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I'd go again in a heartbeat if they do all three back to back in the US again like they did in Chicago several years ago.
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You're absolutely right. I completely forgot.
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I'm curious if anybody's got an edit of the FOTR CR that straightens things out, and you said yes. I (perhaps wrongly) assumed that there was a link for it, floating around somewhere, free for the asking like many things here.
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Who's got it? @Signals?
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Has anybody actually put together a true complete edit of Fellowship of the Ring, undoing the micro edits and all, superior to the actual CR release? I'm really sorry if this has been mentioned before. I dip in from time to time but don't have the memory that some here have.
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Where did 1:00 and following come from in the first clip? It sounds familiar, but also not something I've heard before. Same for 0:07 in the second clip, and 0:32 in the third? I can tell there's been some processing . . . I'd buy this in a heartbeat
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Rings of Power Bear McCreary's "Rings of Power" Themes
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The weird thing is that the opening for this trailer trailer feels so much more Shorey than does almost any of Bear's actual music for the series (which I generally really like). -
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Wow, this is super interesting Chen. I appreciate you writing that out. So I guess then, for example, this means that the first 15-20 seconds of "Dernhelm in Battle" (what a great opening) is actually very purposefully tied to a specific theme? I really should break out my copy of Doug's book and read it page by page, cover to cover,listening to the Complete Score as I go . . .
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Honestly, repeated listens. My first go-round was on my speakers which while they are good speakers, I am hard of hearing and so often listening to a score on my AirPods actually bears more fruit than my nice speakers. I was able to pick up a lot more nuance that way. Then once I realized the first major chunk was suites, and that actual score did kick in, that changed how I listened to the music. But other than that, just listening to it over and over, getting over the (very expected) disappointment that this wasn't Shore all over again. Once I got past that and started to think of it in its own right, I noticed certain things. Themes grew on me. I picked up on bits of orchestration or writing that I really enjoyed. Some things sound a bit too modern (beginning of "Find the Light"), other parts sound too overproduced (the Megan Richards' and Sophie Nomvete' parts), the choir is too small (Nolwa Mahtar), other parts are downright bizarre (folksy hobbit-stumping for Durin), but . . . The solo harp at the beginning of "The Promised King" is really lovely. "Númenor" is honestly kinda cool. So much of the choral work - especially in "Valinor," "In the Beginning," "A Plea to the Rocks," "Find the Light" - has such a incredible choral religious that Shore touched on (to my knowledge) only once, in "The Great River" (FOTR OST). "In the Beginning" is a solid musical journey - I played it for my wife and she could immediately visualize the entire story in her head based off the music (she's reading through the Silmarillion right now). The strings and pennywhistle work in "Nobody Goes Off Trail" and "Wise One" is just really beautiful and fresh. "Water and Flame" sounds so similar to the massive 17-minute musical passage that is the end of Desolation of Smaug / beginning of Battle of the Five Armies (I once edited together those lengthy passages, so I know - it is amazing). The opening of "Sundering Seas" is just massive. The wall of brass in "The Boat" is very reminiscent of the brass in Return of the King. "Where the Shadows Lie" is slow and contemplative and reminds me of "Gollum's Song." I'm curious to see what will come of the weekly score releases. I'd also really love to hear whatever version includes the bit from 0:13–0:25: