Out Now: Howard Shore, LORD OF THE RINGS: THE MOTION PICTURE TRILOGY SOUNDTRACK

When it comes to epic cinematic adventures, they don’t come much more memorable than Peter Jackson’s LORD OF THE RINGS, so when the time came to secure a composer to pen the score, Jackson made sure to find someone who was capable of delivering an appropriately epic sound. As music and film history reveal, he found that someone in Howard Shore, and now you can pick up a limited-edition set filled with the original soundtracks to all three LORD OF THE RINGS films on vinyl.

LORD OF THE RINGS: THE MOTION PICTURE TRILOGY SOUNDTRACK is a 6-LP set, with each of the LPs pressed on 180-gram vinyl, and the whole affair comes housed in a collector’s box with a leather-style spine. It sounds good, it looks good… What more could you ask for?

Here’s the full track listing of the set, which is in stores now:  

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE MOTION PICTURE TRILOGY SOUNDTRACK
Track Listing:

LP 1 / LP 2 - THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
 
SIDE A
    1.    THE PROPHECY
    2.    CONCERNING HOBBITS
    3.    THE SHADOW OF THE PAST
    4.    THE TREASON OF ISENGARD
    5.    THE BLACK RIDER

SIDE B
    1.    AT THE SIGN OF THE PRANCING PONY
    2.    A KNIFE IN THE DARK
    3.    FLIGHT TO THE FORD
    4.    MANY MEETINGS
    5.    THE COUNCIL OF ELROND (Featuring "Aníron (Theme for Aragorn and Arwen)"
        Composed & Performed by Enya)
    
SIDE C
    1.    THE RING GOES SOUTH
    2.    A JOURNEY IN THE DARK
    3.    THE BRIDGE OF KHAZAD-DÛM
    4.    LOTHLORIEN
    5.    THE GREAT RIVER

SIDE D
    1.    AMON HEN
    2.    THE BREAKING OF THE FELLOWSHIP
    3.    MAY IT BE (Composed & Performed by Enya)

LP 3 / LP 4 - THE TWO TOWERS

SIDE E
    1.    FOUNDATIONS OF STONE
    2.    THE TAMING OF SMÉAGOL
    3.    THE RIDERS OF ROHAN
    4.    THE PASSAGE OF THE MARSHES
    5.    THE URUK-HAI

SIDE F
    1.    THE KING OF THE GOLDEN HALL
    2.    THE BLACK GATE IS CLOSED
    3.    EVENSTAR (Featuring Isabel Bayrakdarian)
    4.    THE WHITE RIDER
    5.    TREEBEARD
    6.    THE LEAVE TAKING
 
SIDE G
    1.    HELM'S DEEP
    2.    THE FORBIDDEN POOL
    3.    BREATH OF LIFE (Featuring Sheila Chandra)
    4.    THE HORNBURG

SIDE H
    1.    FORTH EORLINGAS (Featuring Ben Del Maestro)
    2.    ISENGARD UNLEASHED (Featuring Elizabeth Fraser & Ben Del Maestro)
    3.    SAMWISE THE BRAVE
    4.    GOLLUM'S SONG (Performed by Emilíana Torrini)

LP 5 / LP 6 - THE RETURN OF THE KING

SIDE I
    1.    A STORM IS COMING
    2.    HOPE AND MEMORY
    3.    MINAS TIRITH (Featuring Ben Del Maestro)
    4.    THE WHITE TREE
    5.    THE STEWARD OF GONDOR (Featuring Billy Boyd)
    6.    MINAS MORGUL

SIDE J
    1.    THE RIDE OF THE ROHIRRIM
    2.    TWILIGHT AND SHADOW (Featuring Renée Fleming)
    3.    CIRITH UNGOL
    4.    ANDÚRIL
    5.    SHELOB'S LAIR
    6.    ASH AND SMOKE

SIDE K
    1.    THE FIELDS OF THE PELENNOR
    2.    HOPE FAILS
    3.    THE BLACK GATE OPENS (Featuring Sir James Galway)
    4.    THE END OF ALL THINGS (Featuring Renée Fleming)

SIDE L
    1.    THE RETURN OF THE KING (Featuring Sir James Galway, Viggo Mortensen &
        Renée Fleming)
    2.    THE GREY HAVENS (Featuring Sir James Galway)
    3.    INTO THE WEST (Performed by Annie Lennox)