Song of Durin | Performed by John Rhys-Davies
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- The Song of Durin, performed by John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) with musical accompaniment composed by @ClamaviDeProfundis and performed by @Cellofrag.
On a recent livestream with @NerdoftheRings to promote the new Return to Moria game where he returns to voice Gimli, John Rhys-Davies was kind enough to recite the Song of Durin. This poem was sung by Gimli as the fellowship traveled through Moria. It recalls the splendour of Khazad-dûm and the dwarf city of Dwarrowdelf in its prime. The full interview can be found here:
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Although this poem never made it into the films, @ClamaviDeProfundis composed an amazing version of the song, which can be found here:
• Song of Durin (Complet...
In this video, John's narration is set to a cover of this music, arranged and performed by @Cellofrag. His original performance can be found here:
• Lord Of The Rings - So...
Visuals are from The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies, The Rings of Power, Return to Moria, as well as stock footage provided by www.pexels.com/ and www.videvo.net/
Lyrics by JRR Tolkien.
You can really hear his Treebeard intonations as he speaks this. Brilliantly done. Imagining an elderly Gimli reciting this to Dwarven younglings
My headcanon:
One of those Dwarven younglings is a young Kildrak Battlebeard (My character in the online rpg game 'Neverwinter,' a Dwarven defensive fighter who grows to become an accomplished adventurer/ hero in his own right, largely due to following the examples set by Gimli and other past Dwarves).
His Welsh-Dwarvish accent is SO FUCKING BEAUTIFUL
All dwarves are Welsh. If wasn't a well known fact 20 years ago... well it is now.
The way john sings "in moria, in khazad-dum" is so heartwrenching, like he genuenly feels sorrow for his homeland in days long forgotten
Also the part when he sings of the fall in elder days. And those two cities you hear the sadness of an age long gone.
That's how you know you have an amazing voice actor for the role.
Not some bitchtits that only cares about the money.
Genuine and great actors can immerse themselves fully in the world their character lives in.
That was the craziest part about the movie. They portrayed it as if Gimli had no idea what happened despite it being maybe the most significant catastrophe of his race. This makes me wish for a "Nerds' cut" of LOTR that adds in more things from the book, including him singing this song.
@@ArgentwingYeah, it is a bit sad that most of the time Gimli is just a comic relief in the movie. There are some good scenes with him (Balins Tomb, Galadriels Hair and Legolas/Gimli at the black gate f.e.) but the rest is just some jokes
@@thorleif8872he’s an absolute unit in the books. During the Battle of Helms Deep he yells Baruk Khazâd!! Khazâd ai-mênu! While jumping from the shadows to save Aragon from being drowned by a group of Uruk-Hai.
Incredible. And the best part is, instead of an AI stealing someones voice (as seen all to often these days) the actual actor did this.
Yeah I love that he was open to doing this. Now we need to get Viggo and Orlando to do the lament for Boromir...
@@Middle-earthDailyOOOOOOOOH. YES.
really! I had no idea.
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@@Middle-earthDaily only if we hear Gimli extremely subtle huffing in the background.
Hell I would love a full audio play of the novels with all of the actors in their original roles
That would be great, but let’s appreciate Andy Sircus for his work on the audiobooks
Would sound kind of weird tbh given how different the characters are. Book Aragorn is just a one note overconfident character, not a conflicted man wondering whether he should accepting his mantle. Book Legolas is kind of a happy-go-lucky hippie, book Faramir has no real conflict, etc.
The best you can do for now is the Phil Dragash version.
@@EresirThe1stok that is not a fair representation of the book. Have you even read them?
he clearly hasnt @@DasYoYo
His voice is beautiful, no wonder why Gimli and the Dwarves were my favorites in the movies.
I would love this to be on Spotify. This would be an amazing version to listen to over and over.
Also Treebeard!
John's Welsh accent really comes through in some of his words here.
Gimli and Thorin and company will always be my absolute favorites in the movies. They may be short but they will always stand tall as the mountains they made their homes in my eyes.
They're characters full of wisdom, humility, resilience, courage, gifted with skill in craft, art and speech. They can be a bit stubborn and sometimes fallible, but it's hard not to like or respect Tolkien's dwarves. Like with the hobbits, one would underestimate the dwarves physically or intellectually, due to their shorter height, only at his own peril. Some enemies of the dwarves, like Glaurung in the First Age, no doubt considered them a joke. Then Glaurung was mortally wounded by king Azaghal, a figure some five feet tall... with an ordinary dagger and Azaghal's dogged conviction of defeating the dragon once and for all. He didn't succeed, but Glaurung barely escaped and barely survived, which is really intimidating once you realize what a fierce opponent Glaurung was.
