A strange thing happened. When I first listened to
The Hobbit OST, I liked it but except for the
Misty Mountains song, I didn't find it all that memorable. But the more I listened to it, the more I loved the OST in general and
The Song of the Lonely Mountain in particular. Especially once I really started listening, following the lyrics. I especially love this part:
Some folk we never forget
Some kind we never forgive
Haven’t seen the back of us yet
We’ll fight as long as we live
All eyes on the hidden door
To the Lonely Mountain borne
We’ll ride in the gathering storm
Until we get our long-forgotten gold
And this, this very sentiment is why I like
The Hobbit much more than
The Lord of the Rings trilogy. In LotR, the halflings and the dwarves just didn't speak to me. Frodo and Sam were sweet but Merry and Pippin? Gimli? Mostly comic relief. Or painfully idiotic. With some great development, true, but it didn't change my first impression of them. But in
The Hobbit...
For the first time, I saw the halflings and dwarves as, well, people with ambitions, daily struggles, with friends and enemies, people who felt betrayal as deeply as anyone else. The movie made the dwarves three-dimensional, fighting for their right, heroic people but also vain and short-tempered.
And Bilbo... I guess I didn't like the halflings in LotR much because the actors didn't do much for me. Good actors, don't get me wrong, but I didn't know them before - only Sean Astin did I see in something else - nor did I feel like following their career after. But Martin Freeman... He's one of my favorite actors and his Bilbo is... never too earnest, never too much of a comic relief, never too much of a chicken. He's a normal person and he plays the part beautifully.
So yeah, in LotR, there were places that felt... empty to me - Faramir and his daddy issues, come to my mind - but
The Hobbit I adored as a whole, the story and all the characters, whether we followed Bilbo, Thorin and his gang or Gandalf, everyone's arc was fascinating and captivating.
And basically this song,
The Song of the Lonely Mountain, with its melody and lyrics, embodies my love for the movie!
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