The biggest reason that this song hits as hard as it does is because of the characterisation of the ents. In the story it is made abundantly clear that the ents are nigh unflappable. Incredibly difficult to anger, rousing them is a monumental task. Because of this characterisation and the utter *fury* that we see them display when they match to war, it creates a feeling that whoever they're marching against, regardless of who it is, is a dead man walking. They have awakened the wrath of the *trees themselves,* and they are going to sorely regret that decision.
And a scary thought is that it when they chose to act on the fall of the trees is fast for ents. Normally, years are needed to come to a choice of action.
The Ents were created by the Valar Yavanna specifically to protect the trees because the trees were Yavannas most favorite creation. However, she also recognized that people would need wood for all kinds of purposes and thus would need to fell trees to get the wood. So she created the Ents as very patient and hard to anger so that they would only ever act against the most eggergious acts of lumberjacking.
Pacifism is only viable when you hold the position of strength. An aggressively motivated enemy does not care if you want to be left alone, so you have to give them a reason to care.
You have to remember something: the Ents where dying out, always and with certainty. Their females, the Entwives, where all gone, eternity ago. They could either wait another eternity, futilely guarding a few forests and waiting to become so old they stilled and slept forever, or they could break Isengard and turn all the orcs within into fertilizer
The entwives left, if memory serves.I believe in the book treebeard stated the entwives cared more for flowering plants, and that ents cared for the trees of the forest, and some of the wilder plants.This became too big a difference between them.Treebeard said after the fall of isengard that they would search for the entwives.
@@ArdoolYT Tolkien already addressed in his one of his letters that when he was writing about the 'walking tree-man', he hadn't even come up with the concept of the Ents yet. Though it is possible that a few entwives may have gone to the Shire, seeing that it is the perfect homeground for the Entwives
Earth shakes, stone breaks, The forest is at your door. The dark sleep is broken, The woods have awoken, The trees have gone to war. Roots rend, wood bends, The Ents have answered the call. Through branches now the wind sings. Feel the power of living things. The trees have gone to war.
He really should have though; he was part of Aule’s court before he fell...he should have known better than to tick off his former patron’s wife’s children.
“Yavanna returned to Aulë, and he was in his smithy, pouring molten metal into a mould. ‘Eru is bountiful,’ she said. ‘Now let thy children beware! For there shall walk a power in the forests whose wrath they will arouse at their peril.’”
I’ve always wondered why Aule seemed so indifferent to that. He wept so much at the idea of smiting the Dwarf Fathers. Why wouldn’t he be afraid of them being killed by the Ents?
@@BalroomBlitz715 One is them being destroyed before they could really be, with the Fathers having no hope of protecting themselves, no meaningful input. An Ent can be run from, it's anger not roused, and can be fought. Their fate is in their hands.
Merry kind of mentions it, but I think the fact Ents are so chill (at worst they get annoyed or ignore a problem) means it must take an enormous amount of assholery to annoy an Ent, and seeing a bunch of them superangry is probably scary by comparison.
This feels like the awakened wrath of the forest, slow yet booming and unstoppable, strong enough to crush walls and morale. A fitting song for the last living Sons of Yvanna to march to war to. Especially as it sounds as if this song is slowly surrounding and smothering Isengard’s theme if you listen carefully.
"To Isengard! Though Isengard be ringed and barred with doors of stone; Though Isengard be strong and hard, as cold as stone and bare as bone," The cadence of these lines are forever with me now.
that's the thing with Aule-minds. they don't ever seem to learn from each other, otherwise Sarumon and Sauron both should have remembered fate of the dwarves of nogrod.
@@dennisnedry8126 I mean Aule himself seems fine though... It's just the people who try to follow him. Sauron was originally a Maiar in Aule's service.
@@trevorx7872 aule himself just got a little impatient, was willing to correct his mistake at once cause illuvataur basically thought dwarves were a good idea, and seems to have learned not to follow his own ideas without extreme thought and talking it over with manwe on whether or not illuvataur liked it too. Sauron and sarumon didn't seem to understand it.
It's honestly hard for me to discern it out of the theme - this song lacks the same jagged, harsh edge the Isengard march theme holds and that's what always stuck out to me.
Okay, so I read LoTR before watching it, and for pretty much everything, I was quite pleased with what the movies did, except for one thing; I was legitimately pissed off that they didn’t include this song. Just by reading the lyrics, before I ever watched it, I got chills a couple time over. And while I was watching the movies and heard what the ents sounded like, I spent the entirety of the rest of the movie waiting to hear the marching song, but when the attach started, and no ent singing was heard, I was SO pissed that they didn’t do it. Thank you for making my making my childhood dream a reality. Thank you so much!
@Lord of Jonkeys in the book they are portrayed even more peacefuly and 'slow' than in the movie. That's why this song was so menacing and mind- drilling, even just on paper
As a huge fan of the books and Tolkien's writing in general, I was also crushingly disappointed with the way the entmarch was portrayed... the movies did it in an almost comic-relief sort of way, kind of goofy and silly and classic fantasy "good guys beat bad guys because they're the good guys!" sort of style. In the books, the entmarch is arguably the single most destructive and violent event in the entirety of the War of the Ring. Isengard is the most advanced, most powerful city-state in the human world, an industrial superpower Platonic Republic led by a sorcerer-king... when the ents attack, the battle lasts a single day, and in the end, everything but the magical tower of Orthanc is rubble, and every living human and orc in Isengard is dead (except for Saruman and those in the tower itself). In the movies, Gandalf shows up like Jesus to save the day at Helm's Deep; in the books, the ents simply unleash the huorns (rage-filled murderous tree spirits) who independently go hunting down and slaughter 10,000 uruk-hai with virtually no resistance. The movies really did undercut the impact of the statement Tolkien was trying to make with the whole portrayal of ents and their role in the natural world -- nature may be a peaceful, life-loving entity... but if you betray it and abuse it, there will be a reckoning.
