These two films, return of the king and the Hobbit by Rankin Bass are so insanely under rated. They are different yes but they have such a magical and wonderful feeling and character to them. They truly deserved a fellowship of the ring and two towers treatment....I would pay a fortune to see that....
What was being conveyed is that the same primary artists working for Rankin and Bass moved over to Studio Ghibli, which is true. At that point they were less hamstrung over creative control and production costs. I don't personally see Ghibli productions as in any way a sad development, but maybe what you meant was that the old artistic style was pleasing to you and you are sad it has gone extinct?
The roads go ever, ever on To the lands beyond the sea On a white ship will I sail Watching shadows part for me. Leaving Havens gray with rain Now that years have slipped away Leaving friends with gentle pain As they start another day. The roads I travel I must leave For I've turned the final bend Weep not empty tears but grieve As the roads come to an end. Its so easy not to try Let the world go drifting by If you never say hello You won't have to say goodbye!
I won this movie and I used to watch it all the time when i was a very little girl(like 5, 6, 7). This song, and Gandalf's voice bring back so many memories. I should watch this movie again.
“If you never say hello, you won’t have to say goodbye”. Truer, sadder words have never been penned or sung. My father loved this music & I grew up on it & cartoon epics in the 80s. About to bear my 7th child, that will bear my fathers name, l in some form, male or female, I’m reminded we played this at his funeral. I played it, my husband sang because my voice was too choked up. I was blessed with the ability to play anything I put my hands to, by ear: just like my beloved father. Miss you Daddy. I hope the lands beyond the sea are even more fantastical than you could’ve ever dreamt. 💔
@@darkh3lm3t34 it makes me feel so empty when books or songs end. like I was just in a great tale but now all is empty and I am left alone yearning for a world that I cant be in or peace of mind I shan't find again
Death makes our lives precious by ending them before we despise them. The end of the adventure lets you rest, lets you understand. Great sadness reflects the capacity for great joy. This is what I take from the music of this song.
This song reminds me of when I had to say goodbye to my dog of almost 17 years. It was June 9, 2017...I still miss him he was the best friend a guy could have.
My Sebastian called to me from the couch. I turned around, looked in his eyes....and knew. I held him in my arms, after tripping over a table, as he left....after 13 years. I feel you're pain.....and joy
I feel for you - I got my dog Sandy when I was 11 and she lasted until I was 26 - I was with her at the end and it was one of the hardest things I ever had to do - but I am so grateful for the time together and that I could be there with her
@@spinningspin6053 "You know that pain and guilt can't be taken away with a wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away. I need my pain."
A great thing about this song is that I keep expecting it to turn around and say: "No, love and involvement is really worth it!" but it never does. Instead, it provokes me to think that for myself.
Yes. In fact, there is a hobbit in all of us. I also love how you can hear the sound of water rushing. Rest in peace Gleen Yarbrough. You were an inspiration to all singers everywhere. 😭👏🏻🎶
It is better to have loved and ended than to never loved at all. Whether story, game, day, friend, family, or lover we find the best of it and the best often ends as easily as it comes. If you were born with no love to give it is often you will find it before you go so it is better to first feel that warm touch. That chases all the former nightmares away. I just hope that if this film taught us nothing it is that love is something worth ending things. In that way we all have a Hobbit in us.
I watch this movie and this song in particular always makes me cry both with love, joy, and sadness and makes me reflect on the good and the sorrow of loving someone and their not here anymore, not by death but because our road together has ended.
This reminds me of when I had to say goodbye to my dog of 17 years. He was such a good and true friend, it hurt so much to say goodbye. Sometimes music can really match an event perfectly (happy or sad, either one I think). Whenever I hear this music I think of my old dog and remember the good days and the sadness also as well.
that has got to be the saddest thing that I have ever heard in my whole entire life and what makes it even more saddening is that it is all true with word messages meaning words of if you never say hello you won't have to say goodbye phrases. and all those of you out there who still have families who are still around on the land of green don't take for granted that they'll be with you forever because they won't. appreciate with all of the pets and loved ones and family members that are with you still because you never know what you all have got till it's gone. I know this now due to my own family dying off like a bunch of flies that had been swatted by a giant fly swatter by death or at least whatever is left of my family which is not much my grandma is all that I got left aside from very few people left in it that are still around in said family.
