Popular Post VenomVeVenom 130 Posted November 8, 2024 Popular Post Share Posted November 8, 2024 20 minutes ago, Taikomochi said: There’s having a view and then there’s trolling, constantly bumping these threads with the same off base complaints over and over and over and over. Plenty of good faith criticisms of this show and score, but what TolkienSS is doing is not that. No one is entitled to that. This. 40 minutes ago, Chen G. said: But at the same time, it is a very admirable effort. It is. You can see how the guy put his heart into it. Sometimes we talk on Twitter, and the way he just starts explaining his themes out of nowhere and how he put this detail here and this other detail there shows how he is actually trying. This incessant negative criticism (or trolling) by TolkienSS is unfair in my opinion. Most TV show composers wouldn't even try to write more than 3 themes, let alone more than 20. Richard P, Stark and Yavar Moradi 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,707 Posted November 21, 2024 Share Posted November 21, 2024 Just got a shipping notification from Made by Mutant for the CD OST album. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 40,159 Posted November 21, 2024 Share Posted November 21, 2024 Interesting. Nothing here yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post crocodile 8,707 Posted November 23, 2024 Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2024 Karol AlejandroGO, enderdrag64, Yavar Moradi and 3 others 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 40,159 Posted November 26, 2024 Share Posted November 26, 2024 My physical CD edition arrived today from Mutant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Knight of Ren 1,107 Posted December 3, 2024 Popular Post Share Posted December 3, 2024 The blog post for the third episode was finally shared! https://bearmccreary.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-episode-203/ I hope the rest of them now don't take as long as this one did! Yavar Moradi, DannySinatra and Tydirium 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jay 40,159 Posted December 29, 2024 Popular Post Share Posted December 29, 2024 Holy shit I completely forgot I saw that post and still haven't read the blog! I'll do that shortly. Was just coming in here to say that I opened up my physical copy of the season 2 OST album today and am listening to it now. It was so strange to put in the first disc into my player and see that it's only 46 minutes long. This score is SO GOOD, I don't know WHY he didn't craft a longer season-album. Why in the world is it so much shorter than season 1's album? I swear this hobby has as much frustration as it has joy Anyways, what spurned me to come here is listening to the track "Estrid". WOW! What a great concert arrangement track; I think I kinda forgot about it, since once the episode albums came out it was mostly those that I listened to when I had any jonesing for this score. But this track is really wonderful, and really makes it seem like the character is an important one! In the end, she was barely in the show, right? Did she have a lot of scenes cut or something? I'm always curious to see where composers get inspiration sometimes for things that don't pop on screen, at least in what we get to see. Yavar Moradi, Stark, tomsmoviemadness and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jay 40,159 Posted December 29, 2024 Popular Post Share Posted December 29, 2024 OK I finished the 2-CD set. The first disc is 46 minutes, the second disc is 54 minutes. Both should be so much longer. The first disc should have had another 30 minutes of music from the first 3 episodes (the disc split is between episodes 3 and 4 for some reason), and the second disc needs another 20 minutes of all the amazing highlights from the second half of the season. The second disc is already reaching the ending battle music by track 4, there's just so much missing. And boy. By far my least-played track of the season is the Ballad of Damrod track. I love this season's score (overall) so much, could write a lot about how great so many different aspects are, but this one track I just cannot get into. It's not a style of music I like anyway, but it also just doesn't gel well with the rest of the score, or the show itself. It feels like an indulgence Bear got to have, and that's great for him, but I just can't enjoy it. The variant of that idea in the actual episodes is fine, though. Overall, I'm bummed all over again at the missed opportunity this album was to really showcase the highlights of this great score as a fully fleshed out album, but also reminded again of how much I love the score overall; I hadn't actually heard it in a while. The episodic albums are SUCH a blessing, I wish every show did that! The physical release is very nice. There's some more info in the booklet that you can't get from the digital release, like some more named solosits for certain tracks and stuff. I'll go through it more later. Gotta read that blog post, too! AlejandroGO, Tydirium, Tom Guernsey and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMotif 1,162 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 The season 2 prologue should have been on the season album tomsmoviemadness and Tydirium 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsmoviemadness 3,666 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Agree. Pieces that I would've (at least) put on the season album that weren't would probably be: Dawn Of The Second Age (even an edited version like the prologue of S1 would've been great) Eldest Sauron's Design The Secret Fire Maybe some others, but these are just from the top of my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,707 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 To be honest, it would be good to have the reharmonised Khazad-Dum theme for Ring-corrupted king on there as well. