The Last Goodbye
In the words of Lady Antebellum, "Hello world!" I know that I've stopped working off of my list of books and movies for the most part, and I promise to go back. But for now, I have other things that I want to also be able to share with you which, honestly (and sadly, you might say) I am posting these other things because they are much quicker. Besides, I want to share this with you now.
I don't remember if I said this before, but I watched The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies during the holidays, and I had been looking forward to it since the first one came out. I have lived off of Tolkien's books and the movies since I was 10. And I love every part of it. For me, much like for Tolkien, Middle Earth was a real place, and that was where I belonged: among the elves in the forests of Lothlorien, walking the halls of Rivendell, with hobbits in a hole in a hill in the Shire, in the Mines of Moria with the dwarves, flying on the back of Great Eagles with wizards. I'm sorry, I get carried away; but the point is that this world was my real gateway into fantasy and writing.
I was happy and sad to have the last movie come out, but I was so busy that I didn't get to watch every new trailer and watch as the final process was completed, the way I did with the other Hobbit movies. One of those things I didn't get to do, but wish I had, was watch the music video for The Last Goodbye. And because I was with my friends late at night when we watched the movie, I didn't even get to hear the whole song in the credits.
Well guess what? I just watched it. And I cried. It suddenly occurred to me that my whole world, my Middle Earth, was done. Obviously I can watch the movies and read the books as many times as I want, but this is the end of the franchise. Besides, the way that they put the music video together, it really is like the last goodbye. We said goodbye once when the first trilogy was done, but according to Peter Jackson, this really is the end. (Let's hope he changes his mind. There's still so much more he could do.) The clips of every movie, the highs and the lows, bring it all together. And the song was written for BOFTA, but it clearly is goodbye not just for that trilogy, but for the whole world of Middle Earth. And using Billy Boyd just ties it all in. It has finally hit me that it is all over. Goodbye Middle Earth, I wouldn't be who I am today without you.
I don't remember if I said this before, but I watched The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies during the holidays, and I had been looking forward to it since the first one came out. I have lived off of Tolkien's books and the movies since I was 10. And I love every part of it. For me, much like for Tolkien, Middle Earth was a real place, and that was where I belonged: among the elves in the forests of Lothlorien, walking the halls of Rivendell, with hobbits in a hole in a hill in the Shire, in the Mines of Moria with the dwarves, flying on the back of Great Eagles with wizards. I'm sorry, I get carried away; but the point is that this world was my real gateway into fantasy and writing.
I was happy and sad to have the last movie come out, but I was so busy that I didn't get to watch every new trailer and watch as the final process was completed, the way I did with the other Hobbit movies. One of those things I didn't get to do, but wish I had, was watch the music video for The Last Goodbye. And because I was with my friends late at night when we watched the movie, I didn't even get to hear the whole song in the credits.
Well guess what? I just watched it. And I cried. It suddenly occurred to me that my whole world, my Middle Earth, was done. Obviously I can watch the movies and read the books as many times as I want, but this is the end of the franchise. Besides, the way that they put the music video together, it really is like the last goodbye. We said goodbye once when the first trilogy was done, but according to Peter Jackson, this really is the end. (Let's hope he changes his mind. There's still so much more he could do.) The clips of every movie, the highs and the lows, bring it all together. And the song was written for BOFTA, but it clearly is goodbye not just for that trilogy, but for the whole world of Middle Earth. And using Billy Boyd just ties it all in. It has finally hit me that it is all over. Goodbye Middle Earth, I wouldn't be who I am today without you.
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