Jimbo Slice To be fair to the movies here, the huorns DO make an appearance at Helm’s Deep in the extended editions. Once Gandalf rocks up with the Rohirrim and the Uruk-Hai retreat, the battle wasn’t technically won because the Rohirrim were still massively outnumbered and still stuck in a corner. The Huorns just show up in the path of the Uruks who smash straight into them and are never seen again. The books could be more explicit about the sacking of Isengard but the Lord of the Rings films are colossal so I feel like the Ents awesome power and strength was achieved via implication rather than an overt display (although they still get something to that effect).
I think it’s for the best that the ents are so reluctant to do literally anything by nature. The fury of the forest roused is not a force that can be resisted. Maybe Melkor with his Balrogs and fire drakes. But certainly not by orcs with swords and torches. And if the ents march on a rainy day I’m not sure anything could stop them. Living wood is hard enough to burn, forget about it if it’s soaked.
Apparently, greek fire oil could burn underwater. Believed to be based in crude oil and quicklime, it appears to be a primitive form of napalm. The family that created the weapon around 672 A.D. took the secret to their grave. We see in the films that Saruman had developed a form of gunpowder, so it's not that big of a stretch. Thankfully, he didn't make any, so we don't have to worry about it. :)
This is definitely my favorite Clamavi recording. It fits how I feel the ents would sound perfectly. Normally soft (yet loud and slow) voices suddenly harsh and fast. It really shows how the ents were feeling. I especially like the voice that dominates the first part of the song, it's very gravely, and captures how I think Treebeard would sound singing in anger. I also love how even though that voice is less noticeable later on, it's still there if you search for it, which really demonstrates how even though Treebeard is the ent everyone thinks of, he's not the only one. In the end, they are all brothers, of equal measure.
@@marmot418 Yeah but they're still all ents, mostly ancient, and all important. To claim he is the only important one because he's the oldest would be silly. It's a dwindling race, they can't really afford to treat each other like some are lesser.
It is your work that first made me see how good Tolkien's songs really are. Every time I read LOTR, I found the marching song somewhat ridiculous, because it reminded me of some stupid musical and somehow ruined the spirit for me. Thank you for interpreting this - your version is way better than what my mind could devise of those lines. Next time I read the books, your interpretations will let me enjoy them even more.
thebiglebenski1 keep in mind also that Tolkien drew on a lot of his experience in WW1 when he wrote the books. There were many marching songs, to keep tempo and pass the time on the long marches across Europe.
J.R.R. Tolkien would be proud of all the works you've done from him! Keep up the great work looking forward to the next Tolkien piece you make! The one Clamavi De Profundis to rule them all!
It never ceased to shock me how, when we first see Isengard before we learn of Saruman's betrayal how fervent and green it is and yet when the ents march in Two Towers so much of the forest is gone and the land is blackened and barren.
This song is made even better now that you have released "the ent and the ent wife" and you remember that it is because of the war that the ents and the ent wives were separated. Now the ents are taking action against the war so it can end and they can be reunited with the ent wives. These two songs compliment and connect to each other perfectly in a way few others can match.
@hunter christensen Yes, I remember. It was because Tolkien was disappointed that it was just a bunch of guys holding branched rather than actual trees that he invented the Ents. It seems Tolkien took a lot of inspiration from his disappointments in Shakespeare's writing...
@@FANacht-dy3tb Tolkien. The man who got disappointed and decided to correct SHAKESPEARE. And going by which scene is more iconic, totally succeeded. :)
You truly nailed this it honestly feels like Ents are singing this song I can imagine even the disciplined ranks of the Uruk-hai cowering in terror as the Ents march upon them
i remember making a character called "The Lord of Dirt" a mad dwarf who self declared himself a lord and owner of all dirt so he when around enslaving ents
This is so incredibly epic, yet so sad. The Ents have marched one last time. They will fade into legend, the legends of the kingdoms of men that are fated to become an industrialist society just as the Ents fought against in Saruman.
Next could you guys do Galadriel's Song of Eldamar? The one that she sang as the Fellowship left Lothlórien? The first line was "I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew"
Dankster Dan no lie, I made a saleanya token generator commander deck, and like... in a multiplayer game of like 8 people, nobody bothered me since I had no board presence... Until in one turn I laid out 80 3/3 saprolings with flying, vigilance, double strike and life link, and then doubled them. Everyone just looked at me like "wtf" And then I asked everyone at the table "what's your life at?" And that is why I dont have magic friends anymore lol
It is said that it takes a long time to say anything in old Entish, so they don’t bother to say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say. This is how the ents say ‘you don goofed’
This gives you the feeling of being up in your ivory tower, when suddenly, trees tall or taller than your tower, apraoch, slowly, unstoppably. More and more. So bassicly, this is the best thing EVER. : )
everything about Lord of the Rings get automaticaly history and classic its was wrote in an time of honor and respect and its about honor and respect. Clamavi.... you are awesome keep going ....(a little less electronical sounds) thats just not Lord of the Rings 😊😂
I have a principle I invented myself, which I like to call the "Forgettable Principle". Basically, it builds on a principle called Sturgeon's Law. It dictates that "90% of everything is crap". For every good work of art, fiction, music, whatever, there's at least nine others that are crap. My "Forgettable Principle" goes on to state that people don't remember crap, because it's, well, crap. Only the good stuff goes down in history. This means that there's this great filter of time and memory that erases all of the crappy parts of the past, making it seem like the past, for instance, only had great music, whereas music today is crap. It's not true. Music in the past was crap too, but you only remember the 10% that was actually good.
