This music always clings to my mind and had never left since i heared it when i was in 5th grade way back 2002 especially the words '' you can never go home"
It is. But if you listen carefully, if you really understand Gollum, this is a song telling his life and how there can be no more hope for him. It's mourning too, because it didn't have to be that way and it doesn't have to be that way for anyone else. I realized that the other night maybe for the first time after I saw the Two Towers again. It's what sin can do to you- when you love something or someone more than God, more than what He says is true, good and right. It leads to death. Maybe not the eternal death, but it can lead to that too. I'm speaking truth, not religiosity or my own "opinion." There's so much more going on in this song. It's a warning. It's a finality. It should even move people to look to Christ as their only hope.
carlos xavier avalos aristov It's paradox that evil in these films/Tolkien's books is also attractive and epic. Unlike real life, where evil disgusting.
I agree with Ealhad, in films evil is often by a strong margin visually obvious, but in real life people who look on the surface nice even cute and charming can be quite wicked and evil. Take women f.ex some of them are extremely cute and charming yet very manipulative and deceptive and takes pleasure in hurting you.
Gollum is pretty much the representation of all of us who have been damaged beyond repair. I personally have gone to some pretty dark places in my life and this song cuts deep if you think about it.
snillocgrom Not only does the song cut deep, Gollum's whole life is so touching. J.R.R. Tolkien created a character which can easily be identified with as you go through life and Peter Jackson made an excellent job with the movies.
+Drew Russell That part in The Two Towers where Gollum is talking to himself, and he's got one half of himself bullying the other half, saying, "you don't have any friends," that broke me. Because for him, it's 100% true.
For someone who's was moved by the books years before the movies came, the movies were nearly perfect. The cast, settings, everything. The addition of comic relief bugged me , but they added Arwen/Liv so I overlooked it.
It makes me cry everytime. It fills you with dread and doom. Which captures what Gollum has gone through for 500 years. The abject misery, profound sadness, the pure ache in your heart. You do feel so sad for him.
This song conveys a key truth about Gollum: he's not a villain, but a victim. The Ring ruined him and left him a crawling wretch unable to ever escape its pull.
@@MVTL2 constant exposure to the One Ring can twisted your mind to do f*ed up things, but I still feel sympathy for Gollum despite what he may or may not done.
Definitely my favorite closing song of the trilogy. As the camera pulls back and up over the mountains to show the horrific landscape of Mordor that Frodo and Sam will be facing in the final film. Goosebumps every single time. Things like this is why Two Towers has always been my favorite of the trilogy, even though they're all masterpieces.
when i was a teenager and I was working at the movie theater as an usher... I remember listening to this song during the credits of the movie when I was sweeping up the popcorn and trash. It has stuck with me as one of the more pretty and melancholy songs I ever heard. This song is from the second movie in the Lord of The Rings trilogy, "The Two Towers". The movie was released in 2002. More than 10 years ago. The Tolkien book was published in 1954, almost 60 years ago.
As I’m writing this, it’s 2024. This comment hits really hard. The thought of a cold December night in 2002 and you cleaning out the theater has a really otherworldly atmosphere to it
So, I would suggest you go look up and try some Portishead. I literally came here from a sounds like Portishead playlist on spotify because it rang a bell, and oh yeah! Lord of the efFing Rings!
It's very special. I haven't found many songs like it. Typo O negative, one of the founding fathers of the goth movement, holds some facets, but is still off target in many ways. maybe there are simply no adequate tools for finding such music, and it really IS out there. the people who design music services and search tools are all dismissive and willfully ignorant of the grieving of others. so they and the tools & services they create, in their blind, foolish overoptimism, are of no use, for this, or for us.
I used to mock my family when they talked about the LOTR Films, as they had seen them in Cinema’s and I had never been bothered about seeing them when they went. I used to say things like, “oh yeah it’s the lamppost of fingleforn and silly things like that. But We later bought the Extended DVD’s and I watched them all together and I actually cried they affected me so deeply and I now feel that they are IMO The Greatest Films ever made, period.
This song fits Gollum so perfectly, "take back the lies you told us, the hurt, the blame", I love the way she delivers these lines, she delivers them in the same way Gollum would. I love how emotionally connected she is with the song and the character, simply beautiful! :)
Where once was light Now darkness falls Where once was love Love is no more Don't say goodbye Don't say, I didn't try... These tears we cry Are falling rain For all the lies You told us The hurt, the blame! And we will weep To be so alone We are lost! We can never go home So in the end I will be, what I will be No loyal friend Was ever there for me Now we say, goodbye We say, you didn't try These tears you cry Have come too late Take back the lies The hurt, the blame! And you will weep When you face the end alone You are lost! You can never go home You are lost! You can never go home
Its been said a million times already, but this song was really the most perfect way to end "The Two Towers". And to be Gollums song....Its so Chaotically beautiful...
I can’t really explain it but this song solidified the tone of how I view the lord of the rings. Haunting and dark but extremely beautiful. I hope that makes sense.
1st film was a masterpiece. The 2nd failed to be perfect and messed up the tone. The 3rd had some great parts, but still failed to be as operatic and perfect as 1.
@@Legendaryium "much that once was was lost, for none now live, who remember it… some things that should not have been forgotten, were lost… history became legend, legend became myth, … and for two and a half thousand years the Ring passed out of all knowledge …"
MySerpentine We can only hope that at least Sméagol could be saved. I remember reading when he thought that Frodo was betraying him, and it broke my heart. He was so close to be redeemed... D.R.
i forgot in what trilogy showed where he killed his brother... he isn't poor. he's son of bitch! in our real life you can find bunch of those creatures.
