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  • I really liked this video a few years ago, when the original song was behind it. I found the song, muted the video, and played it behind the video. I then repeated, and repeated and repeated, and repeated...

  • @KeaShell Cheers for that. it sucks that youtube audio blur such tracks and take away how its supposed to be!

  • Hi, What is the song's title??

  • Epic saga.

  • VERY cool, and you have a LOT of artwork I've never seen in my various google image searches for Dark Tower stuff. You did a good job of summarizing the whole journey, too. Props, man

  • Ka is a wheel and may Sai King make the Dark Tower into a mini series or movie series. Hell, i'd take a fuckin' cartoon!

    BANGO SKANK 1999

  • That was awesome! It was kick ass to see it all in order, makes me really anxious for film versions of this shit!

  • @Rolandbv The video was originally much better than this to be honest, it originally had ''the roadrunner united - the end'' as the track but youtube ruined it with copyright. I encourage you to watch this video muted with that track playin in the background, you'll enjoy the video much more

  • please never let this vid go away i got the old road runners song just to here it, and its one of the best vids to the dark tower ive ever seen

  • @jinkloPelipinklo Man i wish the vid was still intact but because of copyright i had to do that youtube audioswap thing....unfortunately it only lets you choose from a short list, none as good as the roadrunner track which the vid was made to sync with

  • @thelegend2006 dude its still cherry :)

  • You'll all think I'm an idiot but I listened to the audio books (in this order): VII The Dark Tower; III The Waste Lands; and I just got VI Song of Susannah. I really intend to eventually find the book versions of all and read from start to finish - they're so good! I've also heard rumours that the creator of the TV show "Lost" may be working on a "Dark Tower" TV series or movie!

  • @DaniBlazin

    Oh dear God no! That would be awful! Seriously, The Dark Tower has a plot, I don't want to see the creators of Lost turning this art into a piece of shit series.

  • @PanzerFaust001

    Stephen King said himself the best way for the dark tower to be adapted would have been to adapt it as an HBO series, the primary issue is that, JJ abrams, the creator of LOST, Alias, and Felicity, and he also directed Star Trek wanted to make the dark tower into 7 films however he stated that it took 6 years to make LOST and they had to struggle with network issues, he said he didn't want to tackle 7 years of this series and possibly ruin it.

    he had Stephen King's full backing.

  • To this day I am still a fan of Blaine the Mono. There's just something about him and the city of Lud that sticks with me. Probably because they are monuments to the world far before it moved on, as well as a standing reminder of what humanity did to itself in the centuries before the age of Gilead.

  • i really wish we had more info on the falls of the hounds... what were they? who built them

  • my favorite part is when they meet with stephen king

  • I loved this series, and the ending actually didn't bother me too much... >_> great video btw 5/5

  • I found the first of Gunslinger series when I was 15 years old. I just finished VII. I turned 23 this month. I grew up with these stories.

  • song of sussanahh should the split in the ka-tet, sadly it was break but it helped show they arent immortal,

  • @EbolaTai

    Wow thanks. Seriously.

  • im almost done with wizard and glass. its so amazing i cant put it down. my favorite is either the first one or wizard and glass

  • This is great. May I ask where you got the images from?

    I want some sort of Dark tower desktop image. I'm reading these at the moment and they awesome (I'm on book 6).

  • Song of Susannah is the weakest book from the series - it's just my opinion, so I'm sorry for those who don't share my point of view.

  • i totally agree. i didnt think there was any individual plot like the rest...it kind of just tried to tie up loose ends before the last book

  • Before, I thought the first book was the weakest of the series (It wasn't even that bad actually, just the quality of the others was so much greater).

    Having just finished Song of Susannah a few hours ago, I'd have to agree with your opinion. I like the fourth book the best so far, personally. I just started on the last book. Looks promising.

  • My favorite DT-Books are "The Drawing of the Three" and "The Waste Lands" =)

  • The Drawing of the Three is (so far) my second favourite book in the series. You really get a sense that the characters are struggling their way through the story. Plus, the entire section with Roland and Jack Mort is beyond awesome.

  • Danke-sai, lange Tage und angenehme Nächte!

  • Thankee sai

  • great job of using the illustrations to paint the entire series...each one totally reminded me of that part in the book.

  • thanks! yeah i know there are some bits missing that there are no photos of but i made due, like i would have preferred more photos of mia, dandelo etc but im proud of this vid

  • So how much indispensible reading is King's The Dark Tower series? I guess pretty much a lot by all the notable fans.

