Gollum's Song (hankie-alert)

Lord of the Rings ^ | n.d. | Howard Shore

[BibChr]

The link above contains "Gollum's Song," from the upcoming movie "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers."

I'm on my second listen-through. This is a tearful song; I can only imagine the movie's context.

Dan

[BibChr]

Would you mind sounding the horn of Gondor?

[BibChr]

I think ecurbh may be off today! Check this out!

Dan

[HairOfTheDog]

I like it.

I didn't at first. But it really has grown on me! I can't picture how it will be used yet... Perhaps in a scene showing flashbacks to Gollum's former self?

Lyrics to Gollum's Song, best I can cypher it:

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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 wait, to be so alone.
We are lost. We can never go home.

So in the end, I'll 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 wait, when you face the end alone
You are lost. You can never go home.

You are lost. You can never go home.

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[HairOfTheDog]

Also on that soundtrack site is a pretty cool picture of Gollum's eyes...

[Lil'freeper]

Maybe it'll be used for end credits, that's where May It Be ended up. It has grown on me, too. Very minor and sorrowful sung in a raspy, almost untrained, voice.

[HairOfTheDog]

The lyrics capture Gollum's duplicity and doublespeak well, methinks.

It needs pictures, I would like to see it along with the pictures we have seen that show Smeagol and Deagol on the day of finding the Ring:

Where it shifts back to The Rohan theme sounds like a ending wrap up in a sense. I don't see it at the credits, but it is placed at the very end of the soundtrack, so maybe. It follows "Samwise the Brave".

We will know for sure in 20 days, 12 hours, 46 min!

[ecurbh]

Ring Ping!!

[paul544]

Taking bets on how bad TTT gets screwed at the Oscars.

[LinnieBeth]

Hair, I just downloaded Gollum's Song, but it's in .wma format, I don't know what that is, but suppose it's windows thing, ...

Could you or Maq or anyone convert it to an MP3?
Please anyone? can you convert it?

[HairOfTheDog]

What players do you have?

That is a Winamp format, also plays in Windows Media player.... I don't know how to convert it and don't have anywhere to host it if I could!

[HairOfTheDog]

You are saved!

Ecurbh has it in mp3...

Track 19: Gollum's Song (13.7 MB)

For other tracks from the soundtrack... see these posts:

First half: Hobbit Hole #43062

Second half: Hobbit Hole #43539

[GretchenEE]

wow - just listened to Gollum's Song -- reminds me of PJ saying on the FotR Extended Version Special Features that he wanted to present Cave Troll as being believable as a poor creature, obviously tormented by the Orcs (chain around his neck), whose mother was waiting for him somewhere with his bed turned down and a glass of milk. Who'd have imagined PJ and Shore could have evoked such pathos for Gollum? (And yet, still presenting an awareness that he was not without fault in clinging to darkness.)

[BibChr]

Each reading has impressed upon me what a tragic character Gollum is. The scene where his heart is reaching out to Frodo, yet Sam (understandably but catastrophically) misjudges him, and he turns once and for all... terribly sad.

This song haunts me. It complements that bleak, lonely, forsaken, reprobate creature's fated/chosen lot.

The corrupting evil of the Ring.

Dan

[Vindibudd]

Maybe it's just me but I find the song a bit over the top in the touchy feely-department. I think it is too whiny.

[BibChr]

I don't know you, so I don't know whether you've read the books, or how much. I find it spot-on in terms of reflecting Gollum's inner life. He sees himself as a victim, is very sorry for himself... and at the same time is a very sorry, sad, tragic figure. He thinks he's been betrayed when he hasn't been, but he has been betrayed and tortured, and was in fact betrayed by the Ring he so worships.

Art's a very individual thing, and it may not be your cup of tea. But it synchs with the book's Gollum, to me, hauntingly.

Dan

[Argh]

GOLLUM'S got a SONG?

First giving Arwen a bunch of important stuff to do not in the books to appease the simple-minded, such as the women of the fevered brow, then leaving stuff out (I know, to do justice to it they'd need to do a long series of shows roughly one hour per chapter, but anyway...), then lousing up the dialogue, and now GOLLUM'S got a SONG???

Why didn't he just remake "Casablanca" and call it "Lord of the Rings"? Somebody needs to castrate this Jackson guy with a rusty spoon...

OK, rant's over, leaving now...

[HairOfTheDog]

leaving now...

But not before leaving a heck of a load of crap here?! Its a soundtrack, man.... Soundtracks have songs on them. :~D

[RikaStrom]

Howard did the most amazing story telling with his music for LOTR.

Gollum's song is amazing. I am waiting, not patiently, for the 18th.

What a haunting song.

[RikaStrom]

Argie, you have the soul of a cynic, but I love you anyway.

Jackson even gave the Orcs a song..... or rather, a melody.