Music Video: The Last Goodbye

"The Last Goodbye" (The Battle of the Five Armies) by MOVIES Coming Soon

Scottish actor Billy Boyd is best known for playing  Peregrin “Pippin” Took in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but he’s also a musician.  His latest song, “The Last Goodbye,” has been selected to play over the end credits of The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies. The official video for the song has been made available online, and features quite a bit of footage from the upcoming conclusion of The Hobbit trilogy in addition to Boyd’s musical farewell to the world of Middle-earth.

The video was posted to YouTube by WaterTower Music, the Warner Bros. music label that will release the official soundtrack to The Battle Of Five Armies next month, just ahead of the film’s release December 17th.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Boyd discussed the song:

"We had to get the song just right, to send the audience out of the movie theater in the most perfect way we could. But I don't think it was until I was sitting on the long flight down to New Zealand that I started to really think about what the song would be. [...]


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."

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