***** Ayazbek Kurbanov you are an perfect example of Sam and Frodo. Sam sees through Gollum's act and is wary of him, whilst Frodo has worn the ring and feels what Smeagol is feeling and feels bad for him.
They were cousins. The ring called to, and changed, Sméagol. It was the pull of the ring that made Sméagol fight for, and then kill for, the ring. He was loved by Deagol, but, Deagol was just as violent so as to keep the ring. Sméagol was actually a nice fellow who loved Deagol, and came from a good people; the river folk that preceded the Hobbits. (The Silmarillion). His family cast him out when they found Sméagol had killed Deagol. That’s when he fled to the mountains and then, as he aged and the sun burned him, he went under the mountain and came out only at night and appreciated the cool moon light that still gave him enough to see by. The Sméagol personality fighting the Gollum personality was the opening of the third movie, but, Sméagol trusted Gollum to help him survive, even though it wasn’t pleasant for Sméagol. When Frodo was kind and cared for Sméagol, he had more Sméagol showing, but, when he felt betrayed by Frodo when Faramir grabbed and tied him up, Sméagol gave in to Gollum, and everyone’s fates were sealed.
A few days ago, I watched 'The return of the king'-Special edition. 4 hours pure feelings. I don't know how it works, but these feelings when I watch lotr are incredible. It's more than fangirling. More than anything else I felt before. It's like I could FEEL the story. It's more than loving it. It's such....emotional. or more than that. My heart's breaking every time when Denethor realizes that Faramir's alive and then he dies. I can't take it in words. I wanna live in Middle-earth. I'do anythi
that's because LotR cannot be ruined or touched by such evils as tumblr fangirls who ruin cool nerdy things by their annoying squeels over hot boys in cool things. not saying you personally, just the annoying 13 year old girls who claim they are "nerdy" because they think David Tennant is so sexy in DW
This song fucks me up every time I listen to it. GAHHH I wish I could go back to when I was 13 when the two towers came out and I first saw it in the theater :(
The transition from the tragic sadness in the first chorus to the profound resentment in the second is absolutely perfect. Smeagol has been destroyed beyond repair, and he will see your turn come with vengeful glee. It's the perfect depiction of an individual who has lost so much that they resent the nature of existence itself, and you will pay the full price for playing your part in this existence.
This captures the tragedy of Smeagol so well. It captures how people can lose themselves to obsession, anger, and guilt. And how petty grudges and greed can destroy you and make you into someone darker.
This classic of a song tells the true story of Gollum - cinema’s most tragic villain sadly destroyed by an object that drove him to eternal madness and ultimately he’s demise
This really enhances the ending to Two Towers beyond what it already was; not only ending it on a haunting note, but also contextualizing Gollum’s suffering and his isolation from his family and friends, lost to history on the long-lasting path he chose, which is honestly a really sad thought. It also brings out the hopelessness and perseverance in Frodo and Sam’s journey, emphasizing that they may “never go home” again and could die there in Mordor. Oh my god it’s so good!
Sometimes this numbers mean nothing. If you have 200 unofficial sources uploading the video you split the views 200 times. If you have an official source uploading and concentrating the views you have much more. But yes I See Fire is also much more all audiences pop-folck song and it will have more views. The fist time I heard the song I supposed the singer was Björk, and the only relation is that both are from Iceland. I suppose Björk has been a strong influence, and they bot work for One Little Indian Records.
My cousin's theory was that in a way you could say Gollum was a hero, because he's the one who destroyed the Ring, saving Frodo. Even if he didn't mean to do so.
The ring was destroyed by the desire it put into its hosts. It was destroyed by itself. There's something very poetic about that. Shows a lot of depth in this universe that it wasn't a simple hero journey of chucking it in at the end.
@@Will.Flavell An accident? Gandalf tells Frodo in Moria "My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play in it, for good or evil, before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many."
technically "res20stupid" is correct...ROTK won ALL its nominations...putting it on par with Titanic. Unfortuneately, the "Academy" ONLY after seeing how MONUMENTALLY SUCCESSFUL the previous 2 movies were...they had to concede and give the awards for the finale...otherwise they knew that there would be public outrage and possible boycotting future shows etc. LOTRs Trilogy is the GREATEST cinematic achievement of ALL time.
Nah, they knew there were going to be three. They waited deliberately to reward them at the end, not string the awards along. I don't think there was ever any doubt that the awards would be coming.
I really believe this is the greatest song ever to be recorded especially for a soundtrack. When I saw 'The Two Towers' back in 2002, I remember sitting their as Emiliana Torrini's beautiful melancholy voice had me completely spellbound...no other closing song could ever have suited that movie more. 'The Two Towers' isn't just my fav movie of the trilogy, but also one of the best movies ever made in my opinion.
Evil is self defeating; that’s what Gollum’s character ultimately represents... he shows that we all are innocents prone to corruption, we all can fall from grace, we’re all human, and not all of us can experience a happily ever after. We’re all lost in some way, it’s just that for some they are so lost and so far gone they have no longer any way to “go home” and redeem themselves. But also just because someone is lost and they have our sympathy does not mean they are right too, they’ve lost a fight which so many somehow find the strength to keep fighting. In the end, those that lose the fight submit to what they need to submit to, and ultimately no good person or force on earth can stop it. Evil (the ring) is not destroyed because good people destroy it, it’s destroyed because those it corrupts - those who turn evil can ultimately not help themselves, and in the end, evil ultimately defeats itself...
