My headcanon: One of those Dwarven younglings is a young Kildrak Battlebeard (My character in the online rpg game 'Neverwinter,' a Dwarven defensive fighter who grows to become an accomplished adventurer/ hero in his own right, largely due to following the examples set by Gimli and other past Dwarves).
That's how you know you have an amazing voice actor for the role. Not some bitchtits that only cares about the money. Genuine and great actors can immerse themselves fully in the world their character lives in.
That was the craziest part about the movie. They portrayed it as if Gimli had no idea what happened despite it being maybe the most significant catastrophe of his race. This makes me wish for a "Nerds' cut" of LOTR that adds in more things from the book, including him singing this song.
@@ArgentwingYeah, it is a bit sad that most of the time Gimli is just a comic relief in the movie. There are some good scenes with him (Balins Tomb, Galadriels Hair and Legolas/Gimli at the black gate f.e.) but the rest is just some jokes
@@thorleif8872he’s an absolute unit in the books. During the Battle of Helms Deep he yells Baruk Khazâd!! Khazâd ai-mênu! While jumping from the shadows to save Aragon from being drowned by a group of Uruk-Hai.
This is Gimli as he should have been; not the comic-relief that Jackson's films tried to make of him. We could have had so much more; and John's rendition here proves that. Thank you for sharing it with us: I'm off now to scour the Shire.
Would sound kind of weird tbh given how different the characters are. Book Aragorn is just a one note overconfident character, not a conflicted man wondering whether he should accepting his mantle. Book Legolas is kind of a happy-go-lucky hippie, book Faramir has no real conflict, etc.
Gimli and Thorin and company will always be my absolute favorites in the movies. They may be short but they will always stand tall as the mountains they made their homes in my eyes.
They're characters full of wisdom, humility, resilience, courage, gifted with skill in craft, art and speech. They can be a bit stubborn and sometimes fallible, but it's hard not to like or respect Tolkien's dwarves. Like with the hobbits, one would underestimate the dwarves physically or intellectually, due to their shorter height, only at his own peril. Some enemies of the dwarves, like Glaurung in the First Age, no doubt considered them a joke. Then Glaurung was mortally wounded by king Azaghal, a figure some five feet tall... with an ordinary dagger and Azaghal's dogged conviction of defeating the dragon once and for all. He didn't succeed, but Glaurung barely escaped and barely survived, which is really intimidating once you realize what a fierce opponent Glaurung was. The dwarves also the only of Tolkien's fictional peoples who are, unlike Men and others, completely resistant to being fully corrupted by the evil of the One Ring and similar poweful magic. Though they can be corrupted to become mean or greedy, they can't be corrupted into creatures absorbed by evil. I think it says a lot about how incredibly resilient they are (even their biology and psychology is as tough as the very foundations of the mountains) that they don't find it that hard to resist evil, by willpower or other means.
I love how this was done! It’s as if Gimli himself as lord of the Glittering Caves is reciting this to young Dwarves gathered round a roaring fire during a feast.
This is beautiful, because in the book, far from being the comic relief, Gimli is a wonderful companion, and on several occasions, lends his voice to song for his fellows.
You can hear how much he gets into it and it really is eye watering. And you can understand the anguish of the dwarfs through him, and his personification of gimili.
Truly grasps the awe, and then, of course, the sadness, and hope, of this wonderous song. One of my favorite pieces Tolkien wrote, and for me, entirely encapsulates everything that is Dwarvenkind: Reverence of ancestors, acknowledgement of the glory now past, and the stubborn hope that one day, it shall return to them. To hear Gimli speak it brings a tear to my eye.
So good. Just... so good. I've been a fan of Tolkien for 40+ years, I've read all the books, not just LOTR. But somehow I missed the power and poignancy of Durin's tale. I understood how Gimli felt when they braved Moria... but I guess I really did not. Until today. The desecration of what was holy to his people. The fact that Durin's life and death and the things he did were not "myth" or "legend', but plain historical fact that his people and the elves, some of whom were alive to know Durin could attest to. When Gimli sees how the shining star of Dwarvenkind has falling into this evil now known as Moria.... This version of the story has been an eye opener. Thank you so much for adding to my appreciation of what Tolkien created.
I am immediately transported away to a Dwarven hall, experiencing the hospitality of the Dwarves. A roaring fire, stone mugs, smooth as glass, overflowing with malt beer, enjoying juicy and tender red meat off the bone. All suddenly goes quiet. A particularly stout, red bearded Dwarf rises. It is the one called Gimli, son of Gloin, who begins to sing an ancient tale of the history of the Dwarves.
