Oh, and Happy Birthday to Howard Shore!!

Merci encore pour votre oeuvre singulière, qui nous emplit d'émotions et fait que nous marchons dans la vie d'un pas entraînant, se forgeant un esprit sublime, toujours à l'écoute, jamais rassasié.

Thanks again for your original work. It fills us with affects that make us walk in life with a leading pace, forging an "esprit sublime", that is always listening and never satiated.

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Originally posted by Strider1002:
Hey, it's Zac Efron's birthday! Too bad no one cares about him.
Happy Birthday Howard Shore!

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As our local newspaper reported, yesterday was Jean-Claude van Damme's birthday too - not a single word about Maestro Shore
Oh, and my Granny's birthday, but I forgot it. DOH!

I will eat an extra piece of cake just for you

2007 - The Return of the King: The Complete Recordings
2008 - The Lord of the Rings: The Rarities
2009 - The Hobbit (OST)
2010 - The Hobbit: The Complete Recordings
2011 - The Hobbit: The Rarities

But as of now, looking forward to your review of ROTK:CR. I loved your reviews of FOTR:CR and TTT:CR, they're straight form the heart.

Edit: Oh, I just read your comment about Osgiliath Invaded and I'll take your word for it.

Here is what I think the final track titles are likely to be, based on Amazon.com's list:

1-01 Roots and Beginnings 6:31
1-02 Journey to the Cross-roads 2:17
1-03 The Road to Isengard 2:18
1-04 The Foot of Orthanc 4:45
1-05 Return to Edoras 1:51
1-06 The Chalice Passed 1:51
1-07 The Green Dragon Featuring Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan 0:35
1-08 Gollum's Villainy 2:10
1-09 Éowyn's Dream 1:24
1-10 The Palantír 3:10
1-11 Flight from Edoras 2:18
1-12 The Grace of Undómiel Featuring Renée Fleming 6:21
1-13 The Eyes of the White Tower 4:34
1-14 A Coronal of Silver and Gold 8:27
1-15 The Lighting of the Beacons 9:03

2-01 Osgiliath Invaded Featuring Ben Del Maestro 8:47
2-02 The Stairs of Cirith Ungol 2:41
2-03 Allegiance to Denethor 3:20
2-04 The Sacrifice of Faramir Featuring Billy Boyd 4:08
2-05 The Parting of Sam and Frodo 4:04
2-06 Marshalling at Dunharrow 4:57
2-07 Andúril - Flame of the West 3:28
2-08 The Passing of the Grey Company 4:12
2-09 Dwimorberg - The Haunted Mountain 2:26
2-10 Master Meriadoc, Swordthain 1:40
2-11 The Paths of the Dead 6:22
2-12 The Siege of Gondor 9:01
2-13 Shelob's Lair 8:53
2-14 Merry's Simple Courage 2:09

3-01 Grond - The Hammer of the Underworld 1:33
3-02 Shelob the Great 5:13
3-03 The Tomb of the Stewards 3:58
3-04 The Battle of the Pelennor Fields 4:10
3-05 The Pyre of Denethor 2:59
3-06 The Mûmakil 0:57
3-07 Dernhelm in Battle 2:06
3-08 "A Far Green Country" 1:28
3-09 Shieldmaiden of Rohan 5:07
3-10 The Passing of Théoden 2:16
3-11 The Houses of Healing Featuring Liv Tyler 2:58
3-12 The Tower of Cirith Ungol 4:41
3-13 The Last Debate Featuring Sissel 4:21
3-14 The Land of Shadow 6:30
3-15 The Mouth of Sauron Featuring Sir James Galway 8:15
3-16 "For Frodo" Featuring Ben Del Maestro 3:17

4-01 Mount Doom Featuring Renée Fleming 4:09
4-02 The Crack of Doom 4:02
4-03 The Eagles Featuring Renée Fleming 2:24
4-04 The Fellowship Reunited Featuring Sir James Galway and Viggo Mortensen 12:18
4-05 The Journey to the Grey Havens 7:35
4-06 Elanor Featuring Sir James Galway 1:28
4-07 Days of the Ring Featuring Annie Lennox 11:10
4-08 Bilbo's Song 2:57

Also if anyone is interested Barnes and Noble now has track samples.

