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I've listened to this audio book probably close to a hundred times. Every time this song brings a tear to my eye. This last time I've been wanting to hear this song in all it's iterations. I've listened to half a dozen or so, but this is still by far the best version.

Let it never be said that Boromir lived and died as anything short of a hero.

This video is something of the best of both worlds. The magnificent words of Tolkien, the fantastic reading/singing of Inglis and the excellent heroic portrayal of Boromir's death of the films. Seeing Boromir redeem himself by fighting and dying to protect Merry/Pippin with the added weight that they were only at risk because they distracted orcs from Frodo is one of the few changes I really like in the films. He died with his honor intact. (I want to put around five different quotes from the book here, but I'm fairly sure our love of the book is what brought us here in the first place.)

"You left the East Wind to me," said Gimli, "but I will say naught of it." "That is as it should be," said Aragorn. "In Minas Tirith they endure the East Wind, but they do not ask it for tidings. ..."

The most powerful moment of any audiobook I've listened to. Stunning honestly.

This is how a lament is meant to sound, it's just a song, no music in the background, only the voice is needed, nothing else.

Still brings tears to my eyes

Still the best version of this song, by far.

the best version of the lament of Boromir!!!!!

Thee hymn of the dead. All of them you miss claim the pain of the battle we continue

“What he thought was the cause of Frodo’s sudden resolve and flight Aragorn did not say. The last words of Boromir he long kept secret.”

Legolas always with his sea...I like his fragment the best.

This man is brilliant .

This is my favourite part of the books. I think it makes Aragorn and Legolas so cool that, in addition to being great warriors, they can also write really moving poetry on the spot like this

I’ve been a fan of Tolkien’s work since I was a little kid and remember my mother reading me the books and singing the songs but I was never really a fan of the songs but after listening to rob ingles I am a fan of every song now but the lament for Boromir is my favorite and I’ve heard others sing it and it’s trash but he did it justice

Always tears. Always.

crank it up to 2x speed

Saddest part was when boromir dies and when Frodo met faramir

the other versions are great but this feels more like what you might hear in a tavern as a bard sings the Lament of Boromir

I don't like most of the songs of a trilogy but I love this one

Aragorn sang: Through Rohan over fen and field where the long grass grows The West Wind comes walking, and about the walls it goes. ‘What news from the West, O wandering wind, do you bring to me tonight? Have you seen Boromir the Tall by moon or by starlight? ‘I saw him ride over seven streams, over waters wide and grey, I saw him walk in empty lands until he passed away Into the shadows of the North, I saw him then no more. The North Wind may have heard the horn of the son of Denethor, ‘O Boromir! From the high walls westward I looked afar, But you came not from the empty lands where no men are.’ Then Legolas sang: From the mouths of the Sea the South Wind flies, from the sandhills and the stones, The wailing of the gulls it bears, and at the gate it moans. ‘What news from the South, O sighing wind, do you bring to me at eve? Where now is Boromir the Fair? He tarries and I grieve. ‘Ask not of me where he doth dwell - so many bones there lie, On the white shores and the dark shores under the stormy sky, So many have passed down Anduin to find the flowing Sea. Ask of the North Wind news of them the North Wind sends to me!’ ‘O Boromir! Beyond the gate the seaward roads runs south, But you came not with the wailing gulls from the grey sea’s mouth’. Then Aragorn sang again: From the Gate of the Kings the North Wind rides, and past the roaring falls, And clear and cold about the tower its loud horn calls. ‘What news from the North, O mighty wind, do you bring to me today? What news of Boromir the bold? For he is long away.’ ‘Beneath Amon Hen I heard his cry. There many foes he fought, His cloven shield, his broken sword, they to the water brought. His head so proud, his face so fair, his limbs they laid to rest, And Rauros, golden Rauros-falls, bore him upon its breast. ‘O Boromir! The Tower of Guard shall ever northward gaze, To Rauros, golden Rauros-falls, until the end of days.

In my view, the inglis audio book is the best way of experiencing the series. Completely enthralling

Whos cutting all these onions? Fucker.

Pure emotion in this song

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It just needs some music behind it.

Sauron, Saruman & Uruk Archer disliked this. To Boromir! The King in The South!

I love this! All of it!

When sung in this manner, it just shows Tolkien’s genius.

I want an album of Robert Inglis LOTR and hobbit songs. So so so good

You left the east wind to me, but I will say not of it..

After the war of the rings (LOTR story) Aragorn built a shining statue in honor of boromir, and he wore boromir's war armor at the battle of the black gate

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So, apparently there's some secret message in this song?

The Robert Inglis versions of the Tolkien songs are leaps and bounds better than any of the other versions out there, like the Tolkien Ensemble or the other musical groups who have tried to put the Tolkien songs to instrumental music. Inglis captures the mood and style that I imagine the characters would actually be singing. Like this song actually sounds like it would if 3 guys were singing about their dead friend by the side of a river.

I do not want to hassle you but would you care to cut out and upload Rob's version of Merry Old Inn if you have time and the files for the audiobook still? I have been thinking of doing itself however have lost my files of the audiobook :/

I grew up listening to this, I'd "read" the lord of the rings 2x before I learned to read. This brings back memories ^_^