Billy 'Pippin' Boyd Returns With a Tolkien Song for Final 'Hobbit' Movie

Lord of the Rings Hobbit Billy Boyd is back for some big-screen J.R.R. Tolkien fun — but this time he’s forgoing the hairy feet.

Instead, the 46-year-old performer, who fronts a band called Beecake and has made music for two Rings soundtracks, will be showing off his pipes for the end-title song in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.

Aside from singing, Boyd co-wrote the aptly named “The Last Goodbye” with the film’s masterminds: Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens.

The filmmakers say the tune “is both a farewell to Middle-earth and it is also our leave-taking of the audience. We cannot imagine a more perfect voice to carry us away from the shores of Middle-earth…one last time.”

Boyd’s best-known LOTR song is “Edge of the Night,” the lament sung by Pippin as crazy Denethor sent the men of Gondor to their doom.

Jackson has used the end-credit song to showcase some talented musicians over the course of his two Middle-earth trilogies. Annie Lennox won a Best Original Song Oscar in 2004 for “Into the West“ — the end-credit song in 2003’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Enya got nominated in the category for “May It Be,” her song from 2001’s Fellowship of the Ring.

Crowded House singer Neil Finn performed “Song of the Lonely Mountain,” which capped The Hobbit: Unexpected Journey, and Ed Sheeran’s ”I See Fire” showed up on last year’s Desolation of Smaug end credits.

And yes, Boyd’s “Goodbye” song will appear on the soundtrack of the film, due in theaters Dec. 17.

Photo: New Line Cinema (from The Lord Of The Rings: The Return of the King)