    It seems weird that i have read almost all of his novels and still haven't managed to pick a Dark Tower book yet.

    So any recommendations? which one should i start with? and which one is your favorite one.

    I guess the right place to begin is with the gunslinger and then read the whole series in order. You let me know.

  • man start from the start! read the gunslinger (revised) i can promise you the greatest story ever told, its kinda like putting lord of the rings and the wild west in a blender....and mixing in loads of other elements and characters from stephen kings books! then when your finished it all and dying for more get the graphic novels and read the little sisters of eluria short story!

  • thanx thelegend2006 ..I'm finally looking forward to diving into the DT series soon...

  • im almost done reading the fifth book and when i saw the clown i would like to know if pennywise from "IT" is in the series because if he is that would be awsome

  • you watched a dark tower tribute video when ya hadnt finished reading it? i cant tell ya what happens, just read the books and enjoy. its one of the best stories ever told

  • (Spoiler) Not Pennywise "IT" himself but another type from this species.

  • My favorite books ever, good video wit ok music

  • what is this music? it is very good! And the video too! dark tower rockz

  • Its ''The end'' by roadrunner united.

  • wow!

    the pic in 2:29 is so... real!

  • khef-ka and ka-tet!!!!

  • this song sounds like wanna-be Metallica-Welcome Home(Sanitarium)

  • I believe King had the ending in his mind when he wrote the beginning

  • What is that song called? That song is really cool. Dark tower rules too. :)

  • This song is called the end by a band names Roadrunner united.

  • Whats the name of the song? I think its great!!

  • yeah its fairly well suited to the dark tower dont ya think? its ''roadunner united - the end''

  • the beggining of LOTR is boring, but the beginning of Gunslinger is a shit too

  • its true the gunslingers opening (even though king includes the tull massacre) is tedious but with lotr 1/6 of the story is in the shire at the star, and another 1/6 is aragorn ad co. runnin (in the second book). gunslinger is aout 1/9 of the overall dark tower saga, and ya dont have to learn elvish either!

  • hopefully this painting from the mst is a sign of things to come

  • on 1:38, is that pere callahan?

  • Yes, with his "cross" scar =)

  • the dark tower rocks...and that song is epic too..

  • where can i find these pictures... please tell me

  • pureley amazing but some slides move too fast but all the same, great series Im at the last book and the song is great.

  • yeah ill agree....some slides are too fast, it was my first ever vid. but im currently remaking it, it will be finished we they rerelease the gunslinger with the new artwork so check back soon

  • D:

    But The Dark tower is so much more epic than Lord of the Rings.

  • Well, I know that what I'm about to say could kill me if I were near some LotR fans but, to me, reading the LotR was boring as hell. Reading The Dark Tower was above awsome =)

  • I completely agree. I couldn't get through the first chapter of LotR i was so bored, but DT has had me on the egde of my seat the whole way through.

  • The beginning of this book is the worse !

  • in retrospect its cool that a different artist illustrated almost every book

  • Gran video. Gracias!!!

  • The kind of books you wish wouldn't end. I think King knew what he was making and that's why he made the ending the way he did..

  • Grand merci sai! (this is how a gunslinger says "thank you" in french!)

    very good video!

  • This is a very good video. I loved this book series so much. Good job.

  • first I hated that song, now I hear it over and over again

  • where did you find so much Dark Tower fanart?

    could you please give me some links? :]

  • Whats the song, its good?

  • its ''the end'' by ''roadrunner united''

  • Thank you!

  • wow

    hear me i beg

    that was a very very good vid

  • What's the name of this song, I really want to know.

  • its ''the end'' by roadrunner united

  • TheLegend, great job! Love it.

  • well so far its a 4 star rating....from 109 people...and every comment unti lyours has been positive....especially about the music. of course i used images from other people....its a tribute to the dark tower in gerenal and other peoples works. if any of the images are yours i can take them out. 2 out of every youtube video uses copyrighted material.

  • ye've forgotten the face of yer father,so ye have, if a barstid like you ever knew it. (your soul resides in the west, a maggot like you will always live in the west.) the opinion of a lowborn dog such as yourself has the comparable worth of all the heroin in mid-world. now then, the dark tower will have your respect, cracky, or it will have your balls. stagger on down the path,slow mutant.

  • Thanks for this. It's really good. :)

  • thanks a lot for this. these pictures are amazing and disturbing - like the books themselves.

  • OMG, the Dark Tower!! Me and my brother read it together...

