The Sound of the One Ring

Many different people like many different aspects of The Lord of the Rings but one that I don't hear mentioned very often, sadly enough, is the GREAT music. Perhaps it's missed during the movie because so much more is going on and the music is so perfect it blends into the total atmosphere of what's happening on screen and overlooked.

That's what they make soundtracks for.

It would be no surprise to anyone coming to comb my CD racks that I favor soundtracks over almost everything else. I love being manipulated by really great, over-rough, thematic sound and bit for byte, dollar for euro, it's all about the soundtrack. My favorite album of all time/all catagories is, unsurprisingly, Vangelis' original motion picture score from Ridley Scott's 1981 classic, Bladerunner. LOTR: Return of the King original motion picture soundtrack is every bit as good as both Fellowship and Two Towers. Sure there are a lot of filler pieces to get the group from there and back again, but there are also some really great stand-alone pieces in all three motion picture scores, especially Annie Lenox's Into the West used at the credits for Return of the King. I can seriously understand why people are using the music for weddings and whatnot. Just to be clear, I'm writing in my will that upon my demise, I'm to be carried to my final resting place set to the choral piece of "The Breaking of the Fellowship" and planted in the ground at exactly 4:45 into "The Bridge of Khazad Dum", both from Fellowship , while it plays wistfully over the cornfields. A once and future drama queen.