This is one of my favorite pieces that you all have done, I can't get enough of it. You achieved everything you set out to do based on the description. It pains me that you are unable to sell it as it is the best version of the song that I've ever heard, even over those Christopher Lee was involved with. When I hear it I can SEE the Ents marching, and I can FEEL their rage. Keep this up, and thank you so much for doing it. I love to sing along to your songs as well and I envy you for the pleasure of recording them. Your voices suit them so well.
2:20 is my favourite part! The tiny trumpet (or whatever it is) feels like now the smaller trees have joined the march of the loud and heavy ents. I've been hearing this song on loop now :'D
Alternative Ent Marching Song: We come, we come, with horn and drum Ta-runa ta-runa ta-runa rum To war, to war, for Moooordoor With ashen bark, and darkened hearts We sound our war, with Orcish hordes To war, to war, to Gooondooor To tree of life, ringed stone of white With screeching Kings and dreaded Rings A war, a war, to end Gondor To crush Men's Hearts, to bring the Dark So says our Lord, Lord of Mordor Ta-runa ta-runa ta-runa run We come, we come, With doom, we come With long, dead Kings Our Cursed Rings That burned our bark All Ents turned dark We come, we come With doom, we come
Sorry, but you have to face the truth that. A) there was no rhythm to your piece B) if this was in the LoTR books, how would it fit into the story. C) THE ENTS WERE ACTIVELY AGAINST SAURON
The Last March of the Ents was one of my favorite scenes in the movie, and it would have been so awesome to have had them singing this song while marching on Isengard. Because the only thing more terrifying then vengeful walking trees attacking you are vengeful singing walking trees attacking you.
richard conaway I think that’s a reference. In “misty mountains” there is a line “the mountain smoked beneath the moon, the dwarves they heard the tramp of doom”. Doesn’t really relate to ents though, so maybe Tolkien just liked the vibe
So I was reading the description, and it said that your family sang it. First off, what an awesome family. Second, daaaaaang you guys have some nice voices. Keep it up👍
My goodness, what a bass! I was expecting something with a bit more movement...and yet, because the Ents are never "hasty," I can see that even their battle-march wouldn't be too lively. Splendid. I'd love to hear it with a whole choir of heldentenors and Rachmaninoff-basses...
This is probably my favorite part in the books and I was so sad to see it left out of the movie. This is a beautiful version of the song, just perfect, I'm crying happy tears. Thank you.
I wish someone could make an audiobook for "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings", but with your songs in stead of the original ones. It would be awesome
I really like how it starts slow, and builds speed towards the end, much like how events were described in the book, Merry and Pippin being the first small stones that gradually build into a raging avalanche, the song indeed sounds as an avalanche might sing.
I play sylvaneth in warhammer age of sigmar, and this song was part of why I picked them. Imagine an army of angry trees marching on your army and then suddenly, you just hear this low and haunting song. Powerful and chilling but also somber and moving. I get goosebumps when I listen to it.
I love the orchestration you guys did. The poem-which is to say Tolkien’s written lyrics-are good, but it takes a little musical imagination to make it as epic as it should be. The basso profundo in this is incredible and really sells the terror of Ents roused to war.
I was fortunate enough to find about Clamavi de Profundis before reading LOTR and every time I get to a song or a poem in a book I listen to the composition that CDP made for it as I read it. It has been such an amazing experience so far!
Dear Hearts, I do not have enough words to tell you how much I love how you have captured the Ents marching....the long-simmering anger and rage that can no longer be contained. I feel like I march with Them. All Love
If Ents existed, Europe, the US, China, Russia, and basically all the world's superpowers wouldn't exist, because they would have kept on being crushed by an army of triggered Ents.
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Here is our version of J.R.R Tolkien's, "The Ents' Marching Song!" We hope you enjoy it:)
It sounds awesome! Song of Beren and Luthien?
How about the Ent song at the beginning of the Children of Húrin? That ones really cool
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Clamavi De Profundis This is most excellent
You guys are amazing, love all your songs :D
Such great mood and emotion. If you'll do any more, I think "The Fall of Finrod Felagund" could be good.
The biggest reason that this song hits as hard as it does is because of the characterisation of the ents. In the story it is made abundantly clear that the ents are nigh unflappable. Incredibly difficult to anger, rousing them is a monumental task. Because of this characterisation and the utter *fury* that we see them display when they match to war, it creates a feeling that whoever they're marching against, regardless of who it is, is a dead man walking. They have awakened the wrath of the *trees themselves,* and they are going to sorely regret that decision.
It's like that phrase that says "The most dangerous person is the man who just wanted to be left alone"
And a scary thought is that it when they chose to act on the fall of the trees is fast for ents. Normally, years are needed to come to a choice of action.
That's my exact thought while listening to the book. it also helps with Phil Dragash amazing reading.
The Ents were created by the Valar Yavanna specifically to protect the trees because the trees were Yavannas most favorite creation. However, she also recognized that people would need wood for all kinds of purposes and thus would need to fell trees to get the wood. So she created the Ents as very patient and hard to anger so that they would only ever act against the most eggergious acts of lumberjacking.
Pacifism is only viable when you hold the position of strength. An aggressively motivated enemy does not care if you want to be left alone, so you have to give them a reason to care.
Everybody gangsta till the trees start walking.
