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MyWeeLadGimli
Lorien
Oct 2 2015, 5:24pm
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Favorite LOTR Musical Theme
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I did one for the Hobbit, but thought LOTR should have a discussion of music too. There were so many amazing themes in LOTR, which was your favorite? I'd have to go with the Fellowship theme or the Rohan theme. Both can be either dramatic and powerful or soft and emotional.
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OldestDaughter
Rohan
Oct 2 2015, 5:27pm
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I answered back to Hobbit one, but my favorite LOTR themes are The Nazgul's, Rohan's, Galaldriel's and I like Arwen's as well.
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Bofur01
Lorien
Oct 2 2015, 5:40pm
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Just too awesome :p
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Darkstone
Immortal
Oct 2 2015, 5:51pm
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"Mister Frodo, hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good frying pan at your side. I’ve been from one side of this garden to the other, I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe there's one all-powerful Providence controlling everything. There's no Music of the Ainur that controls my destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense."
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TheOnlyOneAroundWithAnySense
Rohan
Oct 2 2015, 7:00pm
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But that fleeting music that hearkens back to the Shire as Frodo collapses on the face of Mount Doom... yeah, that'd be the one for me.
I also adore: the Edoras theme and its amplification for the Ride of the Rohirrim and the "Into the West" motif that occurs whenever death is mentioned in RotK.
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Elutherian
Rohan
Oct 2 2015, 11:07pm
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Rohan's theme will always be my favorite...
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... It's just so perfect.
Chaos isn't a pit, chaos is a ladder.
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Hobbity Hobbit
Lorien
Oct 3 2015, 1:37am
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Lothlorien! You don't get the reference, and it's a really bad one because no one would get it but there's a song in the LOTR Musical called Lothlorien.
Movie-wise, my favorite is Gondor, Concerning Hobbits (gives me a lot of memories both old and recent one of my camp counselors played Concerning Hobbits for me on the guitar), and Rohan.
"Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea."
-Dominic Monaghan
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Smaug the iron
Gondor
Oct 3 2015, 7:17am
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FOTR: The fellowship theme
TT: The Rohan Theme
ROTK: The Gondor theme
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Susan
Bree
Oct 4 2015, 2:34am
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Concerning Hobbits, and definitely the Gondor theme //
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balbo biggins
Rohan
Oct 6 2015, 2:26pm
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the ring theme, when it opens across the titles, spot on.
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Arandiel
Grey Havens
Oct 7 2015, 6:19pm
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but the mystery of the Lothlorien theme and the harmonies of the Rivendell theme make it really hard for me to just say "Hobbiton! no, wait, Fellowship! oh, no, Rohan! wait - drat - Gondor! oh, wait..."
I give up.
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elentari3018
Rohan
Oct 8 2015, 1:53am
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Esp. Concerning Hobbits, Fellowship theme, Moria when they see the mansions of Moria, Rohan, Gondor, The End of All things...
yes cannot name one!
"By Elbereth and Luthien the fair, you shall have neither the Ring nor me!" ~Frodo
"And then Gandalf arose and bid all men rise, and they rose, and he said: 'Here is a last hail ere the feast endeth. Last but not least. For I name now those who shall not be forgotten and without whose valour nought else that was done would have availed; and I name before you all Frodo of the Shire and Samwise his servant. And the bards and the minstrels should give them new names: Bronwe athan Harthad and Harthad Uluithiad , Endurance beyond Hope and Hope Unquenchable.." ~Gandalf, The End of the Third Age , from The History of Middle Earth series
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TheOnlyOneAroundWithAnySense
Rohan
Oct 8 2015, 3:03am
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'The End of All Things' is another that consistently stands out in my mind. Images and melody married to near perfection.
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NManfredi
Rivendell
Oct 9 2015, 2:24am
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I have so many to choose from, but I think if I really, really have to choose just a couple, I think I would definitely go with the The King of the Golden Hall and Isengard Unleashed. Both rank very high on my list.
"Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing! And I have seen it only for an instant in the house of Elrond! Could I not have a sight of it again?"
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QuackingTroll
Valinor
Oct 9 2015, 11:35pm
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I love the "temptation" theme? Not sure what it is...
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When Deagol looks at the ring and it "speaks" to him. It also plays just before Gandalf leaves Frodo and Sam in FotR. It's a very short snippet, but it's beautiful. Sounds a little like the Lothlorien theme.
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zarabia
Tol Eressea
Oct 10 2015, 8:52am
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Picking a favorite is nearly impossible
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But I'm particularly attracted to the Elven themes: the music at the beginning of Flight to the Ford when we first see Arwen as Frodo sees her, Arwen's theme, Lothlorien...even The Prophecy from the prologue.
Every note is perfect, IMO. After dozens of viewings of the films, I'm a bit burnt-out. But I never tire of the music.
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round
~Do You Realize?, The Flaming Lips
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Loresilme
Valinor
Oct 15 2015, 10:15pm
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I never tire of the music. It's as beautiful and moving now as it was when I first heard it.
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jlj93byu
Rivendell
Oct 19 2015, 8:31pm
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Super hard question, I love them all so much. But for some reason the one that had the biggest impact on me when watching the films in the theater was the "Nature's Reclamation" theme with the boy soprano and marching drums in "The Last March of the Ents." That scene and music was utter perfection. Then the building of that theme up through the lighting of the beacons and then in the Battle of Pelennor Fields.
A close second is the hardanger fiddle doing the Rohan theme, and "In Dreams" from Fellowship.
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Aragorn the Elfstone
Tol Eressea
Nov 6 2015, 7:24am
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The Hymn Setting of the Shire Theme
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At least, I think that's what it is. The moment I'm thinking particularly of (in FotR) is after the screen fades to black and the end credits appear on screen. On the original soundtrack, the music segues right into "In Dreams". But the film (and Complete Recordings) has the children's choir softly singing the Hymn setting and it is so emotional and brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it.
I think this is partly because it was so unexpected (I'd become familiar with the soundtrack leading up to the film and therefore was expecting "In Dreams" at that moment). It just tugs at your heartstrings after the emotional turmoil of the film's finale, and I find it utterly sublime.
"The danger with any movie that does as well as this one does is that the amount of money it's making and the number of awards that it's got becomes almost more important than the movie itself in people's minds. I look at that as, in a sense, being very much like the Ring, and its effect on people. You know, you can kind of forget what we were doing, if you get too wrapped up in that."
- Viggo Mortensen
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NecromancerRising
Gondor
Nov 6 2015, 9:44pm
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Lothlorien and Nazgul
"You cannot find peace by avoiding life"
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Omnigeek
Lorien
Nov 15 2015, 6:25pm
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I just like the high spirits and innocence it embodies.
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Radagast_the_Brown
Rivendell
Nov 29 2015, 1:58am
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The Rohan theme is my absolute favourite but I also love the Breaking of the Fellowship a lot.
All you have to decide, is what to do with the time that is given to you...
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