Emiliana Torrini will always break my heart with her tragically lovely broken voice 🥺🥺 I love her so much, but every time I ear one of her songs I feel so incomplete, depressed and blessed at the same time!
At one time, the song is giving you a feeling of a good character, but at the other time it has some touch of a villian theme. That's why this song fits Gollum perfectly
This song is so gut-wrenching, and real. R.I.P. It reminds me of an article I read once, that was pointing out that not a single character in Middle Earth's history has ever been truly redeemed or escaped their harsh karma. Hurin's curse does kill everybody, Boromir dies, Gollum succumbs to the ring and dies, Frodo will have 'episodes' the rest of his life and can't be in Middle Earth, and there are a lot more in The Silmarillion and stuff. Or, they were 'redeemed', but were still punished.
I saw each LOTR films at leat 10 times. Back in the day, when The Return of the King DVD came out, I even watched the entire long version trilogy in a raw. What an EPIC sunday that was !!!
It's amazing how fantastic each end credit song was in The Lord of the Rings. I mean 3/3 they really did not drop the ball for one minute with these films
He sacrificed everything for eternal life and payed the toll. Never ending suffering, a ghost of him self, wandering over middle earth. Same as anyone who got mesmerized by the rings of power!
I always felt bad for Smeegle/Gollum. He lost everything and can never get it back or ever know it again. All because an evil ring spoke to him, told him to kill his brother and become a pitiful lonely creature. Always scared of himself for his other half wanting to do bad things.
Sméagol. Like Henry Sansom said, yes you're supposed to pity him, but also remember that even before finding the Ring he was a pretty nasty creature, with only one friend Deagol and hated by his family.
I always saw Gollum's situation as a metaphor for addiction (although it most probably was not intended to be so by Tolkien), since, frankly, his relationship with the Ring is a kind of addiction. He always wants it, and goes to great lengths to get it, going to the point of doing unspeakable things, and destroying the lives of others, but mainly his own life. And when he does get it, it hurts him and drives him deeper into misery, desperation and self-destruction. He even goes through a "rehab" period when he's with Frodo, but he eventually relapses.
Absolutely the best of the three closing songs used in the Lord of The RIngs trilogy and unbelievably the only one not to be oscar nominated, something to this day I can still not fathom
I have a friend who is depressed. I am one of the few she has told about it, but I am trying hard to help her. This song helps me understand her. "No loyal friend was ever there for me." I am trying to let her know that I am her loyal friend, and I will always be there for her. Tolkien's work is what keeps me out of depression, but I must help others, too. To everyone who is depressed: A loyal friend is always there for you, if you look hard enough. I know it's not as easy as that, but please, try to have faith, however difficult it may be. From a Tolkienite who only wants to help.
Honestly, I have no loyal friends. I can barely keep friends to begin with. They always end up dropping me for new friends and then never talk to me again. I have a few friends now but wouldn’t consider them loyal because we’ve only been friends for a few months and I still don’t trust them completely.
Always when I listen to that song I can't do anything else. Silence, only that song. Really, it's beautiful. And Emiliana Torrini's voice fits perfectly- That's what I think! For me, it couldn't be better. Full of emotions!
.....try Alexander Nevsky (1938) the film score was composed by Sergei Prokofiev. This film score would later greatly influence Stanley Kubrick and his choice of music for his film 2001: A Space Odyssey.....
Alot of these people who listen to this song doesn't know Emiliana Torrini has so much more great music on her albums, I started listening to her every since Sucker Punch and her albums are impeccable
I will weep when I face the end alone....I don't have a home to go to anymore. This song hits so hard as an adult. I want to believe things will get better but it's hard when everything has gone wrong and everyone has betrayed you in some way.
I just rewatched The Two Towers, and I think the mix of this song and the crystal clear vision of Mordor work tremendously. I couldn't help but feel somewhat hopeless and sad, seeing what Frodo and Sam were headed into, and seeing the shear extent of their task ahead
Additionally, two new live-action films are in development with Jackson returning as producer. The first of these, Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, will be directed by Andy Serkis for a planned release in 2026.
I was a huge Emiliana Torrini fan since 1999’s release of _Love in the Time of Science_ and was amazed that she was chosen to sing this haunting song. She wasn’t so well known and it was just magnificent hearing her soft and enigmatic voice in the darkened theatre. I still get goosebumps just thinking about it. Björk, her fellow Icelander, might have also done a smashing job but I am so glad it was Emiliana! A perfect match.
in the books, "smee-gle" was actually Sméagol, pronounced smay-a-gol, but of course they either couldn't pronouce it or thought it didn't sound good. Same as the "nazgle" was narts-gle as in The Nazis, what they were based on. I actually prefer the pronounciation in the movies, but it still annoys me.
Back when the Fellowship of the Ring was in theaters, my friend and I went to see it 9 times (PotC was 7 times), once or twice, even back to back. We loved it that much, and since I'm a huge Tolkien fan, well. I was 19 or 20 at that time.
Alright people I feel the need to explain something here: She sounds like Björk because they both have a very thick Icelandic accent. I think Emiliana Torrini did an amazing job with this song and I'm glad she did it. This song might have been cool with Björks voice too but I think it would have been very different from this one =)
Whenever I hear this song, this sadness and pity for Smeagol stabs deep in my heart. The ring changed him. It turned him into Gollum. Whenever I hear this song, that one scene burns in my head. Smeagol is captured by Faramir. "Master is our friend!" "Master betrayed us."
