Track-by-Track: Soundtrack Discussion and Analysis

[Anguirel]

...this track summons to the mind one of the most iconic moments of the film (and book), when the Three Hunters are running across the plains. I remember being excited beyond words when I heard it. 28 seconds in the Fellowship theme (I think? Duh-duh, duhh, duh-duh-duuhh) cuts in, swelling the heart and making me want to jump off my chair. We then hear only a few notes of Rohan before the Forces of Evil take over. The dichotomy, the struggle, the epic of the story, is perfectly encapsulated. But the moment at 00:28 is still the peak, certainly of the track, possibly of the film...it has what Tolkien called eucatastrophe. It seems to me a far more potent expression of this than the badly mishandled arrival of Aragorn at the Pelennor Fields in the film of ROTK.