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 this reminds me of all of the words that I have had never had said to my niece of all of the hello's and goodbyes. Of back when she was still around and living.
I just wished things never ended. Its like the first time you see an ending its like characters are dead, and if you re-watch or re-read about them its like looking over memories. Every time I watch this I wished it never had to end. That it'll keep going forever. I guess that is why people die because everything else does. I often not watch the ending to this film just to pretend their still going that is never ended. "I you never say hello, you won't have to say goodbye",
@@dtm1351 Yeah, and that especially makes sense with the Lord Of The Rings, which as they say in this version ends with a beginning, and begins with an ending. It's clear throughout that whatever happens, things will be coming to an end. But the heroes help determine what kind of end, and what kind of new beginning.
The end of both made me cry, but this one made me cry the most. Why did Frodo have to go on the gray havens. Well I know, but I wish he didn't. I didn't want it to end.
''It's so Easy Not to Try'' id a very profound song about someone afraid to love again, from the way I hear it. ''For what good is there to love...when the loving always end?'' And most of all, ''If you never say ''hello''...you won't have to say ''goodbye''.
You know, it is so easy not to try, and if you do say hello, someday you will have to say goodbye. Somedays, you may think it'll be easier to not to try, because you won't ever have to say goodbye. However, even though it's harder, I'd rather say goodbye every time. I'd rather get to know something, so that I may know something wonderful before it's gone. If I never say hello, if I never try, I'll never get to experience it at all. The world won't wait for me, it'll drift on by without me. It may be sad, and it may be hard, but I'd rather say hello, every time. There is something beautiful hidden everywhere, and you'll never find it, unless you say, hello. It is so easy not to try, but when you do, you'll find something worth the find.
I wish rankin and bass sis fellowship and two towers. Wonderful, classic storytelling like that just doens't exist anymore. If it does i havn't seen it. Ps im only early 20's haha. I guess i'll settle for heat miser this month. :p
this makes me cry. me and dad used to watch this movie all thru my childhood.. he was just diagnosed with cancer.. im dreading the day he boards that white ship... F
It uses the same guitar chords as "Roads" from the hobbit. Very simple but effective. D, A7, D7, G. How do I know? I have the rare sheet music book to The Hobbit.
I figured out the beginning, especially the high e hammer-on @ D chord. I just begin to lose it around /for what good is it to looove, when the loving always ends/ lyric.
@Rhademanthus Thanks so much, for your kind words. Last autumn, I became very physically ill with depression. I've always had that great capacity for sadness and lonliness, my entire life. But now I'm realizing that I have had some moments of ectasy, here and there, and more and more are coming everyday, now. The tremendous joy I feel at those times make every day I died seem to be really worth trudging through. A world without pain and suffering is also a world without true happiness and peace.
RIP Jules Bass. While all the news outlets report about the Rankin Bass holiday movies, I'll be here with my Hobbit, Return of the King, Last Unicorn, and Flight of Dragons
@Rhademanthus That is a great assessment. Tolkien was getting at much the same thing the contrast of Elves and Men, and the latter's "gift" of Doom. But I'm sure you knew that already. :)
Granted this animated movie isn't terribly great, but this song always teared me up at the end, although its so upbeat in contrast to say Into the West, but the overall effect is there
It is a great song. I wouldn't necessarily call it upbeat compared to Into The West, though; Into the West is all about rest and healing and peace, while this song seems very much about grieving and parting and pain.
@aoiniina Neither did Tolkien. When he was asked about illustration for The Hobbit, he said anything was fine as long as it was neither produced nor influenced by the Disney studios, for which he expressed "heartfelt loathing."
Disneyfan82 it was much more of a personal issue that, yeah, has nothing to do with anything being discussed right now. He felt Disney was responsible for making fairy tales a “children’s thing” which was something he disagreed with strongly.
