The Lord of the Rings - How Howard Shore Makes Us Care
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- Howard Shore's scores for The Lord of the Rings contain, perhaps, some of the greatest music ever written for film. This music acts as a reflection of the cultures of Middle-earth, it outlines the emotional landscape of the narrative and also acts as a narrator in itself, commenting and supporting the story over 11-hours of film. And at the centre of this, Shore had to write music to accompany the journey of two hobbits, taking them from the Shire, all the way to the fires of Mordor, and back again. The Shire's music undergoes a gradual transformation through the course of the three films. In this essay, I look at how this music changes, what it changes into, and, ultimately, why this makes us care deeply about Frodo and Sam.
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FURTHER READING/RESEARCH
The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films: A Comprehensive Account of Howard Shore's Scores (Book & Rarities CD): www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Lord-R...
Judith Bernanke, "Howard Shore's Ring Cycle: The Film Score and Its Operatic Strategy" (From: Studying the Event Film: The Lord of the Rings) New York: Manchester University Press, 2008.
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Hi everyone - I really hope you enjoyed the video. If you did, do check out my other film score analyses (currently 20 of them, including ones on Interstellar and Star Wars): th-cam.com/play/PLIlrdv4_CLJrpRfyyFNBKAGTU7BwpWhj_.html
Keep up the good work! The LOTR Video Essays are excellent, as is everything else. You are incredibly talented!
The music makes me so emotional that I literally cannot watch this video. I'll save it in my watch later for now.
This was SO excellent! Would you consider making a video on the music of GoT? (Specifically how Dany’s theme changes throughout her storyline?)
The LOTR series was excellent, thank you for doing them! Have you thought about doing something on the elven culture in LOTR or maybe dwarves ?
You should do a collaboration with Sideways! He does similar content, but with a different style. I absolutely love this video
No one will ever convince me out of the idea, that this trilogy is the high water mark of cinema for all time.
Truth. I feel so grateful to have been among those who were able to experience this in theaters. At the time, there was no experience in cinema like this anywhere. It was truly groundbreaking; from a storytelling standpoint, to the acting and certainly the special effects, we’d just never seen anything like this. I don’t think future generations will ever truly understand what an impact these films had on all of us.
Agreed
I believe that's lowballing. this trilogy, both book and film, is the high water mark for storytelling in human history.
@@doctorreed_ and the music. Do not forget that also the music alone does give us strong emotions
actually most people agree the LOTR trilogy is the best thing cinema has offered us absent some whiny star war fans.
The lord of the rings is the only movies that leave me in tears no matter how many times I have seen them. I even cry from seeing an analytical youtube video of them..
Ugh same here. When Sam said he could carry Frodo I was hit with a wave of emotion and I was like wtf why does this always happen
I'm tearing up just reading your comment and the video isn't even playing yet
Amen!
Amen indeed
I get shivers.
“One does not simply listen to Howard Shore without drawing a tear or two”
Never
"Come on, Mr. Frodo. I can't carry it for you. But I can carry you" tears every single time I watch it and hear it. Such a perfect score for a perfect moment in a near perfect story.
Samwise Gamgee, the truest of Chads
Samwise Gamgee, the true hero of lotr.
"Near perfect" ? It is a perfect story !
goosebumps shake my body everytime without fail
The idea of a what a true friendship is, indeed. If only we were all so lucky to have a friend as loyal as Sam.
The Shire music is some of the most touching music I’ve ever heard or will ever hear in my life.
Agreed!
Best Score ever! Still my favorite to this day. Howard Shore is a genius.
Totally agree!
It’s so simple & beautiful that it has somehow become interwoven with my own sense of bittersweet nostalgia associated with childhood years.
To me it sounds like being at true peace with oneself.
JRR Tolkein cared. Peter Jackson Cared. Howard Shore Cared. Now, we all care. To the point that the generations to come will care through us. This film makes me believe in what sam said, "There's some good in the world, and it's worth fighting for." LOTR is one of them.