Edit: I updated with the times according to Soundtrack.net. The times at Barnes and Noble are sometimes different but only by a second or two.

Edit: Fixed The Sacrifice of Faramir. Amazon.com missed out Billy Boyd!

[Message edited by Thorf on 10-19-2007]

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Originally posted by Incanus:
For those who have listened to the Osgiliath Invaded: What music does that track contain exactly?

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Pretty much everything having to do with the siege on Osgiliath. The track starts with the music you hear at the beginning of the original album's "Minas Tirith" and it ends with Gandalf saving the day (with some unused music).

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For those who have listened to the Osgiliath Invaded: What music does that track contain exactly?

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As he said, everything concerning Osgiliath.

Here's a breakdown:

It starts with Frodo having a bad feeling, has about two minutes of unused music (which could fit partly into Gandalf and Pippin's talk), goes to Minas Morgul briefly, has MORE unused music (possibly for a shorter cut of Frodo being beckoned towards the tower, replaced with sound effects in the film), more Minas Morgul stuff and then ends with yet more unused music.

Only about 40 votes needed. *cough cough*
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BNI90O/

Happy Birthday Mr. Shore.

By the way Magpie, I only saw the top of the article that had a reference to the word Magpies - did the article have anything to do with the Australian birds???

Everyone - don't forget, one day there will be another recording to do with The Return Of The King.......The Return Of The King Kong.........

THANKS FOR ALL YOUR POSTS, it has taken me a very long time to catch up, but today I read from page 1 to 13 to my post, and it has taken a long time.....at last I am here!!

One thought that came to my mind when I first read the times to the tracks.....in relation to one of my earlier posts about the lighting of the beacons.....I hope the music piece where Strider runs to tell Theoden about the lighting of the beacons, I hope that isn't the start off point to disc 2, in that I hope it is included on the last track of the first disc.

Doug - 440, doesn't that message come up when there is an error when loading a page!!

But seriously, I hope that what you are doing is 440 times better than what you believed you were working at.....

I'm new here.
I was just reading the topics
and I found them interesting!
you guys are really sweet!

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I hope that isn't the start off point to disc 2, in that I hope it is included on the last track of the first disc.

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Regarding the disc divisions, the only one I'm not so sure about is between discs 3 and 4. The final sequence of the movie really begins with either The Land of Shadow, The Mouth of Sauron, or at the latest "For Frodo", and I can't imagine ever wanting to stop listening at the end of "For Frodo" and not go on to Mount Doom.
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Isn't that the same case with the Fellowship Of The Ring transferring discs from disc 2 to 3!!!

Then again, there is the DVD with the entire score flowing right through.....

Maybe it's being feel like an exaggeration only to lighten the series of the scenes/actions but the CR remain related to the movie as it was done the most part of the time.

top 10 for this time

the eagles
the land of shadow
the foot of orthanc
for frodo
crack of doom
grond : hammer of the underworld
the tomb of the stewards
Osgiliath invaded
the battle of the pelennor field
The passing of theoden.

ect. lol

And DOUG..

Another explanation (maybe) of your 440's riddle

4/4 it's the Fellowship reunited : track four of the 4th disc !

symbol of all, gathered for the release of the ROTK-CR.

it's seem there is a miss !!

442 ! 2: the number of the discs for the rarities !

1-04 The Foot of Orthanc 4:45
Wonderful defeated versions of the Isengard themes.

1-14 A Coronal of Silver and Gold 8:27
The ferociously violent Minas Morgul music in an even richer setting than the OST's already great track.

1-15 The Lighting of the Beacons 9:03
Of course the great music for Pippin's special mission and subsequent beacon-lighting, but also Aragorn's run, rounded off with a militaristic version of the Rohan theme.

