❤ RIP king😭😭😭
Thank you so much for sharing this!
I’m glad I did because of people like you who appreciate it. ☺️
Just watching a mini documentary on one of the songs from the Hobbit trilogy really drives home how much more Peter Jackson and everyone involved in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films actually cared about Tolkien's work and the fans when compared to the dumpster fire that the Rings of Power was. I think more care and thought was put into this one song than the entirety of the Rings of Power series.
Did you read the hobbit. Because it’s pretty clear at least the writers and director of the movie couldn’t care less about respecting Tolkien’s work.
Absolute trash trilogy
@@D00GNUKEM. Yes, I have read the books multiple times. While there are definitely differences and lots of things left out completely, I understand why they had to leave things out in the movies because otherwise the movies would have needed to be like twice as long, which I would have been fine with, but that's Hollywood I guess. Production companies want to see results and there are timelines and such. Some changes and things left out I don't really understand, but I never got the sense from those movies that the writers and directors didn't try to capture Tolkien's themes and the basic structure of the books. Whereas if you look at the Rings of Power it's almost unrecognizable when compared to the works it is supposed to be based on.
@@D00GNUKEM. Also, just to be clear, I was comparing the amount of care that went into the films vs the Amazon series. The films aren’t perfect, but to me, and frankly to the vast majority of Tolkien fans out there, Peter Jackson and the team associated with the movies did an extraordinary job translating the books to film compared to what Amazon did with The Rings of Power.
@@kennycarver1774 my bad man, I should have been clearer. My main gripe is with the hobbit films specifically. I absolutely love the Lord of the rings trilogy, it’s a masterpiece.
But as for The hobbit. They fabricated a whole bunch of nonsense and added stupid recurring characters like legolas who was not in the original book. so they could milk 3x 3 hour movies out of it and beat as much money out of that dead horse as possible. While also simultaneously cutting out excellent parts of the original story that are Tolkien fan favorites. Tom Bombadil for example.
I love the lord of the rings. Books and movies. The Hobbit. Is my favourite book of all time. And the movies disgust me. A simultaneous cash grab and slap in the face to real fans of the book.
As for rings of power. I can’t comment because I refuse to watch it. I knew it would be terrible the moment they announced it.
@@D00GNUKEM. Yeah, I definitely agree with the whole Legolas nonsense, not to mention Tauriel. I honestly didn't dislike that character, but I didn't understand why they felt it was necessary to add in that character and a love story instead of adding in more of awesome characters like Beorn or Tom Bombadil like you said. I think Tom Bombadil is a difficult one though because so little is known of him in general. Despite it's flaws and my little gripes, when you compare it to Rings of Power it's a masterpiece. I think if you watched Rings of Power you would understand, but I definitely don't blame you for not wanting to watch it. It will just infuriate you.
Beautiful song. Lovin with the fist site
This was one of the best things to come out of the Hobbit movies. ☺️
Such a shame that Tolkien family did not give up Silmarillion. Even The Trilogy carried 6 movies.
I know. It’s like they want half-baked adaptations. 🤷🏻♂️
So much work to do a song so the fans could enjoy it, and so it feels "tolkien". But then then they decided it was a great idea to invent Tauriel and her stupid romance with Kili. They just wanted everyone to cry at the end. For the good and bad reasons.
Hah! Indeed I’m not a fan of that Tauriel/Kili storyline as it felt forced. This song however hit all the right thematic notes and felt really authentic.
There needed to be a girl character. I really liked Tauriel and the romance was light and sweet
Am about to graduate college and I had great time going to baker. My time at this place is coming to end and this part of my journey is coming to end. Am going miss everybody I made relationship with. I need to go home and leave behind I had with the people here.
I can’t stop crying 😢😢😢😢😢
Cherish the memories and look forward to starting a new stage of your journey through life. Wish you the best. 🙂
wow, this was incredible to watch. Imagine if Amazon had put even 10% of this passion and dedication into Rings of Power..