There is a reason I put that quote as my senior quote from my high school yearbook nearly 20 years ago. These stories resonate deeply with me. They speak to honor, dignity, love, sacrifice, and ultimately, purpose and meaning. The kinds of emotions that build within me when I hear Howard Shores' score are indescribable and completely consume me. The books were the beginning, and Peter Jackson's movies, accompanied by Howard Shores' score at the climax.
@@MrBlake14 I didn't know if the films could do justice to the book but what a solid work has the team done. These films are hope.
Your comment made me cry...and that is a very good thing. There is so much truth in what you say.
@@AlisonBryen that makes me feel very good. I am sure that you're a good and hopeful person. Thank you.
@@shashwat3564 Thank you for your kind words, they mean a lot. It has been a tough year for all of us on this planet, but hope and kindness are the two things that will see us through to the other side.
The version of "Grey Havens" behind Gandalf and Pippin's conversation about death never fails to make me cry. The actual dialogue, the slowness of it in the chaos of the Battle of Minas Tirith, and the music is absolutely perfect.
if you’re looking for the song name it’s called “A far green country”
I literally ball everytime I hear "A far green country"
The little nod from gandalf to pippin, as if to say "ok, here we go, but I'm with you"
Literally just watched it yesterday and absolutely love the whole scene. Sir Ian's acting is on point there. The true kindness and love in his smile as he turns his head to share how death isn't the end but the beginning of the next journey
@Jared Cooper As a kid I laughed at this scene. Pippin seems like he's expecting a secret way out of there only to hear "Death is just another path..." But as Gandalf describes what it's like over that warm embrace of a score, I was welling up before I knew what was happening.
This trilogy was not just a movie, it was art, every second of it.
*IS art...
Let me give you a visual:
I'm a 6'6 grown man eating Wendy's and crying at his desk at work.
Haha 😛
Lotr gets us all 😂😭❤️ cheers mate
That's quite a visual 😂
(In all seriousness, there's nothing unmanly about a man crying over LotR. Just shows that you understand and appreciate the themes and truths that the story touches on).
@CrazyMiles wait what’s this new fuckery?
...er, I mean devilry.
@CrazyMiles word fam
"We don't cry because something is sad, we cry because something is more beautiful than we expected it to be."
True beauty brings out the biggest tears. Its these things we keep in our hearts till the end.
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War
That's why Gandalf says not all tears are an evil.
@@TheBatNick2024 well said
Yes!
I don't think I've ever cried as much watching a video on TH-cam. You are an astounding essayist. Masterpiece.
Seconded and thirded.
Fourthed.
Fifthed
Sixthed!
Precisely why I'm here to comment! A masterpiece indeed.
The only scene in any movie that consistently makes me cry is the boat scene right at the end of Fellowship, I can't explain why, it's just such a perfect moment with such a perfect score behind it.
Friendship, loyalty and love
Same man, pretty much the only one. It’s just sheer perfection, plain and simple.
Same here. Perfect scene with perfect music
For me it’s the end of return of the king when Gandalf and Frodo leave 😢
@@gandalfthewhite.5245 that's a close second for me. When Frodo and Sam have the final hug and the music swells up; Shore is such a master of translating and pairing emotion to music
I’m not crying, you’re crying!
😭😭😭😭
Yes. Yes I am.
We are all crying
Damned right, I'm crying!
You're not crying, I'm crying!
I was about to type the same comment. xD
That damned look the Hobbits have when they realize Frodo is leaving is the only thing in any film that constantly breaks me
They realized he was going to a place that they couldn't follow. Only Sam could. He wanted Rosie Cotton but wanted to help his bff more than his own interests. Samwise Gamgee is one of, if not, my most favorite character.
@@nicholasvredenburg6154 same here, Sam is the pinacle of selflessness
Sam, Legolas, and Gimli all end up going Valinor. Merry and Pippin go to Minas Tirith to be with Aragorn, and Pippin's son and Faramir's grandson end up finishing the book.
@@Maya-lg4xp Did Sam give the book 📖 to his daughter
@@theninkyn0nk463 exactly. It's all what , I feel, we should strive to be. It would make our world better if everyone was selfless. P.S. my other scenes that make me tear up or cry are boromirs death and my friends, you bow to no one.
