The Hall of Fire

Neither piece left a huge impression on me at first listen, but I’ll give it some time. McCreary has written some fine music over the years so I’m willing to go into this with an open mind. Never in my wildest dreams imagined that we would still, 20+ years down the road, be getting new Shore LOTR mu...

Not strictly related to the thread, but I'll stick it here anyway. Howard Shore's alternate version of The Breaking of The Fellowship (recorded for previews of the film, along with the Moria sequence, and heard at the end of FOTR:EE fan credits) synced to the film (not by me): https://vid.me/AuAU Mo...

I'm in favor of just replacing the entire House and the Senate with giant pandas anyway. It'd be like all the monkeys with all the typewriters writing the complete works Shakespeare. With lots of bamboo.

Here's an easier to read summary of that Q&A.

With a picture of the late Marvin Hamlisch at the top.

Edit: Here's an interview with Shore.

My feelings on May It Be used to lean towards the "New Age Elvish Spa Muzak" ;) side of things, but it has grown on me over the years. I'd still rank the songs something like this however: Into The West>In Dreams(Shore's "Hobbit Hymn", which often seems forgotten)>Use Well The Da...

I like dwarves on goats better than dwarves riding in goat wagons.


Best part of the trailer (after anything with Freeman as Bilbo), is the very first credit being "Music By HOWARD SHORE".

I'm glad you posted that anyway, as I was only vaguely aware of this project, and it sounds extremely interesting.

What about knock-knock jokes?

Beorn: "Here's one for you, Gandy: Knock knock."

Gandalf: "I'm going to guess that the punchline involves 13 dwarves, a hobbit, and a wizard being there."

Beorn: "Aw, nuts."

I believe he's actually referencing a book on film music in the silent era that's he's been working on since Hugo. He talks about it more here.

I think he's saying he's mostly done with that, so now he can get back to the Hobbity stuff.

I, also, was glad to see the Misty Mountains theme gone. It was too obviously being used as a faux-Fellowship theme (especially when they leave Rivendell, where it's very obvious that it's supposed to mirror the scene from FOTR*). The lack of development was part of what bothered me, but I'm also no...

I know some would say movie music is better when it's not noticed, but I like LotR's operatic style, and there are plenty of classic movies with very noticeable soundtracks. Yes. Operatic is a key word for me here; it's not just a supporting element, it is a telling of the story by itself. You can ...

What that video doesn't really show much of is the gorgeous setting Shore writes in, at his private writing studio in upstate New York. (and his four-legged assistants, Jack and Tess )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... ONDCA_dmHA

Voronwë the Faithful wrote:
I particularly liked "A Feast of Starlight". .

Me, too. It reminds me of Shore's score for The Yards, which was sort of forerunner to the Arwen/Aragorn music from TTT. One of my favorites of his non-LOTR works.

Only listened to these once, but it sounds promising.

The difference between this and the Neil Finn song and the songs from the LOTR is that Shore was involved in the process for the trilogy, which let him integrate themes from the scores into the songs (or, especially with Into the West, use the song as one of the central themes of the score; which le...

I haven't seen anything one way or another. (I don't follow this as obsessively as I used to though, I unfortunately have a life now )

I don't believe AUJ was released on vinyl, but other recent high-profile Warner Brothers pictures, Batman movies, last couple of Harry Potter movies, have been. It's a neat trend. I usually understand why PJ makes the decisions he makes, even if I usually disagree with him. In the case of dropping a...

Great news... I hope all Shore's music will be used this time round, though! To that end, the score is being recorded in New Zealand, with the NZSO (who recorded the Moria section of FOTR), and Shore has brought a couple of orchestrators in to lighten his load: Shore is using a couple of orchestrat...

I've been trying for over a week to figure out why this film didn't quite work for me. It is, like the first film with the new cast, a fun ride (though, especially with this one, perhaps bordering on too frantically action-packed), I love the new cast and the chemistry they have. The humor often eli...

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It's really the naked hippos that make it all so worthwhile. That's how I found this site. A Google search for "naked hippo pics". The rest of you probably found it that way, too, but you're just ashamed to admit it. :wooper: ( *this*, folks, is probably the sort of post that that should ...