Song of the Lonely Mountain Performed by Neil Finn 'The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey' Soundtrack well to my demands for 'more anvil!' Pop music needs more anvil!' The song was used as the credits song of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. According to an interview with Rolling Stones, Neil Finn wrote the song and recorded it with his two sons, Elroy and Liam. Neil Finn performed the original version named 'Song of the Lonely Mountain'. The song is composed and conducted by Plan 9 and David Long. The tune of the song is crafted into Thorin and Company's main musical theme.

The song is featured on the film's soundtrack, titled ' Misty Mountains'. In the film, the song is sung without instrumental accompaniment, whereas in the book it was sung to music. During Frodo and company's brief stay at Crickhollow before leaving the Shire, a song sung by Merry and Pippin is described as 'made on the model of the dwarf-song that started Bilbo on his adventure long ago, and went to the same tune.' In The Fellowship of the Ring, verses of this song are heard. The dwarves they heard the tramp of doom.īy the end of the same chapter, whilst laying in bed at night, Bilbo can hear Thorin humming this tune to himself, and the fifth verse from above is repeated, though with a slight difference in the last sentence, as 'claim' is changed to 'find':Ĭome haste! Come haste! across the waste! The trees like torches blazed with light.

They shaped and wrought, and light they caught

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