8:22 still gives me the chills. The acting and that music! Sean Astin should have won a best supporting actor Oscar. No other character in the three films made the audience as emotional as Samwise did.
Agreed, and it is actually criminal that he didn't, he also didn't get nominated
His speech at the end of the Two Towers 😢😢. Should have at least been nominated
@@peterhill5065 Absolutely agree with that. To me, the real true "hero" of LOTR is Samwise the Brave
I'm a grown man and I started bawling my eyes out watching this video. Crying with amazement, and memory of these movies. The soundtrack is so amazing, so fitting. So well put together. I doubt there will be another trilogy as good as this before a long time.
Nothing wrong with that, dude. I do it too, and probably others. These movies mean so much to me.
It's really time to leave behind the idea that a grown man shedding tears is surprising or shocking. Aragorn cried when Boromir died. Having emotions does not make you less of a man. It makes you human.
@@tiph3802 People are focused on making themselves less than human all the time by trying to align as much as possible with an additional identity "man" is just one of these usually just the most insecure and desperate but not the only identity which makes us less human, they pretty much all do, it's a psychological disorder really.
I don't think we will see another film project like this in our lifetimes. It was a once-in-a-generation confluence of events which brought us it that I doubt will be replicated in a hot minute.
Thanks for the online psychology class. 3 free credits.
What Shore did for Lord of the Rings was masterful and on the level of Bach, Mozart, Verdi and Wagner.
It’s nothing short of breathtaking.
You're damn right
The whole process of making these movies is really just wild if you sit back and think about it. I don't think it would happen today unless they had a whooooooole bunch of very dedicated people.
Like, seriously. After Mozart's requiem, the LOTR soundtrack is one of my favorite pieces of music anywhere!
@@nicholasvredenburg6154 A lot of things came together at the right time to create a piece of utter perfection. Some might call it luck, others destiny.
@@nicholasvredenburg6154 before LOTR, I don’t think it happened since Star Wars where every aspect of the movie was created by one-in-a-million genius visionaries. In both Star Wars and LOTR, every aspect is breathtaking and incredible. But LOTR is the greatest trilogy ever made, for me
*Inner me:* _You know it must be watched._
*Me:* _But i just watched it a month ago!_
*Inner me:* _Not the extended version._
*Me:* _Got me there._
Me: watched the whole extended trilogy yesterday.
Me: watch again today.
The only question remains: y no extended, a month ago?
My beloved dog Popcorn died 3 years ago now. During his dying moments the track The Shire, Concerning Hobbits playing in the room when he closed his eyes for the last time. I had the whole soundtrack on repeat then because I knew orchestra music calms him down being used to hearing such music whenever we're winding down to sleep at night. LoTR the Fellowship ost is my favorite in my collection. I was crying then but I also felt a certain peace was present in that moment. From then on I remember him whenever I hear that track.. but not like the frail 14year old poodle on his last moments but him during his puppy days as lively & jovial & curly as the Hobbits in Bilbo's bday party.. I smile now when I remember him. The book, the movies, the OSTs... all of them are special to me.
Beautiful story, and RIP Popcorn. It sounded like he had a life full of love.
I think someone's cutting onions 😢
The Lord of the Rings is perfect cinema. There isn't anything as beautiful as the trilogy. It's simply breathtaking and amazing. The music is iconic.
Easily the greatest score of any movies in history and will be forever. Goddamn it literally makes me cry at so many point purely from the music, let alone the context
I cannot agree more!
There may be greater, but I can’t think of one.
Just hearing the music from the ride of the rohirim makes me tear up
In my mind, no films will ever top LOTR, and no one will ever top Howard Shore. An absolute master of his craft.
Well said Fergus, and how wonderfully the music was explained by Listening In
Thing is, you had a lot of producers actually care about the good story on which this movie was based. They were willing to spend the money to make a great film, not a senseless cash grab with cheap cgi, poor plot and character development.