    Now he is at the clearing at the end of the path. =(

  • great video. you gotta admire the creative imagination of stephen king. this is the greatest series that an author can ever write in his / her whole career. to hell with the lord of the rings, it's a series for nancyboys.

  • Hear him! He speaks fair!

    Christ and the Man Jesus, it's just orc after orc after orc. Stephen King works vampires into his story! Vampires, do ya ken? Cry off, Tolkien. Cry off.

  • nice, really nice!!!

  • Much respect to you for this video. In fact, your video is what inspired me to do my own. please check it out and let me know what you think. thanks for the inspiration

  • Yea Harry Potter actualy don't like at all after i read The Dark Tower Series and LOTR when i was in 7 th grade one i read the first four books the only one i liked was the third one its just not weird enough for me . DARK TOWER RULES

  • hey, im trying to get an idea of what the beam would look like to the tower, can anyone help me?

  • This series beats the SHIT out of Harry Potter.

    Stephen King is a storytelling genius.

  • what's the song, mate?

  • very cool, where did you get the artwork from 1:28, thats one of the best piecces ive ever seen, but i cant find it.

  • go to darktowercompendium,com

  • Sag meinen Dank! Groß Groß

  • Hey, In 1.10 this city looks just like Singapore! Photoshopped off course(this bridge, strange things on water)... Did you used it intentionally, or incidentally?

    But video is great! Music greatly match to te story. Congrats!

  • how exactly do you make these videos? just pics and music?

  • ya can do it easily enough in windows movie maker. the photos wont work if they're still add the motion and you've got a video

  • who made this song?

  • gayest music ever

  • shut the fuck up, idiot

  • Wir sind KA-TET... eines aus vielen!!!!

  • That was good Stephen King is such a good writer I love the Dark tower series

  • By the way, what didn't you like in book five? Six was a bit overdone (and underdone in a few spots), but 5 was still a clasic action flick like the others. Wasn't it?

  • It was too predicatble; It was evident from early that the the wolves were robots, that Andy was a spy/double crosser and that something was going on with Susannah. The introduction of too many new themes and jargon which seemed to have great importance but had no earlier mention, like the commola. It wasn't a bad book, but it felt like he was working with a deadline, it didn't flow.

  • There were too many coincidences (Ka at work) as well. Nothing wrong with coinciedences mind you, his works are reft with them; eg. The Stand, It, Insomnia etc The right thing happening at the right time. But when it happened in those books, you felt it happened because it should happen. When it happened in books five through seven, you felt Stephen"s hand in there. That was one of the things that pissed me off. I don't want to be concious of the writer, just the work.

  • That doesn't mean i don't love Stephen, i do, he is the man, but i read fiction to escape reality not be reminded of it. His inclusion of himself in it also kinda threw me off. I also expected to see Pennywise the clown, the turtle and a host of others on the different levels of the tower, instead it felt as threadbare and as empty as Gilead after the Good Man

  • Granted. However, you have to accept the fact that Roland and his Ka-Tet are not pacing through the whole...well, megaverse. They're just cutting through the quickest path the centre of existence. The things they see are just ghosts and remnants of lost civilization, not pre-planed plotlines that'll be cleared up later.

  • And as for the thread bare Tower? What did you expect? For all the bad guys and good guys to jump out and have some kind of cataclysmic super-battle? In retrospect, the Tower was a bit disapointing, but what do you expect? Roland saw the Tower as a reflection of his life (portrayed by the many siguls) and walked through his quests and mistakes to his doom. Poetic, in not a tad anti-climactic.

  • The Tower wasn't the pinnacle of adventure I foresaw, but I guess it's the journy that counts. Throughout the series, you see the Tower as an untouchable source of chaos, never to be reckoned with. Climbing it was somewhat lacking in the amzement department, but it did make sense. Ya just gotta live with what comes up.

  • Hey man, i think the journey was the most important thing of all. That is why i cherish books 1-4, but as they got closer the sense of wonder at the majesty, history and grandeur that was Roland's world disappeared. It became lost instead in some twisted look at "our world". That is part of what spoilt it for me. The loss of romance i felt when Roland's world as nightmarish as it may have been coverged with ours. Not hintingly as when Eddie crossed over, but full on.

  • Look i wasn't expecting anything of the sort. What i was expecting was a representation of theTower that was created from book one. This tower seemed as hollow as the ending, too centered around Roland and while i know that the two were inextricably linked, the Tower should have been more than that. The visions that he saw when talking with Marten/Walter/Randall showed that.