THis is pure sweetness it touches human heart very deep inside ones soul you feel love pretty thing and feel still hope to become better you or me so nice
aye but that warble in his voice is fitting I think, as I imagine when Bilbo sang this in the end of the Hobbit when his voice broke and Gandalf commented. The movie this song is featured is sub par but the music was well done (mostly)
@ZillaRocks The only things that get me through sadness are pushing deeper (through black metal into rage and despair) or Ayreon - ACROSS THE RAINBOW BRIDGE. TH-cam that track.
the hobbit and the return of the king are true master pieces that have rarely been rivaled in story and art the lord of the rings(1978) was an awful work that equals up to an acid trip especially when they used live actors for most of it with that stupid animation program that you only see in music videos of that era the art and story were the worst story and lack of Emertion i regret ever watching it but the hobbit and the return of the king art second to none in all forms of the word
"I will not say 'do not weep', for not all tears are an evil." -- Gandalf
“If you never say hello, you won’t have to say goodbye.”
One of the truest and saddest lines in the song.
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What makes it sad?
It is true that when you bond with someone, eventually, he or she will be gone, so some would rather never say ''Hello.'' to anyone.
That's why we Dwarves stay tucked away in our mountains, mining gold and drinking our malt beer
:'(
These two films, return of the king and the Hobbit by Rankin Bass are so insanely under rated. They are different yes but they have such a magical and wonderful feeling and character to them. They truly deserved a fellowship of the ring and two towers treatment....I would pay a fortune to see that....
Rankin bass became studio ghibli sadly, after that point never coming back to this amazing art style that still holds up 40+ years later
@@umadbroimatroll7918Rankin Bass never became studio Ghibli actually it was the Japanese studio that became studio Ghibli
What was being conveyed is that the same primary artists working for Rankin and Bass moved over to Studio Ghibli, which is true.
At that point they were less hamstrung over creative control and production costs. I don't personally see Ghibli productions as in any way a sad development, but maybe what you meant was that the old artistic style was pleasing to you and you are sad it has gone extinct?
This is wild to learn wtf
@@markaven5249 it was still the studio that did the art for the movies, and sad they never returned to the same style.
The roads go ever, ever on
To the lands beyond the sea
On a white ship will I sail
Watching shadows part for me.
Leaving Havens gray with rain
Now that years have slipped away
Leaving friends with gentle pain
As they start another day.
The roads I travel I must leave
For I've turned the final bend
Weep not empty tears but grieve
As the roads come to an end.
Its so easy not to try
Let the world go drifting by
If you never say hello
You won't have to say goodbye!
J. Ralph,
Thanks for the effort to put in the lyrics for us.
It is so hard for me to believe that most people don't like this movie. It is it's own flavor of beautiful in my opinion.
Yeah, this version is special in it's own way.
Most people are morons. So there you have it
I won this movie and I used to watch it all the time when i was a very little girl(like 5, 6, 7). This song, and Gandalf's voice bring back so many memories. I should watch this movie again.
“If you never say hello, you won’t have to say goodbye”. Truer, sadder words have never been penned or sung. My father loved this music & I grew up on it & cartoon epics in the 80s. About to bear my 7th child, that will bear my fathers name, l in some form, male or female, I’m reminded we played this at his funeral. I played it, my husband sang because my voice was too choked up. I was blessed with the ability to play anything I put my hands to, by ear: just like my beloved father. Miss you Daddy. I hope the lands beyond the sea are even more fantastical than you could’ve ever dreamt. 💔
I grew up with this movie because my dad loved Tolkien, so this story got me really teary
I love this song but it breaks my heart
Jacks me up every time.
I feel the same way. It just really makes you sad but somehow it makes me happy too.
Same.
Me too. I hate the end of things.
@@darkh3lm3t34 it makes me feel so empty when books or songs end. like I was just in a great tale but now all is empty and I am left alone yearning for a world that I cant be in or peace of mind I shan't find again
Such feeling in his singing. Even for works he did not write like this song. RIP Glenn Yarbrough.
No tears. And lo. He is there. ....
Death makes our lives precious by ending them before we despise them. The end of the adventure lets you rest, lets you understand. Great sadness reflects the capacity for great joy. This is what I take from the music of this song.
I feel this song is about me finding peace with death, loss of loved ones, meeting new friends and finding my way through this life
Maybe that’s why Tolkien referred to it as “The Gift of Men”.
