Howard Shores complete score for The Lord of the Rings trilogy is 10 minutes shy of 10 hours. You should know by now that everything about Jacksons opus is grandiose. Shore even wrote over 90 motifs for individual characters, certain props, locations and Middle-Earth cultures. Although much of the score reflects the ominous danger thats around every corner, its most heart-aching moments feature the motif for the Shire. That comfort of home wraps you up warm with its pastoral tin whistles, fiddles and violins, and the contrast with the menace of the rest of the score makes you miss it even more. It feels as though every significant note has a backing track while the orchestra lifts them to a larger-than-life stature. Shore won the Oscar for his work on The Fellowship of the Ring and The Return of the King, though for some reason he wasnt nominated for The Two Towers because nevermind consistency. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYhRGV8-kMw
Recently graduated from University of Hertfordshire with a Film & Television Production degree. Usually found watching films, listening to music, writing for whatculture and writing reviews for awardscircuit.com and my blog.
