Thats what called an addiction to hear this masterpiece LIVE

impossible to sing along it would ruin it, I'm pretty sure audience was enthralled

Audience: no sing, just listen

@@yousefbaroun5181 he said if he forgets the words

THAT, is what's known as a deep respect!

I keep forgetting he's the front of Beecake. Amazing singer. 11/10

he sang it better!

Can you sing, master hobbit? 🖐🙄🤏

i mean he is a musican

20 years later... still tearjerk.

He literally does haha

TOUCHE! :)

actually J.R.R Tolkiens does

This is only the last verse of a poem by J.R.R. Tolkien called "A Walking Song."

Billy makes that song all his own. It's not as someone else wrote it I think, but he's a fantastic singer nonetheless.

Shadealade..... IKR?! I mean like it’s great to have a personality like your character because first- it makes your job easier 2- it’s fun and 3- you just be yourself!

@@waybackproductions5676 He is still a great actor though! Perfect for the role

Perhaps he never was acting aha

That’s exactly what I was thinking lmfaooo

Incredible casting

It's a song that is strongest when it's one singer battling the silence

except for someone clciking on his video camera.

I just pulled up the original song from the soundtrack, and it IS in the same key! Amazing!! He goes off just a little in the middle, but it begins and ends *exactly* the same. I wonder if he has perfect pitch, or has just sung it so often, he naturally knows where to start?

I was about to comment the same thing! It's within a quarter note of the original!!

@@julieannajones98 probably a bit of both tbh

@@theredblurb132 Wow, I had totally forgotten about this post... 5 years ago! 😂 But yeah, you're probably right!

@@theredblurb132 He _is_ a musician after all.

I'm right there with you Getting goosebumps every time I listen to it

Lolol

Amen!

And still taken

Never!

So agree. I recently read the book again and was half expecting the song in it. So gifted.

@@felixreali7101 the song is in the book, but not where it is in the movies, it's on about page 76 of Fellowship and Frodo, Pippin, and Sam are singing it to themselves while leaving the shire.

yes! I come from a family that sings, and a community that sings, so the songs in the book always made it so much more real to me.

I just wonder if Tolkien would enjoy them...not as far as how faithful they were but the overall vibe and how dark some of the things in the movies are. Is it what he had in mind? Me and my dad wonder

Excellent

IKR. He looks way younger :D

***** And they filmed for about 7-10 years as far as I know :)

So what? So am I. And?

Yesica1993 My point is he does not look 46. And I remember him as playing a young Pippin. Time flies and it creeps me out.

playerofrock04 That's life. Nothing anyone can do about it.

Denethor's halls were unfit for this song.

Even Nùmenor should be unfit for his song. It's just too amazing

Because denethor is gross

@@sarahreiter5272 I don’t know why I found that so funny

@@wifal6874 Nah the *halls* were great with their acoustics. It's Tomato Man that ruined it.

This comment is gold 💕

feeling nostalgic for something that never was

I can't put enough of a reaction to your comment. A simple "like" isn't enough.

it took place....once upon a time and not only in our hearts...and it will take place once again...just like in Tolkien's books.

@@JoeL-yq1iv 🙏🏼

+Anood AlKatheeri I know right! I thought that was just his movie accent, not in real life!

Sauron The Dark Lord Omg yess he's Pippin in real life then! xD

+Anood AlKatheeri - i can't understand half of what he says in kiwi.

+tomaf eh? What you on about? If you can't understand him you must be pretty ignorant because I know exactly what he's saying.

It's not kiwi it's a Scottish accent

Especially sitting down, with your lungs being really restricted by your rib cage. Quite difficult indeed.

@@generalerica4123 lol

well he has a band called beecake for many years now..so yeah, he's good

Watching this one year later after seeing all the Hobbits extended editions and I have to wonder: How does Billy feel seeing as they used the lyrics of "Home is behind and the world ahead" as part of the script for Gandalf in Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. I'd think it'd be an incredible honor, not only to affect future movies, but also to be quoted from such an historic figure like Gandalf.

Yup I love that guy

@@kevinj4204 he didn't write the lyrics. Bilbo did. Bilbo wrote it to an old tune lost to history. The hobbits sang it while on the way to Buckland. Tolkien put it in The Fellowship of the Ring book 1. Boyd took a small piece of it, changed a couple words, wrote the music for it, & performed it in the film Return of the King.

I havent even realized that was 5 minutes long. I was just listening and enjoying the video.

Look up Winter by Fen, in the second song the songer chants "All shall fall, all shall fail." In the first song they open with "All shall fall, all shall sink, all shall drown, all shall fade with time."

IKR

@@sycamoretrees7819 It's more the emotion he sings the words with than the words themselves. It's haunting in a way. There's a lot of similar examples of such quotes but to sing it in the way he does is touching.

How did they come up with the Edge of the Night?

@@meganmartians8372 The lyrics are from the Fellowship of the Ring. The Hobbits sing as they travel through Buckland, if I'm not mistaken in the chapter entitled The Old Forest. The words were taken from that excerpt and brought to life by Billy's tune.

Just a million artificial shutter clicks from people's digital cameras 😣

You can search for the soundtrack version. It's called The Steward of Gondor - feat. Billy Boyd.

The way he eats just BOTHERS me lol

Forth Tearolingas!!

its called 'the last goodbye' kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p56ZpZuju9KWimg.html

Fuck that, watching the whole thing.

If you skip the beginning parts, you miss his comment to someone at 2:30, which made me laugh really hard

People like you is why global warming is still on hold

Why would that be surprising? He's a singer. And a good one.

Well... I just wanted to mention it cause most of the very popular singers wouldnt have hit a single note

Meyb4l People who can't hit a note are not singers. That's what a singer is, someone who can properly sing on key. If you have to rely on technological tricks to make you sound like you're hitting the notes properly, guess what? You're not a singer. What is sad is that this type of thing is now so common that someone like Billy who can sing is looked upon with surprise. It really does make me despair sometimes. But that's why he gives me hope. He reminds me that there ARE still people with actual, real talent in the world. It's why I love him so! (Well, in that way that you "love" someone that you don't know, and who doesn't know or care that you exist.)

Yesica1993 So just to make that clear, I was not surprised that he hit every note, I just wanted to say that I thought it sounded very very good... but idk why this is getting into a discussion x)) Lets just agree on the fact that he is a true singer with true talent :D

Meyb4l Um, because it's the internet and the internet is for discussion? Or so I thought.

Unbelievably good

How did you come up with that one? : D

6 months later im still in awe of your comment.. lmao!

I thinks its at 4:47

Aw, you are so lucky! He seems like such a sweet guy. I wish I could thank him, especially for his music. He's so very talented!

Yes, me too! He is so nice and lovely.

Lucky

I met him at a comic convention back in 2015 and got my picture with him. He is so sweet and easy to talk to!

zenjr1004 nope

Hahaha omg is that chandler speaking from you :D

Scottish!

@@sersastark you mean sco''ish?

He's a strapping musician

He certainly is. Quality city to be from!

Just like angus young XD

Yep. First time watching him singing it live off the cuff. Astonishing. Straight tears

yekdeli #TeamPippin

yekdeli THANK YOU SOMEONE FINALLY UNDERSTANDS THE AMAZINGNESS OF HOBBITS AND ESPECIALLY THAT ONE

mine too

My second favourite hobbit after Frodo ! I love Pippin !!!

Hear hear!

Hey man you got some of that blue stuff?

Thank you

Thank you later!

Thanks

Thanks

thanks