I wish this was true, because I've despised life since I was born.
This song reminds me of when I had to say goodbye to my dog of almost 17 years. It was June 9, 2017...I still miss him he was the best friend a guy could have.
My Sebastian called to me from the couch. I turned around, looked in his eyes....and knew. I held him in my arms, after tripping over a table, as he left....after 13 years. I feel you're pain.....and joy
I feel for you - I got my dog Sandy when I was 11 and she lasted until I was 26 - I was with her at the end and it was one of the hardest things I ever had to do - but I am so grateful for the time together and that I could be there with her
"If you never say hello, you won't have to say goodbye," but you'll miss all of the stuff in between.
No joy or pleasure is worth the misery suffering and pain
@@spinningspin6053
"You know that pain and guilt can't be taken away with a wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away. I need my pain."
@@Strideo1 I would take nothing away from any. It is the endless horde that is being created to feed the machine that concerns me a little bit
A great thing about this song is that I keep expecting it to turn around and say: "No, love and involvement is really worth it!" but it never does. Instead, it provokes me to think that for myself.
@@adamwarlock1The entire story encourages us to finish the song that way ourselves. It's beautiful.
Love these movies
Rankin Bass made my childhood.
Yes. In fact, there is a hobbit in all of us. I also love how you can hear the sound of water rushing. Rest in peace Gleen Yarbrough. You were an inspiration to all singers everywhere. 😭👏🏻🎶
Trey Owen Yes, there is a Hobbit in all of us
It is better to have loved and ended than to never loved at all. Whether story, game, day, friend, family, or lover we find the best of it and the best often ends as easily as it comes. If you were born with no love to give it is often you will find it before you go so it is better to first feel that warm touch. That chases all the former nightmares away. I just hope that if this film taught us nothing it is that love is something worth ending things. In that way we all have a Hobbit in us.
I watch this movie and this song in particular always makes me cry both with love, joy, and sadness and makes me reflect on the good and the sorrow of loving someone and their not here anymore, not by death but because our road together has ended.
This reminds me of when I had to say goodbye to my dog of 17 years. He was such a good and true friend, it hurt so much to say goodbye. Sometimes music can really match an event perfectly (happy or sad, either one I think). Whenever I hear this music I think of my old dog and remember the good days and the sadness also as well.
I hate saying goodbye, because it feels like the end to a great time and a great story that I wish had no ending.
Gleen Yarbrough, the voice that will never die.
Glenn Yarbrough.RIP you be miss sweet relaxing voice sound that gave me peace of mind
that has got to be the saddest thing that I have ever heard in my whole entire life and what makes it even more saddening is that it is all true with word messages meaning words of if you never say hello you won't have to say goodbye phrases. and all those of you out there who still have families who are still around on the land of green don't take for granted that they'll be with you forever because they won't. appreciate with all of the pets and loved ones and family members that are with you still because you never know what you all have got till it's gone. I know this now due to my own family dying off like a bunch of flies that had been swatted by a giant fly swatter by death or at least whatever is left of my family which is not much my grandma is all that I got left aside from very few people left in it that are still around in said family.
one of the best songs I know and one of the most underestimated.
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 this reminds me of all of the words that I have had never had said to my niece of all of the hello's and goodbyes. Of back when she was still around and living.
I just wished things never ended. Its like the first time you see an ending its like characters are dead, and if you re-watch or re-read about them its like looking over memories. Every time I watch this I wished it never had to end. That it'll keep going forever. I guess that is why people die because everything else does. I often not watch the ending to this film just to pretend their still going that is never ended. "I you never say hello, you won't have to say goodbye",
Everything has a beginning and an end. But the end of one thing is just the beginning of a new adventure.
@@dtm1351 Yeah, and that especially makes sense with the Lord Of The Rings, which as they say in this version ends with a beginning, and begins with an ending. It's clear throughout that whatever happens, things will be coming to an end. But the heroes help determine what kind of end, and what kind of new beginning.
The end of both made me cry, but this one made me cry the most. Why did Frodo have to go on the gray havens. Well I know, but I wish he didn't. I didn't want it to end.
Such beautiful and sad memories I have.
