As revealed last month, The Hobbit's final instalment, The Battle Of The Five Armies, will end with pleasing symmetry as did The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King with a song performed by his Pippin-ness Billy Boyd. Should you not be able to stand the wait for the last film's closing credits to roll, the track has just been released for your listening pleasure. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you The Last Goodbye.
"We came all this way / But now comes the day / To bid you farewell," sings Boyd, giving the sense that's there's more on his mind here than a single film.
"We focused on not just the final installment, but moreso on this 10-year epic adventure,” Boyd told Billboard. “A song to sum up the six movies. We recorded in Wellington, New Zealand, at one point traveling to Auckland to Neil Finn’s studio where we recorded some of the guitar. It was surreal to be in his studio, as he did the song for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.”
Boyd co-wrote the choon with Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh, and it will, of course, form part of The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies soundtrack, which is out on December 9. The film itself follows, swift as Shadowfax, on December 12.