ROTK soundtrack (SPOILER-iffic, probably)

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The CD isn’t due out for another couple of weeks, but Soundtrack.net’s, got samples from each track up, and TheOneRing.net’s mirroring them if you can’t get ST.net to load (which I couldn’t).

The light opening is surprising - Merry and Pippin fooling around at Orthanc, maybe? Although I’ve heard that was going to be on TTT:EE DVD.

Minas Tirth theme - whee! I like it. Very grand.

I thought it was a bit of a bummer that the sample for The Steward of Gondor didn’t include Billy Boyd’s singing. That should be interesting.

The Fields of the Pelennor - so, from the music, I’m guessing this will be a big scene, then? :slight_smile: Like it mentions in the ST.net article, it’s cool that this cue has the same ‘feel’ as the music for the prologue battle in FOTR.

The End of All Things - Ooh, spine-chilling, when you think about what’s probably going to be accompanying this on screen.

Geez, a ten-minute cue for The Return of the King. The sample is nice, although I have a feeling that that particular moment of the cue is going to play over a bittersweet moment in the film.

And all I’m going to say about Into the West, based on that sample, is: :dubious:. We’ll see how it works in the context of the film, I guess, since it will probably be playing over the credits.

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I was just listening to it before I came over here, Erroneous. That Shelob track was wonderfully spine-chilling; it reminded me a bit of the famous Psycho theme. And I liked the “Fire and Ash” track, as well.

I second your opinion about “Into the West”. I’ll try to reserve my opinion, but I think Enya was doing just fine up until now.

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Annie Lennox sings it. Enya only sang the song for the first movie. Gollum’s Song was sung by someone else.