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Lieutenant of Dol Guldur
Gondor

Jul 10 2013, 12:43pm

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It's basically a variation of the IMPENDING DOOM MOTIF from LOTR

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Other viewpoints could highlight similarities between Azog's motif and the other motifs associated with Middle-Earth villains (an intraopus analysis Tongue

) (e.g. use of a "tail", descending thirds associated with Mordor, etc.).

That's excatly what I thought when I heard the AUJ score for the first time. AZOGS MOTIF is... if you look at it very careful basically only a variation of the THE DESCENDING THIRD MOTIF from LOTR. There you'll find it (like the THREAT OF MORDOR MOTIF) sometimes used as an ostinato (with e.g. THE EVIL OF THE RING/SAURON THEME or the REVELATION OF THE NAZG�L THEME) or sometimes alone. It's a sequence of descending thrids... that's why it's called this way. Sometimes it's also called IMPENDING DOOM MOTIF (I like this name better) too because it appears almost everytime just before something sinister is going to happen (like the Nazg�l attack on the Weathertop). That's it's use in LOTR.

In AUJ you've got new uses of the motif. It's the basis of one of the two NECROMANCER MOTIFS (heard on tracks Radagast The Brown, The White Council and Hill Of Sorcery), a faster version of it is basis of the WARG RIDER MOTIF (heard on tracks Warg Scouts and Out Of The Frying Pan) and finally the AZOG MOTIF (heard on An Ancient Enemy and The Defiler). The motif is played in different tempi and instruments but basically it's all the same or at least very similar. What makes sense because if you take the second name of this motif IMPENDING DOOM and look at it's use within the Hobbit trilogy (until this point) it is very useful. We've got the rise of the Necromancer (impending doom) and we've got the dangerous Orcs with their leader Azog becoming a threat to Middle-earth as well. AND there is this hidden connection between Sauron/Necromancer and Azog which we haven't discovered yet but it is in the music. It shows us again the genius of Howard Shore.

That was an analysis focussed on it's use within the trilogy and it's connection to already used motifs and themes from the musical world of Middle-earth. Tongue

"There is only one Lord of the Ring, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power."

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