I love how this was done! To me It’s as if Gimli himself as lord of the Glittering Caves is reciting this to young Dwarves gathered round a roaring fire during a feast.
I think the movies just had too much ground to cover in too little time. If it was a show and we had an episode or two in Moria, they'd definitely have more time to include moments like these.
@@Middle-earthDaily they should have included this in the Hobbit. Hobbit had too little source material. The more I think about it the more I realize just how much better the Hobbit movies could have been.
I think the song is too specifically about Moria to have fit The Hobbit, but maybe they could've adapted it to be about Erebor. We did get that great Misty Mountains song at the beginning of the first movie at least.@@lizvtaz6
@@Middle-earthDaily I understand what you are saying but I honestly think that the horrible sequence with "down down down to the goblin town" or the horrible scene from the extended edition where they all bathe in the fountain both look so ridiculous and ruin the movie to such a degree that having a bit of a slide show of ancient dwarf related images with this Gilmli song in the background would have been better than those scenes. Even if it does not fully fit. Misty Mountains Cold is a great song.
@@lizvtaz6 The first of these scenes was truly great, and the second was just fine. There are some awful scenes in those movies, but definitely not these two.
This made me tear up a little. Dwarves are my favourite fantasy race by far and i recently started playing the return to moria game. This is just epic.
Same! I’ve been in love with Dwarves of all forms since i first read the Silmarillion as a child. If i could be reborn as any race in fantasy it would be as a Dwarf of Erebor or Khazâd-dum!
Sitting around in the Glittering Caves listening to Gimli chant about Khazad-dûm while he takes a break from building the new gates for Minas Tirith...
wow, Clamavi De Profundis, the finest arrangement of this piece I've ever heard, with the most iconic Gimli! And done by the actor himself! John Rhys-Davies is truly awesome for giving his time to this!
Glorious, I love this! Someone should write a poem about the reclaiming of Khazad-Dum and let John recite it, since it was Gimli that lead the reclamation of Moria. Can't remember if John or Christopher Tolkien wrote one already.
Unfortunately, it wasn't Gimli son of Gloin who led Durin's Folk back to Moria. Instead, he brought his kin to Helm's Deep, and became Lord of the Glittering Caves of Aglarond. Khazad Dum will not be reclaimed until the reign of Durin VII the Last, son (or possibly descendant) of Thorin III Stonehelm, who became King under the Mountain after the passing of his father Dain II Ironfoot in the War of the Ring. Nevertheless, I too would love a poem on the reclaiming of Khazad Dum, and delight in hearing it from John Rhys Davies.
Even knowing this is from a work of fiction, spoken by characters who were invented nearly a century ago about a place that only exists on page or screen, I can't help but mourn and lament as deeply as if it was my own home that was the subject of the poem.
Imagine what could’ve been, the far off fantasy of a movie with peters style and vision, but that kept the small moments from the books, the simple changes. I love the movies but sometimes I wounded how easy it would’ve been to keep scenes already in the film more accurate. Especially in Moria, the two things I think of are what would the tomb scene look like if they’d kept the orc chieftain instead of the troll? Or showing Aragorn and Boromir’s character as they rush to challenge the balrog before Gandalf falls. I get why they toned down the musical atmosphere but damn if I can’t help but imagine the movie with songs like this added ❤ It warms my heart to hear something like this after many years
Ahh if the poetry and singing had been included, it was a foundational part of the writings. As many know, JRR T started out as a poet and never really stopped being one. I remember when my reading comprehension skills were good enough to read Le Morte De Arthur by Tolkien in middle English. Still don't know how I managed that. Point is, poetry was one of his great loves.
I'm with you Phillip. I totally get why Jackson had to make the choices he did to make the movies he did. And he delivered SUCH BETTER MOVIES than anyone had managed before! But it would have been wonderful to include more of the poetry and less plot-driving parts of the books. For me, the biggest thing he sacrificed for time and plot was everything about the flight from the Shire. I mean, sure Tom Bombadil was irrelevant to the plot, but an elder power immune to the power of the ring? Because it "has no power" over him but it eats everyone else from the inside? I would have loved to see what Jackson would have done for Tom and Goldberry.
for me its the fact that here we are 22/23 years after the release of the Fellowship of the Ring film, and JRD is STILL playing Gimli for us, giving us even more of his delightful portrayal of the character. and Clamavi de Profundis' music fits so perfectly with Howard Shore's musical style (in my opinion). I can close my eyes and imagine a scene with this music and these words in Jackson's film..
