The End of Another Era

[tarotgal]

Up and down and up again, we finally have the final title credits song for the Lord of the Rings/Hobbit franchise, sung by none other than Billy Boyd. What a fitting end to a great set of movies.

If you don’t mind being spoiled musically, you can listen to the song right now on Billboard:
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6319735/the-hobbit-song-premiere-billy-boyd-the-last-goodbye

This song reduced me to tears the first time I heard it (when it was up briefly a few days ago on YouTube), and it does the same to me each time I re-listen to it. I suspect that I will be a puddle by the end of the final Hobbit film.

The soundtrack is available for preorder online (iTunes, Amazon, etc.) and will be released December 9 (standard) and December 16 (2-CD special edition).

This post was originally posted on The Fangirl Project: http://thefangirlproject.com/?p=1280

Comments

[ysande.livejournal.com]

Oh god, my heart just broke a little. LotR was THE defining fandom and series for me. There is so much love and emotion and heartbreak and discovery and growing and nostalgia in those movies and those years and that fandom. And that song was heartwrenchingly sad on so many levels.