Complete Score to LotR 11/22
This is news I’ve been waiting for for a long time:
Shore’s Rings Complete Recordings Coming
The complete Oscar and Grammy winning score to “The Fellowship of the Ring,” from the epic film trilogy “The Lord of the Rings,” will be available in a deluxe four-disc edition from Reprise/WMG Soundtracks on November 22nd, 2005.
Eventually, the scores for all three movies will be released: 9 CDs in all. Howard Shore’s music brought the movies to life. The Two Towers in particular is the best, UHO. The Rohan themes are especially moving. Shore brings out the loneliness and hopelessness of a failing society, only to turn it into the glorious possibilities of a reborn king.
The one track I look forward to most, though, is from Return of the King. The current soundtrack eliminates the tragic splendor of the Ride of the Rohirrim to Minas Tirith. That is probably my favorite moment in all the films, and I was heartbroken that it was left out of the original release. I can’t say for certain why, but I remember that the Academy did not want to award Oscars for what it saw as repeat work, so it put a threshold in place to make sure submitted scores were not derivitaves. That set of music was a culmination of themes originally from The Two Towers so I still wonder if that’s why it was omitted. Whatever the reason, I’ll be glad to have it.
