Howard Shore's THE LORD OF THE RINGS

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It's the theme in triple octaves. First violins, second violins and celli three octaves apart, which gives it that grand, space-y sound. And it's backed by pretty much only brass, which adds to that open, somewhat lucid sound.

 

I think the choir which is present in both the RotK concert suite and live performances is not on the CR.

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Ugggh, shades of the GoldenEye Overture?

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On 5/8/2016 at 1:09 PM, gkgyver said:

I think the choir which is present in both the RotK concert suite and live performances is not on the CR.

I personally think it's there, just mixed really really low. (I believe you can hear it better in the Symphony)

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[Incanus 5,884]

Well now that statement finally makes more sense.

[Jay 44,752]

Always a bummer to see empty SafeUnderHill posts

[Barnald 424]

Why are they blank btw?

[Disco Stu 15,517]

5 minutes ago, Barnald said:

Why are they blank btw?

 

He went through all 4,000 of his posts and manually edited each of them to be blank.  It's actually kind of insane.  Always was a bit of a nut, if you ask me.

[Jay 44,752]

It's so bizarre to me that anyone who is completely anonymous on a forum would spend their free time doing that.  It's not like he used his real name.  If he wanted to leave JWFan behind, all he had to do was just never log in here again.  Nobody he knows IRL or online would ever connect him to here.  Ditto for Bloodboal, who was even more anonymous.  S'weird.

[Disco Stu 15,517]

BB didn't blank all of them though, right?  I thought it was just a selection.  I assume there was some method to it.

 

Unless he's just taking longer to do it, I guess.

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Sorry to interrupt that discussion but I just can't stop marvelling at the way the Minas Tirith theme is played (after equally lovely attacca transition from Caras Galadhon/Lament for Gandalf) by solo horn and trumpet at the beginning of The Mirror of Galadriel on the LotR CR!  So beautiful and poignant, and absolutely perfect for the scene between Aragorn and Boromir which the music accompanies.

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Just now, Maglorfin said:

Sorry to interrupt that discussion

 

It wasn't so much a discussion as a wake.

 

1 minute ago, Maglorfin said:

I just can't stop marvelling at the way the Minas Tirith theme is played (after equally lovely attacca transition from Caras Galadhon/Lament for Gandalf) by solo horn and trumpet at the beginning of The Mirror of Galadriel on the LotR CR!  So beautiful and poignant, and absolutely perfect for the scene between Aragorn and Boromir which the music accompanies.

 

A favorite moment of mine as well!

[Jay 44,752]

Yup, one of my favorite passages in the score - and a moment I never really noticed until the CRs came out.  Great stuff.

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20 minutes ago, Maglorfin said:

Sorry to interrupt that discussion but I just can't stop marvelling at the way the Minas Tirith theme is played (after equally lovely attacca transition from Caras Galadhon/Lament for Gandalf) by solo horn and trumpet at the beginning of The Mirror of Galadriel on the LotR CR!  So beautiful and poignant, and absolutely perfect for the scene between Aragorn and Boromir which the music accompanies.

Perfect scoring by Shore. I remember getting emotional while watching the film with the music accompanying Sean Bean's words. Absolute poetry. Shore captures that feeling of both nostalgia and the glory and majesty of Gondor as remembered by Boromir intertwined with longing. Just brilliant!

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31 minutes ago, Incanus said:

Perfect scoring by Shore. I remember getting emotional while watching the film with the music accompanying Sean Bean's words. Absolute poetry. Shore captures that feeling of both nostalgia and the glory and majesty of Gondor as remembered by Boromir intertwined with longing. Just brilliant!

 

 

 

Boromir: My father is a noble man, but his rule is failing, and our people lose faith. He looks to me to make things right and I would do it. I would see the glory of Gondor restored. Have you ever seen it, Aragorn? The White Tower of Ecthelion, glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver, its banners caught high in the morning breeze? Have you ever been called home by the clear ringing of silver trumpets?

Aragorn: I have seen the White City, long ago.

Boromir: One day, our paths will lead us there. And the tower guard shall take up the call: "The Lords of Gondor have returned."

 

HUGE goosebumps!

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JWFan needs more OG LOTR music discussion.

[Jay 44,752]

Yes!

 

I listened to a complete edit of Fellowship yesterday, after not having heard the score in a while.  Man, I was blown away all over again by how GOOD that score is.  It just does everything right!

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I've been listening to it too a few times these last few weeks. The OST and the CR. \

 

It's simply a fantastic score

[Jay 44,752]

I'm pretty sure it's my favorite film score of all time

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I go through phases where I really burn myself out on LOTR and have to cut it cold turkey so I can listen to it with fresher ears.  I've been there for 2018.  I'm listening to only new albums, and sloooooowly going alphabetically through my other scores and giving them good listens.  I own some scores I've only listened to once or twice.

 

Anyway, I'll get to L eventually and I bet it'll be glorious.  FOTR is definitely my favorite score.

