The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Soundtrack - 18. The Grey Havens

[whathojeeves1]

One person worships Melkor

[anusalltheway]

click 5:15 for tears. :' )

[Eiger6]

Absolutely beautiful music.

[ZeZombieKiller]

Out of any movie the grey haven scene is the only one that made me cry

[NedrevikOWNS]

everytime :'(

[berserker276]

R.I.P. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

[BioniRPGvideo]

@berserker276 No ! He is in the hearth of many and many people. He is a Legend. =)

[berserker276]

@BioniRPGvideo I don't know why, but I always think of him lol.. he's 101 years older than me I can't believe that.

[iamSnip3rOne]

beautifully made....just absolutely beautiful music. BEA-U-TIF-UL.

[Teridal]

I love music from all sorts of music. From Star Wars to even the catchy Indiana Jones theme. But no music, movie or not, touches me like this does.

[Teridal]

@Teridal Of all sorts*

[timewasteland]

1. Start Skyrim

2. Walk around in The Rift, along the river until you find some waterfalls.

3. Play this song

4. Feel your heart melt of awesomeness :)

[SJlovesyouh]

Everytime I watch this scene I sit there crying for about 10 minutes after the movie has ended. My sister always makes fun of me! But it's so sad! Just listening to the music can make me cry.

[pokerenan]

I always cry at this scene in the movie. Why people have to go and leave us?

[NeverBackDown5695]

I've never described a price of music as beautiful before. But I'd say this meets that description, I truly love the Lord of The Rings' soundtrack. This emitts such a feeling that is both wonderful and upsetting. I can't help help but get emotional.

[killgriffinnow]

1 person fell into the crack of doom...

[SuperDarren1990]

@killgriffinnow LOOOOOLL!! XD LOL ROFL

[bobiscoo]

Who else just listened to the entire playlist all the way from track one of fellowship of the ring?

[Robonij]

"I think I'm quite ready for another adventure..." :D Bilbo is the best can't wait for the 2012 movie

[multimillionmile]

Every time I watched this I began t ocry man I just wished the movies could go on and on :(

[Johntherabbit24]

Man, i wish i could find this scene online, not some AMV of it

[burtonrules123]

this music is truly inspired. rarely d soundtracks for films come like this. the only other soundtrac i can think of that is this touching on your heart strings is moklos rozas score for "King of Kings".

[TankeNizoR]

I get chills all over my body every time...every SINGLE time i listen to this song ?? ...

[omgitsApollo]

Just reading the description makes me sad and about to cry, but then you add in the music. Damn.

[bizzer4life]

this song is....is so sad yet so great. Here I am sitting at school working on my essay listening to this masterpiece, I look like the saddest motherfucker around town right now. But this song makes me so happy in a sad way.

[Capriconitron]

This is the most beautiful piece of music ever....*sniff*

[GHEEF22]

I will not cry. I will not cry. I will not cry. Oh fuck it. *sobs*

[maximfornow]

Pippin: I didn't think it would end this way.

Gandalf: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass... And then you see it.

Pippin: What? Gandalf?... See what?

Gandalf: White shores... and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.

Pippin: Well, that isn't so bad.

Gandalf: No... No it isn't.

[mynaamee]

This song makes me so happy... And yet it also makes me sad.....

[InHarmony11]

in someones eye im a big guy but i cry like a baby listening to this ..

[donteatthechalk]

This is still the most emotional song I have ever listened to.

[Celewen]

I'm probably going to sound rather silly for saying this but I want to dedicate this song to my kitty, Jasmine, who passed away today. I had her since I was four and pretty much grew up with her. Time eventually takes away all things, but as long as we enjoy the time that's given to us. That's all that matters.

[somethinglacking1]

@Celewen You don't sound silly at all. This is a great theme for all biengs, as everything eventually must pass and we all have to let go. I listened to this when my grandfather died a few years ago and it was a fitting tribute, not only to him, but to the legacy of all those souls we have lost to the timeless circle of life. I hope you feel better listening to this, RIP Jasmine and Grandad.

[dos9167]

you are not alone mollymoe, i do as well

[mydogspet]

Thank you, thank you, thank you Howard. These songs are just as fresh after years of hearing them. Heart-stirring songs that can take us to places throughout Middle Earth. Amazing.

