Aglaron

I agree that this is probably the most reasonable approach. Let's hope we won't have to wait too long for the book this time around. I thought about it before, yes. Especially the Rarities would be very interesting I think. I was a bit hesitant about the OSTs at first as the albums don't include a lot of different music. Additionally, it might be inconvenient to make future changes if I'm maintaining two similar but still very different lists. But I will look into it when I find the time. It would certainly make the app more complete and shouldn't be too much work in comparison to the CRs.

Hello everyone! I'm the guy behind http://musicofmiddleearth.com/ and after lurking here for some time, this might be a good moment for my first post. Glad to hear you find the application interesting! Maybe a few words on the project: I created the app mainly for myself, because I found it very inconvenient to listen to existing theme lists using only a music player like iTunes. Releasing the app online was more of an afterthought; it isn't very professional and I only work on it as a hobby. I used http://www.melson.nl/lotr/ as a base but made my own changes. Some tracks were very incomplete and I had to adjust many of the timings by a few seconds to have consistent timings in the app. I also made heavy use of Doug's book of course and tried to include all of his mentioned theme occurrences. I'm not really musically educated, so I'm probably not the most qualified person to do something like this. There are probably many mistakes throughout the list but of course, everything can be discussed and I would gladly make corrections and release updates in the future to make this better! (Some things are still very imprecise. For example, the whole 'Moria' track is only listed as a variation of the 'Moria' theme and the themes 'Riders of Rohan' and 'Shelob' are missing completely.) The iOS version is currently one update behind the desktop version and the online list, which is why 4:18 - 4:26 in the Prologue is not the same in the two versions. (I'll try to update this as soon as possible.) As some of you already mentioned in the meantime, 'Rivendell' and 'Weakness & Redemption' are very closely related. (See Doug's book for his explanation about 'W&R' and its connection to 'Rivendell' and 'The Pity of Gollum'.) http://www.melson.nl/lotr/ has it listed as 'Rivendell', but to be fair, there is no 'W&R' at all in that list... I later changed it to 'W&R' simply because this is how it's listed in Doug's book and I don't see a direct connection to Rivendell in the film. (Isildur with the ring, Galadriel talking: "... but the hearts of men are easily corrupted. And the ring of power has a will of its own.") Concerning 'The Hobbit': I would really like to include it as some point in the future. It just wasn't a priority for now and I'm not sure how to do it properly. Ultimately I want this to be as complete as possible and consistent to Doug's book. I also don't think that I could create a list by myself. For now I always refer to this excellent list in this forum: http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=23907. (This is actually the reason why I found this forum in the first place.) I could of course include this list in the application for now (only if it's fine with Jason LeBlanc obviously) and make changes in the future as we learn more about 'The Music of The Hobbit'. As I mentioned above, I'm always open for suggestions! Greetings from Switzerland!