The dwarves also the only of Tolkien's fictional peoples who are, unlike Men and others, completely resistant to being fully corrupted by the evil of the One Ring and similar poweful magic. Though they can be corrupted to become mean or greedy, they can't be corrupted into creatures absorbed by evil. I think it says a lot about how incredibly resilient they are (even their biology and psychology is as tough as the very foundations of the mountains) that they don't find it that hard to resist evil, by willpower or other means.
Knowing Gimli from the books, I could totally see him reciting this for the fellowship on their way south from Rivendell!
he did, didn't he. When they were at Mirrormeer, after they crossed Moria
@@edopronk1303 He did
He literally did, if you've read the books
It was while they were still in Moria before they found Balin's tomb@@edopronk1303
Even with the potential danger, Gimli could not pass up the opportunity to look into the Mirrormere. This song was why it was so important.
I love how this was done! It’s as if Gimli himself as lord of the Glittering Caves is reciting this to young Dwarves gathered round a roaring fire during a feast.
This is Gimli as he should have been; not the comic-relief that Jackson's films tried to make of him. We could have had so much more; and John's rendition here proves that. Thank you for sharing it with us: I'm off now to scour the Shire.
Well my beard just grew 3 inches.
I’ve always loved this scene from the book, and to hear it from the actual actor just makes it that much better for me
Its definitely one of my favourite songs from the book
I am immediately transported away to a Dwarven hall, experiencing the hospitality of the Dwarves. A roaring fire, stone mugs, smooth as glass, overflowing with malt beer, enjoying juicy and tender red meat off the bone. All suddenly goes quiet. A particularly stout, red bearded Dwarf rises. It is the one called Gimli, son of Gloin, who begins to sing an ancient tale of the history of the Dwarves.
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I love how this was done! To me It’s as if Gimli himself as lord of the Glittering Caves is reciting this to young Dwarves gathered round a roaring fire during a feast.
I'd have loved it if this rendition had been done for the Jackson films - even if "relegated" to the extended versions...
Clamavi de Profundis struck gold with this one! Hearing John's reading polishes it fine.
Excellence, Tolkiens writings and JRD delivery.
John Rhys-Davies' enunciation is excellent, rivalling the singing, and I have to commend you on your editing.
Thank you!
Truly grasps the awe, and then, of course, the sadness, and hope, of this wonderous song. One of my favorite pieces Tolkien wrote, and for me, entirely encapsulates everything that is Dwarvenkind: Reverence of ancestors, acknowledgement of the glory now past, and the stubborn hope that one day, it shall return to them.
To hear Gimli speak it brings a tear to my eye.
"We now face the Long Dark of Moria. We must be quiet."
Gimli for five whole minutes:
😂
This is beautiful, because in the book, far from being the comic relief, Gimli is a wonderful companion, and on several occasions, lends his voice to song for his fellows.
i love this vibe. It's a pity it wasn't in the movie
I think the movies just had too much ground to cover in too little time. If it was a show and we had an episode or two in Moria, they'd definitely have more time to include moments like these.
@@Middle-earthDaily they should have included this in the Hobbit. Hobbit had too little source material. The more I think about it the more I realize just how much better the Hobbit movies could have been.
I think the song is too specifically about Moria to have fit The Hobbit, but maybe they could've adapted it to be about Erebor. We did get that great Misty Mountains song at the beginning of the first movie at least.@@lizvtaz6
@@Middle-earthDaily I understand what you are saying but I honestly think that the horrible sequence with "down down down to the goblin town" or the horrible scene from the extended edition where they all bathe in the fountain both look so ridiculous and ruin the movie to such a degree that having a bit of a slide show of ancient dwarf related images with this Gilmli song in the background would have been better than those scenes. Even if it does not fully fit. Misty Mountains Cold is a great song.
@@lizvtaz6 The first of these scenes was truly great, and the second was just fine. There are some awful scenes in those movies, but definitely not these two.
Sublime. I love the emotion and depth that Rhys-Davies gives the poem, as if he really felt like a dwarf.
Whoa. John Rhys-Davies' recitation of this will forever be etched in my heart as the original telling of a dwarf telling the dwarf's story.
I hear Gimli to tell his story of his kin. ❤ Speechless job!
Thank you JRD and MED for bringing this to life. The world is a little less gray this morning because of you.
This is amazing. It feels like I'm being read a bedtime story.
Sweet dreams!
Have listened to this countless times enjoy return to Moria!
