Far over the misty mountains cold...

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Post August 1st, 2021, 7:14 pm

I like the 2012 version of the song, but in all honesty, it simply doesn't hit me the way the 1977 version does.

“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” - Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien

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Post August 3rd, 2021, 2:41 am

I'll take the Rankin/Bass version of The Hobbit every time over the New Line Cinema crapfests... but that bit of live action song from 2012 is one of the few things I liked.
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