02-27-2009, 04:24 PM | #1 |
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Billy Boyd's Song
I was listening to the Return of the King soundtrack, and came across the song that Billy Boyd (Pippin) sings as Faramir rides back to Osgiliath to meet the orcs. As moving as it is, do you think that Tolkien would have liked the song there, or Peter Jackson took too much artistic license?
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02-27-2009, 05:10 PM | #2 | |
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Denethor continued to look/act like a mad man though. (In the movie)
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02-28-2009, 12:44 AM | #4 |
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I think the song is fine. I believe billy used it as part of his audition, correct me if i'm wrong. I think tolkien wouldn't have had a problem with it since its practically his, then again i've never had the liberty of meeting the man.
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02-28-2009, 12:51 PM | #5 |
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I don't think he'd have liked it being put in the completely different situation from a different book. He'd have been fine with the lyrics, though.
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03-02-2009, 02:25 AM | #6 |
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Believe it or not, I heard a girl sing that for her voice audition at my university the other day when I was helping out with auditions. I have no idea if she got in or not, but I thought it was both a little bizarre (probably NOT the wisest choice for an audition song, to be honest... at least not for an operatic program [we prefer our composers to be at least a hundred years dead ]) but also kind of cool.
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04-27-2009, 10:05 PM | #7 |
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Great post Varafindë. I thought those lyrics sounded familiar. Interesting. I read much whining and angst in Entmoot about what Jackson abridged or added. Not many give him credit for how much of Tolkien he actually included in the movies. This one flew completely under my radar. I never would have thought the song was authored by Bilbo. Thanks.
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04-30-2009, 09:42 PM | #8 |
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I think that Tolkien would have appreciated it. He was a lot more open to interpretation than his son and "estate" are. The hobbits were basically the center of the films, which was the most important theme in his books.
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05-01-2009, 05:32 AM | #9 |
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I doubt Tolkien would have appreciated turning Bilbo's cheerful walking song into Billy Boyd's mournful dirge. It sounded utterly un-hobbity.
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05-01-2009, 06:12 PM | #10 |
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Hobbits have feelings too!
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I can’t say I have, who is the author and what is the book about?
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