Such a wonderful bit of art
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This made me tear up a little. Dwarves are my favourite fantasy race by far and i recently started playing the return to moria game. This is just epic.
Same! I’ve been in love with Dwarves of all forms since i first read the Silmarillion as a child. If i could be reborn as any race in fantasy it would be as a Dwarf of Erebor or Khazâd-dum!
How's the game?
@@bigirononmyhip3812 if you're a tolkien fan, you're gonna love it. I haven't gotten far tho yet.
@@derdork3233 I love Tolkien and dwarves
@@bigirononmyhip3812 it's even better with other players.
Imagine what could’ve been, the far off fantasy of a movie with peters style and vision, but that kept the small moments from the books, the simple changes. I love the movies but sometimes I wounded how easy it would’ve been to keep scenes already in the film more accurate. Especially in Moria, the two things I think of are what would the tomb scene look like if they’d kept the orc chieftain instead of the troll? Or showing Aragorn and Boromir’s character as they rush to challenge the balrog before Gandalf falls. I get why they toned down the musical atmosphere but damn if I can’t help but imagine the movie with songs like this added ❤
It warms my heart to hear something like this after many years
I hope one day the book is adapted into a series with six seasons, allowing time to include more of the smaller moments, songs, and history.
Ahh if the poetry and singing had been included, it was a foundational part of the writings. As many know, JRR T started out as a poet and never really stopped being one.
I remember when my reading comprehension skills were good enough to read Le Morte De Arthur by Tolkien in middle English. Still don't know how I managed that.
Point is, poetry was one of his great loves.
Solid rendition, but this version lives forever in my mind when I read the passage
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I'm with you Phillip. I totally get why Jackson had to make the choices he did to make the movies he did. And he delivered SUCH BETTER MOVIES than anyone had managed before! But it would have been wonderful to include more of the poetry and less plot-driving parts of the books.
For me, the biggest thing he sacrificed for time and plot was everything about the flight from the Shire. I mean, sure Tom Bombadil was irrelevant to the plot, but an elder power immune to the power of the ring? Because it "has no power" over him but it eats everyone else from the inside? I would have loved to see what Jackson would have done for Tom and Goldberry.
God damn nearly made me cry...hearing Gimli read the song of Durin with the background of Clamavi De Produnis' amazing song was incredible.
That is beautiful. Hats off to whomever had the idea.
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Beautiful. From the legend John Rhys Davies himself.
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I hope we can experience voices like John Rhys more and more. If you have a script, it should have gravity. And that is exactly what John Rhys brought.
This may have saved my life. Thanks.
This made we wish for Durin's days
Beautiful and he has a fantastic voice for narration. The line, "No harp is rung..." is such a sad, solemn one.
Wow, just wow. This is the way these stories of Middle Earth are supposed to be shown, with the right passion, depth and immersion.
Exactly, not with just money thrown at it while disrespecting the lore and pumping it with stupid modern agenda. Yeah I'm looking at you Amazon.
Glorious, I love this!
Someone should write a poem about the reclaiming of Khazad-Dum and let John recite it, since it was Gimli that lead the reclamation of Moria.
Can't remember if John or Christopher Tolkien wrote one already.
Unfortunately, it wasn't Gimli son of Gloin who led Durin's Folk back to Moria. Instead, he brought his kin to Helm's Deep, and became Lord of the Glittering Caves of Aglarond.
Khazad Dum will not be reclaimed until the reign of Durin VII the Last, son (or possibly descendant) of Thorin III Stonehelm, who became King under the Mountain after the passing of his father Dain II Ironfoot in the War of the Ring.
Nevertheless, I too would love a poem on the reclaiming of Khazad Dum, and delight in hearing it from John Rhys Davies.
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Oh yeaaahhhhh thank you for reminding me
This moves me to tears. Every time. I literally feel the pride of Durin's folk with each passage. Baruk Khazad!
Khazâd ai-mênu!
John Rhys-Davis has a fantastic voice. A great actor and narrator.
So good. Just... so good.
I've been a fan of Tolkien for 40+ years, I've read all the books, not just LOTR. But somehow I missed the power and poignancy of Durin's tale. I understood how Gimli felt when they braved Moria... but I guess I really did not. Until today.
The desecration of what was holy to his people. The fact that Durin's life and death and the things he did were not "myth" or "legend', but plain historical fact that his people and the elves, some of whom were alive to know Durin could attest to. When Gimli sees how the shining star of Dwarvenkind has falling into this evil now known as Moria.... This version of the story has been an eye opener. Thank you so much for adding to my appreciation of what Tolkien created.