Kam brit what do you mean? The characters in lord of the rings come just short of outright saying "find light in the darkest..." ... oh wait, they actually do outright say that.
This is one of the most comforting songs I have ever heard. I am glad I found this on youtube again. I use to hum and sometimes sing this for hours in the ward in prison. Perfect.
This was the perfect piece of music to end Two Towers on with the backdrop of the fiery Mordor. Words can't do it enough justice.
Not to mention it crystallizes the breakthrough Gollum performance.
Ya the music in lotr is amazing. It was done extremely well, so much so that I sometimes forget that tolkein himself didn't write the music.
Supergram96 I think he did write some of it. I'd have to look through all the lyrics again to be sure, though.
superb, yes
This music always clings to my mind and had never left since i heared it when i was in 5th grade way back 2002 especially the words '' you can never go home"
This has to be one of the most beautiful, haunting and powerful movie songs ever.
I agree, but not a song to listen to when you're already a bit depressed.
@@tystratton-quirk9859 Too late.
DavidPun Try Björk's I've seen it all, from Dancer in the Dark.
It is. But if you listen carefully, if you really understand Gollum, this is a song telling his life and how there can be no more hope for him. It's mourning too, because it didn't have to be that way and it doesn't have to be that way for anyone else. I realized that the other night maybe for the first time after I saw the Two Towers again. It's what sin can do to you- when you love something or someone more than God, more than what He says is true, good and right. It leads to death. Maybe not the eternal death, but it can lead to that too. I'm speaking truth, not religiosity or my own "opinion." There's so much more going on in this song. It's a warning. It's a finality. It should even move people to look to Christ as their only hope.
I agree that this is a beautiful song
The Two Towers ending is best ending of all trilogy. So beatiful, so epic...
yes, in the end we can see mordor
I dont know about that the braking of the fellowship is pretty good. Although this is a really good one.
carlos xavier avalos aristov It's paradox that evil in these films/Tolkien's books is also attractive and epic. Unlike real life, where evil disgusting.
I agree with Ealhad, in films evil is often by a strong margin visually obvious, but in real life people who look on the surface nice even cute and charming can be quite wicked and evil. Take women f.ex some of them are extremely cute and charming yet very manipulative and deceptive and takes pleasure in hurting you.
LOTR trilogy is simply filmmaking so perfect it cant be achieved any more
I think we all know even when we were children and see this film, that we know that Sméagol/Gollum is not a Main Villain, he's a tragic villain.
Gollum is pretty much the representation of all of us who have been damaged beyond repair. I personally have gone to some pretty dark places in my life and this song cuts deep if you think about it.
snillocgrom Not only does the song cut deep, Gollum's whole life is so touching. J.R.R. Tolkien created a character which can easily be identified with as you go through life and Peter Jackson made an excellent job with the movies.
Kojo Mensa yeah I identify so much with a 500 year old twisted hobbit that can turn invisible with a ring
Emir Rhouni because clearly, the characters in fantasy lore are meant to be interpreted literally
+Drew Russell That part in The Two Towers where Gollum is talking to himself, and he's got one half of himself bullying the other half, saying, "you don't have any friends," that broke me. Because for him, it's 100% true.
Happy 20 Years Two Towers, one of the most amazing fantasy films ever created.
The most amazing movie created period
@@WhenTheLionRoarsfellowship and rotk are much better imo. Still good though
20 YEARS? God damn
@@PapaSmurff660 Nothing matches the soul of Two Towers. The ROTK was just too much action while Fellowship didn't have the climactic build-up.
For someone who's was moved by the books years before the movies came, the movies were nearly perfect. The cast, settings, everything. The addition of comic relief bugged me , but they added Arwen/Liv so I overlooked it.
The crack in Emiliana's voice that straddles the border between song and crying is simply powerful and exquisite.
hey yt commenter from 9 years ago, do u still exist?
@@xxsauron007xx three days ago I replied to a comment 13 years old and got a reply: "shut up, let me sleep"
@@justBeOrDontB7568 lol, thats a nice answer
If you like her voice try Björk.
This song is probably heavily inspired by Björk.
One of the saddest songs I've ever heard
Yes.
same
It makes me cry everytime. It fills you with dread and doom. Which captures what Gollum has gone through for 500 years.
The abject misery, profound sadness, the pure ache in your heart. You do feel so sad for him.
@@joesmith9472 You must be a heap of fun at parties.....
@@joesmith9472 All of it. I don't know what you are talking about. Just seemed like you thought getting immersed in a world was stupid.
This song conveys a key truth about Gollum: he's not a villain, but a victim. The Ring ruined him and left him a crawling wretch unable to ever escape its pull.
Well he's also a murderer. Don't feel too sorry for him.
@@mullenio4200but still have pity for him.
@@loneoutsider8004 i mean he did eat babies
@@MVTL2 constant exposure to the One Ring can twisted your mind to do f*ed up things, but I still feel sympathy for Gollum despite what he may or may not done.
He had a choice. Everybody has a choice. We all get what we deserve.
Definitely my favorite closing song of the trilogy. As the camera pulls back and up over the mountains to show the horrific landscape of Mordor that Frodo and Sam will be facing in the final film. Goosebumps every single time.