@@Butterball3588 And that is why all three movies received so many oscars..especially the last one. It was an unimaginable experience for me when i saw every one of the movies at cinema. In 2001 i tried with a friend to find tickets and we only found first row for the Fellowship.. the whole scene in Moria, having only 5-10 meters away from our face the bridge confrontation of Blarog with Gandalf and imagining scenes like this only while we were playing D&D and Hero Quest, was something words cant describe.
@@CODINE80 front row would have been crazy!
@@Butterball3588 I have seen countless movies since then but the Lotr, Hobbit and Blade Runner where the only ones that gave me chills and goosebumps...they became unforgetable for me through the years. i am waiting to see if Dune will deliver that level of experience. Everyone says it will.
I'm a low-EQ man, largely out of touch with my emotions, but this trilogy brings tears to my eyes every time. I'm certain the music plays a central role in that.
As a lifelong Lord of the Rings fan that grew up in a house filled with music, this is the best video on TH-cam.
Jeez, I cried like a 3 years-old baby throughout the whole video.
same lol
Feel you
That look where Frodo looks back at his friends with a big smile - the first time he's smiled in years. The first time he's properly smiled since the first film.
It cuts so deep. The trauma of the ring, and of his journey, has broken him and leaving Middle Earth is the only way he can end his pain. It's so deeply painful, profound and tragic.
Tolkein famously hated allegory, but I think it's impossible to detach Frodo's clear PTSD from Tolkein's own experiences in the first world war. To go abroad for years and to see and do terrible things, only to come home and find you will never be allowed to rest and be forever haunted surely played into his imagining of Frodo. Despite his hatred of allegory, I think reading Frodo as a stand in for Tolkein's mental trauma, and how he wishes he could be washed clean of it and leave the world behind, is particualrly touching. It's like he wrote the happy ending for Frodo that he himself so desired.
@@maestercraig3990 really well put
@@maestercraig3990 it's something of a Christ myth" dare I say as a non christian with all due respect of course.
I agree in a way.
Tolkien may have hated allegory, but the essence is there all the same.
I think Tolkien wrote the ending he believed he would have, leaving this life and being reunited fully with God in peace and harmony and finally at rest. I look forward to this ending myself. This world leaves deep dark marks on each of us, only the redemption and rectification from god will free us
@@maestercraig3990 it’s a picture of Yeshua the messiah, Tolkien couldn’t help but be somewhat allegorical :-)
I'm sure someone already said this, but the "The Grey Havens" theme is used for "Into the West", the song on the end credits of The Return of the King. It's so beautiful and melancholy.
I honestly believe there will never be a film as meaningful, pure and as important and timeless as the Lord of the rings. They are the greatest films ever made and may ever be made. I love movies.. but these have always and will always be may favourite films.
Just wait until you find out that the story was lifted from Wagner
@@Siegfried5846 That's not even true lmao
The Grey Havens theme has such a melancholic effect, a sense of deep sadness and hollownes but irresistible at the same time. A journey complete
And Ian Mckellens face at that moment with pippin. Oh man… it’s literally enough to make a grown man weep.
Into the west: my funeral song of choice. If people aren’t crying by then, they will be afterwards! 😂😭
@@KeytarArgonian Pippin's face in that scene is all of us.
Somber is more like it, it is sad but fulfilling, when it does end there is peace in its conclusion. There is comfort in that.
Howard Shore should be honored as one of the greats alongside the likes of John Williams. His music is almost divine feeling
I agree, but Howard Shore is a cut above
@@zaidlacksalastname4905 Howard Shore is a genius. He made The Fly, a body horror movie into a tragedy with just a few notes at the right time.
I'm a very casual fan of LOTR and a massive SW fan. but aside from Empire Strikes Back's romance theme, nothing else Williams has done even comes close
@@cyanimation1605 Duel of the Fates?!
@@luxintenebris1776 Battle of the Heroes, Binary Suns, to name a couple more
No matter what happens in my life… what an absolute blessing to be alive when this masterpiece was created.
All parties cared.
It shows.
To experience beauty this profound is worth living for.
Perfection in my opinion. All aspects of these films.
So funny you say this. I had stage 3+ cancer during the time of the first movie, and now I remember praying that I would still be alive for the third! As God is my witness.