Everybody's bladders are controlled until the walking trees start chanting >:)
Macbeth: [nervous sweating]
good border defence measure
Americans in Vietnam: I’m sorry what.
(The veitnam flashbacks kick in)
"I am the Lorax,
I speak for the trees,
Cut us down again,
And the Ents will thee besiege."
"I am the Lorax,
I speak for the trees,
they are speaking Vietnamese."
"I am the Lorax
I speak for the trees
Here's the weed."
Couldn't come up with anything better
Nice avatar
@@nurgleschosen8145 hello there brother. Are you spreading the word of nurgle?
@@ratbag7754 every Monday i spread the very lovely health tips of our ever loving Grandpa Nurgle.
You have to remember something: the Ents where dying out, always and with certainty.
Their females, the Entwives, where all gone, eternity ago.
They could either wait another eternity, futilely guarding a few forests and waiting to become so old they stilled and slept forever, or they could break Isengard and turn all the orcs within into fertilizer
The entwives left, if memory serves.I believe in the book treebeard stated the entwives cared more for flowering plants, and that ents cared for the trees of the forest, and some of the wilder plants.This became too big a difference between them.Treebeard said after the fall of isengard that they would search for the entwives.
@@azraelthe4758 They already tried searching but couldn't find the Ent Wives. The Entwives left but not a trace was found left of them.
Didnt there was fore shadowing of ents at the start of books? One hobbit said that he saw a walking tree.... or maybe my memory isnt the best?
@@ArdoolYT Tolkien already addressed in his one of his letters that when he was writing about the 'walking tree-man', he hadn't even come up with the concept of the Ents yet. Though it is possible that a few entwives may have gone to the Shire, seeing that it is the perfect homeground for the Entwives
One of my favorite theories is the one that Morgoth/Sauron murdered all of the Entwives. Makes the Ents' situation feel all the more tragic.
Earth shakes, stone breaks,
The forest is at your door.
The dark sleep is broken,
The woods have awoken,
The trees have gone to war.
Roots rend, wood bends,
The Ents have answered the call.
Through branches now the wind sings.
Feel the power of living things.
The trees have gone to war.
Nice, really freaking good.
🤘🤘🌲🌲🌳🌳 ;)
not yours but good
@@thefrenchtaunter7916 never claimed ownership. This got me in the feels when I first read it and it was appropriate for this video.
Where's it from?
There are no words in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men to describe how much I love you for doing this song!
I agree sir!
Elvish is a cool language😁
jonnythesilver
You mean mortal tongue
Nice, Treebeard would be proud:P
what about dwarwish?
"...Many of these trees were my friends! Creatures I'd known from nut and acorn... SARUMAN. A WIZARD SHOULD KNOW BETTER!!!"
"I'm sorry Treebeard." Merry.
@@mercerholt8299 "There is no curse in Elvish, Entish or the tongues of Men for this treachery."
He really should have though; he was part of Aule’s court before he fell...he should have known better than to tick off his former patron’s wife’s children.
@@devingendron2287 But the children of his patron's wife should be his brothers, not by blood, but by... y'know...
I felt that in my heart
“Yavanna returned to Aulë, and he was in his smithy, pouring molten metal into a mould. ‘Eru is bountiful,’ she said. ‘Now let thy children beware! For there shall walk a power in the forests whose wrath they will arouse at their peril.’”
I always loved his response to this which, if I remember correctly, is something along the lines of "Nonetheless, they will have need of wood"
I’ve always wondered why Aule seemed so indifferent to that. He wept so much at the idea of smiting the Dwarf Fathers. Why wouldn’t he be afraid of them being killed by the Ents?
@@BalroomBlitz715 One is them being destroyed before they could really be, with the Fathers having no hope of protecting themselves, no meaningful input. An Ent can be run from, it's anger not roused, and can be fought. Their fate is in their hands.
You just gave me chills.
@@ke7ejx
It’s a quote from the Silmarillion, I can’t take the credit.
Everybody is a master of Darkness until trees start talking.
But do the trees speak in Vietnamese?
@@TrueMentorGuidingMoonlight yes
What do trees have to talk about? Other than the consistency of squirrel droppings?
Talking yes, but what about walking?
@@Tom-re6zogood quote
"To hew the stone and break the door." That one sentence was said with so much anger, so much... the only way to describe it is malice.
Isn’t that the definition of malice
The trees are coming for your buddy sauron he fucked
I believe the word you were looking for was venom. As in 'that was said with such venom, as if just saying it left a bad taste in your mouth'.
@@beepboop4210 Malice is generally implied to be something that isn't deserved by the person it's directed at.
Merry kind of mentions it, but I think the fact Ents are so chill (at worst they get annoyed or ignore a problem) means it must take an enormous amount of assholery to annoy an Ent, and seeing a bunch of them superangry is probably scary by comparison.
I'm sorry but is no one going to talk about how deep this guys voice is and how amazingly badass it is
Your god dame right
I will. I am going to mention that Tolkien describes the ents as speaking in high voices. Still, it's an amazing rendition.
@@aaronimp4966 I'm probably wrong, but maybe "high" meant loud?
No, he didn't. He described them as a runble. QUICKBEAM had a "higher voice than Treebeard" is all.
The bass singer was using throat singing techniques to get that deep.
“There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.”
Look, the trees! There moving!
They have bussines with the orcs
@@arturoosornio1953 My business is with Isengard tonight. With a rock and stone...
Come my friends. The Ents are going to war. it is likely that we go... To our doom.
*the last march of the ents*
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This feels like the awakened wrath of the forest, slow yet booming and unstoppable, strong enough to crush walls and morale. A fitting song for the last living Sons of Yvanna to march to war to. Especially as it sounds as if this song is slowly surrounding and smothering Isengard’s theme if you listen carefully.