I've listened to this dozens of times since stumbling across it the other day. It is just magnificent. I'd love to find a copy for purchase so I can add it to my playlist, though.
Thank you so much for watching! I don't have the rights to any of the material here, but the original version of the song by Clamavi De Profundis is available on iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify - without John Rhys-Davies unfortunately. I linked their TH-cam page in the description and they have links to all of their purchasing options on their About page.
J.R.D. is a beautiful voice. Ilúvatar is proud! I love this. I love his work in 𝔖𝔥𝔞𝔡𝔬𝔴𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰, and in the LOTR series. What an amazing song you've smithed. Thank you for sharing its beauty.
Its after Gandalf lights up the big hall with all the pillars. Sam imagines all the dwarves it took to build it and calls it a darksome hole. Gimli recites the poem to show what it was like before the fall.
This makes me feel like I would be in a middle ages tavern with a horn or flagging of mead just listening to an old wise dwarf tell his tale and how beautiful it would be and how enamoured I would be to listen to the man that his older than age itself a man that saw the elves his fellow dwarves lost to the great wars before and to become a hero in the eyes of both man and myths of middle ages past
Azog The Defiler learned that day, the line of Durin was not easy to extinguish. I thought to myself there is one I could follow. There is one I could call King.
I love John Rhys-Davies’ voice. It’s so rich and full of character. I noticed it the first time I ever heard him, when he played Richard I in Robin Of Sherwood 40 years ago and it’s never diminished for me, in anything I’ve seen him do since.
Soon as Mr. Rhys-Davis started speaking i got goose bumps and down my arms by the end i wanted to pickup my shield, axe and helm to go help reclaim Moria and then i rememberd im a long long way from middle Earth
I got to admit I really need a lot to Durins folk I got to say hearing this ring is a tear to my eye on his way it's emotional on Ways that are hard to explain
This is awesome! Gimli is one of my favorite characters, not just from LOTR but overall John Rhys-Davies have done Gimli well and his and the rest of the cast's respect for Tolkien's work shows and is greatly appreciated =)
You can really hear his Treebeard intonations as he speaks this. Brilliantly done. Imagining an elderly Gimli reciting this to Dwarven younglings
My headcanon:
One of those Dwarven younglings is a young Kildrak Battlebeard (My character in the online rpg game 'Neverwinter,' a Dwarven defensive fighter who grows to become an accomplished adventurer/ hero in his own right, largely due to following the examples set by Gimli and other past Dwarves).
"We now face the Long Dark of Moria. We must be quiet."
Gimli for five whole minutes:
😂
Gimli: if this is not quiet, I don't know what is
A dwarf is incapable of keeping quiet XD
His Welsh-Dwarvish accent is SO FUCKING BEAUTIFUL
All dwarves are Welsh. If wasn't a well known fact 20 years ago... well it is now.
Ive never seen anyone claim dwarves were welsh ive seen irish, norse, scottish, even jewish but never welsh
He was trying to do a northern accent
The way john sings "in moria, in khazad-dum" is so heartwrenching, like he genuenly feels sorrow for his homeland in days long forgotten
Also the part when he sings of the fall in elder days. And those two cities you hear the sadness of an age long gone.
That's how you know you have an amazing voice actor for the role.
Not some bitchtits that only cares about the money.
Genuine and great actors can immerse themselves fully in the world their character lives in.
That was the craziest part about the movie. They portrayed it as if Gimli had no idea what happened despite it being maybe the most significant catastrophe of his race. This makes me wish for a "Nerds' cut" of LOTR that adds in more things from the book, including him singing this song.
@@ArgentwingYeah, it is a bit sad that most of the time Gimli is just a comic relief in the movie. There are some good scenes with him (Balins Tomb, Galadriels Hair and Legolas/Gimli at the black gate f.e.) but the rest is just some jokes
@@thorleif8872he’s an absolute unit in the books. During the Battle of Helms Deep he yells Baruk Khazâd!! Khazâd ai-mênu! While jumping from the shadows to save Aragon from being drowned by a group of Uruk-Hai.
Excellence, Tolkiens writings and JRD delivery.