I am still waiting for an equal treatment of the Hobbit! Will never be as profound, but maybe not a cartoon or stretched into a trilogy loaded with cgi. Sigh. Might need to live another 20 years.
@@blugrass55 glad you’re still here!!!! 🙏🌸☯️
"I can’t carry it for you… but I can carry you!"
BEST MOMENT IN LOTR
and with the best musical moment in the whole trilogy
Literally can't hear any of this music without holding back tears.
I just started crying profusely. Feels great to let it out!
That moment Frodo collapsed, he had given everything, Sam picks him up, giving everything for Frodo, followed by "For Frodo" by Aragorn in the next scene, as he and all the free peoples of Middle Earth, give everything for Frodo... such a beautiful moment with such phenomenal music
I cry so hard every time 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
On the behalf of humanity...
Howard Shore, THANKYOU!!!
i’m not crying, you’re crying. i love this trilogy so much!!! cant wait to let my kids watch this when they’re old enough.
I started watching it when I was six. Pathetic.
@@stalinoftheinternet8075 whats pathetic?
My two older kids (16 and 14) watched it for the first time with me this year. I can't even describe how it felt to experience the movies for the first time again through them. They love it now, too.
My parents had all me and all of my four siblings watch this trilogy before the age of three. I am so glad they did… it will always be my favourite film series ever. A lot of things that I got to experience before I probably should have now carry most of my early memories from when I was three or four. Things like playing halo 3 and reach with my family when I was four and watching the Lott when I was three. Even though I can’t remember a single moment from anything before the age of five besides ones like these. The emotions that the Lott has is just so powerful that it’s all I can remember from my early life. I’m really grateful that I was able to experience this early because most of the people it age only watched it when they were older like ten or eleven and they just don’t understand it. A lot of the people my age like most of the new movies coming out from Disney and marvel and stuff and they like the hobbit more than the Lotr and I think it is because they don’t have the emotional tie that I have to these things. Too bad I wont get the same feeling again because I won’t be three again and I really don’t think that there will be another masterpiece like this ever again because companies just want money. They don’t care about the final project or if it really is good. They just want to do the least amount of work for the most amount of money. Tolkien cared about his work, Jackson cared about keeping the emotions and awesomeness of it and Shore cared about having the most emotional music ever. I’m going to cry myself to sleep now…
Absolutely incredible. Was tearing up in the beginning just hearing “the Breaking of the Fellowship”. This series you’ve done is so amazing and I so appreciate you putting the time and effort and talent into them!
Thank you Sarah. That means a huge amount. They have been a lot of effort, but it’s worth it to receive comments like this.
@@ListeningIn 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I’ve heard rumors and whispers of what it would take for a remake of these movies. And most people mention how hard it would be to recast the actors, but I think the music is the hardest part of the equation. Any attempt to rewrite the music of The Lord of the Rings would be a crime. This is so could and could never be replaced.
I'm ready for Amazon to fuck it up and inspire everyone else to leave it the fuck alone lol
@@yourmomshouse6984 and from all evidence we have so far it seems like that is going to happen.
I see no reason for a remake, these films are as close to perfection as I believe can be manage. They recently spent like $40 million IIRC on a 4k update in which they redid all the CGI, but the films were recorded in 6k so there may be another update to come in the future as well (not sure if it's possible because IDK how much of the native resolution is being sacrificed for framing).
Don't be ridiculous. We don't need garbage films instead of good films. Remake the Hobbit instead.
They just have to buy the IP of the music. Nothing to change at all. Music is forever.
Excellent analysis. “But this music is also comforting, existing at the place between joy and sorrow.” Beautifully put. The term I would use for this is nostalgic.
The Grey Havens theme is a perfect example of simplicity in music being more powerful than complexity. It is truly an incredibly simple tune, both harmonically and melodically, and yet, it pulls my heart and soul. Music is awesome
Just me casually crying in my room at the moment when Frodo and Sam drop from exhaustion and Frodo keeps crawling as we hear the Shire and Grey Havens themed mix to make pure perfection from our world and theirs.
Sam’s ‘Rosie Cotton. If ever I was to marry someone, it would’ve been her. It would’ve been her,’ while the strings do their stuff in the background, is the bit that properly gets me.