If you listen carefully there’s a guy who seems to be doing a Jeremy Irons impression but he’s slightly out of sync with the rest of the choir 😂
POV: You just broke a twig in Athel Loren.
"To Isengard! Though Isengard be ringed and barred with doors of stone;
Though Isengard be strong and hard, as cold as stone and bare as bone,"
The cadence of these lines are forever with me now.
“We go, we go, we go to war.
To hew the stone, and break the door.”
Has stuck with me since I first read the book.
Saruman got a taste of Yavanna's wrath! He who wields the axe without restraint or care, should sleep lightly.
tiggergolah indeed he did.
that's the thing with Aule-minds. they don't ever seem to learn from each other, otherwise Sarumon and Sauron both should have remembered fate of the dwarves of nogrod.
@@dennisnedry8126 I mean Aule himself seems fine though... It's just the people who try to follow him. Sauron was originally a Maiar in Aule's service.
@@trevorx7872 aule himself just got a little impatient, was willing to correct his mistake at once cause illuvataur basically thought dwarves were a good idea, and seems to have learned not to follow his own ideas without extreme thought and talking it over with manwe on whether or not illuvataur liked it too. Sauron and sarumon didn't seem to understand it.
I sleep with my axe, but Im a Guardian of the forests, my axe has yet to bite anything living.
*the trees start speaking*
Orcs: *Isengard Flashbacks*
Do you think many orks survived this to remember?
@@kaisun5167 that statement though.....
@@kaisun5167, yes! Bu-ram-rum!
The implementation of the Isengard theme from the movies was just perfect.
i wanted to say this exact same sentence
It's honestly hard for me to discern it out of the theme - this song lacks the same jagged, harsh edge the Isengard march theme holds and that's what always stuck out to me.
And the Fellowship theme motif was cool as well
I heard little echo of the Rohan theme there, which was nice.
What movie is it
Just imagine the look the uruk-hia had when the forest suddenly started aggressively marching on the plain and tell his commander that.
Uruk-hai*, and you grafted that into my brain
"Oi, cmander? Why's the trees stomping over mi crew?!" *commander, already half a mile away running* "Ah..."
How do you say we're fucked in black speech
@@shaman9024 I know its a- *gets crushed by treebeard*
@@mrhalfwit972 what was that didn't hear you cause your dead
Okay, so I read LoTR before watching it, and for pretty much everything, I was quite pleased with what the movies did, except for one thing; I was legitimately pissed off that they didn’t include this song. Just by reading the lyrics, before I ever watched it, I got chills a couple time over. And while I was watching the movies and heard what the ents sounded like, I spent the entirety of the rest of the movie waiting to hear the marching song, but when the attach started, and no ent singing was heard, I was SO pissed that they didn’t do it. Thank you for making my making my childhood dream a reality. Thank you so much!
@Lord of Jonkeys in the book they are portrayed even more peacefuly and 'slow' than in the movie. That's why this song was so menacing and mind- drilling, even just on paper
As a huge fan of the books and Tolkien's writing in general, I was also crushingly disappointed with the way the entmarch was portrayed... the movies did it in an almost comic-relief sort of way, kind of goofy and silly and classic fantasy "good guys beat bad guys because they're the good guys!" sort of style. In the books, the entmarch is arguably the single most destructive and violent event in the entirety of the War of the Ring. Isengard is the most advanced, most powerful city-state in the human world, an industrial superpower Platonic Republic led by a sorcerer-king... when the ents attack, the battle lasts a single day, and in the end, everything but the magical tower of Orthanc is rubble, and every living human and orc in Isengard is dead (except for Saruman and those in the tower itself). In the movies, Gandalf shows up like Jesus to save the day at Helm's Deep; in the books, the ents simply unleash the huorns (rage-filled murderous tree spirits) who independently go hunting down and slaughter 10,000 uruk-hai with virtually no resistance. The movies really did undercut the impact of the statement Tolkien was trying to make with the whole portrayal of ents and their role in the natural world -- nature may be a peaceful, life-loving entity... but if you betray it and abuse it, there will be a reckoning.
Jimbo Slice
To be fair to the movies here, the huorns DO make an appearance at Helm’s Deep in the extended editions. Once Gandalf rocks up with the Rohirrim and the Uruk-Hai retreat, the battle wasn’t technically won because the Rohirrim were still massively outnumbered and still stuck in a corner.
The Huorns just show up in the path of the Uruks who smash straight into them and are never seen again.
The books could be more explicit about the sacking of Isengard but the Lord of the Rings films are colossal so I feel like the Ents awesome power and strength was achieved via implication rather than an overt display (although they still get something to that effect).
They r too much things to put in 3 movies
@@NotQuiteEnglish01 In the second movie didn't one ent pick up a cave troll, and use it as a club to smash orcs?
I think it’s for the best that the ents are so reluctant to do literally anything by nature. The fury of the forest roused is not a force that can be resisted.
Maybe Melkor with his Balrogs and fire drakes. But certainly not by orcs with swords and torches. And if the ents march on a rainy day I’m not sure anything could stop them. Living wood is hard enough to burn, forget about it if it’s soaked.
Apparently, greek fire oil could burn underwater. Believed to be based in crude oil and quicklime, it appears to be a primitive form of napalm. The family that created the weapon around 672 A.D. took the secret to their grave. We see in the films that Saruman had developed a form of gunpowder, so it's not that big of a stretch. Thankfully, he didn't make any, so we don't have to worry about it. :)
Ironically the Ents battled Morgoth in the War of Wrath, when the Hosts of the Valar and cast him from Middle Earth in the First Age
This is HANDS DOWN one of the most amazing YOU WOKE THE SLEEPING BEAR songs ever.