Seconded
Thirded (:
Im glad I could listen to that song imwatched the cartoon when I was little and ever since I loves this song and its so easy not to try
Someone edit this to Return of The King live action ending footage. Guaranteed tears
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@@ChampionElCid
You did it!
No one ever gave such a voice to people with clinical depression
''It's so Easy Not to Try'' id a very profound song about someone afraid to love again, from the way I hear it. ''For what good is there to love...when the loving always end?'' And most of all, ''If you never say ''hello''...you won't have to say ''goodbye''.
This song has been with me for my entire life, and thank God so much it always has.
Human Condition my friend
Nothing new ✌😉
orson bean, the man who voiced both frodo and bilbo, passed away today. had to come listen to this.
Rest In Peace Orson Bean (1928-2020)
I will always remember you as the voices of Bilbo & Frodo Baggins.
You can feel the emotion through the song. Why can't today's music convey that?
You know, it is so easy not to try, and if you do say hello, someday you will have to say goodbye. Somedays, you may think it'll be easier to not to try, because you won't ever have to say goodbye. However, even though it's harder, I'd rather say goodbye every time. I'd rather get to know something, so that I may know something wonderful before it's gone. If I never say hello, if I never try, I'll never get to experience it at all. The world won't wait for me, it'll drift on by without me. It may be sad, and it may be hard, but I'd rather say hello, every time. There is something beautiful hidden everywhere, and you'll never find it, unless you say, hello. It is so easy not to try, but when you do, you'll find something worth the find.
Words have never been so true. Thank you for this magnificent beautiful comment it has lifted my spirits just now
The ending of the movie was sad enough, could you imagine if they had this song at the end? The whole theater would have been weeping.
This song is so heartbreaking and so beautiful
So beautiful and simple
I wish rankin and bass sis fellowship and two towers. Wonderful, classic storytelling like that just doens't exist anymore. If it does i havn't seen it. Ps im only early 20's haha. I guess i'll settle for heat miser this month. :p
this makes me cry. me and dad used to watch this movie all thru my childhood.. he was just diagnosed with cancer.. im dreading the day he boards that white ship... F
To hear this song after his version of roads go ever on in the Hobbit...god help me i have tears streaming down my face.
I wish this film was on dvd in the UK as UNIVERSAL. suitable for all
It uses the same guitar chords as "Roads" from the hobbit. Very simple but effective. D, A7, D7, G. How do I know? I have the rare sheet music book to The Hobbit.
u should scan it and upload it as a pdf
YES that would be great. pls pls pls pls
I figured out the beginning, especially the high e hammer-on @ D chord. I just begin to lose it around /for what good is it to looove, when the loving always ends/ lyric.
***** I just put the song into the chord finder app. You just have to figure out when to strum, arpeggiate inside chord or play melody.
+Randall Schoverling where did you find the app
always made me cry.
@Rhademanthus Thanks so much, for your kind words. Last autumn, I became very physically ill with depression. I've always had that great capacity for sadness and lonliness, my entire life. But now I'm realizing that I have had some moments of ectasy, here and there, and more and more are coming everyday, now. The tremendous joy I feel at those times make every day I died seem to be really worth trudging through. A world without pain and suffering is also a world without true happiness and peace.
One thing the animated films did justice, which the PJ films didn't: the importance of songs
I agree. The books are full of them and they're clearly important to the characters singing them.
Full of gentle pain for friends and family who have sailed beyond the sea on this spring morning.
I hate saying goodbyes. Why does it have to be sad and forever?
I just wished the ending and song didn't make me cry so much I hate when such epic stories end. I'm starting to tear up now.
Most TH-cam videos are guaranteed to have a mean or weird comment, yet wvery single one down here is emotional gold
this is such a beautiful flip side of the version of roads sung in the hobbit!
It just makes you hate saying goodbye. To those you loved the most
Is it ok to cry now? So many many memories
RIP Jules Bass. While all the news outlets report about the Rankin Bass holiday movies, I'll be here with my Hobbit, Return of the King, Last Unicorn, and Flight of Dragons
There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love". in this song
Is this movie campy? Yes. Do I spend half of this movie crying over its profound and beautiful understanding of life? Yes.