Personally, Wandering Day from ROP felt very much in keeping with Tolkien, and despite it’s flaws, I thought like the show did have some lovely, poignant moments. ☺️
I'm not crying... you are crying 🥲
8:27 his face when he exclamates the "SEA" is so funny XD
Well prepared documentary
It sure is. 🙂
Billy got such a beautiful voice - both fragile and strong. It’s so… Irish, if you know what I mean. It reminds me of songs like „Greensleeves“, „Scarborough Fair“, „Danny Boy“ and other classics. Sooo sad and sooo full of joy and beauty at the same time. 🙂
Yes. It feels very “earthy” and “folksy”. Definitely very Hobbitty. 🙂
These days are gone. Thank you my friends.
Mir hatte der Text gefehlt. Weder als Untertitel auf DVD noch auf CD war er zu sehen. 5:36
Gandolph says Bilbo hasn’t aged a day. I know I need glasses but Bilbo looks older and heavier to my old eyes Billy Boyd has the most beautiful voice ethereal and beautiful. The lyrics stick in my head and I want to hear them again. I went and bought the ones I liked so now I can listen to them when I want. I love music and the lyrics say much more about the story if you listen closely.
Yes I agree - the music and the lyrics tell their own parallel story, and are very much Tolkienesque.
This is why Amazon Prime cant and never will make anything remotely successful or as powerful as the Peter Jackson movies. The love and dedication shown my everyone involved for Tolkien is amazing.
Indiana Jones,LOTR, Harry Potter,MI....❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This will be in my funeral... may it be far away...
It’s indeed a very poignant song. And may you live to be eleventy one before it is played for you. ☺️
Thanks, I guess you know how close is Finnish and Elvish?
@@petrusinvictus3603 Yes indeed I do. I had a Tolkien friend from Finland back in the day, and it was really lovely to pick up some Finnish words and phrases. ☺️
Kauan olkoon siihen. May it take long time.
FBC=BBC. Voted for the most beatiful Finnish sentence: Alavilla mailla hallavaara.
Means: Frost on low countrisides.
where can i find this documentary?
Hello, as I mentioned in the description, the credit for this video goes to Internet Today who had originally published this documentary. I don’t know if, or where, it is still available, but this is the complete documentary which I had saved for posterity’s sake. 🙂
@@Westminstrelsy ❤ thanks!
@@krotodin2564 Welcome anytime ☺️
I cant find it in the appendecies of the extended hobbit films. Is this part kinda hidden or just not there at all?
I noted in the description that it was a documentary by Internet Today. I probably must’ve downloaded and saved it. I don’t really recall now if it was also on the Appendices (it’s been so many years).
As bad as the studio distoid the Hobbit, the soundtrack is the best thing they did
I totally agree - the music was the gem that this trilogy gave us. 🙂
theres bilbo in his name too
Psst, Critters. 2 hobbits down. Fingers crossed.
I cant see Rings of Power going to the lenghts that this film went to.
Of course not, because RoP is first and foremost a cash grab by scummy Amazon execs and not an artistic project.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh this song is so depresssiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing
Depressing or melancholic? 😅
,, ,,
The last goodbye and the last of the good adaptations. Everything thereafter is a travesty and should not be associated with Tolkien or any of the previous adaptations.
More heart in this 11 minutes than the entirety of ROP
This is indeed a very poignant song and very much in keeping with Tolkein, and to be honest, I did think ROP had some beautiful Tolkienesque moments too - one example is the song Wandering Day which is (for me) on par with this song and others in LOTR. ☺️
There is always beauty to be found in the unlikeliest of places if only we are willing to see it.
FOOL OF A TOK!!!!!!! kkkkkkkkk
Hehehahaha! THROW yourself in next time and RID us of your STUPIDITY! 😆
My most favourite movie. Lord of the rings and HObbit . Will be with me till I die. wish could visit the sets once in my life time.
A master piece for generations to come and also for generations gone
Sadly, New Zealand is much too far away for me to travel to, at least at this point in my life it is. If I could go anywhere and do anything I've ever wanted to do, it would be to travel to New Zealand to see all the filming locations and to just soak all of the beauty into my soul!!!