This is Gimli as he should have been; not the comic-relief that Jackson's films tried to make of him. We could have had so much more; and John's rendition here proves that. Thank you for sharing it with us: I'm off now to scour the Shire.
Hell I would love a full audio play of the novels with all of the actors in their original roles
That would be great, but let’s appreciate Andy Sircus for his work on the audiobooks
Would sound kind of weird tbh given how different the characters are. Book Aragorn is just a one note overconfident character, not a conflicted man wondering whether he should accepting his mantle. Book Legolas is kind of a happy-go-lucky hippie, book Faramir has no real conflict, etc.
The best you can do for now is the Phil Dragash version.
@@EresirThe1stok that is not a fair representation of the book. Have you even read them?
he clearly hasnt @@DasYoYo
Incredible. And the best part is, instead of an AI stealing someones voice (as seen all to often these days) the actual actor did this.
Yeah I love that he was open to doing this. Now we need to get Viggo and Orlando to do the lament for Boromir...
@@Middle-earthDailyOOOOOOOOH. YES.
really! I had no idea.
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@@Middle-earthDaily only if we hear Gimli extremely subtle huffing in the background.
His voice is beautiful, no wonder why Gimli and the Dwarves were my favorites in the movies.
I would love this to be on Spotify. This would be an amazing version to listen to over and over.
Also Treebeard!
John's Welsh accent really comes through in some of his words here.
Gimli and Thorin and company will always be my absolute favorites in the movies. They may be short but they will always stand tall as the mountains they made their homes in my eyes.
They're characters full of wisdom, humility, resilience, courage, gifted with skill in craft, art and speech. They can be a bit stubborn and sometimes fallible, but it's hard not to like or respect Tolkien's dwarves. Like with the hobbits, one would underestimate the dwarves physically or intellectually, due to their shorter height, only at his own peril. Some enemies of the dwarves, like Glaurung in the First Age, no doubt considered them a joke. Then Glaurung was mortally wounded by king Azaghal, a figure some five feet tall... with an ordinary dagger and Azaghal's dogged conviction of defeating the dragon once and for all. He didn't succeed, but Glaurung barely escaped and barely survived, which is really intimidating once you realize what a fierce opponent Glaurung was.
The dwarves also the only of Tolkien's fictional peoples who are, unlike Men and others, completely resistant to being fully corrupted by the evil of the One Ring and similar poweful magic. Though they can be corrupted to become mean or greedy, they can't be corrupted into creatures absorbed by evil. I think it says a lot about how incredibly resilient they are (even their biology and psychology is as tough as the very foundations of the mountains) that they don't find it that hard to resist evil, by willpower or other means.
Well my beard just grew 3 inches.
I’ve always loved this scene from the book, and to hear it from the actual actor just makes it that much better for me
Its definitely one of my favourite songs from the book
Knowing Gimli from the books, I could totally see him reciting this for the fellowship on their way south from Rivendell!
he did, didn't he. When they were at Mirrormeer, after they crossed Moria
@@edopronk1303 He did
He literally did, if you've read the books
It was while they were still in Moria before they found Balin's tomb@@edopronk1303
Even with the potential danger, Gimli could not pass up the opportunity to look into the Mirrormere. This song was why it was so important.
I love how this was done! It’s as if Gimli himself as lord of the Glittering Caves is reciting this to young Dwarves gathered round a roaring fire during a feast.
Clamavi de Profundis struck gold with this one! Hearing John's reading polishes it fine.
This is beautiful, because in the book, far from being the comic relief, Gimli is a wonderful companion, and on several occasions, lends his voice to song for his fellows.
John Rhys-Davies' enunciation is excellent, rivalling the singing, and I have to commend you on your editing.
Thank you!
You can hear how much he gets into it and it really is eye watering. And you can understand the anguish of the dwarfs through him, and his personification of gimili.
Truly grasps the awe, and then, of course, the sadness, and hope, of this wonderous song. One of my favorite pieces Tolkien wrote, and for me, entirely encapsulates everything that is Dwarvenkind: Reverence of ancestors, acknowledgement of the glory now past, and the stubborn hope that one day, it shall return to them.
To hear Gimli speak it brings a tear to my eye.
So good. Just... so good.
I've been a fan of Tolkien for 40+ years, I've read all the books, not just LOTR. But somehow I missed the power and poignancy of Durin's tale. I understood how Gimli felt when they braved Moria... but I guess I really did not. Until today.