[gigafelicia]

i ALWAYs cry at this part ,,,,,:(((

[Warrior1984100]

Good God, does this music give me the chills! It's such an elegiac tune to a fine film saga, and it really does capture the essence of the entire Lord of the Rings. It sort of reminds me of the ending to Return of the Jedi, and maybe the bittersweet endings to many films I have watched and the book series I have read.

[123ABanga]

I cry so much every single time i listen to it, it just makes me remember how amazing these films are and how nothing for me will ever be as good as them again. I can't get even slightly upset by anything else after the end of these films. The saddest bit is that after all they go through, against all the odds, they have to end their friendship. I also always picture Frodo waving goodbye to Sam, Merry and Pippin and its just too much... I'm a guy as well, so unmanly of me.

[ThePinheadsMilos]

:'( 4:00 to 5:16 and I'm a guy ...

[Nostravitagadiel]

I want to die with this melody, so much peace, so much happines, like a cpmplete mission

[ocaraquemudoudeideia]

Tolkien would be proud...

[IrishGodThe4th]

@ocaraquemudoudeideia His son(the one who edited and released all of his later works) never watched the film as he shares his fathers view that the books could never be successfully translated to film.

[ocaraquemudoudeideia]

@IrishGodThe4th Then, I guess that if J.R.R. Tolkien were alive, the film would never have received the praise it did, since the author's opinion counts a lot in this sort of stuff. Look at Harry Potter for example! J.K. Rowling admired the moviemakers's job and totally approved the films...

[MrStockoHMK]

@ocaraquemudoudeideia You really think J.K. Rowlings opinion on the Harry Potter films mattered an ounce of Slitherin Shite towards there success? The films were successful because kids like Wizards and shit. added to the fact that since it was a linear progressing storyline it was able to keep and maintain its original fanbase without alienating them in later installments.

[MrStockoHMK]

@ocaraquemudoudeideia You really think J.K. Rowlings opinion on the Harry Potter films mattered an ounce of Slitherin Shite towards there success? The films were successful because kids like Wizards and shit. added to the fact that since it was a linear progressing storyline it was able to keep and maintain its original fanbase without alienating them in later installments. Also, I think 17 Oscars and 2.9 BILLION dollars would pass as a successful translation, dont you? Fuck Christopher Tolkien

[Game1ngAssass1n]

@IrishGodThe4th Chris Tolkien never saw the movies?

Strange. I remember seeing a documentary saying that J.R.R. Tolkien was greatly interested in a film adaption.

[mp31196]

I played this song when my Uncle died :(

[isr4el666]

seems like sound from HOME you'll never even know where it is...

[PaxAmericana24]

2:20. I Always get a bit choked up. The battles are finally over. Foes have been vanquished, friends have been sacrificed. And yet, one final parting remains. It is perhaps the most heart wrenching of all.

"Here at last, on the shores of the sea, comes the end of our Fellowship."

[LegendaryGoman]

This is music, the scene, the way it was depicted. Truly emotional. I cried, most certanly a great peice of music as all of Howard Shore's works are. Thankyou kindly good sir. :)

[mollymoe429]

And they say Twighlight is sad. I cry LIKE.A.BABY! Every single freaking time I watch this. And I watch it like 3 times a week. It is undescribable. It gives a certain feeling, the music goes along with what's happening with the charachters and grow to love it all untill the end when I SOB my eyes out. :'''((( ohh I love it so soooo much! Every time I watch it I get something different out of it. AND I ALWAYS CRY! <<33

[kanamesluvr7]

@mollymoe429 I feel the same way! I just rewatched the trilogy this past week, and it made me feel so sad! I grew up with it, and everytime I see the ending, I never want it to end! I feel your pain!

[mrsparkle001]

@mollymoe429 I've read The Silmarillion and know where they're going and how it's not really an "end", but I still cry like a baby every time. When I left the theater I was crying so much my lower lip was twitching, just from the sheer emotion of seeing this great world I grew up with (and had the privilege to share with a select few loved ones) come alive on screen like that, and seeing it end.

[mollymoe429]

@mrsparkle001

Aww... ikr?!

I heard that they are putting the extended version back into theatres? I'm not sure.. But if they do... I am totally going.

Ohh... I love them so so so so so so SOOOOO much. :') )':

[mrsparkle001]

@mollymoe429 They really should, and yeah I'd definitely go see them. The extended versions add so much that should never have been left out, to give those who never read the books the more complete story (like Aragorn's true age, or Merry and Pippin growing after drinking the ent draught)

[mollymoe429]

@mrsparkle001

This is the one movie where the movie is better than the books. Lol..

