Emiliana Torrini - Gollum's Song 

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"

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.

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

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

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.

Hey buddy, your comment sounds so strong even after 9 years

@@user-bk5ug3jm9e 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!

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

makes sense to me,i feel exactly the same :)

how do you view the lord of the rings as haunting / dark exactly?

1:44-1:51 indeed.

YES YES YES!!!!

Lakshmi G and the hobbits

***** 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.

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".

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 :(

oompalee267 this... every ounce of my soul this...

Fran Walsh is apparently a good lyricist as well as screenwriter/producer. I think it's the orchestration that puts this song over the top. The melody is haunting and bittersweet. I waited 30 years for someone to do this trilogy justice. Finally!

its funny I had this song stuck in my head but I couldnt remember all of it just a bit of the melody and a few words. But I remembered the fact that it was the end credits to a movie where the story was not yet complete. After some googling of the words I remembered "tears we cry" "didnt try" I eventually found it.

I want to grovel at Howard Shore's feet for this melody.

He's had 500 years of practice,

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.

I’m glad you now can see why we love these movies so much.

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.

Riddles - riddles in the dark - and mazes.... where is your friend? Where is your shining light?

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

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."

Risingofthephoenixx x why? it's depressing.

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

Seriously, Smeagol is the saddest creature ever and this song is the saddest song ever.

+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.

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

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.

Emilianas voice is a bit higher and sweeter than Bjorks

I was just thinking that, similar voices

Iceland is Mordor

Dude same

Peter Jackson tried to get Björk to compose a song for The Two Towers and later to sing a song they wrote but she was busy being pregnant with Isadora, so they got Emiliana instead.

I actually thought it was Bjork at first! lol