My late Aunt Sue would have loved this song, I miss you Aunt Susie.
This song was also in The Hobbit movie which was produced before this movie but still i love this song so much!
@Rhademanthus That is a great assessment. Tolkien was getting at much the same thing the contrast of Elves and Men, and the latter's "gift" of Doom. But I'm sure you knew that already. :)
Actually like this song better than "Into the West"
GRasputin91 As for me, both songs in my respected opinion are deadlocked.
Different "Ages".....BOTH GREAT
RIP Glenn
Granted this animated movie isn't terribly great, but this song always teared me up at the end, although its so upbeat in contrast to say Into the West, but the overall effect is there
It is a great song. I wouldn't necessarily call it upbeat compared to Into The West, though; Into the West is all about rest and healing and peace, while this song seems very much about grieving and parting and pain.
@aoiniina Neither did Tolkien. When he was asked about illustration for The Hobbit, he said anything was fine as long as it was neither produced nor influenced by the Disney studios, for which he expressed "heartfelt loathing."
What did he have against Disney. They were not all that bad as they are now.
Disneyfan82 it was much more of a personal issue that, yeah, has nothing to do with anything being discussed right now. He felt Disney was responsible for making fairy tales a “children’s thing” which was something he disagreed with strongly.
This is the greatest song in all of the animated hobbit and lord of the rings movies.
I cry. Every. Time.
THis is pure sweetness it touches human heart very deep inside ones soul you feel love pretty thing and feel still hope to become better you or me so nice
This is the end part of a much longer poem/song that is presented in bits and pieces.
Is there hobbit in me...
Is there?
aye but that warble in his voice is fitting I think, as I imagine when Bilbo sang this in the end of the Hobbit when his voice broke and Gandalf commented. The movie this song is featured is sub par but the music was well done (mostly)
For anyone who doesn't know, this is Glenn Yarbrough singing.
Not Every song in this movie was good (whips ......) But this? This brings a tear to my eye every time
I wish I had followed that advice. Before I was just alone. Now, I'm lonely
@Cancrizans quite true. People just need to realize how lovely life can be and ... go on an adventure :D
I prefer this to Annie Lennox's but theyre both beautiful
Yes
0:58-1:50 😢😌🥲 Gets me every time.
Love me some Glenn Yarborough.
The Road of Life.
@Rhademanthus Thats pretty deep , man :D
Isildur approves
*cries*
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@meesisatonmai It's not in the book that I remember, but it's done in the same style.
This song makes me so tired sometimes....just so so tired
I wish they had use some the music from the animated movies in the live action...
@ZillaRocks The only things that get me through sadness are pushing deeper (through black metal into rage and despair) or Ayreon - ACROSS THE RAINBOW BRIDGE. TH-cam that track.
It sounds a lot like "It's So Easy Not to Try"
@Rhademanthus You misunderstood then. The title clearly says that the song is about a really long road.
Frodo looks so scary *cries*
is this text found in the book? or was it composed following the style of "Roads Go Ever Ever On"?
RIP Ian Holm.
Is there a version of this song (this version of Roads) without Gandalf speaking?
@ratholin True
Lemmiewinks, Lemmiewinks...
why do some of the most inspirational pieces come from animated musicals?
the hobbit and the return of the king are true master pieces that have rarely been rivaled in story and art the lord of the rings(1978) was an awful work that equals up to an acid trip especially when they used live actors for most of it with that stupid animation program that you only see in music videos of that era the art and story were the worst story and lack of Emertion i regret ever watching it but the hobbit and the return of the king art second to none in all forms of the word
that technology was called rotoscoping, and disney used it as well
the essence of the end of the hobbit and lotr :)
Too bad the entire story waasn't made for the cartoon version.
Yarbrough does tend to warble a bit.
It's called vibrato and it's a style of singing.
@Rhademanthus
just honest - you just opened more than the meaning of this..
@ZillaRocks you can't have one without the other..
the lands beyond the sea .. must be the netherlands :D hehe
Have you got a little Hobbit in you?
This song really makes itself felt, if you understand my meaning. Has a curtain feel, not sure.
@Rhademanthus Deeeep.