2-01 Osgiliath Invaded Featuring Ben Del Maestro 8:47
The Minas Tirith theme in battle for the first time. I love the valiant brass of the Minas Tirith theme as it struggles to complete its line against overwhelming forces of orcs. (There's also what sounds like an inverted version of the Threat of Mordor, with the beats going up the scale rather than down.) And it finishes with Gandalf saving the day.

2-12 The Siege of Gondor 9:01
Mordor themes are unleashed on Minas Tirith in full force. Once again I love the struggling of the Minas Tirith theme, which this time can't even complete a phrase, often instead leading into Mordor themes. Also the new choral Ringwraith theme... What is this theme anyway? I'm dying to know.

2-13 Shelob's Lair 8:53
Scary music! The whole Frodo-in-Shelob's-Lair sequence, which includes various new bits to my ears, ending off with Frodo collapsing and seeing Galadriel.

3-04 The Battle of the Pelennor Fields 4:10
The Rohan theme in its full glory. I get the shivers just thinking about it! Similar to the OST version but has some new bits too I think.

3-09 Shieldmaiden of Rohan 5:07
One of the pivotal moments of the film and the book, and the music is absolutely stunning. And as a bonus it has the Legolas-single-handedly-kills-a-mumakil music.

3-12 The Tower of Cirith Ungol 4:41
Heroic hobbit theme! Sam in his moment of glory

3-14 The Land of Shadow 6:30
Mordor - land of exceedingly low bass. All the Mordor themes are executed in the lowest instrumental range, in all their violence and terrible grandeur.

3-15 The Mouth of Sauron Featuring Sir James Galway 8:15
Punctuated by lots of new phrases throughout. The final battle begins, accompanied by a constant beat and the defiant Fellowship theme. This track also includes my absolute favourite moment of the whole trilogy, where Frodo finally falls apart and Sam says his line, "I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you!" for which he gets a full statement of the Into the West theme. The Shire music here is absolutely beautiful.

3-16 "For Frodo" Featuring Ben Del Maestro 3:17
The beginning of the end, and the climax of the whole trilogy begins here (or maybe in the previous track), and it's all wonderful chorus, starting with the Fellowship theme. I'm not sure what the theme they move onto is - anyone know? Anyway it ends with "The eagles! The eagles are coming!" and Nature's Reclamation.

(Most frantic disc change in history occurs now!)

4-01 Mount Doom Featuring Renée Fleming 4:09
It's all up to Frodo, Sam and Gollum now. Eerie History of the Ring themes greet us at Mount Doom, before Frodo claims the Ring and the booming chorus comes back. I'm not sure how much of this played in the movie, but it all seems familiar to me - and wonderful. I love the last disintegrating rasp of the History of the Ring theme just before Gollum falls in.

4-02 The Crack of Doom 4:02
I think this track begins with the destruction of the Ring, and it has more beautiful chorus pieces. The height of the climax of the trilogy. The quiet part at the end when Mount Doom goes sky high and everyone cries for Frodo and Sam is also a definite highlight.

4-03 The Eagles Featuring Renée Fleming 2:24
"Here at the end of all things."

As you can see, for me the highlights of the Complete Recordings focus on the latter half, and especially on the final sequence.

I've focused mostly on longer tracks, but some of the really short ones are excellent too. Notably 2-14 Merry's Simple Courage,
3-01 Grond - The Hammer of the Underworld (a cool deep bass perversion of the Minas Tirith theme joined with Mordor themes), 3-05 The Pyre of Denethor, 3-07 Dernhelm in Battle (Eowyn and Merry's first heroics), and 3-08 "A Far Green Country" (this bit always makes me cry in the film, and it's no less emotional here).

Finally, I have to say I don't really like the Green Dragon track - it just doesn't seem to fit in the rather serious nature of this score. The only other thing that bothers me so far is The Passing of the Grey Company, which has some deliberately clashing themes which are going to take some getting used to.

Secondly, this CR is Howard Shore's baby, it's his concept and vision, and these act breaks are conscious decisions by him that are supposed to add to the overall presentation and experience.

Thirdly, the book has the scene with the eagles in the middle, and moves then back to Frodo at Cirith Ungol, so this act break simply mirrors the book in a way.