Favorite end credits song?

[Emmie]

Forgive me for starting yet another poll, but this seemed like a rather good one: out of the three Lord of the Rings end credit songs, which is your favorite?

I've listened to each of them a few hundred times (going by itunes play count), but Gollum's Song is probably the one I like best.

[Dianora]

Oh, gosh, this is such a tough call, but I had to go with Gollum's Song as well. But each were special to me in their own way.

[Thalivagoriel]

I went with May It Be, partly because I've seen FotR so many times and I liked it better each time, partly because I always found the voice in Gollum's Song creepy. ;) Into the West didn't leave much of an impression, although I do think it's pretty...

[Nilfy]

For me it's a tie between "May it be" and "Gollum's song".

[Elven]

Hee, going against the grain here but I love 'Into The West'. It gives me shivers when I hear it and it also makes me cry... Mainly because the first time I heard it in the cinema, it hit me that the trilogy was over and I got really upset about it all. *blush*

[tanhuan]

I voted for 'May It Be', but I've always been fond of 'Gollum's Song'.

[Starwell]

Hmm, I also really like Into the West. I totally know that "oh no it's over?" feeling.

So far the poll seems to be split pretty evenly. :p

[Lady Marti of Rivendell]

I voted for May It Be because I love Enya and I love her songs! It's totally beautiful.

[Blodeuedd]

I have to go with Into the West cos it's so lovely, but then Gollum's Song comes as a good second

[Emmie]

Gollum's Song has the least votes now. :p

I listen to Enya sometimes. Whenever I'm in the mood for that style of music and remember I have some stuff by her in my itunes.

[Clarett]

Gollum's song is beatiful (I play it the violin)....But Enya has great voice apart from Annie Lennox! Next difficult poll ^^

[Crichton]

I am fan of Enya but not this time. Gollum's Song is beautiful and somehow touching, so sad and pure.

[Emmie]

I am fan of Enya but not this time. Gollum's Song is beautiful and somehow touching, so sad and pure.
Definitely.

I've also seen The Two Towers more than any of the other LOTR movies (even though it's probably not my favorite), and I remember how spectacular the last shot of the movie seemed at the time... with the eye, and Mt Doom, and all the lightning and so forth, and knowing that Frodo and Sam would soon be going into the midst of it. It definitely made me way more excited about seeing ROTK than Fellowship made me about seeing TTT. And the beginning of Gollum's Song was playing throughout that sequence, so maybe that's part of the reason I love it so much.

[Clarett]

Emilíana Torrini is absolutely amazing. One of her song clips (To be free) was filming on czech castle Pernštejn. It's on YouTube. Let's come and watch it! XP

[Dani]

Have to say May It Be, as it just makes me shiver and really echoes the film and what Gandalf says to Frodo!

My least favourite is actually Gollums Song. I just dont connect with it very well!

[Clarett]

Annie Lennox has a strong voice, very stong and beatiful and I'm sure, that nobody other could sing this song better, but Emiliana is just best ^^

[PiRaTeGiRl]

I like "Into the west" song.. it's very beautiful, it makes me cry sometimes :D

[jimmyboy]

I voted for May It Be because I love Enya and I love her songs! It's totally beautiful.
I'm an Enya fan too. Would marry her if she'd only say yes.

Sorry but I don't know the names of any of the songs in the soundtrack. I don't even have it, except for what's in the movies. But I do really like the music I hear when I watch the movies. :)

I'm going to go off-topic a bit and say that my favorite end credits song is not from any LOTR movie, but from another movie: Twister.

Check out "Respect the Wind", by a certain pair of very famous and controversial brothers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYP83fGdoN4

To go back on topic I'd have to whip out the movies and listen the end-credits, and then figure out what the names of the songs are. I'm just horrible at song names, though I could probably tell you what track number it is on its particular source CD. :D

[Emmie]

Well, here are a couple verses from the songs, if that helps. :)

May It Be - Fellowship of the Ring
May it be an evening star
Shines down upon you
May it be when darkness falls
Your heart will be true
You walk a lonely road
Oh! How far you are from home

Gollum's Song - The Two Towers

Where once was light
Now darkness falls
Where once was love
Love is no more
Don't say goodbye
Don't say I didn't try

These tears we cry
Are falling rain
For all the lies you told us
The hurt, the blame!
And we will weep to be so alone
We are lost
We can never go home

Into the West - Return of the King
Lay down
Your sweet and weary head
Night is falling
You’ve come to journey's end
Sleep now
And dream of the ones who came before
They are calling
From across the distant shore

[jimmyboy]

Well, here are a couple verses from the songs, if that helps. :)

May It Be - Fellowship of the Ring


Gollum's Song - The Two Towers


Into the West - Return of the King
Thanks! Also, I just had the brilliant idea of checking Youtube for these, so I'll give them a listen-to, and report back shortly.

[jimmyboy]

Well, I couldn't hear a straight up version of Gollum's Song, since everything there was a fan's interpretation or voice-over. But I really liked "Into the West". Great words, and good job by Annie Lennox, so that one's my pick.

[Emmie]

It was hard to find, but this seems to be an unaltered version of Gollum's Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkXbzffVl44

(The lyrics don't start until a little more than a minute in.)

[jimmyboy]

It was hard to find, but this seems to be an unaltered version of Gollum's Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkXbzffVl44

(The lyrics don't start until a little more than a minute in.)
Thanks!

Good song, but I'll stick with "Into the West". :)

[PiRaTeGiRl]

Actually, I think I heard the Gollums song, but i don't really remember it.

[Alyssa]

This is a really tough one... I don't think I can vote, at least not for now. :D All three of the songs were really great and fit the movies they went with. I still listen to them regularly.

[Lanyare]

Hehe, Gollum's Song is catching up slightly again. I picked that one as well, because it truly is my favourite of the three. They're all beautiful, but Gollum's Song's the only one that gives me goosebumps, of the three. And when I get goosebumps from listening to a song, it means I'm touched by it.

My favourite Fellowship song is Aníron... And not entirely sure about the The Two Towers, but I absolutely love the Edoras score, with those violins.

[Sowen]

not easy to chose from Enya and Annie Lennox..they have very nice texts to listen to...however, for some reason I love the phrase "grey ships came to carry you home"

[MithrilBox]

I agree, Sowen, that line is really beautiful. "And all will turn to silver glass..."

Like Alyssa, I'm not sure I could pick personally. Might be between #2 and #3 for me, but they were all excellent

[Bagginslover]

I never really liker Gollums Song, tried to,butI just can't. In to The West is lovely, but May It Be just triumphs as it actually says 'There and back again' in the lyrics, its just too perfect!