Things like this is why Two Towers has always been my favorite of the trilogy, even though they're all masterpieces.
when i was a teenager and I was working at the movie theater as an usher... I remember listening to this song during the credits of the movie when I was sweeping up the popcorn and trash. It has stuck with me as one of the more pretty and melancholy songs I ever heard. This song is from the second movie in the Lord of The Rings trilogy, "The Two Towers". The movie was released in 2002. More than 10 years ago. The Tolkien book was published in 1954, almost 60 years ago.
Hey buddy, your comment sounds so strong even after 9 years
@@AlekseiZorin-j9g I still think about it
As I’m writing this, it’s 2024. This comment hits really hard.
The thought of a cold December night in 2002 and you cleaning out the theater has a really otherworldly atmosphere to it
@@charlietheanteater3918 :)
So, I would suggest you go look up and try some Portishead. I literally came here from a sounds like Portishead playlist on spotify because it rang a bell, and oh yeah! Lord of the efFing Rings!
You know your life's gone wrong when you can relate to almost every line in this song.
Yep. I'm fighting addiction myself right now. I feel lost, and lied to.
@@barb7124 good luck you can do it ❤🙏🙏
@@barb7124 I hope you found recovery.
Many of us can relate to the lyrics of this song.
I felt related to him when I read the books. The movie really got me.
I feel like this song was written for me.
Truly.
This haunting song can easily represent the deepest dark depression...I cannot stop listening to it.
yes
It's very special. I haven't found many songs like it. Typo O negative, one of the founding fathers of the goth movement, holds some facets, but is still off target in many ways. maybe there are simply no adequate tools for finding such music, and it really IS out there. the people who design music services and search tools are all dismissive and willfully ignorant of the grieving of others. so they and the tools & services they create, in their blind, foolish overoptimism, are of no use, for this, or for us.
heroin addiction
True 💐
Neither can I.
I used to mock my family when they talked about the LOTR Films, as they had seen them in Cinema’s and I had never been bothered about seeing them when they went. I used to say things like, “oh yeah it’s the lamppost of fingleforn and silly things like that. But We later bought the Extended DVD’s and I watched them all together and I actually cried they affected me so deeply and I now feel that they are IMO The Greatest Films ever made, period.
I’m glad you now can see why we love these movies so much.
Yup!
Never underestimate a hobbit, my friend
This song fits Gollum so perfectly, "take back the lies you told us, the hurt, the blame", I love the way she delivers these lines, she delivers them in the same way Gollum would. I love how emotionally connected she is with the song and the character, simply beautiful! :)
An- you shall never GET AN answer FROM ME MWAHAHAHHA! (Nvm)
And you will wait when you face the end alone.
..
...We are lost. We can never go home.
@@sadktoprak9180
_and you will weep..._
(not _and you will wait..._ )
He's talking about how the Ring betrayed him!
Where once was light
Now darkness falls
Where once was love
Love is no more
Don't say goodbye
Don't say, I didn't try...
These tears we cry
Are falling rain
For all the lies
You told us
The hurt, the blame!
And we will weep
To be so alone
We are lost!
We can never go home
So in the end
I will be, what I will be
No loyal friend
Was ever there for me
Now we say, goodbye
We say, you didn't try
These tears you cry
Have come too late
Take back the lies
The hurt, the blame!
And you will weep
When you face the end alone
You are lost!
You can never go home
You are lost!
You can never go home
Its been said a million times already, but this song was really the most perfect way to end "The Two Towers". And to be Gollums song....Its so Chaotically beautiful...
perfect story
perfect cast
perfect direction
perfect music
I can’t really explain it but this song solidified the tone of how I view the lord of the rings. Haunting and dark but extremely beautiful. I hope that makes sense.
makes sense to me,i feel exactly the same :)
how do you view the lord of the rings as haunting / dark exactly?
1st film was a masterpiece. The 2nd failed to be perfect and messed up the tone. The 3rd had some great parts, but still failed to be as operatic and perfect as 1.
@@Legendaryium "much that once was was lost, for none now live, who remember it… some things that should not have been forgotten, were lost… history became legend, legend became myth, … and for two and a half thousand years the Ring passed out of all knowledge …"
@ ah ofcourse. I totaly looked over the beginning. I get it now
This should have won an Oscar for best song 💔
1:44-1:51 indeed.
This song truly is hauntingly enchanting. A fine testament to the loveable legend that is Gollum/Sméagol.
I.... have my doubts about the loveable part. More like a bit dark and tragic. Still a great song.
and can also speak for the Nazgul too
I read the lyrics only and God Gollum.... He really is the most tragic character in the movies
***** And he was right!
***** Well, he was free in valinor.
Gollum never got to Valinor, sadly. He was beyond saving. Truly beyond saving. The only Hobbits to get to Valinor were Bilbo, Frodo and Sam. D.R.
Hasfast Wherever he went, I hope he's doing well.
MySerpentine We can only hope that at least Sméagol could be saved. I remember reading when he thought that Frodo was betraying him, and it broke my heart. He was so close to be redeemed... D.R.
Gollum is my favorite fictional character of all time. He is such a damaged creature with such a sad story. Poor Sméagol :'(
i forgot in what trilogy showed where he killed his brother...
he isn't poor. he's son of bitch!
in our real life you can find bunch of those creatures.
***** Ayazbek Kurbanov you are an perfect example of Sam and Frodo. Sam sees through Gollum's act and is wary of him, whilst Frodo has worn the ring and feels what Smeagol is feeling and feels bad for him.
