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What has LOTR music that is SO HAUNTING?

Mr. Arkenstone (isaac)
Tol Eressea


Mar 9 2015, 10:27pm

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What has LOTR music that is SO HAUNTING? Can't Post

I havent seen anything comparable, in other scores yes, but in a far lesser amount, for example in Riders of the Lost Ark. But it is in moments like A shadow of the past or the mirror of Galadriel were you have this music that is anything complicated, just some ominous and slow melancolic chords but makes me feel haunted like if something really IMPORTANT was going on.

It makes me feel like the sadness of a sea waving with huge yet calmed waves

AMAZING

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Eruonen
Half-elven


Mar 10 2015, 5:06am

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I think Gladiator has some very moving music. [In reply to] Can't Post

 


VeArkenstone
Lorien

Mar 11 2015, 7:03pm

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Howard Shore's LOTR and TH soundtracks are amazing. [In reply to] Can't Post

My personal favorites are FOTR and AUJ. I especially like playing them when I am doing a creative project, sewing, writing letters etc. I could swear that these soundtracks tweak my brain chemistry and make me feel more creative.

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Mr. Arkenstone (isaac)
Tol Eressea


Mar 11 2015, 8:22pm

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they do [In reply to] Can't Post

I do the same many times :)

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Kirly
Lorien


Mar 12 2015, 2:51am

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Some of the music to the Narnia movies [In reply to] Can't Post

Is spectacular and has a sound that just grips my soul. Not all of it, but some.

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Magpie
Immortal


Mar 12 2015, 4:16am

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have you seen this page of my website? [In reply to] Can't Post

http://www.amagpiesnest.com/...ts/inside_a_song.htm


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balbo biggins
Rohan


Mar 12 2015, 4:37pm

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lots [In reply to] Can't Post

schindlers list, star wars, well anything by john williams has moments of extreme haunting beauty, then theres hans zimmer inception etc or a modern soundtrack like from under the skin which is extremly haunting or from the film PI, theres alot out there! but i dont subscribe to the hobbit score being that great if you take out the lotr motifs.


(This post was edited by balbo biggins on Mar 12 2015, 4:40pm)


Misty Mountain Hop
Rivendell


Mar 13 2015, 6:29pm

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Hans Zimmer [In reply to] Can't Post

Inception, especially Interstellar..one of my favorites!

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Eruonen
Half-elven


Mar 13 2015, 9:33pm

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Last of the Mohicans has some great music too... [In reply to] Can't Post

Clannad's "I Will Find You"...


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Kirly
Lorien


Mar 14 2015, 2:30am

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Must second this! [In reply to] Can't Post

I recently watched Last of the Mohicans and had forgotten how beautiful the music was.

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VeArkenstone
Lorien

Mar 17 2015, 2:45am

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Must Third This [In reply to] Can't Post

Love,Love,Love the last of the mohicans.

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Loresilme
Valinor


Mar 17 2015, 8:31pm

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I agree [In reply to] Can't Post

It's been years since I first heard them and still, nothing else even comes close. The music Howard Shore wrote for these films is something so exceptional, so completely in a class by itself that, for me, they cross over into some kind of transcendence.


Loresilme
Valinor


Mar 17 2015, 8:35pm

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"And to that I hold" :) [In reply to] Can't Post

What I wrote then about the score, I would still write today Heart.


Magpie
Immortal


Mar 17 2015, 10:04pm

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:-) [In reply to] Can't Post

good... cause you'd have to hold a cudgel over my head for me to take that down! And I'm hard to catch ... being in a different part of the country and stuff.


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Fimbulfambi
The Shire


Mar 17 2015, 10:21pm

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haunting and beautiful [In reply to] Can't Post

I really love the LOTR soundtracks. There are so many different moods in the music and the music from Hobbit ties in so well and adds new dimensions.

Other than LOTR and Hobbit a score to have made an impact on me is the soundtrack to The Fountain (2006). It is great even if you have not seen the film.


Bombadil
Half-elven


Mar 18 2015, 10:36pm

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A Very ODD remark PJ made long ago... [In reply to] Can't Post

He wanted Howard because of his WORK on
"The Fly" (Gena Davis & Jeff Goldblum)

He said he wanted
Something
Similar for the
Shelob... sequence..?

Maybe re-watch "The Fly" again if you can
Stomach it...
Crazy

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Gunslinger24
The Shire


Mar 23 2015, 1:13am

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because its amazing.. [In reply to] Can't Post

Smile and there is a great magic to the music. One of those great once in a lifetime things. Its the kind of music you can feel and brings out all these emotions. I often listen to the lotr soundtracks when I go to bed.

Do not go gentle into that good. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.


VeArkenstone
Lorien

Mar 30 2015, 6:08pm

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The Fly with Jeff Goldblum is the very last movie I would have guessed [In reply to] Can't Post

would have a Howard Shore music score attached to it! My curiosity is peaked. O.K., it is hard to stomach, but if I can find a copy I will just cover my eyes when it gets too disgusting, although, compared to today's horror movies, it may not seem so bad now. Well, life is full of surprises.

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Magpie
Immortal


Mar 30 2015, 7:03pm

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you might want to take a look at Shore's CV [In reply to] Can't Post

For one thing, he's scored a great number of David Cronenberg's films including:
The Brood (1979)
Scanners (1981)
Videodrome (1983)
Dead Ringers (1988)
Naked Lunch (1991)
Crash (1996)
eXistenZ (1999)
A History of Violence (2005)
Eastern Promises (2007)

He's also scored:
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Single White Female (1992)
Seven (1995)
The Cell (2000)
Gangs of New York (2002)
Panic Room (2002)

He's also done a great many lighthearted films but, I think when he was signed for LOTR, he was best known for his horror/thriller scores.

Full list: http://en.wikipedia.org/...rd_Shore#Filmography


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VeArkenstone
Lorien

Mar 30 2015, 8:06pm

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Thank you so much !!!! [In reply to] Can't Post

Wow ! I have seen some of these movies. I absolutely love Ed Wood and Gangs of New York!!! I had no idea who did the scores on these. I have both of these and will be taking another look with fresh ears, so to speak. I love Hugo, and was aware that Howard Shore did the musical score in that one which I thought was fabulous (but not as good as FoTR, my favorite movie score of all time, my second favorite being The Last of the Mohicans and then some of the other Tolkien movies he scored for PJ).

It it a long list, but I shall chip away at it, including some of the older horror movies, like The Fly and Scanners, if I can find them. Howard Shore is amazing.

Thank you !!!!!

Please, call me Ve.


(This post was edited by VeArkenstone on Mar 30 2015, 8:12pm)

 
 

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