Gollum's+song

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Where once was light Now darkness falls Where once was love Love is no more Don't say goodbye Don't say I didn't try

These tears we cry Are falling rain For all the lies you told us The hurt, the blame! And we will weep to be so alone We are lost We can never go home

So in the end I'll be what I will be No loyal friend Was ever there for me

Now we say goodbye We say you didn't try

These tears you cry Have come too late Take back the lies The hurt, the blame!

And you will weep When you face the end alone You are lost You can never go home You are lost You can never go home

Emilíana Torrini:

She performed Gollum’s song in the movie Lord of the Rings. But the lyrics are written by Fran Walsh. Björk was supposed to sing, but had to decline because of her pregnancy. Emilíana Torrini comes from Iceland, and is 32 years old. She writes and sings alternative rock and pop. Her father was Italian, and owns a famous restaurant in Iceland. Her mother is Icelandic. Emilíana Torrini grew up in Iceland, until she decided to move and live in London.

Link to music video: : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4o52a_emiliana-torrini-gollums-song_music Link to lyrics: http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/thelordoftheringsthetwotowers/gollumssong.htm Link to artist’s website: http://www.emilianatorrini.com/

About the song: Gollum’s song is about the little creature Gollum, or Sméagol, who is one of the characters in the movie Lord of the Ring. The song tells us about the splited personality of Sméagol, and how his life turned out to be because of the ring. Sméagol got two totally splited personalities. The first personality is Sméagol, who is the hobbit which lived in the Shire so many years ago. The other, and much darker, personality is Gollum. He is the one who want the Ring and kill Frodo and his friend Sam. Because of Sméagol’s splited personality, he talks to himself as we or us. So that tells us that it is Gollum speaking to Sméagol in the song. It takes place when Gollum is captured by Faramir and his men, and he believes that Frodo betrayed him. If you have read both the Hobbit and Lord of the Ring, you can read between the lines and understand what the text is really about. In the first verse, Gollum tells us the difference between before and after finding the ring. Before finding it, he describes as light and full of love, and after full of darkness. He also tells Sméagol not to give up the hope of getting the ring back. Then Gollum tells Sméagol that Gollum tried to warn him all the time about Frodo being bad and no good, but that Sméagol didn’t listen to him. After that, he describes very beautifully how they were both disappointed and shocked by how things turned out to be. He describes their tears as a falling rain. At the same time, he takes advantage of the situation and reminds Sméagol that he had caused all this to happen when they were captured because he believed Frodo and went along with him to destroy the ring. In the end of the first verse, Gollum ensures Sméagol that they are in this together and they are both going to be alone, with no friends at all.

In the second verse, the timing is when Gollum steals the ring from Frodo, at the end of the movie. Here, Frodo pushes Gollum into the volcano, and there is like Sméagol never had two personalities. Gollum says; “so in the end I’ll be what I will be. No loyal friend was ever there for me.” Here, he refers to Sam who was accompanying Frodo the whole time. Sam played an important role in keeping Frodo of becoming enslaved by the ring. He stopped Frodo several times from wearing the ring. Gollum looked at them with a pity for himself that he did not have someone like Sam to stop his desire for obsessing the ring that has enslaved him. Then, Gollum starts to speak attackingly to Sméagol. He tells Sméagol there is no more hope of getting the ring, and putts the blame on Sméagol. This because he believed Sméagol did not try hard enough to get it. At the end, Gollum say to Sméagol that he is alone, that Gollum no longer want anything to do with him, and that he are going to die alone.

What I think of the song: This is one of my favorite songs. The language is very simple, but there are many hidden meanings behind the words. People who have seen the movie and did not like the creature Gollum, can get a whole new perspective of him. It is a dark and sad song, telling us about Sméagol’s miserable life. I could listen to this song day after day without being tired of it, because I’m always able to find some new, hidden meaning I did not know before.

Emma.