I haven't seen the extended versions. I cant wait!

[mrsparkle001]

@mollymoe429 Hmm, I wouldn't say that. It got some things wrong and left an awful lot out (Tom Bombadil, Scouring of the Shire, etc.). But it is one of the few movies that lives up to the books that inspired it, and I do think Tolkien would have approved.

[mollymoe429]

@mrsparkle001

Well.. Yeah good point.

Are the extended version movies, like, really really different from the regular??

[mrsparkle001]

@mollymoe429 Different? Umm, no, different isn't the right word. There's just more movie to watch (like two hours worth), and a lot of little things are explained further to those who never read the books.

I've learned there's even further footage not even included in the extended versions, like Eowyn and Faramir's wedding, and Arwen and Aragorn first meeting.

[mollymoe429]

@mrsparkle001

I mean.. Lord of the Rings... Not Silmarilion. lol :))

[ASmileThatExplodes]

@mrsparkle001

I've read The Silmarillion too and I know they're going to a beautiful, good place, but I'm ALWAYS speechless at the end. :') And in my eyes, tears start to roll over my cheeks.

[dos9167]

@mollymoe429 - you are not alone, i do as well

[Robonij]

@mollymoe429 Funny thing is, Howard Shore did the soundtrack for both the Lord of the Rings and the Twilight movies

[MrDarcyGrl23]

@Robonij Correction--he did Eclipse. what, a man can make a mistake, can't he? ;)

[Robonij]

@MrDarcyGrl23 But what a mistake...

[SuperDarren1990]

@mollymoe429 Twilight is good faeces.

[TheDiloshka]

@mollymoe429 There is someone in this world like you, she cries every time when the ship sails to the Undying Lands and she has a DVD player in her room. She watches LOTR everyday before going to bed.

[berserker276]

@TheDiloshka I think this girl is you! *points at you* it's you!

[mollymoe429]

@TheDiloshka

Ahahahaha, how'd you know?

Just got done with the Return of the King, now. Yes, I cried. lol

[chrisahealy11]

02:20 is just so heartwarming and i can't describe the nostalgic feeling it gives me. Love to Middle-earth and all who walk on it. 3:57- 4:40 is just so uplifting and moving and beautiful.

[chrisahealy11]

02:20 is just so heartwarming and i can't describe the nostalgic feeling it gives me. Love to Middle-earth and all who walk on it.

[largesatsuma]

This music is why I weep at the end the trilogy.  Especially from 05:16 onwards when Frodo looks back.

[DarkWolf365theartist]

I hate ENDINGS, man. I always tear up, even if it's a really happy ending like in the Narnia books. Just the whole idea of the adventure ending, or even just not being able to read about the next adventures. It's so weird to be so happy at a happy ending and be sobbing at the same time. I remember I was at school when I finished the Lord of the Rings books and I got tears all over my backpack but was grinning like an idiot.

[iforgot87871]

I find the part at 2:20 to be really beautiful and heartfelt too.

Anyone who likes this music owes it to him or herself to check out the track "Kazad Dum" on the complete recordings, and then go to 6:55 in the song. It's one of the best parts of the music and it wasn't on the original soundtrack. Check it out!

[ReneStahmann]

5:18 is that part, that ever made me cry so long! :'-(

[ocaraquemudoudeideia]

Howard Shore... you bow to no one!

[ILJN17]

I remember watching this many years ago in a packed out cinema, I couldn't hold back the tears.

God bless you Peter Jackson, the cast and crew and of course Howard Shore for making such a beautiful film.

Roll on The Hobbit is all I can say :) x

[Wittmann73]

man, what a tearjerker, great music, Mr Shore

[overlookers]

the sea beckons us home.....

[johanna171000]

if I ever have to pick the best film ever ,the lord of the rings would be it :x The best music,actors ,everything .It's magic and I can't help myself to not listen this song all the time I love it :X

[THEFIRSTAVENGERUSA]

"Well, I'm back."

[ARCproductionsgirl]

5:18 - That beautiful smile of his, so full of peace at last..... always makes me start sobbing.

