#lord of the rings soundtrack

[shobolanya]

Listening to the LotR soundtrack at night hits different, especially The Grace of Undomiel

[ratsarecute4]

Anyone want an arrangement of the Lighting of the Beacons by Howard Shore? I arranged it for string orchestra (violin 1 & 2, viola, cello, bass) and this includes the full score plus the seperate parts. I just decided I wanted to have the sheet music to play the violin part, but I no longer have a quartet or orchestra to play it with :( so you guys can have it for free. I also have arrangements for many other lotr songs for the violin, if anyone wants any.

[ukiyoebirds]

Galaxia! The sword of the gods! The legendary...twig?

Joke is curtesy of @krazycat6167.

You may need to click the image for better quality.

At this point it's a mixture of laziness and amusement that I draw Galaxia as nothing more than a squiggle.

More instances of Galaxia the twig:

[vigilantegreen]

Everyone always says "Howard Shore didn't have to go that hard for the LOTR soundtrack" but no one ever talks about the soundtrack for The Hobbit! Are you kidding! It's amazing! It's beautiful! It brings tears to my eyes! It's so good!

[sindar-princeling]

it fucks me up by the way that EVEN as gollum literally attacks Sam and Frodo at the Crack of Doom, the music that plays for him is his Gollum's Pity theme, also called Sméagol's Theme, rather than Gollum's Menace (Gollum's Theme). the score itself still feels pity and mercy for him even when he's at his worst

[daigah]

"I would've gone with you to the end, into the very fires of Mordor."

[mandolinearts]

"Do you remember when we first met?"

"I thought I had strayed into a dream."

a little lord of the rings au ✨ prints available here :) 

[i-lavabean]

Aabria Iyengar should play Galadriel.

Audiobook, liveplay game, movie I don't even care, she'd be amazing in all of them.

[ashleywool]

Hi! I don’t know how much you actually read this but tumblr is more of a safer space for me than Instagram. I JUST saw htdio and I’m autistic myself. I found myself sobbing through almost the whole musical. I have never seen anything that represented me so well. I have never seen myself In Media like… ever. I’m an autistic woman who only wears skirts and quotes lord of the rings like there’s no tomorrow. I cannot express just how much this show meant to me. I cannot express in words or I just don’t have them. Thank you beyond belief. I’ve always been scared to be myself and while I still will be cause things don’t fix themselves like that but seeing this show made me know I’m not alone anymore and I probably never was.

Anyways sorry for the rambling I can’t be concise for anything!

Thank you more than words.

Thank you so much for your kind words. I will never ever get sick of reading stories like these from people like you. And I'm sorry it took so long to reply, I know you sent it a while ago, and I'm not the greatest at Tumblr yet.

As a consolation prize, though...here's a little Lord of the Rings treat for you.

Back in the fall of 2010, I got to perform in the choir of a live-to-projection concert of The Two Towers at Radio City Music Hall. The movie played on a giant screen, and Howard Shore's score was played and sung live!

Here's a CBS interview with our conductor, the delightful Ludwig Wicki--and you can catch a glimpse of me around 2:46 (on the far left side of the lower riser).

And here's some B-roll footage from that shoot, where you can really hear the music more.

Also, in my ongoing mission to encourage support for the arts, especially in NYC: I have to give a shout-out to the Dessoff Choirs, the organization that provided me with this incredibly cool experience--celebrating their 100th anniversary this year! Choral singing has long been a passion of mine, and after I graduated college and no longer had built-in access to the campus choirs, I was really lucky to be able to collaborate with Dessoff on this project, as well as the 2012 American premiere of an opera called La Nave by Italo Montemezzi.

You can check out their web site for more info, including upcoming concerts and ways to audition if that's something you're interested in. :)

[annalexstarlightstorm]

Halbrand’s theme - Bear McCreary

Hey ppl, as somebody who’s always had special attachment to soundtracks, I’ve been doing, though a lay person, some cute lil research into the themes of the individual characters of Rings of power, which are SO INGENIOUSLY and SENSITIVELY composed by Bear McCreary. These are some of my notes, supposing of course that you are interested. It’s quite lengthy.

I’ve been, for obvious reasons, especially interested in Halbrand’s theme. First of all, its development throughout the soundtrack copies the development of the character most wonderfully, and I encourage you to pay attention to it. 

- From a humble beginning, just a medieval-like, simple instrumentation, almost sad, melancholy, appearing subtly and sometimes paired with other themes like Galadriel’s and Numenor’s (”Halbrand”, “Sundering sea”, “On the raft”, “the Successor”, “Both our bloodlines”), 

- across the bright tones when he leaves Numenor already dressed in armor (”Sailing into the dawn”), 

- to the steady knightly version when he saves Elendil (”Cavalry”), 

- all the way to the most majestic and heroic reprise as he leaves the Sounthlanders, injured, and rides to the elves (”the Veil of smoke” / “A Leaf burns”), 

- down to the almost uneasy, distorted, sort of “creepy” version in the last episode (”Power over flesh”) 

What I have noticed next is that the second part of Galadriel’s theme is actually quite similar to the beginning of Halbrand’s. I’ve attempted (in an amateur way) to put this into notation. This is Hal’s theme in Gal’s key and then Gal’s theme alone. Hal’s three bars are almost identical to Gal’s last three bars (save the last note).

Subsequently, when hearing Sauron’s theme, I’ve noticed similarities in the distances between individual tones in it and Hal’s theme, and it seems that my hypothesis was somewhat correct. In this notation, I’ve put together Hal’s theme (notes with their stem facing upwards) with Sauron’s theme (stems downwards) in Hal’s key. The steps are identical, but mirrored (as if on the surface of water).

I don’t presume I’ve uncovered some scheme of McCreary’s, but I’d like to think that there was some design behind these “coincidences”, in which case - even more bravo to him, though it’s perfect regardless. So thankful for this soundtrack. I’m currently hyper-fixating on the show, its cast and soundtrack, Hal/Sauron etc., so this over-analyzing is a part of it.

I hope this might be interesting to someone, but even if it isn’t, I’ve had a great time digging into it and I’ve had some of these sudden-realization moments when your jaw drops and brain starts whirling and shining like a revved up engine. I hope you’re enjoying the show as well.

Byeeee, love ya

[daenerys-targaryen]

❣

[sindar-princeling]

it utterly fucks me up that in the movies when frodo finishes writing the red book, the music that plays is the starting notes of the breaking of the fellowship

[franziskas-record-store]

I’ve always found compilations of the LotR soundtrack to be much more enjoyable than the actual soundtracks. Sure, the original score has several undeniably great pieces that I listen to with frequency (primarily, but not limited to, “Concerning Hobbits”), but the actual albums themselves I often find hard to digest.

I think my favorite example of such compilations is Prague Philharmonic’s The Lord of the Rings Trilogy; it captures the beauty of the original score and successfully highlights the most important tracks. Plus, it has the benefit of being a compilation solely dedicated to LotR, unlike most others which are general film compilations.