THE HOBBIT Music Video for Billy Boyd's "The Last Goodbye"
I know most of you have probably already heard this song from Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, but today we have the official music video for you to watch. The song was written and performed by Billy Boyd, who played Pippin in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Here what the actor had to say about writing the song in an interview with EW:
“After seeing the film, I went to my room and I started to put down some ideas, and along with Fran and Philippa, we started to sculpt the song we thought the movie needed. A lot of ideas took us to dead ends or we found the tone wasn’t just right. I think we discovered very quickly this wasn’t just a song to end The Battle of the Five Armies—it was a song to say goodbye to Middle-earth.”
He went on to say:
“The Lord of the Ringsfilms were such a special time for me in many ways—working with Pete, Fran and Philippa, being in New Zealand, being part of Professor Tolkien’s work or even just the incredible friends I made. And being asked to go back to that, to work in that wonderful fantasy world again and to be singing the song that says goodbye to Middle-earth for everyone involved and the fans who took this beautiful journey with us is truly a great, great honor.”
I absolutely love how the song came out, and this is a beautiful music video that features footage from the all of the films in the Middle Earth franchise. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies comes out on December 17th.