[Holko 11,855]

Overall, Fellowship is definitely my favourite, it's consistently great. Return of the King has a ton of highlights, some of which tower over Fellowship, but is therefore much more uneven.

[John 2,033]

Return of the King will always be my personal favorite of the bunch, but I'll be the first to admit that that score has a lot of filler.

[Nick1Ø66 7,634]

My heart swells whenever these scores are discussed.

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10 hours ago, Maglorfin said:

 

 

 

Boromir: My father is a noble man, but his rule is failing, and our people lose faith. He looks to me to make things right and I would do it. I would see the glory of Gondor restored. Have you ever seen it, Aragorn? The White Tower of Ecthelion, glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver, its banners caught high in the morning breeze? Have you ever been called home by the clear ringing of silver trumpets?

Aragorn: I have seen the White City, long ago.

Boromir: One day, our paths will lead us there. And the tower guard shall take up the call: "The Lords of Gondor have returned."

 

HUGE goosebumps!

😭

[Barnald 424]

I fucking love Sean Bean.

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[Holko 11,855]

I bawled my eyes out seeing the finale on the big screen for the first time at Bratislava's LTP event 2 years ago.

[Barnald 424]

I'm gone the moment he rushes in to help Merry and Pippin.

[Holko 11,855]

I can recompose myself when the speech is done and the Fellowship theme plays, then completely broken again when Gandalf's sentence echoes and Frodo makes his decision.

[Jay 44,752]

Supreme film-making, Peter Jackson on the top of his game

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8 hours ago, Holko said:

I can recompose myself when the speech is done and the Fellowship theme plays, then completely broken again when Gandalf's sentence echoes and Frodo makes his decision.

 

"So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." - Gandalf

 

*Stefancos failing to restrain tears*

 

[Nick1Ø66 7,634]

While Return of the King is my least favourite of the three, I readily admit it has some of the most emotionally resonant bits of the trilogy...

 

"You bow to no one..."

and

"How do you pick up the threads of an old life..."

 

...get me every time.

 

Damn it, you guys are going to make me do my marathon re-watch early this year.

[Chen G. 5,734]

If its more emotionally effective - it is the better movie. Not to mention the better score.

 

Really, with this trilogy, all this "pick a favorite" sport is much more of an exercise of splitting hairs. All three films and scores are cut from the same cloth. They're not separate entries - they're different parts of a single entry.

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Anyone else really love the moments when Aragorn sings?  The coronation is the obvious one but also when Frodo overhears him in FOTR.  That's a great "in the world of Middle-Earth" moment.

[Jay 44,752]

I like the FOTR moment much more than the ROTK one

[Holko 11,855]

Yep

[Disco Stu 15,517]

A bit obvious but Sam’s speech at the end of TTT is just beautiful.  Brings tears every time.

 

”Even darkness must pass”

 

Geez I’m tearing up thinking about it

[Nick1Ø66 7,634]

Elrond's counselling his daughter on the mortality of men is a perfect marriage of image and music..."An image of the splendor of the kings of men in glory, undimmed before the breaking of the world."

 

Pure cinematic sublimity. 

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Come on, Mr. Frodo. I can't carry it for you... But I can carry you! Come on!

The Valinor Theme swells, marking this in the movie continuity as the exact moment Samwise Gamgee, a little Hobbit gardener who doesn't like adventures, earns his place on a boat to the Undying Lands forbidden for all mortals... 

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2 minutes ago, Nick1066 said:

Elrond's counselling his daughter on the mortality of men, is a perfect marriage of image and music..."An image of the splendor of the kings of men in glory, undimmed before the breaking of the world."

 

Pure cinematic sublimity. 

 

That scene could be my favorite from the trilogy.  It's devastatingly effective and seems to capture so much of what Tolkien was about.  Deeply profound stuff from everyone involved.

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The closest PJ got to truly capturing the sadness of the Elves. Doomed to live forever.

[Disco Stu 15,517]

I wish I connected with the elf stuff as much y’all did.  I think it’s effective but I don’t think I like it to the rapturous degree I see described above.

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2 hours ago, Stefancos said:

The closest PJ got to truly capturing the sadness of the Elves. Doomed to live forever.

 

For it is the doom of men that they forget.

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9 hours ago, Disco Stu said:

I wish I connected with the elf stuff as much y’all did. 

 

I know someone who has a similar problem: he can’t get emotionally involved with the relationship of Arwen and Aragorn, which I can understand: it doesn’t have a lot of setup: it’s just there from the word go. There’s a deleted scene that may have helped with that.

 

I don’t mind as much, because the main themes of this series are family (we don’t see a complete family until the last frame) and same-sex friendships; the romance is kind of disposable.

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13 hours ago, Holko said:

The Valinor Theme swells, marking this in the movie continuity as the exact moment Samwise Gamgee, a little Hobbit gardener who doesn't like adventures, earns his place on a boat to the Undying Lands forbidden for all mortals... 

 

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.