Howard Shore’s Academy Award-winning score for The Lord of the Rings has been hailed as some of the greatest film music ever written. Sweeping in scope, it is an interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth as music—an operatic tapestry of cultures, histories, languages, and peoples. The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films takes the reader on an unprecedented journey into the heart of this history-making opus with extensive music examples, original manuscript scores, a rarities CD, and fascinating glimpses into the creative process from the composer himself. Also included are a foreword by Howard Shore, an introduction by Fran Walsh, and sketches by John Howe and Alan Lee.

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The Lord of the Rings Rarities

CD is Included with the book The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films
by Doug Adams

The Fellowship of the Ring
1. Prologue: One Ring to Rule Them All (Alt)
2. The Shire/The Hobbits (Mock-up)
3. Out From Bree (Theatrical Version & Alt)
4. Flight to the Ford (Alt)
5. Moria (Mock-up)
6. The Fighting Urak-hai (Alt)
7. The Argonath (Alt)

The Two Towers
8. Gwennin in în (Arwen’s Song Alt/Mock-up)
9. Arwen’s Song (Complete)
10. Emyn Muil (Alt)
11. The Rohan Fanfare (Mock-up)
12. The Eaves of Fangorn (Mock-up)
13. The Ent Theme (Mock-up)

The Return of the King
14. The Return of the King Trailer
15. The Gondor Theme (Mock-up)
16. The Muster of Rohan
17. The Siege of Gondor (Alt)
18. Shieldmaiden of Rohan (Theatrical Version)
19. Sammath Naur (Alt)
20. Frodo’s Song (“Into the West” Alt/Mock-up)
21. Elanor (Alt)

Howard Shore & Doug Adams
22. In Conversation (Part 1)
23. In Conversation (Part 2)

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