tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9602155.post3426015989901137053..comments2024-03-04T08:47:21.895-06:00Comments on The Nicsperiment: Howard Shore -- The Lord of the Rings-The Fellowship of the Ring: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack The Nicsperimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08101227163387381013noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9602155.post-3719156448125197552013-07-20T22:12:03.018-05:002013-07-20T22:12:03.018-05:00I think it may be my favorite as well.
Not sure if...I think it may be my favorite as well.<br />Not sure if any movie series will grab me the same way again, either. All three came out during my birthday week, consecutively, during my sophomore, junior, and senior years of college, and they made that time between Finals and Christmas so special.<br />Sigh...The Nicsperimenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08101227163387381013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9602155.post-51243313715446947742013-07-17T13:44:19.038-05:002013-07-17T13:44:19.038-05:00I think this is my favorite of the three soundtrac...I think this is my favorite of the three soundtracks, probably in part because it broke the ground and the other two soundtracks have to build off what is started in this first film. They just can't compete because of it, even though they're perfectly evocative (and I recall enjoying Treebeard's theme quite a bit... ethereal, ancient, and sleepily powerful). <br /><br />And yeah... Bridge of Khazad Dum. That music and shooting work together perfectly. I recall realizing my heart was almost beating in time with the music during that sequence (and it's quite frenetic and long) the first, ummm, several times I saw that movie. It still gets me, but not as much as those early times, of course. <br /><br />I did quite enjoy the bits from Enya and they work well, but Into the West by Annie Lennox (on the Return of the King soundtrack) really blows any of those out of the water. Pretty much a perfect emotional closure to the three movies. I always sit through the credits of movies to help process them and I must admit that one made me a little sad. They were all over, after about five or six years of anticipation (I kept track of their filming from early on in college and then during the three years they were coming out). <br /><br />I doubt any movie series will grab me that much ever again, even if there are so many parts of them that I wish were better. Hmmm. I need to do a review of those movies and some tangential nerd ramblings, just so I can link to them whenever the subject comes up again. ;)Nealhttp://gilbertredman.comnoreply@blogger.com