The desecration of what was holy to his people. The fact that Durin's life and death and the things he did were not "myth" or "legend', but plain historical fact that his people and the elves, some of whom were alive to know Durin could attest to. When Gimli sees how the shining star of Dwarvenkind has falling into this evil now known as Moria.... This version of the story has been an eye opener. Thank you so much for adding to my appreciation of what Tolkien created.
Yeah I don't think I really fully appreciated this poem until I heard it sung with music
I am immediately transported away to a Dwarven hall, experiencing the hospitality of the Dwarves. A roaring fire, stone mugs, smooth as glass, overflowing with malt beer, enjoying juicy and tender red meat off the bone. All suddenly goes quiet. A particularly stout, red bearded Dwarf rises. It is the one called Gimli, son of Gloin, who begins to sing an ancient tale of the history of the Dwarves.
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I love how this was done! To me It’s as if Gimli himself as lord of the Glittering Caves is reciting this to young Dwarves gathered round a roaring fire during a feast.
I'd have loved it if this rendition had been done for the Jackson films - even if "relegated" to the extended versions...
Props on the editing. The subtitles look great and timing is perfect. Sometimes people miss the "little things" we take for granted. Nice work.
Thank you!!
i love this vibe. It's a pity it wasn't in the movie
I think the movies just had too much ground to cover in too little time. If it was a show and we had an episode or two in Moria, they'd definitely have more time to include moments like these.
@@Middle-earthDaily they should have included this in the Hobbit. Hobbit had too little source material. The more I think about it the more I realize just how much better the Hobbit movies could have been.
I think the song is too specifically about Moria to have fit The Hobbit, but maybe they could've adapted it to be about Erebor. We did get that great Misty Mountains song at the beginning of the first movie at least.@@lizvtaz6
@@Middle-earthDaily I understand what you are saying but I honestly think that the horrible sequence with "down down down to the goblin town" or the horrible scene from the extended edition where they all bathe in the fountain both look so ridiculous and ruin the movie to such a degree that having a bit of a slide show of ancient dwarf related images with this Gilmli song in the background would have been better than those scenes. Even if it does not fully fit. Misty Mountains Cold is a great song.
@@lizvtaz6 The first of these scenes was truly great, and the second was just fine. There are some awful scenes in those movies, but definitely not these two.
Sublime. I love the emotion and depth that Rhys-Davies gives the poem, as if he really felt like a dwarf.
We know Gimli has the Eyes of a Hawk and the Ears of a Fox, but he never mentioned he had the Voice of a Bard.
No one can replace him as Gimli and no one ever will !!!
Thank you JRD and MED for bringing this to life. The world is a little less gray this morning because of you.
We are so incredibly blessed that we have a recording of the man himself delivering this poem.
Yeah it was so great of him to do this
That is beautiful. Hats off to whomever had the idea.
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Whoa. John Rhys-Davies' recitation of this will forever be etched in my heart as the original telling of a dwarf telling the dwarf's story.
This made me tear up a little. Dwarves are my favourite fantasy race by far and i recently started playing the return to moria game. This is just epic.
Same! I’ve been in love with Dwarves of all forms since i first read the Silmarillion as a child. If i could be reborn as any race in fantasy it would be as a Dwarf of Erebor or Khazâd-dum!
How's the game?
@@bigirononmyhip3812 if you're a tolkien fan, you're gonna love it. I haven't gotten far tho yet.
@@derdork3233 I love Tolkien and dwarves
@@bigirononmyhip3812 it's even better with other players.
This sounds just like Gimli as an old dwarf lord telling younger dwarves the tale of Khazad Dum.
I like to imagine I am one of those younger dwarves.
Sitting around in the Glittering Caves listening to Gimli chant about Khazad-dûm while he takes a break from building the new gates for Minas Tirith...
I hear Gimli to tell his story of his kin. ❤ Speechless job!
This moves me to tears. Every time. I literally feel the pride of Durin's folk with each passage. Baruk Khazad!
Khazâd ai-mênu!
Have listened to this countless times enjoy return to Moria!
Such a wonderful bit of art
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I feel in love with John back in 80s he was in Shogun and so grateful he's still acting! Beautiful reading! PEACE!
This is amazing. It feels like I'm being read a bedtime story.
Sweet dreams!
Wow, just wow. This is the way these stories of Middle Earth are supposed to be shown, with the right passion, depth and immersion.