I think they were cousins, not brothers
They were cousins. The ring called to, and changed, Sméagol. It was the pull of the ring that made Sméagol fight for, and then kill for, the ring. He was loved by Deagol, but, Deagol was just as violent so as to keep the ring. Sméagol was actually a nice fellow who loved Deagol, and came from a good people; the river folk that preceded the Hobbits. (The Silmarillion). His family cast him out when they found Sméagol had killed Deagol. That’s when he fled to the mountains and then, as he aged and the sun burned him, he went under the mountain and came out only at night and appreciated the cool moon light that still gave him enough to see by. The Sméagol personality fighting the Gollum personality was the opening of the third movie, but, Sméagol trusted Gollum to help him survive, even though it wasn’t pleasant for Sméagol. When Frodo was kind and cared for Sméagol, he had more Sméagol showing, but, when he felt betrayed by Frodo when Faramir grabbed and tied him up, Sméagol gave in to Gollum, and everyone’s fates were sealed.
The perfect example of a "lost soul".
A few days ago, I watched 'The return of the king'-Special edition. 4 hours pure feelings. I don't know how it works, but these feelings when I watch lotr are incredible. It's more than fangirling. More than anything else I felt before. It's like I could FEEL the story. It's more than loving it. It's such....emotional. or more than that. My heart's breaking every time when Denethor realizes that Faramir's alive and then he dies. I can't take it in words. I wanna live in Middle-earth. I'do anythi
The books make it even more of an experience
i feel it too
that's because LotR cannot be ruined or touched by such evils as tumblr fangirls who ruin cool nerdy things by their annoying squeels over hot boys in cool things. not saying you personally, just the annoying 13 year old girls who claim they are "nerdy" because they think David Tennant is so sexy in DW
This song fucks me up every time I listen to it. GAHHH I wish I could go back to when I was 13 when the two towers came out and I first saw it in the theater :(
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this... every ounce of my soul this...
The transition from the tragic sadness in the first chorus to the profound resentment in the second is absolutely perfect. Smeagol has been destroyed beyond repair, and he will see your turn come with vengeful glee. It's the perfect depiction of an individual who has lost so much that they resent the nature of existence itself, and you will pay the full price for playing your part in this existence.
My god, that song is achingly beautiful and melancholic at the same time.
This captures the tragedy of Smeagol so well. It captures how people can lose themselves to obsession, anger, and guilt. And how petty grudges and greed can destroy you and make you into someone darker.
Riddles - riddles in the dark - and mazes.... where is your friend? Where is your shining light?
This is exquisitely beautiful. Just when you hate him so much , this song brings you to your knees for the weight that he too had to carry. 💔
LoTR's music is phenomenal
YES YES YES!!!!
Lakshmi G and the hobbits
the best song in the series. the lyrics, the melody, the music, everything's perfect. beautifully describes gollum's mind
This classic of a song tells the true story of Gollum - cinema’s most tragic villain sadly destroyed by an object that drove him to eternal madness and ultimately he’s demise
This really enhances the ending to Two Towers beyond what it already was; not only ending it on a haunting note, but also contextualizing Gollum’s suffering and his isolation from his family and friends, lost to history on the long-lasting path he chose, which is honestly a really sad thought. It also brings out the hopelessness and perseverance in Frodo and Sam’s journey, emphasizing that they may “never go home” again and could die there in Mordor. Oh my god it’s so good!
"I See Fire" has 173 million views. And this has 2 million views. Such a shame.
That's so unfair.
they both deserve it
You're so damn right!
Sometimes this numbers mean nothing.
If you have 200 unofficial sources uploading the video you split the views 200 times.
If you have an official source uploading and concentrating the views you have much more.
But yes I See Fire is also much more all audiences pop-folck song and it will have more views.
The fist time I heard the song I supposed the singer was Björk, and the only relation is that both are from Iceland.
I suppose Björk has been a strong influence, and they bot work for One Little Indian Records.
it's Ed Sheeran baby he's voice is a legend
My cousin's theory was that in a way you could say Gollum was a hero, because he's the one who destroyed the Ring, saving Frodo. Even if he didn't mean to do so.
The ring was destroyed buy accident nether of them wanted it destroyed they both wanted it themselves
True
@@Will.Flavell you can even say the ring destroyed itself in the fire of greed and corruption that it created
The ring was destroyed by the desire it put into its hosts. It was destroyed by itself. There's something very poetic about that. Shows a lot of depth in this universe that it wasn't a simple hero journey of chucking it in at the end.
@@Will.Flavell An accident? Gandalf tells Frodo in Moria "My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play in it, for good or evil, before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many."
The LOTR fandom will never die.
This is such a depressing, beautiful song... "You are lost, you can never go home." So sad!
In my opinion, if any song from the Lord of the Rings trilogy deserved the Academy Award for Best Original Song it was this, not "Into the West."
+uhrich1972 Yeah, LOTR got screwed by the Oscars in general.
+res20stupid not sure that's true when the franchise won 17
technically "res20stupid" is correct...ROTK won ALL its nominations...putting it on par with Titanic. Unfortuneately, the "Academy" ONLY after seeing how MONUMENTALLY SUCCESSFUL the previous 2 movies were...they had to concede and give the awards for the finale...otherwise they knew that there would be public outrage and possible boycotting future shows etc. LOTRs Trilogy is the GREATEST cinematic achievement of ALL time.
Nah, they knew there were going to be three. They waited deliberately to reward them at the end, not string the awards along. I don't think there was ever any doubt that the awards would be coming.
Ihateyougoogle That's what I think. They couldn't give ALL the Oscars to one franchise for three years in a row.
