Over the Misty Mountains Cold (Original song with piano)

I've uploaded a newer version of this to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5Ej9IB3cDU

The Sheet music for this newer version (for anyone interested) is available, along with the MIDI & MP3 at:

http://www.free-scores.com/download-sheet-music.php?pdf=40432

It is a rough version; I intend to post a more complete version later. But you can go hate it now! :-D

(Now, those rumours of Peter Jackson wanting to include my song, also, in his movie (as a snippet of verse sung by a minstrel) are just so totally unfounded and untrue, not to mention false. But I think it would be cool. Send him an e-mail telling him not to! :-D )

For anyone interested, a piano solo rendition of the Howard Shore melody from "The Hobbit" trailer can be heard at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4S4DQu7fHg

And an a-capella version multi-track can be heard here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6JkYplB8D0

And the whole poem can be heard (voice & piano) here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o0Pxx-Xm9U

(It's my 'musical guess' as to how the whole poem might go.)

This is NOT the same melody as found in "The Hobbit" trailer, and I am sorry if it disappoints those of you who may have been expecting to hear that. My melody is of a different mood and style altogether, more like a ballad, as someone mentions below, rather than the heroic and epic melody found in the movie. Maybe think of my melody as being sung by an elvish or human minstrel, rather than a dwarf. I am certainly NOT saying that my version better; it is just different.

For anyone who might be interested, the sheet music for this piece (along with MP3 & MIDI file) is available at:

http://www.free-scores.com/download-sheet-music.php?pdf=38486

This is so far the only song I have written; I was practicing reciting this poem & found myself singing it instead, so I figured I may as well write the melody down. In the course of writing out the music more fully so that I could post it on-line, I made some changes and refinements to the melody in the various stanzas from what is in this video, so I will probably be re-recording this piece and re-posting in the near future.

Accompanied with more-or-less irrelevant pictures of fall scenery. (I figure a slideshow is more entertaining than a single pic, or title only. I do regret the fact that most of my videos have such random pics, but I don't really have the time - or appropriate pictures of my own in many cases - to do more.)

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Far over the Misty Mountains cold,
To dungeons deep and caverns old,
We must away, ere break of day,
To seek the pale enchanted gold.

The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
While hammers fell like ringing bells,
In places deep, where dark things sleep,
In hollow halls beneath the fells.

For ancient king and elvish lord
There many a gleaming golden hoard
They shaped and wrought, and light they caught,
To hide in gems on hilt of sword.

On silver necklaces they strung
The flowering stars, on crowns they hung
The dragon-fire, in twisted wire
They meshed the light of moon and sun.

Far over the Misty Mountains cold,
To dungeons deep and caverns old,
We must away, ere break of day,
To claim our long-forgotten gold.

Goblets they carved there for themselves,
And harps of gold, where no man delves
There lay they long, and many a song
Was sung unheard by men or elves.

The pines were roaring on the heights,
The wind was moaning in the night,
The fire was red, it flaming spread,
The trees like torches blazed with light.

The bells were ringing in the dale,
And men looked up with faces pale.
The dragon's ire, more fierce than fire,
Laid low their towers and houses frail.

The mountain smoked beneath the moon.
The dwarves, they heard the tramp of doom.
They fled the hall to dying fall
Beneath his feet, beneath the moon.

Far over the Misty Mountains grim,
To dungeons deep and caverns dim,
We must away, ere break of day,
To win our harps and gold from him!

J.R.R. Tolkien

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[DarkmourneTheFlayer]

I'm glad to find something that's not the trailer version. It's all that's on Youtube now, or so it seems. It's good to hear a full version, not a short 1 verse medley of most of the verses in the song. Your version is strangely addictive. Thanks for keeping it up what with the recent flood of the trailer version's incorrect mix.

[GlenHoban]

@DarkmourneTheFlayer

Glad to have provided some relief, and for my part it's wonderful to hear from someone who's not saying "The trailer version is sooooooo much better!" :-)

(I do like the trailer version, & I've worked out - though not posted - what I think would be the 'whole version', rather than the medly heard in the trailer.)

I've had some suggestions to try this with other instruments (violins, flute, drum), & hopefully I will get the chance before the movie comes out!

[xbinoxII]

I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT IT'S BURLESQUE/Dark Gothic! haha sorry it took me so long

[GlenHoban]

@xbinoxII

Burlesque/Dark Gothic? Me?? Inconceivable! :-O

[xbinoxII]

@GlenHoban Don't you quote princess bride to me! haha you should check out, The Death of the Cog, it reminds me of this vaguely :)

[GlenHoban]

@xbinoxII

Cool song; I can kind of see the family resemblance, as it were, though my singing is not quite so over the top. Made me think of Terry Pratchett's 'Thief of Time'. I'm sure the creator(s) of the 'antikythera mechanism' would be in total agreement with the song too. (Sob! Beautiful beautiful cogs! All gone!)

[vlzestar]

i don't think this was what Tolkien wanted

[BoundInHumanBones]

Whatever Tolkien had in mind. I think he would be glad everyone could turn his stories and poems in its own fantasy. What's wrong with your own fantasy? LOTR is Tolkien in Peter Jacksons way, though I love his version. It's not exactly what it was MENT to be. Thats my opinion.

[mikemurko]

@vlzestar It's a kids story, so why not?

[anaquiias]

@GlenHoban It would be awesome!