Review Neil Finn's Song of the Lonely Mountain

At the end of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey as the credits roll by a song called Song of the Lonely Mountain plays. The song is performed by Neil Finn. The song tells of the dwarves quest. Finn states in an interview with Rolling Stone (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-finn-reaches-epic-heights-on-song-of-the-lonely-mountain-song-premiere-20121112) that it was developed from the singing bit the dwarves sing in Bilbo Baggins home at Bag End. The song has excellent vocals, chants and someone pounding away at an anvil which goes well with the dwarven theme. Peter Jackson told Finn to get into "a dwarven state of mind" (Source: same Rolling Stones article referenced earlier in this post) and in my opinion, he succeeds.

Overall, I think Finn wrote and sings an excellent song that ties in well with the movie and, it's theme's. The only downside I see is the song isn't played till the credits start rolling. Would be listeners may be tempted to skip this fine tune in their rush to leave the movie theater. For those who want to listen to the tune, the referenced Rolling Stone article has a link that will bring up a Rolling Stone flash music player that will play the song for free. I've played the song a number of times on this flash player and, it works great. I would definitely recommend this song to Hobbit and Lord of the Rings fans. It goes really well with the first Hobbit movie. Happy listening all!