Thanks, LOKAI! The ship's great for fuel economy, too. And I'm with you on the sound mix. Might even make for a better prologue accompaniment that anything Howard Shore could come up with. 
Leonard Nimoy attached to "The Hobbit"?
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Yeah, I suppose plot spoilers in the first three minutes aren't the best of ideas after all. 
Well, to be mildly amusing, I shall quoth Wikipedia (always a reliable source) from their Ballad of Bilbo Baggins article:
Them's fighting words!
The Ballad of Bilbo is a classic, I say!
Well, better forty years later then never, eh?
Don't you mean 'equally bad'?
Them's fighting words!
The Ballad of Bilbo is a classic, I say!
^ I note you don't even attempt to describe the Enya track thusly!
I really really really wanted "Frodo of the Nine Fingers" in Jackson's Return of the King.
No, really. I love that song.
good song . . . horrible singer . . . sounded like he had a shiatsu massage on his throat the whole time
I think they could have slipped in "Where There's a Whip, There's a Way!" Maybe on the Ultra Extended Edition That Incorporates Bakshi and Rankin-Bass Material For Some Reason (also featured: Boromir in viking helmet, Gollum as frog).
That said the song they actually used for the end credits was pretty bleh. I feel the end film songs for the Lord of the Ring franchise was definitely a case of diminishing returns (with, yes, "May It Be" being by far the best of the three).
For my money, the best of the lot is still "The Greatest Adventure".
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Never got the hate (dislike?) of the end songs in the LOTR films. "Gollum's Song" is maybe a bit stylistic, but I always felt that "May It Be" and especially "Into The West" are very fitting songs for the films, particularly on an emotional level.
Dislike or disaffection would be the word I'd use; I don't hate "Into the West", but I definitely don't think it works.
"Gollum's Song" is somewhere in the middle: It's a little off and is hardly "May It Be", but it's fine. By contrast, I do really like "May It Be" and consider it a fantastic endpiece for the first film.
"Gollum's Song" is somewhere in the middle: It's a little off and is hardly "May It Be", but it's fine. By contrast, I do really like "May It Be" and consider it a fantastic endpiece for the first film.