This song has to touch everyone on some level. I think the words are so beautiful and her voice so haunting.
All 3 movies had amazing end credits songs matching the mood of each, but this truly channeled the ominous despair of the One Ring/Gollum. 😭
I really believe this is the greatest song ever to be recorded especially for a soundtrack. When I saw 'The Two Towers' back in 2002, I remember sitting their as Emiliana Torrini's beautiful melancholy voice had me completely spellbound...no other closing song could ever have suited that movie more. 'The Two Towers' isn't just my fav movie of the trilogy, but also one of the best movies ever made in my opinion.
I really appreciate Gollum's singing voice.
He's had 500 years of practice,
Evil is self defeating; that’s what Gollum’s character ultimately represents... he shows that we all are innocents prone to corruption, we all can fall from grace, we’re all human, and not all of us can experience a happily ever after.
We’re all lost in some way, it’s just that for some they are so lost and so far gone they have no longer any way to “go home” and redeem themselves.
But also just because someone is lost and they have our sympathy does not mean they are right too, they’ve lost a fight which so many somehow find the strength to keep fighting.
In the end, those that lose the fight submit to what they need to submit to, and ultimately no good person or force on earth can stop it.
Evil (the ring) is not destroyed because good people destroy it, it’s destroyed because those it corrupts - those who turn evil can ultimately not help themselves, and in the end, evil ultimately defeats itself...
Years after, I still believe this is the most precious song and the fundamental story behind LOTR. This is it.
Emiliana Torrini will always break my heart with her tragically lovely broken voice 🥺🥺 I love her so much, but every time I ear one of her songs I feel so incomplete, depressed and blessed at the same time!
Nearly 20 years since this movie was released. Where does the time go?
At one time, the song is giving you a feeling of a good character, but at the other time it has some touch of a villian theme. That's why this song fits Gollum perfectly
You are lost
You can never go home.
Only if you believe does it become true.
The mind, the trickster.
We are all Gollum. Consumed. And alone. There is no time
immigrant?
@@elisei01 it's about a lost soul, not physically lost
Hauntingly magical song.
Best trilogy ever was made within my generation.
This song is so gut-wrenching, and real. R.I.P.
It reminds me of an article I read once, that was pointing out that not a single character in Middle Earth's history has ever been truly redeemed or escaped their harsh karma. Hurin's curse does kill everybody, Boromir dies, Gollum succumbs to the ring and dies, Frodo will have 'episodes' the rest of his life and can't be in Middle Earth, and there are a lot more in The Silmarillion and stuff.
Or, they were 'redeemed', but were still punished.
I saw each LOTR films at leat 10 times. Back in the day, when The Return of the King DVD came out, I even watched the entire long version trilogy in a raw. What an EPIC sunday that was !!!
It's amazing how fantastic each end credit song was in The Lord of the Rings. I mean 3/3 they really did not drop the ball for one minute with these films
One does simply not pause or stop listen to this song once you've started it.
Oh man, the Nostalgia these movies give me. Always gives me the chills :*
This song just exemplifies what a tragic, tortured character Gollum is.
This song is a dream you never want to wake from
Am Wochenende alle drei Teile geschaut, dieses Lied hatte ich gar nicht mehr am Schirm. Großartige Melodie.
In the darkness moments of my life, I listen to this... 🖤
This is the best movie song ever... Really sad and beautiful... Real masterpiece
The saddest song ever written, ever sung, ever, ever. and I can relate to every note of it.
The hopelessness and dread of this song.. Beautiful.
He sacrificed everything for eternal life and payed the toll. Never ending suffering, a ghost of him self, wandering over middle earth. Same as anyone who got mesmerized by the rings of power!
I always felt bad for Smeegle/Gollum. He lost everything and can never get it back or ever know it again. All because an evil ring spoke to him, told him to kill his brother and become a pitiful lonely creature. Always scared of himself for his other half wanting to do bad things.
Smegol, and yeah you're supposed to pity him.
Sméagol. Like Henry Sansom said, yes you're supposed to pity him, but also remember that even before finding the Ring he was a pretty nasty creature, with only one friend Deagol and hated by his family.
I always saw Gollum's situation as a metaphor for addiction (although it most probably was not intended to be so by Tolkien), since, frankly, his relationship with the Ring is a kind of addiction. He always wants it, and goes to great lengths to get it, going to the point of doing unspeakable things, and destroying the lives of others, but mainly his own life. And when he does get it, it hurts him and drives him deeper into misery, desperation and self-destruction. He even goes through a "rehab" period when he's with Frodo, but he eventually relapses.
Me too, I wish he had a happier ending.
I'm pretty sure he was a metaphor for Opium addiction
This has to be one of the most beautiful, hauntingly tragic songs I've ever heard and they found the perfect voice to sing it.
What an awesome song. " You are lost... You can never go home..."
+José Larralde Gollum...
its seems we are lost in maya but in reality we art always free
Absolutely the best of the three closing songs used in the Lord of The RIngs trilogy and unbelievably the only one not to be oscar nominated, something to this day I can still not fathom
The haunting voice of Emiliana Torrini reflects in a chilling way the loneliness and despair of an addicted person
My favourite of the LOTR songs. Should've got more recognition.
I have a friend who is depressed. I am one of the few she has told about it, but I am trying hard to help her. This song helps me understand her. "No loyal friend was ever there for me." I am trying to let her know that I am her loyal friend, and I will always be there for her. Tolkien's work is what keeps me out of depression, but I must help others, too. To everyone who is depressed: A loyal friend is always there for you, if you look hard enough. I know it's not as easy as that, but please, try to have faith, however difficult it may be.
