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Does it have a booklet or brief notes? It has a 6-page booklet with information about the film and a track-by-track analysis by Randall D. Larson.

I like this score a lot too. It's been very underrated on this forum

News on the recut.

Daddy Snoozeman is so hawt. Karol

David Arnold and Thomas Newman on Classic FM David Arnold and Thomas Newman spoke to Classic FM in an exclusive interview with film music expert Tommy Pearson - to be broadcast on Friday 19th October. Link

Starting a wiki on film scores is not a bad idea and it would be a fount of knowledge even a very high quality one if proper moderating and editorial work was done to the articles. I think we have enough of a variety of members that such resentment wouldn't happen. It wouldn't be like a review site, where one man's tastes can cloud opinions on an entire genre (such as Clemmenson, who routinely trashes anything to do with RCP or Newman's experimental side). But I do think Mark O is right - anything involving JW would probably be heavily balanced towards ass kissing. I think that last sentence is once again completely sarcastic over reacting on your part. I do not know when did positive discussion and analysis become such a negative thing? Analysis can be done as a wrinkled brow dissecting of the subject matter or with empathy to the subject, trying to understand rather than the goal being to pick it apart and find flaws in it. If you aim for a relatively neutral and objective database of useful information, then editors should be put to work to correct the articles going overboard with either praise or overt negativity.Of course there are already soundtrack databases in the internet but they are really just that, aimed for collecting the basic information on the releases and scores instead of providing anything more in-depth like analysis, links to reviews, magazine articles, appearance of the music in other media etc.

The "Gift of Ilúvatar" is not merely natural death, but a liberation of sorts from the "Circles of the World." Men are spiritually restless and seek beyond the world, and their spirits truly depart from the world after death. The spirits (or fëa) of Elves who are killed, by contrast, never leave the world, but are gathered in the Halls of Mandos, in Valinor -- which, despite being largely sundered from Middle-earth at the time of LOTR, is still considered to be part of Arda proper. Thus, it is possible for Elves to be reincarnated, after a fashion. The fate of Dwarves is left somewhat obscure. They die a "natural" death like Men; yet, in keeping with their origin, they are far more creatures of Arda, and feel spiritually at home within it. Their conception of an afterlife is one of peaceful rest, deep within the bosom of the earth ("I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers until the world is renewed..."). Like the Elves, they have an idea of reincarnation, although it seems limited to the original Dwarf Fathers. Given all this, one might posit that the "Gift of Ilúvatar" -- with its connotation of eternal restlessness within Arda and an ultimate destiny external to it -- would be incomprehensible, if not horrifying, to the Dwarvish mind. Do hobbits have the "Gift of Ilúvatar?" I suspect the answer is yes. It is true that, like Dwarves, they are comfortable living in communion with the earth; moreso than most of the human cultures we meet in LOTR. But Tolkien makes it fairly apparent that they are an offshoot of humanity -- perhaps closer, in their lifestyle and outlook, to the human community as it existed before the corrupting influence of Morgoth (nor are they totally immune to such depredations, as Saruman/Sharkey makes abundantly clear). In their affinity for the natural world, they can be said to have "gone Dwarvish" to an extent. But the innate restlessness that is humanity's legacy has not been bred out of them entirely -- as personified, of course, by Bilbo Baggins!

Cool interview w/ Chris Young about the film and horror scoring in general: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/composer-christopher-young-horror-films-379342

http://filmmusicreporter.com/2012/10/16/james-horner-to-score-carlo-carleis-romeo-and-juliet/ Now the question is: how many Prokofiev's lifts we'll hear in this one?

Thank god Williams forgot those mantras when scoring HARRY POTTER III.

You are so bad.

Reminds me of "The Prophecy" from FOTR at the beginning. Classical Music was the film music of the 1800s! (just without films of course)

The Half-Elven lineage was very rare and such union happened only a handful of times in the entire history of Middle Earth. Tuor's son Eärendil's was the first and then came his sons Elrond and Elros, who were given as they belonged in two kindreds a choice, which would then be irrevocable, to belong either to the Firstborn Elves or to become a Man and thus relinquishing of their free will their immortality. This is purely a matter of will to choose this fate in their life. This is also a very fundamental spiritual theme in Tolkien's work, the spirit and the nobility and magic of the Elves still living among men and blessing us with their presence in the union of mortal and immortal bloodlines, a spark of divine in humanity. Tolkien's mythology is very concerned with death and deathlessness. Elves express their wish to escape their immortality as much as Men would wish to escape death. Elves were closer to the Valar or Ainur in their spirit and were more tightly bound to the Fate of the world itself and in their immortality could not escape it and were also bound to the actual world, Arda, to the very end either by living until the end or reborn and live in the Halls of Mandos, a sort of afterlife in Aman, the land of the Valar. Men were given the gift of death, which sent them somewhere none of the Elves could go, to Eru, to god. I think the way Tolkien illustrates the deep sadness of immortality, the fact that it becomes a burden in a world that decays when immortals go on and on, is not a blessing but a curse of sorts in the end and that death itself is not the curse or bane of mankind. Galadriel's words in Lothlorien are full of this sadness and regret as she talks of the long defeat she has witnessed over the millenia. He also shows how this fear of death, first instilled in Men by the Enemy, Morgoth and later by Sauron, corrupts, twists and turns Men to evil as they have turned away from the truth and express only pride, lust and madness in their quest for eternal life. Sauron corrupts the entire proud island kingdom of Númenor as he plays on the Numenoreans' pride and fear of death, their need and indeed what they think in their arrogance to be their right, to be deathless, which they in the end try to achieve by going against the very makers of the world to wrest immortality from them and are destroyed for their hybris.