Exactly, not with just money thrown at it while disrespecting the lore and pumping it with stupid modern agenda. Yeah I'm looking at you Amazon.
I can picture an older Gimli telling this story to a group of dwarves in the Glittering Caves.
They probably don't believe him that he killed more orcs than Uncle Legolas at Helm's Deep
God damn nearly made me cry...hearing Gimli read the song of Durin with the background of Clamavi De Produnis' amazing song was incredible.
Anyone who loves Tolkien would love this.
wow, Clamavi De Profundis, the finest arrangement of this piece I've ever heard, with the most iconic Gimli!
And done by the actor himself! John Rhys-Davies is truly awesome for giving his time to this!
Beautiful. From the legend John Rhys Davies himself.
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Beautiful and he has a fantastic voice for narration. The line, "No harp is rung..." is such a sad, solemn one.
This is genuinely beautiful. True art.
❤
John Rhys-Davis has a fantastic voice. A great actor and narrator.
Glorious, I love this!
Someone should write a poem about the reclaiming of Khazad-Dum and let John recite it, since it was Gimli that lead the reclamation of Moria.
Can't remember if John or Christopher Tolkien wrote one already.
Unfortunately, it wasn't Gimli son of Gloin who led Durin's Folk back to Moria. Instead, he brought his kin to Helm's Deep, and became Lord of the Glittering Caves of Aglarond.
Khazad Dum will not be reclaimed until the reign of Durin VII the Last, son (or possibly descendant) of Thorin III Stonehelm, who became King under the Mountain after the passing of his father Dain II Ironfoot in the War of the Ring.
Nevertheless, I too would love a poem on the reclaiming of Khazad Dum, and delight in hearing it from John Rhys Davies.
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Oh yeaaahhhhh thank you for reminding me
Goosebumps! Thank you for the trip ❤
What an amazing rendition!
Even knowing this is from a work of fiction, spoken by characters who were invented nearly a century ago about a place that only exists on page or screen, I can't help but mourn and lament as deeply as if it was my own home that was the subject of the poem.
That's how you know its a good story
Mam ciary, zajebisty ma głos.
zgadzam się
I swear he reminds me of my grandfather and great uncles! I love his voice and presentation of this passage! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
This made we wish for Durin's days
Imagine what could’ve been, the far off fantasy of a movie with peters style and vision, but that kept the small moments from the books, the simple changes. I love the movies but sometimes I wounded how easy it would’ve been to keep scenes already in the film more accurate. Especially in Moria, the two things I think of are what would the tomb scene look like if they’d kept the orc chieftain instead of the troll? Or showing Aragorn and Boromir’s character as they rush to challenge the balrog before Gandalf falls. I get why they toned down the musical atmosphere but damn if I can’t help but imagine the movie with songs like this added ❤
It warms my heart to hear something like this after many years
I hope one day the book is adapted into a series with six seasons, allowing time to include more of the smaller moments, songs, and history.
Ahh if the poetry and singing had been included, it was a foundational part of the writings. As many know, JRR T started out as a poet and never really stopped being one.
I remember when my reading comprehension skills were good enough to read Le Morte De Arthur by Tolkien in middle English. Still don't know how I managed that.
Point is, poetry was one of his great loves.
Solid rendition, but this version lives forever in my mind when I read the passage
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I'm with you Phillip. I totally get why Jackson had to make the choices he did to make the movies he did. And he delivered SUCH BETTER MOVIES than anyone had managed before! But it would have been wonderful to include more of the poetry and less plot-driving parts of the books.
For me, the biggest thing he sacrificed for time and plot was everything about the flight from the Shire. I mean, sure Tom Bombadil was irrelevant to the plot, but an elder power immune to the power of the ring? Because it "has no power" over him but it eats everyone else from the inside? I would have loved to see what Jackson would have done for Tom and Goldberry.
for me its the fact that here we are 22/23 years after the release of the Fellowship of the Ring film, and JRD is STILL playing Gimli for us, giving us even more of his delightful portrayal of the character. and Clamavi de Profundis' music fits so perfectly with Howard Shore's musical style (in my opinion). I can close my eyes and imagine a scene with this music and these words in Jackson's film..
I don't think I fully appreciated this poem until I heard it with Clamavi de Profundis' music (the a cappella version)
This may have saved my life. Thanks.