I always pictured the emts sounding angrier than they sound in this song but it's really good. I love it.
Play it back at .75 speed and it gets more chilling. Its awesome
Try at 0.75x
Honestly I think the more calm fury shown here is fitting with the normally peaceful and jolly ents
@@isaacluna308 Play it at 2x speed and they sound jolly again!
Play this at 0.75 speed and it feels like the slow speech of the ents and it’s amazing
It is...
So much better!
i salute thee!:D
I usually get my book out and follow the music while I read the lyric
terrific at .75 speed
My new favorite by y'all.
1. It's about my favorite race.
2. It's a genuinely badass war song...
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Treebeard: A wizard should know better...
"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish or the tongues of Men... for this treachery..."
@@zztalk646 Look the trees! There moving!
@@shadowstrider8295 They have business with the Orcs....my business is with Isengard tonight...with the rock and stone
Barrum come my friends, The ents are going to war. It is likely we go to our doom. The last march of the ents
@@zztalk646 Nor in orcish... hard to believe that they don't have a curse for it though... On second thought orcs probably do have good curse for it
This is definitely my favorite Clamavi recording. It fits how I feel the ents would sound perfectly. Normally soft (yet loud and slow) voices suddenly harsh and fast. It really shows how the ents were feeling.
I especially like the voice that dominates the first part of the song, it's very gravely, and captures how I think Treebeard would sound singing in anger. I also love how even though that voice is less noticeable later on, it's still there if you search for it, which really demonstrates how even though Treebeard is the ent everyone thinks of, he's not the only one. In the end, they are all brothers, of equal measure.
I love the idea that the Ents are so friggin mad that they speak and move at a normal pace
It is said in the books that Treebeard is one of the oldest ents
@@marmot418 Yeah but they're still all ents, mostly ancient, and all important. To claim he is the only important one because he's the oldest would be silly.
It's a dwindling race, they can't really afford to treat each other like some are lesser.
Ents, the great tree shepherds, are the oldest creatures in all of middle earth and are the most wise creatures that still walk this earth.
Didn't dwarves *technically* come before the Ents?
@@ThePaeppa no, ends are older than the trees
@@ThePaeppa the dwarves were *technically* last. But really first.
It is your work that first made me see how good Tolkien's songs really are. Every time I read LOTR, I found the marching song somewhat ridiculous, because it reminded me of some stupid musical and somehow ruined the spirit for me. Thank you for interpreting this - your version is way better than what my mind could devise of those lines. Next time I read the books, your interpretations will let me enjoy them even more.
thebiglebenski1 keep in mind also that Tolkien drew on a lot of his experience in WW1 when he wrote the books. There were many marching songs, to keep tempo and pass the time on the long marches across Europe.
You should be listening to Summoning, bro. Many of their songs are based on Lotr poems
Beware the wrath of the truly patient
Never upset the nice guys... they're the scariest when angry...
I like to think that the drums in the song is the ents footsteps. Slow and unstoppable. Like the ents themselves and their own matching pace
Nature give some much things but can take back too
J.R.R. Tolkien would be proud of all the works you've done from him! Keep up the great work looking forward to the next Tolkien piece you make! The one Clamavi De Profundis to rule them all!
We of course know that if actual Ents would sing, it would take at least a week to finish a paragraph haha
😁😂😂😂😂
No no no. That is only if they sing in entish. This song is in English.
@@joshuaplotkin8826 Just to be annoying, its in Westron.
I’m a simple man. I see a Clamavi De Profundis song and I leave a like.
It ain't much but it is honest work
You are a fellow man of culture.
It never ceased to shock me how, when we first see Isengard before we learn of Saruman's betrayal how fervent and green it is and yet when the ents march in Two Towers so much of the forest is gone and the land is blackened and barren.
I legit never noticed that lol
It looked like Texas today
This song is made even better now that you have released "the ent and the ent wife" and you remember that it is because of the war that the ents and the ent wives were separated. Now the ents are taking action against the war so it can end and they can be reunited with the ent wives. These two songs compliment and connect to each other perfectly in a way few others can match.
I suppose Macbeth should be on the lookout right about now.
@hunter christensen Yes, I remember. It was because Tolkien was disappointed that it was just a bunch of guys holding branched rather than actual trees that he invented the Ents. It seems Tolkien took a lot of inspiration from his disappointments in Shakespeare's writing...
That connection was half the reason I made the joke. XD
@@FANacht-dy3tb Tolkien. the man who turns un-taken opportunity's and turns em into something to be remembered till the end of an age
@@FANacht-dy3tb Also, he had Eowyn kill the Witch King to mock how convoluted Macbeth's prophecy resolution was.
@@FANacht-dy3tb Tolkien. The man who got disappointed and decided to correct SHAKESPEARE.
And going by which scene is more iconic, totally succeeded. :)
"Something is about to happen which has not occurred since the Elder Days. The Ents are going to wake, and find that they are strong."
Chills down my spine every time !!! Thank you so much for this , hell of a song to get hyped for a work out
vivamexico254 Why? Do you throw boulders for a workout?
Will Raptorclaw of course
You truly nailed this it honestly feels like Ents are singing this song I can imagine even the disciplined ranks of the Uruk-hai cowering in terror as the Ents march upon them
Thank you for this. The Ents are my favourite race, but sadly they are underrated, almost forgotten.