Yeah I don't think I really fully appreciated this poem until I heard it sung with music
wow, Clamavi De Profundis, the finest arrangement of this piece I've ever heard, with the most iconic Gimli!
And done by the actor himself! John Rhys-Davies is truly awesome for giving his time to this!
I feel in love with John back in 80s he was in Shogun and so grateful he's still acting! Beautiful reading! PEACE!
I swear he reminds me of my grandfather and great uncles! I love his voice and presentation of this passage! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Anyone who loves Tolkien would love this.
He is an Amazing man, I mean Dwarf. :) A true Legend.
He has the eyes of a hawk and the ears of a fox
It was a banger when he did it live. Still a banger.
He’s truly a renaissance man. Id say the last one left alive.
What an amazing rendition!
dwarf lore is rarely shown
I could read a whole book of just the appendices
@@Middle-earthDaily i love reading the dictionary too
😂@@BIacklce
Goosebumps! Thank you for the trip ❤
Mam ciary, zajebisty ma głos.
zgadzam się
Azog The Defiler learned that day, the line of Durin was not easy to extinguish. I thought to myself there is one I could follow. There is one I could call King.
Gimli’s poem for his grandfather and great ancestor, Durin the Deathless 👑
Yes, Gimli's grandfather Groin
I thought he was going to sing this but this was so powerful. Bravo!
This was always my favorite poem in The Lord of the rings
This was absolutely beautiful and inspiring, it reached into my soul 🙏
I've listened to this dozens of times since stumbling across it the other day. It is just magnificent. I'd love to find a copy for purchase so I can add it to my playlist, though.
Thank you so much for watching! I don't have the rights to any of the material here, but the original version of the song by Clamavi De Profundis is available on iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify - without John Rhys-Davies unfortunately. I linked their CZcams page in the description and they have links to all of their purchasing options on their About page.
Thanks so much! Shame it's not the John Rhys-Davies version, but I'll take what I can get :).
Chills the entire time.
I needed my fires relit and bellowed! Thank you
This is pure magic.
Majestic, beyond words.
It warms the beard that dwarf still draws breath.
Incredible! I was almost moved to tears by the end.
Gods my chest is so heavy. This is enchanting making me long for a life I will never live
Thank you so much; I needed to hear this
I really like the mix of John's accent and olden English
This is genuinely beautiful. True art.
❤
I love it!!!!! So much 😮
Soon as Mr. Rhys-Davis started speaking i got goose bumps and down my arms by the end i wanted to pickup my shield, axe and helm to go help reclaim Moria and then i rememberd im a long long way from middle Earth
This is amazing! Amazing!
Thanks!
Excellent, brings back fond memories.
Very nice. Good work!
This is an amazing channel. Thank you so much for your efforts.
Thanks for watching!
Beautiful. Enough to make a grown man cry 😢
We know Gimli has the Eyes of a Hawk and the Ears of a Fox, but he never mentioned he had the Voice of a Bard.
No one can replace him as Gimli and no one ever will !!!
Absolutely incredible
How have I never heard this?!? Amazing.
It has been a truly glorious time for lovers of dwarf-themed music everywhere. Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai-mênu!
I had such intense goosebumps listening to this. I really saw those golden days, the ancient kings.
Beautifully done!
Thank you for this.
Fking sick dude! Keep it up🔥
Woah. That was stunning!
Long live to Clamavi's memory!
Очень красиво! Мощная история изложена в этом творении.
Люблю музыку гномов, стук молотов по наковальне, тяжёлое железное снаряжение, красивые ровные и угловатые резные узоры, мясо без косточек и хмельное пиво!
Type of song gimli would say At a fire telling the fellow Hobbits, and hobbit children. As the children would look at gimli in Aw. As gimli would make facial expressions telling the story of Durin.
sent chills through me+
One of my favorite actors. Incredible voice.
What a fantastic performance.
Wonderful. My compliments to those who made this possible.
I love John Rhys-Davies’ voice. It’s so rich and full of character. I noticed it the first time I ever heard him, when he played Richard I in Robin Of Sherwood 40 years ago and it’s never diminished for me, in anything I’ve seen him do since.
Goosebumps and tears.
Beautiful ❤️! It's like a glimpse of Moria in its glory.🎉
i love it!
Hail
Mighty
*DURIN.*
Amazing!
This was so beautiful, it made me cry
His charcters were all amazing in the Rings movies
This is lovely😢
This is amazing.
I love the storytelling feel of this. It like I went to listen tell a story at a theater with kids of all ages
My ears are so happy right now