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  1. Bofur01
    The BotFA score is strange to me - I love loads of it, but can't love it as a whole. Some of the decisions made are baffling, and that's not just because of the decisions made in the film - the number of themes Bard has by that point is ridiculous... Gundabad's theme I love, and also Dain's, but now the decision to use the Dwarf Lords theme in AUJ for Dain now goes nowhere at all, instead of it becoming Dain's theme. I also think the new "Preparing for War" motif, badass though it be, is a bit pointless - would not one of the Dwarf themes have done, seeing as there's already Erebor's, Thorin's, and the House of Durin's themes hanging around? and then there's the mix. Eurgh. Does no favours for Ravenhill/To the Death... But I always really enjoy listening to it, despite the fact I'm a bit disappointed in some of the directions taken. Odd, really.
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    I loved the first 20 seconds or so of this as well... That theme, whether you call it the doctor's theme or whatever, gave me more than a few chills.
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    Happy April Fools? ? It all sounds too eerily familiar for me... That and the fact that "loafsorlip" comes up with nothing on Google... ?
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    This is probably a pretty boring observation that is either wrong or doesn't mean anything but I was just listening to TTT again, and couldn't help but be reminded of the Ogres' motif by 3:58 onwards of "The Wolves of Isengard"... just found it pretty cool they sounded so strangely similar, if only in shape...
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    Well, to be fair, I'm not sure if the lack of directorial continuity helped the continuity of the music, but there we go. Though I agree with mrbellamy on Doyle, I think he did a good job, and I also liked Despot's efforts. Just not sure why nearly all continuity was abandoned a few times between scores... I'm guessing it's not known whether it was the directors who requested different sounding scores, or whether it was the composers? I also still don't have Hooper's scores, I want to get them to complete the set, but wasn't a great fan of them in the film, though they served their purpose... And I haven't exactly heard great things about them on here either...
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    Please say that Hobbit CRs are coming with these rereleased LotR ones, please!
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    I was meaning 6:06 onwards, just to be specific... I could be wrong though ? In the BotFA EE, via tracking, it's used twice for Bofur on the troll, maybe something to do with Dwarven heroics?
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    Please forgive me if this is known/has been discussed already, but isn't the section of music at 0:54 in Sons of Durin very reminiscent of that edited out section of the Forest River, where Bombur is hacking orcs up in his barrel, and jumps into a new barrel in the river? A new theme, or just a reference?
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    Yes, and you too, Jwfan2234, I'm sorry!
  10. Bofur01
    Ah, okay, I must have missed the ESB and RotJ '97 versions then, whoops! Thanks very much, Jay.
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    Hi, and if you hadn't guessed I'm one of those heretics who uses iTunes to buy all their music And, even worse, out of the Star Wars scores, I only have TFA... And I was hoping to rectify this Anyway, I'm just a bit confused about all the iTunes versions of the Star Wars scores... For ANH, there's a '77 one and a '04 one, with the '04 one having many more tracks and being cheaper, so the choice seems obvious there... ESB has 2 versions of the album, both '97, same number of tracks and same cover and all, one costs a bit more... does anyone know if they're actually different or not? RotJ only has one version, thank god TPM has 3, 2 from '99, one with the 3D cover and one with the normal one... Seemingly the same tracks, one costs a bit more... And then the Ultimate edition (Is it worth the extra £2-3?) AotC makes sense! 2 versions, same cover, one is £1 more, and has an extra track... And RotS has 2, same cover, one is £1 more, seemingly no difference... And I'm assuming the ultimate digital collection is inferior to the standard OSTs, whichever ones they are? So, any help? The confusing thing is, the titles of the albums are almost, if not exactly the same for all versions... Thanks in advance... I hope...
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    The same wiki page also lists this, as well as "Tauriel and Kili" "Kili's Theme: A short theme that is played on a trumpet. It appears at the beginning of "Feast of Starlight." In The Battle of the Five Armies soundtrack, it is played at the beginning of "Shores of the Long Lake" and is played near the end of "Ravenhill."" So maybe take anything from there with a pinch of salt, unless I've missed a lot...
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    "In addition to the 90-minute standalone episode, cinema goers will be treated to exclusive bonus material, including a guided tour of 221B Baker Street from Steven Moffat and a look behind the scenes at how the special episode was made featuring all the lead cast and crew."
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    I noticed it a few weeks ago, didn't mention it for fear of seeming stupid ? but yes, I see it.
  15. Bofur01
    I really don't see the point of removing this subforum - it makes it a lot easier for us, and it's not exactly causing any harm, is it?
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    Yes! I loved that bit ?
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    Bofur01 replied to BloodBoal's topic in Tolkien Central

    I think they matter, to me and quite a few others, anyway. But still, no one here is close to completely hating these movies, so far as I've seen. The most negative opinions on tORN are far more negative than here. Though on average, tORN is more favourable towards the films. I prefer the atmosphere here by far, to be honest.
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    Bofur01 replied to BloodBoal's topic in Tolkien Central

    "Legions of Haradrim from the South" -> Southrons The easterlings are from Rhûn.
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    Bofur01 replied to BloodBoal's topic in Tolkien Central

    Some of the CGI is pretty incredible (The troll, Ice and Wargs) but the Ogres, and battlefield before the chariot reaches the river, look quite bad.
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    TTT and ROTK messy? Unfinished? Now I've never read the books, but to me at least the films are just as polished and fantastic and compelling as the first one is, I don't think I've ever heard someone state that these films are anything less than full on masterpieces. Again, this comes from someone with celluloid in mind, not paper. Now the thing about The Hobbit, well that's not suprising. It just doesn't have the same attention to detail as TLOTR had. No, he means that when they were shot, PJ poured tonnes of budget into FotR, and shot TTT and RotK as an afterthought, banking on the fact that FotR would succeed and be given extra budget and time for reshoots. I'm pretty sure, somewhere, I heard that TTT and RotK would've been straight to DVD releases, as at least half the effects budget was used on FotR alone. So it was a damned big gamble.
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    Oh yeah, I was going to post that before! I think the whole menu music is on the iTunes store... If you click "special features" it takes you to a non-functional version of the menu, where it plays the music. Seems to be the initial 'Girion' part of "Girion, Lord of Dale", the 'Bard the Leader' part of "Ironfoot", and the Horn.
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    Well, you can have films set at night that are very bright, that's really no excuse...
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    I know someone who likes the Hobbit more than FotR, she hasn't seen the other two, despite my best efforts...
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    Saw it in Blackwell's a few days ago while looking for textbooks, thought it looked a bit pricy :')
  25. Bofur01
    You'd better let BB win then, then you get to lie in something!
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