Mark Tresztian well of course they’re almost forgotten, they are so ancient there are few who even remember they exist anymore due to their seclusion
i remember making a character called "The Lord of Dirt" a mad dwarf who self declared himself a lord and owner of all dirt so he when around enslaving ents
Mark Tresztian and the movies sorta made them seem not as wise and magical as they were in the book.
But if they were overrated, you ... wood also complain
Personally ents are second only to dwarves.
The way their voices capture the thundering rage of the forest is truly beautiful
The unyielding power of Nature...
No technological wizardry will stop it, and Tolkien knew that
Technological wizardry is also a nature.
giobronskiJ The Age of Iron shall be upon you.
That’s why All of human endeavor have been to subvert and take advantage of nature
Technology constantly makes a fool of nature, throughout our history we have warped nature with technology for good or ill,
Lock3 And yet we are only killing ourselves with every step.
Kinda wanted it to be "The Ents come marching one by one, hurrah! Hurrah!"
Was that a pun?
😂
Maybe for april fools day
I get that reference.
I got the reference lmao
This is so incredibly epic, yet so sad. The Ents have marched one last time. They will fade into legend, the legends of the kingdoms of men that are fated to become an industrialist society just as the Ents fought against in Saruman.
Next could you guys do Galadriel's Song of Eldamar? The one that she sang as the Fellowship left Lothlórien? The first line was "I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew"
Imagine being Merry or Pippin sitting on Treebeards shoulder and hearing this as the ents slowly march to Isengard.
I would never touch an axe again
When you draw the perfect hand with your mono Green deck
So true. Every Mono-green or Green/White should be named "Ent battalion"
Artifact deck mains: why do I hear boss music
@@danksterdan1682 *salesnya flashbacks Intensify*
Dankster Dan no lie, I made a saleanya token generator commander deck, and like... in a multiplayer game of like 8 people, nobody bothered me since I had no board presence...
Until in one turn I laid out 80 3/3 saprolings with flying, vigilance, double strike and life link, and then doubled them.
Everyone just looked at me like "wtf"
And then I asked everyone at the table "what's your life at?"
And that is why I dont have magic friends anymore lol
@@reapordeath Morons if you see white and green in the same deck kill it
It is said that it takes a long time to say anything in old Entish, so they don’t bother to say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.
This is how the ents say ‘you don goofed’
This gives you the feeling of being up in your ivory tower, when suddenly, trees tall or taller than your tower, apraoch, slowly, unstoppably. More and more.
So bassicly, this is the best thing EVER. : )
Eloquent, truly. Keep creating these masterpieces
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vESPYY prolly
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Raven's Quote Use 「D4C」 and like it twice by bringing an alternate universe account in.
@@ravensquote7206 *I CAN ONLY GET AIDS ONCE!?!?!?!?!?!?*
*hacks into the youtube interface and likes this video 10000 times* there
Well 2 if you are a bit australian
Good music from this generation doesn't exi....
RdriveStudios Technically, it came from 2 Generations ago
Yochai Wyss but it was adapted into music by a generation of today
everything about Lord of the Rings get automaticaly history and classic its was wrote in an time of honor and respect and its about honor and respect. Clamavi.... you are awesome keep going ....(a little less electronical sounds) thats just not Lord of the Rings 😊😂
i spy with my little eye: a 9gagger :P
I have a principle I invented myself, which I like to call the "Forgettable Principle". Basically, it builds on a principle called Sturgeon's Law. It dictates that "90% of everything is crap". For every good work of art, fiction, music, whatever, there's at least nine others that are crap. My "Forgettable Principle" goes on to state that people don't remember crap, because it's, well, crap. Only the good stuff goes down in history. This means that there's this great filter of time and memory that erases all of the crappy parts of the past, making it seem like the past, for instance, only had great music, whereas music today is crap. It's not true. Music in the past was crap too, but you only remember the 10% that was actually good.
I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees
We come,we come
To break your knees
Isengard and Saruman
This is one of my favorite pieces that you all have done, I can't get enough of it. You achieved everything you set out to do based on the description. It pains me that you are unable to sell it as it is the best version of the song that I've ever heard, even over those Christopher Lee was involved with. When I hear it I can SEE the Ents marching, and I can FEEL their rage. Keep this up, and thank you so much for doing it. I love to sing along to your songs as well and I envy you for the pleasure of recording them. Your voices suit them so well.
Really love the song, amazing content. Watch it at x0.75 speed to get an even deeper impression of the Ents' slooooow vibe. Chills all over!
Another magnificent work. Please make a version of the song of Beren and Luthien
Oh yes that would be great :)
This and the Song duel between Sauron and Finrod Felagund :)
stenlly mitrandir yes, a great song about an amazing duel
stenlly mitrandir or Fingolfin and Morgoth
Yes please, make a songversion of beren and luthien ^^
i wish there were more songs like the beginning the deep almost non human voice
Saruman: "The forest of Fangorn lies at our doorstep. BURN IT."
Orc chief: "YEEEEESGH..."
Ents: "So anyway, we went marching..."
2:20 is my favourite part!
The tiny trumpet (or whatever it is) feels like now the smaller trees have joined the march of the loud and heavy ents.
I've been hearing this song on loop now :'D
Alternative Ent Marching Song:
We come, we come, with horn and drum
Ta-runa ta-runa ta-runa rum
To war, to war, for Moooordoor
With ashen bark, and darkened hearts
We sound our war, with Orcish hordes
To war, to war, to Gooondooor
To tree of life, ringed stone of white
With screeching Kings and dreaded Rings
A war, a war, to end Gondor
To crush Men's Hearts, to bring the Dark
So says our Lord, Lord of Mordor
Ta-runa ta-runa ta-runa run
We come, we come,
With doom, we come
With long, dead Kings
Our Cursed Rings
That burned our bark
All Ents turned dark
We come, we come
With doom, we come
This is a really cool view on what the ents would have sounded like if the worked for Sauron
@@connorgartrell9720 Yes.