I've listened to this dozens of times since stumbling across it the other day. It is just magnificent. I'd love to find a copy for purchase so I can add it to my playlist, though.
Thank you so much for watching! I don't have the rights to any of the material here, but the original version of the song by Clamavi De Profundis is available on iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify - without John Rhys-Davies unfortunately. I linked their TH-cam page in the description and they have links to all of their purchasing options on their About page.
Thanks so much! Shame it's not the John Rhys-Davies version, but I'll take what I can get :).
J.R.D. is a beautiful voice. Ilúvatar is proud! I love this. I love his work in 𝔖𝔥𝔞𝔡𝔬𝔴𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰, and in the LOTR series. What an amazing song you've smithed. Thank you for sharing its beauty.
This was Gimli, when he spoke of Durin to the Fellowship before they reached D Moria, by a campfire.
Its after Gandalf lights up the big hall with all the pillars. Sam imagines all the dwarves it took to build it and calls it a darksome hole. Gimli recites the poem to show what it was like before the fall.
This makes me feel like I would be in a middle ages tavern with a horn or flagging of mead just listening to an old wise dwarf tell his tale and how beautiful it would be and how enamoured I would be to listen to the man that his older than age itself a man that saw the elves his fellow dwarves lost to the great wars before and to become a hero in the eyes of both man and myths of middle ages past
That sounds like a good time
@@Middle-earthDaily ah that it would be being a person whose trying to become an in real life bard it would be even more amazing
I needed my fires relit and bellowed! Thank you
It warms the beard that dwarf still draws breath.
It was a banger when he did it live. Still a banger.
He’s truly a renaissance man. Id say the last one left alive.
Very nice. Good work!
Excellent, brings back fond memories.
Azog The Defiler learned that day, the line of Durin was not easy to extinguish. I thought to myself there is one I could follow. There is one I could call King.
This was absolutely beautiful and inspiring, it reached into my soul 🙏
Incredible! I was almost moved to tears by the end.
I thought he was going to sing this but this was so powerful. Bravo!
My ears are so happy right now
Gods my chest is so heavy. This is enchanting making me long for a life I will never live
He is an Amazing man, I mean Dwarf. :) A true Legend.
He has the eyes of a hawk and the ears of a fox
Majestic, beyond words.
I love John Rhys-Davies’ voice. It’s so rich and full of character. I noticed it the first time I ever heard him, when he played Richard I in Robin Of Sherwood 40 years ago and it’s never diminished for me, in anything I’ve seen him do since.
That is a proper job.
Well Done!
Thank you!!
Thank you so much; I needed to hear this
dwarf lore is rarely shown
I could read a whole book of just the appendices
@@Middle-earthDaily i love reading the dictionary too
😂@@BIacklce
How have I never heard this?!? Amazing.
What a fantastic performance.
I had such intense goosebumps listening to this. I really saw those golden days, the ancient kings.
Soon as Mr. Rhys-Davis started speaking i got goose bumps and down my arms by the end i wanted to pickup my shield, axe and helm to go help reclaim Moria and then i rememberd im a long long way from middle Earth
One of my favorite actors. Incredible voice.
This was always my favorite poem in The Lord of the rings
I got to admit I really need a lot to Durins folk I got to say hearing this ring is a tear to my eye on his way it's emotional on Ways that are hard to explain
"In Moria, in khazad-dûm"
This is pure magic.
This is an amazing channel. Thank you so much for your efforts.
Thanks for watching!
This is awesome! Gimli is one of my favorite characters, not just from LOTR but overall
John Rhys-Davies have done Gimli well and his and the rest of the cast's respect for Tolkien's work shows and is greatly appreciated =)
❤
I came in expecting John to sing, but the narration was fine.
Arguably better, even.
Beautiful. Enough to make a grown man cry 😢
Gimli’s poem for his grandfather and great ancestor, Durin the Deathless 👑
Yes, Gimli's grandfather Groin
This is amazing! Amazing!
Thanks!
Amazing and epic. Thank you
Thanks for watching!!
Absolutely incredible
Well performed.
Rings of Power desecrates Tolkien's legacy, and the quality of this video.
Just Damn! What a treat, we owe mr. Rhys-Davies one.
Such talent! John was the best choice for this character!
I love it!!!!! So much 😮
I really like the mix of John's accent and olden English
Thank you for this.
This is literally one of the greatest things ever. I wash the Professor could have heard it.
I wonder what he'd think of the fandom that's grown up around his work