I recently saw Lord of the Rings with a live orchestra at the royal Albert hall in London, and I could of just watched the orchestra I just wanted to cry. It’s an extraordinary score. A little bonus my friend was singing in the choir.
And add in the beauty of the Royal Albert Hall..
@@robertewalt7789 perfect venue, roll onto see Return of the King next year.
These films are unparalleled in quality and masterpiece. They are hands down the best films ever made no question. The reason is that it shows the quality of how us humans should be, life lessons, not giving up even when you want to quit. These movies and the books I read saved my life. I'll never forget them.
wow now I have to watch lotr again haha
Yep, that's 11 hours of my life gone again, but it'll be worth every second!
@E. O. or a train. Maybe not an automobile if you are driving.
Darn, what a punishment 😂
Extended Version!
@@Max-jf5vu No, 11 hours of your life enjoyed and remembered for years to come.
I was not prepared to cry at 11:19pm on a tuesday
Nor me at 10:27 am on a wednesday
3pm on a Friday. Gotta do the nursery run in a bit and I’m almost sobbing.
The Grey Haven theme always makes me cry, now - “Into the West” was my childhood lullaby, and it brings such an intense feeling of comfort even when you’re surrounded by pain and hardship that I can’t help but weep with the sheer relief.
It's actually all rather mind-boggling. These scores are for me, the greatest. They turn an already staggering film (I count all three as one film) in to, in my opinion, the best film of all time. The sad realisation dawned on me in the years that followed, that we'll never see its like again. And I truly believe that. They are perfection, never to be equalled.
Howard Shore deserved that Oscar. LotR score is just perfection and beautiful
This was EXCELLENT
Thank you so much!
The fact that a bunch of us probably hear this music and tear up speaks volumes to the sheer magnificence of these films
Every time I hear any of the shire themes, this wave of comfort and joy washes over me. It just means so much to me.
I used to listen to The Breaking of the fellowship to sleep. This piece is the definition of a masterpiece.
Amen to that
Unbelievable. Barnaby, you have created an incredible collection here. I am so moved, I think I cried through the entire last half. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate the work you do. Not only is it of incredible production quality- but the just how beautifully and thoughtfully they are put together puts them on the grounds of high art. As a creator myself, I recognize the uncountable amount of hours this must have took. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I wish I had the money to be able to pay you a salary so you could do this full time.
Couldn't have said it better myself!
Cullen. This has made my day. It means a huge amount to me to have the support of such a lovely and dedicated little community of followers. In all honesty, I think I might have to take a small break after these because they were weeks and weeks of work, but it's made all worth it to receive comments like this. I hope you are keeping well in these difficult times. Thank you.
Dude, I cried too, you're not alone
@@ListeningIn If Barnaby is you, then Dear Barnaby my utmost thanks
I honestly think Shore’s work is beyond genius, almost god-like and unreal, a work of universal expression, like the universe waited 13 billion years for Shore to make this for it to express itself through his music.
Howard Shore understood the assignment 👏 absolute masterpieces of music can be found in the Lord of the Rings
I've done a lot of searching and watching, and I think I now consider this series as the peak of LotR/Tolkien video essays. Nothing else I've found so encapsulates and dignifies categorically the masterful craftsmanship that went into this world, this series, this music, or puts you in such awe of the works of Tolkien and Jackson and Shore. You've done an incredible job!
Thank you so much! This comment has made my day!
So true. Jackson's LOTR took us on an unforgettable journey that you, Listening In, have so beautifully and triumphantly reminded us.
I can watch you, everyday, for the rest of my life, take us through the magic that Shore has blessed us with.
Thank you, most sincerely.
The grey havens theme was always my absolute favorite one of all time...😁
(me too...)