[spinstylow]

I am a tough dude who never cries at all, but when i was sitting in the movie theatere and this scene with this music came on... i almost cried my eyes out.... the music is so pure it touches everything in you're heart... the best music piece i have ever heard in my life... lord of the rings is the best movie i have ever seen and i wanna thank the cast and crew for giving me such a good time watching it (L)

[KingGopherNuts]

@spinstylow dude I'm in the exact same boat as you.

[fenrir1208]

Samwise disliked this because he said goodbye to Frodo. I don't blame him, we all cried starting when Gandalf said "It is time, Frodo."

[crave136]

Omg!

[jediking12]

:'( 05:16.....

[SuperDarren1990]

@jediking12 I'm with ya there bro :'(

[guisauco93]

@jediking12 it's my favourite part :) ....

[steffany16]

@jediking12

omg, I know!!! This exact part gets me every time

I cry like mad

[KatieeBug445]

This will NEVER fail to make me cry.......

Poor Sam! :'( I've never wanted to give someone a hug so bad in my life!

[attmereb]

utterly beautiful

[zoofiesta]

good bye Gandalf... =(

[earwen0renesmee]

@Funingia Well, actually C S Lewis based his idea of Aslan's country on heaven. the same with the elven land of Tolkien. He even wrote a story about the beginning of Middle-Earth and a God, Iluvatar, and angels and all... So I agree with MissMarie 1226

[Siphida]

"Well, my brave young hobbits, here, at last, at the shores of the sea, comes the end of our fellowship. I will not say 'do not weep', not all tears are an evil."

[MissMarie1226]

The reason this song make you cry is because you want to follow. It's a natural human longing for home.(aka heaven) because that's where the elves are going.



[Furingia]

@MissMarie1226

You basically just said you wanted to die. Now we should be talking about the reason why your comment makes me laugh outloud. It's the thought of a human wanting indirect suicide. xD That is seriously messed up. Also, elves don't go to heaven. They're immortal...they don't die of old age. They are simply going to a place that's not constantly surrounded by war....kinda like Alsan's country in Narnia.

[TeaBagOfTruth1776]

@MissMarie1226

You are spot on. 

[basisti94]

I wan't this to be on my funeral. There is no such a song that would fit it better

[MrRockonman]

My God from 4:40 and after is to die for!!! What a masterpiece!

[MetalCanyon]

The part from 2:20 to 3:23 simply brings a tear to my eye. Imagine living in a fantasy with your dragon ally and then having to leave the lands of your home forever, just flying away and looking down at the landscape you shall never see again.

[starXelfXyeshua]

@MetalCanyon i know your pain.

[ReyaitheShadowWolf]

I think I'm... quite ready for another adventure! :D

[Nostravitagadiel]

What can you see on th horizon.... :')

[TheOReport1994]

love the beginning!!!

[LePoeToaster]

The saddest end to an epic friendship.

[amaeart]

And so, Frodo is left Middle Earth. No more to feel the burden of his Quest. He is restored in the Grey Havens, and feels no more that sorrow which threatened to steal his life... One of the best lighting/makeup effects was done on Frodo's face when he boarded the ship. Suddenly, he was the old Frodo again, who never knew of the evil of the Ring.

[uploadme1994]

thanks for putting it on! 

[brotherofgurnip]

IF people read the appendix of the book, you'd know that Sam, Gimli and Legolas went to the Undying-Lands after they spent their time in Middle-Earth. Frodo, Gandalf, Sam, Gimli and Legolas got to remember old times together, 'till the end of days :)

[Sparten942]

@brotherofgurnip damn, i just returned the book to the library yesterday since i just finished it, i only read the first two pages of the appendix DX<

what about pippin and merry? D:

[brotherofgurnip]

@Sparten942 Pippin became the Thain of the Shire, and Merry became the Master of Buckland. Pippin married Sam's daughter, Goldilocks, when he was 37 (he had not come of age when the fellowship set out) and had one son, named Faramir (they were close). Merry married Estella Bolger and maybe had one son (we don't know). Merry and Pippin, after retiring, went to Rohan and Gondor. They lived the rest of their lives in Gondor and were laid to rest with the Old Kings of Gondor when they died. :)

[takanuvathegreat]

@brotherofgurnip :')

[EyeofKraid]

@brotherofgurnip One of the nicest things Tolkein did in the book was to let Sam and Frodo meet again in the undying lands :) Pity Merry and Pippin couldn't go too :(

[brotherofgurnip]

@EyeofKraid Sadly :( But only people (or creatures) that touched a Ring of Power could leave Middle-Earth when the Age of The Rings ended... Like Gandalf said: It was by chance that Bilbo got the ring, so Frodo was meant to have it. Merry and Pippin had an equal chance if one of their previous generations found it... But that is up to our minds to imagine :)

[EyeofKraid]

@brotherofgurnip Was it not only people who had themselves touched the ring? I didn't realise it was to do with their ancestors touching a ring!