  • If he had skipped the journey to the Tower and instead given us the account of what took place at the fall of Gilead, the battle at Jericho Hill and the years after, Man now that would have kicked ass. The taheens and vampires, New York and the rest of that crap could have sucked my wang for all i care, that is what would have made the difference for me.

  • too true. the switching between worlds is a bit sidetracking, but that fact that it makes our existence so transparent is what gives it impact. King must've know some people would get miffed, but he leaned into "reality" to settle the score. let's just agree to disagree on that one.

  • Dude i respect the creative license any artist takes with their creations, but i feel if Stephen King from 20 years ago was able to read what he wrote in books 6-7, he would go forward in time and bitch slap himself.

  • haha. touché

  • And I do agree that King should have given a deeper acount into the years after the fall of Gilead. But the new york crap was the only feasible path. King stepped into our world in book 2, in order to retrieve Eddie, therefore the connections and conclusions in our world were essential; the vampires were a tad cliche though

  • I also said that since the Tower is the linchpin, there is a good chance that we might see Stu and Frannie again. Well we didn't see them but we did see their world. But as for ending in NY, i nrespect your point, but i think a quick site seeing tour would have been good like in book 2. Been good talking to a fellow fan (even if from another point of view)

  • I fully expected him to come to our world and even the world of the Stand. I told someone about ten years ago tha the Stand had to be an alternate world since all his books were related.

  • topeka in wizard and glass is the stand i do beleive

  • Yeah, sorry i didn't mention the name of the town

  • Same here. It's always good mix opinions with someone else. We've kind of drawn out a conversation on this guy's movie for about 4 days now, so i'm surprised he hasn't asked us to take it outside, lol. Long days, pleasent nights.

  • I meant to ask you. When the kid rubbed out the crimson king couldn't he have painted susan legs? Man that pissed me off too

  • yeah, I thought about that. in retrospect, that was kind of a lame aspect, throwing the deux ex machina and all. at least King confessed to doing that.

  • Whoa! never thought of that!

  • Good job missing the entire point of that scene, bro.

  • To be fair, Stephen King being in the story kind of spoiled a bit of it. In a story like that, you want action, you want magic, and you want to lose reality. King kind of grounded you back into reality, which may have been because people wrote and said that if the series ever ended they'd slit their wrists, on acount of losing their purpose in life. I know that I've spent some years of my life orbiting the Dark Tower.

  • Nice. Great song, even better books. I like the pictures chosen; they give a good synopsis of the story. Who does the music?

  • best book series i ever read. Great song too, matches well with the tone of the books

  • who sings this song?

  • I've got goosebumps watching this vid. Awesome work, dude!

    I love the Dark Tower Saga sooo much, but movies would suck, I dont wanna the images of the story in my mind be destroyed, so blow a movie adaptaion.

    The Dark Tower is a BOOK! And what a hell of a book it is ^^

  • damn i love the series and the song fits right with they deffinatly should make a movie out of the series

  • Excellent Work! brings back alot of great memories, i'm getting ready to read the tower series for a 3rd time, i usually read it once a year, still don't know how people can say it was the worst ending possible, considering the themes that are covered (honestly from the subtitle of the first book people should've seen it coming) but i suppose people have a right to their opinions no matter how benign they may be, none the less excellent work with the pictures and the song fit excellently!

  • I hate to disagree, but after all the sacrifce, the deaths, Utopia lost; Stephen owed it to the fans and especially to Roland man. Books 1-4 were great 5-6 streched and a bit overdone, could have been edited down by 40% and not lost the falvor. Book 7 toilet paper.

  • Bro, that was THE greatest series ever written, sure, he killed like all of my fav. characters and the end wasn't wat I expected, but until YOU write a series that great you can just shut the hell up, besides, even if wat Roland got at the top of the tower was a sumwat odd punishment, that just means that the series will never TRULY be over, at least Roland's quest won't be...and I'm am just fine w/ that.

    Ka is a wheel, it always comes back to the same point at which it started

  • Uh excuse me, I am sorry but when was it made a crime to express ones opinion freely? As a fan who has all his books i think that entitles me to make comments on the merits or lack thereof. I didn't realize one had to be a best selling writer to know whether something was good or bad. It took him twenty seven years to do the first four books and less than seven to finish the last three. I call that hurried. But then the causes we serve are different neh. Causarum justia et misericordia

  • Of course you have a right to your opinion, but you have to admit, the ending was a brutal execusion of fate. Whether or not King finished it in seven years is irrelevent, the fact is that inspiration comes and goes, and his concept of the perfect ending was with the never ending wheel. By the way, forgive my ignorance, but what does Causarum justia et misericorida mean?

