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FlyingSerkis
Rivendell
Jan 22 2013, 10:18pm
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I will risk one comment, though, and that is to say that the one section that seemed to me to click better with me in your version here is the way you handled that part with Isildur putting on the Ring and getting betrayed by it. I've not watched the extended version much, so I don't know how much of what you did there is different from the original score, but I liked it!
Well  That bit is actually from the original version - it's one of those bits I mentioned that don't seem to have a counterpart in the early drafts, and probably wasn't scored at all until Shore came back to do the Extended Edition scenes (and, the way I see it, had more time to write some original music rather than adapting parts of the rest of FOTR, like it sounds during other parts of the prologue!  ) The timings on my edit are slightly different (I think it's a bit ahead of the normal version) but it's essentially the same.
And I will ask a question, too! How long did it take you to do all of this? It looks and sounds like quite a labor of love to me, so it's obvious you put a lot of effort and thought into it. Thanks for that and for sharing this!
Ah well it wasn't much of a project - I had pretty much a whole free day yesterday so I did all the audio throughout that day, and then put the bits together quickly today. What really surprised me, actually, was how easy it was: after I had initially started trying to make sense of it musically - basically just a couple of crossfades to join passages from each version - I played the first couple of minutes I had edited along to the video and was astonished to find how similar the timings were  And there's also the matter of my favourite transition - there is a pair of notes in the strings about 50 seconds into "The Prophecy" leading out of a choir phrase that is exactly the same as one of the pairs of notes leading into the History of the Ring theme that plays over the title, which is pretty much exactly the right time! Almost like Shore was planning for something like this to happen  (Since that theme has become such iconic music for the titles, I wouldn't have wanted to stick with the non-thematic material from the beginnings of the early drafts to play over that. As it was it was simply an edit screaming to be made  )
Anyway, if it sounds like hard work to spend a day poring over 7 minutes of music, it's testament to how talented Howard Shore is that I found it all extremely enjoyable. I will never tire of the material he has written for LOTR 
Then Manwė and Yavanna parted for that time, and Yavanna returned to Aulė; and he was in his smithy, pouring molten metal into a mould. 'Eru is bountiful,' she said. 'Now let thy children beware! For there shall walk a power in the forests whose wrath they will arouse at their peril.'
'Nonetheless they will have need of wood,' said Aulė, and he went on with his smith-work.
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Prologue - alternate score
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FlyingSerkis
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Jan 22 2013, 5:56pm
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wow, how long did that take you? Definitely worth checking out...
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weaver
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Jan 22 2013, 9:24pm
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Thanks for your kind comments
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FlyingSerkis
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Jan 22 2013, 10:18pm
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you're welcome and thanks for the scoop on how you did this!
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weaver
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Jan 23 2013, 2:24am
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quite refreshing indeed! I loved some parts of the new stuff. I agree with the 'archaic' quality too
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Xanaseb
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Jan 27 2013, 9:16pm
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Did you notice
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ghost_matt
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Feb 2 2013, 12:32am
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I don't think this music was used in The Hobbit //
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Magpie
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Feb 2 2013, 5:02am
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Well parts of it are
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ghost_matt
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Feb 2 2013, 1:20pm
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are you saying...
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Magpie
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Feb 2 2013, 4:47pm
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