In the text, this takes place after the first night at Weathertop.
KING UNDER THE MOUNTAIN SONG HOBBIT FULL
Unsurprisingly, Aragorn sings much more of the song in the book the film limits itself only to the final four lines of the eighth stanza, while in the text Aragorn sings nine full stanzas (eight lines each) Strider sings a portion of "The Lay of Leithian", the words of which are taken from the text (though, according to the Annotated Score, translated into Sindarin by David Salo):įellowship of the Ring Book I Chapter 11: "A Knife in the Dark"
Pippin's final line is an invention of the film. In the extended edition, Merry and Pippin sing a song, that's a mashed up version of two different songs from the book "The Drinking Song", sung by Pippin and Sam on the way to Crickhollow:įellowship of the Ring Book I Chapter 4: "A Short Cut to Mushrooms"Īnd "The Bath Song", sung by Pippin when he's having a bath at the house in Crickhollow:Īnd the brook that leaps from hill to plain įellowship of the Ring Book I Chapter 5: "A Conspiracy Unmasked" Gandalf's humming of the song is not in the books, but Bilbo's is in both versions he sings a little of it (the full song is much longer) when leaving Bag End after the party
The Fellowship of the Ring Book I Chapter 1: "A Long-expected Party" In the book this is sung to Thorin's party by the people of Lake-town after they arrive in the town and are (reluctantly) welcomed by the Master.īilbo's walking song, which he hums to himself when leaving Bag End (and which Gandalf hums to himself coming into Bag End) is the most obvious, and taken directly from the book: This prophecy is a slight reshuffling of the first verse of a longer song from the book: In the extended edition of Desolation of Smaug, Bard recites "the prophecy of Durin's folk":īard: The Lord of silver fountains, the King of carven stone The King Beneath the Mountain shall come into his own. The full song is obviously much longer, comprising a total of thirteen verses. The Fellowship of the Ring Book I Chapter 9: "At the Sign of the Prancing Pony"
While the landlord shook the Man in the Moon: He squeaked and sawed and quickened the tune, So the cat on his fiddle played hey-diddle-diddle, That the Man in the Moon himself came down This doesn't appear in The Hobbit, but does appear in Fellowship of the Ring it's the song Frodo sings in Bree that ultimately gets him discovered by Strider Bofur sings the start, and then a few lines cherry-picked from the middle: "Bofur's Song", which Bofur sings to liven up the party at Rivendell (possibly in the extended edition only, I confess I cannot remember). Moreover, both songs appear at about the same time: in Bilbo's house, after dinner. In the film, the line " To claim our long-forgotten gold." is sung as "To find our long-forgotten gold." The trees like torches biased with light, "Misty Mountains", the Dwarven lament that was in all the trailers, is mostly taken from a song in the text in the film, they sing a slightly-modified version of the second refrain, and the middle of the second verse (in the book, the full song is three verses, interspersed with three variations on the refrain):
The film omits the final line from the book, which is " So, carefully! carefully with the plates!" The Hobbit Chapter 1: "An Unexpected Party" "Blunt the Knives", performed by the Dwarves in Bag End to annoy Bilbo, is largely the same as in the book:Īnd when you've finished, if any are whole, There's only four diegetic songs/poems here: It's mostly accurate (though there's much more verse in the books), but in a couple of places they either introduce new singing or change the words of the tune. There's actually a fair bit of diegetic singing in the films. Since the question of how Tolkien envisioned the tunes of his songs is covered elsewhere, I'm going to focus here on the differences between the singing we hear in the films, and what we read in the text.
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