Track-by-Track: Soundtrack Discussion and Analysis

[The Tennis Ball Kid]

But the moment at 00:28 is still the peak, certainly of the track, possibly of the film...

It's good (very good), but I wouldn't go quite that far. The peak of the film comes later...

I think it captures the sense that the Fellowship, though scattered, still holds true. I like the simpler orchestration here, it is but a remmant that pursues the orcs.


The fiddle solo as the flag tears away in the wind is glorious, the visuals and music working together perfectly.


I also like the way the Old English lyrics are used throughout TTT to underscore the Rohhirrm's plight.

While I'm here....

The Box-Setisc One:
#1: Prologue (7:10)**
#2: The Shire, Middle Earth(:58)
#3: Concerning Hobbits(1:31)
#4: The Road Goes Ever On....(:39)
#5: A Wizard is Never Late(4:05)**
#6: Very Old Friends(1:39)
#7: A Night To Remember(1:26)
#8 Party#1(:45)
#9 Party#2(:57)
#10: The Sackville-Bagginses!(1:43)
#11: Goodbye(1:00)
#12: It's In My Pocket(1:43)
#13: The End of My Book(1:09)
#14: Riddles in The Dark(1:18)
#15: "Neither Secret, or Safe..."(3:14)**
#16: "The Green Dragon" (:20)
#17: "Rosie" (:17)
#18: "It Is The One Ring" (1:48)
#19: "Bilbo Found It" (:23)
#20: "Sauron endured" (:44)
#21: "Remarkable Hobbits" (3:53)**
#22 "The Journey Begins" (1:47)**
#23: "Wood Elves" (:49)
#24: "To Isengard!" (:40)**
#25: "Reason Exchanged for Madness" (2:27)**
#26: "The Treason of Isengard" (:55)**
#27: "Shortcut To Mushrooms" (:49)**
#28: "Brandybucks and Tooks" (:14)
#29: "Get off the road!" (:13)*
#30: "The Black Rider" (2:36)**
#31: "At The Sign of The Prancing Pony" (:27)**
#32: "No Gandalf" (:21)
#33 "Strider" (:38)**
#34 "Frodo Baggins" (:23)
#35 "Nazgul In The Night" (1:12)**
#36 "Journey To Rivendell" (2:07)
#37: Second Breakfast (1:08)
#38: Desecration of Isengard (:39)
#39: A Knife In The Dark (1:40)**
#40: Even the Smallest Creature... (4:02)**
#41: Weed (:48)
#42: AATF (5:23)**
61.58 Of music, 28.26 released

Disc Two:
#1: "Short Cuts Make For Long Delays" (1:01)
#2: "Many Meetings" (3:18)**
#3: "Aniron" (2:02)*
#4: "Men? Bah!" (2:23)
#5: Broken Heirloom (1:06)
#6: Isildur's Bane (1:12)
#7: Gondor Needs The Ring, Not A King (2:08)
#8: The Fellowship is Formed (3:10)**
#9: "Gilraen" (:57)*
#10: "The Ring goes South" (3:46)**
#11: "Rabbi! From Dublin!"(4:20)
#12: "Moria" (3:56)
#13: "Open Sesame!" (:40)
#14: "The Watcher" (1:34)
#15: "Journey In The Dark" (2:15)**
#16: "Pity/The Darrowdelf" (5:26)**
#17: "Here They Come!" (1:05)
#18: "Not dead (yet!)" (4:15)**
#19: "The Bridge Of Khazad-Dum" (7:53)**
55.24 of music, 13.53 released

Disc Three:
#1: "Lothlorien" (7:25)**
#2: "Lament For Gandalf" (1:58)**
#3: "Silver Trumpets" (1:05)
#4: "The Mirror Of Galadriel (2:50)
#5: "Test Of Galadriel (2:28)**
#6: "The Fighting Uruk-hai" (1:57)
#7: "Gifts Of Galadriel" (5:21)**
#8: "The Great River/The Argonath" (5:09))**
#9: "Boromir Succumbs" (2:40)
#10: "Temptation Of Aragorn" (:48)**
#11: "That Which It Defends" (7:22)**
#12: "The Passing Of Boromir" (1:55)**
#13: "The Breaking Of The Fellowship/In Dreams/May It Be" (11:39)*
51.43 music, 27.24 released
[*=released, **=partially released]

The latest news is that we might be getting the complete scores one at a time, staggered by a couple months, begining this fall, presumably to avoid turning people off by the huge price to get the whole thing at once. And we should get more news hopefully in a couple weeks. LINK

This might be of interest if anyone here is attending the Symphony in Toronto:

By the way, if any one’s going to be in the Toronto area the weekend of June 4 and 5 and planning on attending the any Kitchener Waterloo Philharmonic’s LOTR concerts, I’m scheduled to speak as part of a panel at Roy Thompson Hall that weekend discussing film music and Shore’s scores. Should anyone be interested in a little sneak preview of upcoming publications, please drop me a line. I sound far less like a bad fortune cookie in person. (My email is in my profile.)

-Doug Adams

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