I have The Two Towers and The Return of the King scores, yet to buy The Fellowship of the Ring.

I am not a huge classical fan, I like listening every now and then, but Howard Shore is different. Firstly, he has scored music to my favourite films. Secondly, I feel so very moved and touched when ever I listen to the scores, and I love music to have that powerful an effect on me.

I don't suppose many other people on here really dig Howard Shore, but I want to show my appreciation somehow here.



I've just now learnt that he did scores for Se7en, The Cell and another one of my fave films, The Silence of the Lambs.

Howard Shore is a wonderful film score composer. His next projects will be Oliver Stone's Howard Hughes biopic "The Aviator", due for release this December (and featuring Gwen Stefani as Jean Harlow!) and Peter Jackson's remake of "King Kong", scheduled for 2005.

I've always liked film scores. They're especially effective if you like a film and really connect with it. Then the music holds more meaning, and you can really enjoy the soundtrack on another level. I would have to say that "The Pianist" and "The Hours" were two of my favourite soundtracks from last year. I'm not a big fantasy fan, so I couldn't really get into ROTK the film but I really enjoyed the music and have the ROTK soundtrack.
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John Williams, Howard Shore and Danny Elfman have quite a presence in my music collection. i love Movie scores,

My personal favorite film score composer is Elliot Goldenthal. http://goldenthal.filmmusic.com/
I got into Goldenthal when I fell in love with the soundtrack for Interview With the Vampire. He also scored Heat, Batman Forever and Frida.


My second fave is Greame Revell. He did The Craft, The Crow, and Body of Evidence.

Oh, and I also love Thomas Newman. He did American Beauty, Six Feet Under, Meet Joe Black, and Little Women.


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VoicesCarry said:

I'm not a big fantasy fan - it's the heart and soul and deep message in the films that grips me. Of course, I love the actual surface story, the characters, the special effects etc, but at the heart of it, the message is of a doomed world, what one small person can do to help save it, the study of friendship... there are many similarities to the plight of middle earth that parallel that of modern day earth.



Saruman: "The world is changing."
"The old world will burn in the fires of industry.
Forests will fall. A new order will rise.
We will drive the machinery of war with the sword and the spear and the ironfist of the orcs."

I connect with it so deeply as it illustrates the real life battle with individual good/evil and an external one also. I am proud to be a Ringer!
[This message was edited Sun Feb 8 13:24:45 PST 2004 by Therapy]

I only have the ROTK soundtrack & I think it's great. I love the Annie Lennox song "Into the West" that's on it.

The LOTR trilogy are the best movies ever made (in my humble opinion, anyway) and the soundtrack is no less fantastic (but I won't say it's the BEST soundtrack - that goes to Purple Rain!!! he he he)