[brotherofgurnip]

@EyeofKraid I meant that, if one of Merry's or Pip's ancestors found the ring, and it passed on to them (like Bilbo to Frodo) then there would've been a completely different story!

[EyeofKraid]

@brotherofgurnip Ah right ;) Gotcha!

[TheEldarin]

I cried my eyes out in a packed cinema when this scene was playing, no shame. Who would not want to take the ship and leave.

[Yoraei]

dang, every time when an epic movie ends like this one, i always feel want to cry :((

[Saucymaggots69713]

i...i got goosebumps, and teary eyed when the ending aproached, cause i knew it would all be over, and i would never be able to figure out what happened to frodo... :(

[xXAe0N]

''THE SUPER FAVOURITE SECTION''

[19LadyCharlotte91]

The end is soooooo sad! =`(((

[McJulia91]

@19LadyCharlotte91 yes, i cried a little bit

[1m34b5m78]

@UnknownGenius01

its called the reunion of the fellowship or somethin like that

[KHfanguy]

2001-2003 = epic film releases

[sanyasz]

This is song is very beutiful

[skyheart415]

how could frodo do this to sam after all he did for him? they should be inseperable!

[saintswitchblade1]

@skyheart415 Because Sam could never give himself and his family (eight children!) the love that they needed, until Frodo left. He was too devoted to his friend to love them enough.

[randalthor394]

@saintswitchblade1 Well, that, plus Frodo was scarred and friggin' exhausted!

[CoolBreeze055]

@skyheart415 Sam got to go as well. He went to the undying lands after all his children had grown up.

[UnknownGenius01]

Anyone knows the name of the music at the end when Frodo wakes up in the room, with Gandalf, Aragorn, Gimli and everyone by his side.... And then Sam walks in.

The music when Sam walks in. Anyone know the name of it? That was the most emotional music.

[sunraysofdawn]

@UnknownGenius01 i thing is the begin of track: the return of the king (it has more parts, its a long track)

[MommaJillof5]

I almost cried at the end. So awesome, but sooooo sad...

[fagmountain]

i am now in tears

[imsoooofunny]

I am always in tears at this point in the film... :'( so sad...

[Luxord33]

@imsoooofunny; me too! When Gandalf says "Farewell, my brave little hobbits" is normally when I start to cry. SOOO SAD!

[Luxord33]

Does anybody else think that this series has the saddest end ever? I hate that Mary, Pippin, and Sam will never get to see Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, or even Frodo again. Those eight became such good friends, it's unfair that it has to end like that.

[Ga2be]

This song was played on my grandpahs funeral :,(

[FlyingAce1015]

everyone should own the extended edition like me :3

[jediking12]

Howard Shore, J.R.R Tolkein, and Peter Jackson + All The Cast and Crew <3 Bless you all

[MiffMaster08]

@jediking12

Took the words right out of my mouth.. (:

[Halo45789]

This is my fav part of the trilogy knowing this is the end of the Fellowship and trilogy

Epically awesome and sad at the same time

Best movie ever!!!!

[stangabe1993]

Favorite part: 5:23+

[justbet502]

The Lord of the Rings had the best songs in the world, and of all those songs, this one was the best, so i guess that makes this song in the world, huh? no surprise there. god bless that composer evermore, and may his great works of art live on for generations. By the way, I'm not the only one on the verge of tears, right?

[ichymey]

@justbet502 totally on the verge of tears too...your not alone.

[SuperDarren1990]

I could only imagine how much of people wanted to cry when they saw this in the cinemas but just held back the tears from flowing because... you know.... lol.

[longvehical]

i almost cryed in the theater watching the final scene. THESE MOVIES KICK ASS!

[TheOnlyMooseman]

@longvehical I cried three separate times at the end of the third one

[AragonKillswitch]

@TheOnlyMooseman I Cried when sam was forced to go home and the grey havens part.

[ayayay101]

Best song!!!! thanks for the post!

[SuperDarren1990]

This sis my favorite part of the trilogy!