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 40,159 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 I wonder if some of the decisions made were to not spoil things, but they already extended the original season 1 album after the fact with the Fiona Apple song the first time around, so they could have extended this one too. The physical editions didn't ship until well after the season ended so it was totally doable. Real missed opportunity. Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 40,159 Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 On 03/12/2024 at 6:25 PM, Knight of Ren said: The blog post for the third episode was finally shared! https://bearmccreary.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-episode-203/ I hope the rest of them now don't take as long as this one did! Finally reading this now! So he says the 8-note motif in the opening track is a theme for Shelob. I hesitate to list it as a full theme since it only appears in one cue! He says he didn't come up with the idea to use Jens for the Damrod theme until he was working on episode 7, and he had to make a specific request to quickly record a cue that could go into episode 3, which was in its final dubbing stages at the time. Crazy! For the track "Mithril For Rings", he says it has "a luscious variant of “Where the Shadows Lie.” The mysterious melody is still the same, but the harmonies around it have changed, carrying a completely different emotional message. This uniquely warm, new variation of this theme represents Sauron’s desire to forge new rings as presented through Celebrimbor’s positive outlook, which is itself a result of Sauron’s manipulative influence." Did anybody here point out this "new variation" before? Talking about the Ents theme in "WIld Men" (that will return in episode 5's "Mud Beast" and "Sanggleroot and WInterbloom") he says "This sequence is scored with aggressive orchestral horror writing, punctuated by relentless wooden percussion, including log drums, claves, and bamboo sticks. As Theo is whisked off his feet and lifted into the air, an ascending phrase in the choir bursts forth with the Quenya words “Rikila sundor,” meaning “Twisting roots.”" Very cool! Huh, he says that "The Great Eagle (and the Forging)" contains the "last time this season that the rousing march of the Númenor theme is presented in a wholly positive light." I guess I hadn't noticed / thought of things that way! Wow! OK, huh. He says starting with the end of this episode, he turns two foundational major chords of the theme and turns them into minor chords, and refers to the minor version of the theme as the "The King's Men" theme. Fascinating! I don't remember anyone talking about this either! Finally he says that the "The Rings of Power – London Premiere Season One Fanfare" track is the very last music he composed for season 1. AlejandroGO 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen G. 4,767 Posted January 5 Author Share Posted January 5 39 minutes ago, Jay said: OK, huh. He says starting with the end of this episode, he turns two foundational major chords of the theme and turns them into minor chords, and refers to the minor version of the theme as the "The King's Men" theme. Fascinating! When we start saying "Oh, but this is a different theme because its in the minor" it can get pretty funky pretty fast. A good example from the way people analyse the Ring: I mean, sure, that's a way to look at it, and in the context some of these pass muster. But, having said that...they're all the same music! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsaenz24 0 Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Does anyone know if there are plans for a 10 CD set for Rings of Power S1, like Mondo did doe S1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 40,159 Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 I do not recall Bear hinting at that this time, like he did last time for season 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMotif 1,162 Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 30 minutes ago, Jay said: I do not recall Bear hinting at that this time, like he did last time for season 1. He mentioned it on an Instagram live Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 40,159 Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 What did he say? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsmoviemadness 3,666 Posted Friday at 07:59 AM Share Posted Friday at 07:59 AM Thought this was already posted, but it wasn't. Bear wrote a blog just about the Old Tom Bombadil song and his collaboration with Wainwright & Yarbrough. https://bearmccreary.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-old-tom-bombadil/ Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 40,159 Posted Friday at 01:20 PM Share Posted Friday at 01:20 PM Oh great! That will be nice to read with my morning coffee Yavar Moradi and tomsmoviemadness 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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