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A Magpie's Nest

Information about the Lord of the Rings Soundtrack (primarily FOTR at the moment), including:

Cue by Cue Analysis

Themes and Incidental Music

Source Songs and Poems for Lyrics

Howard Shore (and others) comments and commentaries

Soundtrack Links

Dan Goldwasser's interview with Howard Shore; 11/19/2003

Discusses:

Gondor theme

Keeping track of themes

Expanded box set?

Solo artists in ROTK

Shelob's Lair

Other projects

What's next?

Dan Goldwasser's interview with Shore for FOTR

A review of the FOTR suite from the LOTR symphony by Dan Goldwasser

Matt Barry's first listen to TTT at Soundtrack.net

complete with brief interview excerpts from a discussion with Howard Shore

Matt Barry's first listen to FOTR at Soundtrack.net

Matt Barry's first listen to ROTK at Soundtrack.net

Doug Adams' interview with Shore before the release of FotR

Doug Adams' FotR Album review - Film Score Monthly

Doug Adams' TTT Album review - Film Score Monthly

Doug Adams' review of ROTK Soundtrack CD - Film Score Monthly

An Interview with David Salo

Including some Neo-Khuzdul lyrics from the Moria sequence

Hirgon's Lord Of The Rings music clips

Some remarks by Shore on ROTK at tolkienonline.com

Trailer Source Music

Audible Beauty's collection of FOTR soundclips

Audible Beauty's collection of TTT soundclips

Audible Beauty's collection of ROTK soundclips

Review of the premiere of the Lord of the Rings: A Symphony In Six Movements

Includes photos

Another review

Includes a breakdown of the contents of each movement of the Symphony.

MORE RETURN OF THE KING INTERVIEWS

Howard Shore interview for Return of the King at IGN

Early Howard Shore interview on preparing for Return of the King

PRE-FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING INTERVIEWS

Biographical interview with Shore with some brief remarks on how he was selected for the task

Interview of Shore with his former place of learning

COMPOSING FOR FOTR:EE

Back in April 2002 when the novelty of a composer returning to a project to compose music specifically for the DVD was quite captivating, Jon Broxton did a report on the scoring sessions of FOTR:EE