From a Tolkienite who only wants to help.
No, they are not. Only darkness, and nothing more.
Honestly, I have no loyal friends. I can barely keep friends to begin with. They always end up dropping me for new friends and then never talk to me again. I have a few friends now but wouldn’t consider them loyal because we’ve only been friends for a few months and I still don’t trust them completely.
Always when I listen to that song I can't do anything else. Silence, only that song. Really, it's beautiful. And Emiliana Torrini's voice fits perfectly- That's what I think! For me, it couldn't be better. Full of emotions!
2024 here... It will never get old. Perfect films, and beautiful music like this.
Yepp, this is still the greatest expression of art and character I have been alive to witness.
Her voice and this song makes me want to live in that world.
Risingofthephoenixx x why? it's depressing.
ill never forget when i first heard this, watching the camera pan up a mountain to reveal the dark and hopeless mordor was a perfect fit. Art, really.
still haven't come across a soundtrack as good as the lord of the rings
.....try Alexander Nevsky (1938) the film score was composed by Sergei Prokofiev. This film score would later greatly influence Stanley Kubrick and his choice of music for his film 2001: A Space Odyssey.....
Alot of these people who listen to this song doesn't know Emiliana Torrini has so much more great music on her albums, I started listening to her every since Sucker Punch and her albums are impeccable
I will weep when I face the end alone....I don't have a home to go to anymore.
This song hits so hard as an adult. I want to believe things will get better but it's hard when everything has gone wrong and everyone has betrayed you in some way.
This is a truly beautiful song that captivates the hopelessness of Gollum's situation.
i love this tune more than words can describe
I just rewatched The Two Towers, and I think the mix of this song and the crystal clear vision of Mordor work tremendously. I couldn't help but feel somewhat hopeless and sad, seeing what Frodo and Sam were headed into, and seeing the shear extent of their task ahead
Additionally, two new live-action films are in development with Jackson returning as producer. The first of these, Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, will be directed by Andy Serkis for a planned release in 2026.
Miss this trilogy so much especially the two towers would love to go back to when i first saw them in the cinema gives me goosebumps everytime
This song is haunting
Extraordinary. Dark music for tormented souls.
I find myself going to the movies ending to hear Gollum say "Follow Me" with this song ending the movie with its haunting presence. Love it!
Hauntingly beautiful.
Best song of the trilogy. This should of won the oscar
Such a good song that makes you FEEL... I don't even know how to describe it. I love this song more than I can ever explain
I was a huge Emiliana Torrini fan since 1999’s release of _Love in the Time of Science_ and was amazed that she was chosen to sing this haunting song.
She wasn’t so well known and it was just magnificent hearing her soft and enigmatic voice in the darkened theatre. I still get goosebumps just thinking about it. Björk, her fellow Icelander, might have also done a smashing job but I am so glad it was Emiliana! A perfect match.
gollum gollum
fuk u gulem
SMEEEAGOOL
leave now and never come back!
SuperRambonorris007 ... So mean...
in the books, "smee-gle" was actually Sméagol, pronounced smay-a-gol, but of course they either couldn't pronouce it or thought it didn't sound good.
Same as the "nazgle" was narts-gle as in The Nazis, what they were based on. I actually prefer the pronounciation in the movies, but it still annoys me.
This song hits the feels sooo hard. A perfect presentation of futility, anger and loss. Those tears you cry have come too late.
Back when the Fellowship of the Ring was in theaters, my friend and I went to see it 9 times (PotC was 7 times), once or twice, even back to back. We loved it that much, and since I'm a huge Tolkien fan, well. I was 19 or 20 at that time.
Alright people I feel the need to explain something here: She sounds like Björk because they both have a very thick Icelandic accent. I think Emiliana Torrini did an amazing job with this song and I'm glad she did it. This song might have been cool with Björks voice too but I think it would have been very different from this one =)
Emilianas voice is a bit higher and sweeter than Bjorks
No matter how many times I listen to this song, my eyes would welled up.
28 seconds through and I already have goose bumps.
I think the 3 songs for each film are really spot on... the 2 towers for me is the best and this is a dark song like the film.
Such an incredible,dark,dark song "...and you will weep,when you face the end alone.....you are lost...you can never go home...." Shivers
It is a beautifulness masterpiece - and book, and film, and song...
Whenever I hear this song, this sadness and pity for Smeagol stabs deep in my heart. The ring changed him. It turned him into Gollum. Whenever I hear this song, that one scene burns in my head. Smeagol is captured by Faramir.
"Master is our friend!" "Master betrayed us."
Seriously, Smeagol is the saddest creature ever and this song is the saddest song ever.
I share so much in common with this song. As it's so true and very powerful. It just make me wonder if there ever will be light through darkness.
Well, that's kinda' the point of the trilogy - finding light in the darkest chasms.
I don't see it as a point maybe to you not me!
Kam brit what do you mean? The characters in lord of the rings come just short of outright saying "find light in the darkest..." ... oh wait, they actually do outright say that.
+Samuel Wallace go on dude
through light comes darkness and from darkness light
This is one of the most comforting songs I have ever heard. I am glad I found this on youtube again. I use to hum and sometimes sing this for hours in the ward in prison. Perfect.
The songs with the context are the best. The people who haven't seen the movie will not understand all "I"-s and "We"-s.