Sorry, but you have to face the truth that.
A) there was no rhythm to your piece
B) if this was in the LoTR books, how would it fit into the story.
C) THE ENTS WERE ACTIVELY AGAINST SAURON
@@ethandawes7534 This is a universe where the Ents were bad.
I want you to know how much I appreciate this channel..
Please never stop exploring music from middle Earth.
The Last March of the Ents was one of my favorite scenes in the movie, and it would have been so awesome to have had them singing this song while marching on Isengard. Because the only thing more terrifying then vengeful walking trees attacking you are vengeful singing walking trees attacking you.
Warms my heart whenever I hear such good music with strong voices.
Good god this gave me chills for the entire song. That was a breathtaking performance.
Now I can listen to Tolkien's poems, my dreams came true
"with tramp of doom we come." that's one angry hobo XD.
richard conaway I think that’s a reference. In “misty mountains” there is a line “the mountain smoked beneath the moon, the dwarves they heard the tramp of doom”.
Doesn’t really relate to ents though, so maybe Tolkien just liked the vibe
@ Eugene Levin
VERB
To walk heavily or noisily.
"He tramped around the room."
So yes it does relate to Ents.
HAHAHAHAHA!
hermosa
no thats a very angry bonsai
I don't understand how you guys always craft such masterful pieces, but please don't stop!
So I was reading the description, and it said that your family sang it. First off, what an awesome family. Second, daaaaaang you guys have some nice voices. Keep it up👍
This is amazing! PLEASE UPDATE YOUR SPOTIFY!
This song hardens my bones and strengthens my sinews. Thank you!
My goodness, what a bass! I was expecting something with a bit more movement...and yet, because the Ents are never "hasty," I can see that even their battle-march wouldn't be too lively. Splendid. I'd love to hear it with a whole choir of heldentenors and Rachmaninoff-basses...
This song feels brave and sad at the same time. One of the best song from the Lord of the rings. Thank you for the awesome work!
This song has become the latest obsession of mine. The tone just gives me such chills you can feel the power in it, very well done!
This is why it took them so long to have a discussion, they were writing this song.
Everyone is a badass until an entire forest gets up and goes to war 😅
Everybody gangsta till the forest shows up to your home
you go to sleep on an open plain and you wake up surrounded by trees
This is probably my favorite part in the books and I was so sad to see it left out of the movie. This is a beautiful version of the song, just perfect, I'm crying happy tears. Thank you.
I wish someone could make an audiobook for "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings", but with your songs in stead of the original ones. It would be awesome
That would make it so much easier to enjoy the songs without wondering what tune they would follow
I really like how it starts slow, and builds speed towards the end, much like how events were described in the book, Merry and Pippin being the first small stones that gradually build into a raging avalanche, the song indeed sounds as an avalanche might sing.
GENIUS! you guys are brlliant minds!! thank you so much for this great work !
I really like this! Very strong music, a good interpretation of the song from the book!
This is why I don't cross the power of nature. In the end, the forests always win, which is why I pay my respects when hunting or camping.
Every time I’m like “I really want to hear this Tolkien song” it’s always you guys thank you so much
Splendid! I've recently finished this chapter of the book
Thank you for making ents even more badass than they already were in the movie. This is such a good song.
TO ISENGARD AHHH!!!
Booraroom!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! ⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️
Dû-bekâr
Very appropriate song for the Ents you did great.
I play sylvaneth in warhammer age of sigmar, and this song was part of why I picked them. Imagine an army of angry trees marching on your army and then suddenly, you just hear this low and haunting song.
Powerful and chilling but also somber and moving. I get goosebumps when I listen to it.
I love the orchestration you guys did. The poem-which is to say Tolkien’s written lyrics-are good, but it takes a little musical imagination to make it as epic as it should be. The basso profundo in this is incredible and really sells the terror of Ents roused to war.
I was fortunate enough to find about Clamavi de Profundis before reading LOTR and every time I get to a song or a poem in a book I listen to the composition that CDP made for it as I read it. It has been such an amazing experience so far!
Dear Hearts, I do not have enough words to tell you how much I love how you have captured the Ents marching....the long-simmering anger and rage that can no longer be contained. I feel like I march with Them. All Love
Rule #14235: DONT PISS OFF THE TREES!!!!
You mean rule one.
It's just not a good idea.
If Ents existed, Europe, the US, China, Russia, and basically all the world's superpowers wouldn't exist, because they would have kept on being crushed by an army of triggered Ents.
@@Mikulus Because they didn't cut down trees like crazy, like Saruman and maybe even AMURICA!
Every rule just comes back to not pissing off the trees
You songs have helped awaken something deep inside of me, and for that I am grateful.
the Ents go marching two by two hurrah, hurrah.
The Ents go marching two by two, the little hobbits stop to tie their shoe
And they all go marching now with a sound
Isengard on their brains.
Z: Why don't we try influencing the ents political processes through campaign contributions?
I just found this and I have had the marching song memorized since early childhood and this has brought me so, so much joy.
I really appreciated the themes from the movie that were running through the background. It made it even more chilling.
Outstanding as always! Perfectly captured the marching aspect of the song. You guys are great.
love lumbering around my house & pretending i'm swatting orcs aside while listening to this
... I have waited so long and hoped your folks would do this song... I am beyond satisfied!