  • Ok my prob with the ending 1. If he is being punished for choosing the tower over his friends, what if he decides to save Jake the next time around rather than pursue the man in black. What happens to the Tower then?

    2. If the Tower can continually send him back into the past, then there is no real "Fate" is there. Ka maybe a wheel, but it seems to be a roulette wheel fixed by the house. Don't get me wrong, this is one of my favorites, but it stops at book four for me.

  • Ok firstly don't get me wrong, i think this is one of the greatest series ever and nothing, except for Frank Herberts Dune has captured my imagination more. But that ending man, i felt like i had been shot, stabbed, boiled in oil. I waited a decade and a half for that?So forgive me for sounding peeved.

  • As for "Causarum justia et misericorida" it means "For the causes of Justice and mercy"

  • good point. But I don't think that someone so dramtically morose as Stephen King ever intended to give poor old Roland a good finish. Life ain't fair, and by sacrificing his soul (whether or not his quest was to save everyone else's) he made his own damnation. I know the predicament may suck, but still, it was a drastically cruel and enticing finale. I do repect your point though.

  • I agree. Good series. End of discussion.

  • Worst ending ever for the best series I've ever read :(((

  • brings back memories.

  • no i think the song fits the video perfect! i dont really find it cheesey, its just with the dark tower imagery being so dark i think this song went well with it.

  • hey, why the cheesey music? don't you think the soudtrack would be better "spagetti western style" think Sam Peckinpah

  • The name of the song is "The End" and the name of the band is Roadrunner United.

  • its a great video, but someone please tell me the name of the song and artist

  • T'was very good, aye so it was. Just wish i knew where some of the artwork came from cos some of it wasnt in the books i.e the pic from strut that jake falls from; "Go then, there are other worlds than these"

    Say thankya, thankya big-big

  • movie... hmm... would be great if done correctly... doubt itll ever happen though. its alright either way because the books will always have a special place in my heart, movie or not. and for everyone who wants a DT movie really bad, lets remember what roland himself would say to that: "There'll be water if God wills it"

    HILE! IN THE NAME OF GILEAD!

  • I have just finished the book, so bitter, so sweet. Ka's a wheel, and it never stops rolling, say thankya big-big

  • i havnt read all of these yet, thankee-sai for the video, HAIL THE DARK TOWER!!!

  • The end, off the road runner united album incase anyone wanted to know

  • AWESOME! There HAS to be a Movie... :( Just cant wait even though roland would be way different i myself imagine him... aye so he will ;)

  • I say thankya. Big Big aye so I do. May you have long days and pleasent nights. Hail To the Junkies!

  • i have all coletion in portuguese is great!!!!!!!

  • when is it in the story?

  • That was awesome.

  • cool!!

  • Where'd you get all of those pictures? Good movie, by the way.

  • theyre art work fom the books

  • Really? My books have artwork, but some of that stuff isn't in there.

  • theres more than one issue of the books like spec editions and hardbacks

  • yeah... there are diffeent publications with different pictures. Yep yep!

  • Me dejaron sin habla con esto:

    ME ENCANTO, GRACIAS....

  • What about a movie in the style of "a scanner darkly"

  • A live action movie would be very hard to make well, but I think a Dark Tower anime could be very good.

  • the name of the song is "The End", from the band "Roadrunner united"

  • Very nice collage... The lyrics seem very appropriate for the Dark Tower series. Some of those pics you used still give me the shivers (lobstrosities specifically) :)

  • Well who would of thought the lord of the rings could of been done so well as a movie? I say the DT movies would be cool ONLY if they stay true to the books and if they cant do that.. dont bother cuz you'l ruin one of the greatest tales ever told.

  • i don't want a dark tower movie.

    anyway, Clint Eastwood is now too old to play Roland and no one can be a Roland in this world.

    Maybe there'll some good fits but no one will be like him.

    i don't want no movie, no series no nothing. they must leave this saga to us.

  • great job!

  • I agree totally, a movie'd suck, aye, commala-come-come.

    I have some questions, first: what's the name of the band. That song is greaaat.

    And is there a special page where I can find all these pictures of the DT??

    "Go then. There are other worlds than these..."

  • Hey im as big a DT junkie as the next guy, but a movie would suck and they would leave out to much. A series of books that fucking crazy, has to be done right and in full. I say...HBO??? Twelve episodes a season! Oh yeah! by the way....who the fuck sings this song? Long days and pleasent nights biiiiitches