I hope you've listened to "Into the West" the song at the end of ROTK performed by Annie Lennox which the theme is based on. If you haven't, prepare for waterfall tears... (even after 10yrs+ it still gives it to me)
@@12345maxtor I've heard it bro, but I must say although it's pretty amazing, I prefer the Version in the films because the melody without the lyrics felt a lot more personal to me in my opinion😁. I also have a very personal story with the grey havens: Normaly, I don't cry in films. Actually, I've never cried in films. The maximum of emotions when I watch films are heavy goosepums everywhere, EXCEPT for when Frodo goes on the boat to the undying lands... and smiles. And the real tearbreaker for me was the music and that little, but so simple D major line. THAT is and was by now the only scene in all of the films that I've watched, where I cried😅😄
Greetings
Moritz
The leitmotif of Valinor always cuts me to the quick too. Proof the Valar are watching and still love the world.
ME TOO😭😭
There are many unbelievably great scores, and I have listened to so many of them. But the score of the Lord of the Rings has always been the one for me. THE best out of them all. The complexity, emotion and plain world shaping music that came out of these three masterpieces I think will forever be my absolute favorite music albums of all time. Beyond epic.
The One Score to rule them all
@@UrbanistWaldeinsamkeitI WAS LITERALLY JUST GOING TO WRITE THAT
@@zango3134so was I 😂
Can you imagine the pressure?! Howard Shore was tasked with writing music about a world that, and I want to stress this, is *literally* made by the harmonic chorus of otherworldly beings. The songs were so beautiful, they created life. The discordant tones so sour they became the substance of evil. The score makes us not only hear, but feel the immense weight of the events of Middle-Earth. The intrigue, the calm, the pride, the fear.
With music, Howard Shore channeled Iluvatar. He created a world, filled it with life, and then told a story. With each note, we all took one step farther from the Shire, and back again.
I can’t overemphasise how underrated these videos are. Amidst so much garbage, this is a gem.
My wife bought me the soundtrack for Christmas the year Fellowship was released--a week or so before we saw the film. I was 31, she was pregnant with our son, and I'd read the trilogy multiple times. I hadn't yet seen the film, but I knew the story well--and that first listen to the music allowed it to settle in to my mind, my imagination, and meld with the narrative as I'd known it for years. Then, when I went to see the film, and heard the music again, but in it's place as the soundtrack of the movie, it only heightened the enjoyment for me, as I saw the tale I loved so much come to life on screen.
This is sublime. A simply perfect video. If there arent TV stations or production companies banging down your door to create more of these, then the world truly has gone insane.
I’ve listened to this beautiful score for the past twenty years. This video has finally helped me to understand just how much of a genius Howard Shore was as a storyteller.
Thanks so much for making this masterpiece even more of an inspiration to me!
I actually almost started crying when Sam began to carry Frodo. The music perfectly complements that scene and Sam's raw willpower to carry forward. Both Frodo and Sam were incredibly brave.
This video was amazing. Thank you.
The Shire theme is one of the best soundtracks of all time.
This is the most brilliant TH-cam video I’ve ever seen. I’m using these films for a course I’m teaching to high school seniors. A key component of that course is the transcendental of beauty and what it can teach us. I plan on showing this video in my course. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. This captures everything I want to convey to my students, but can’t, since I’m not trained as a musician.
Also check out Like Stories of Old’s 2-part analysis of LOTR. Actually, check out everything that guy does…! Best of luck with your class
Tolkien lifted the story from Wagner
How did the class go? Also can I ask what you're using this music to teach as you say you're not musically trained?
@@lightningmonky7674 it went ok. I don’t think I conveyed the idea I wanted to as well as I probably could have. It was a theology class to high school seniors at a Catholic high school. Tolkien was a Catholic and was telling the story of salvation history through the LOTR. There are a number of parallels between salvation history and the plot of the LOTR. But I wanted to use this video to demonstrate the transcendental of beauty as portrayed through music and that there is an objective criterium that defines beauty. This music communicates a message beyond simply the melodic structure and that message is meant to move the listener. As the listener is moved to a deeper appreciation of beauty, he or she is in turn moved to contemplation of God, who is Truth, Goodness, and Beauty itself. That’s it in a nutshell.
@@fr.patrickbehm6474 oh wow that's beautiful! I myself am an atheist but Lord of the rings happens to be my favorite story as I find his portrayal of his beliefs to be so touching, I'd be happy to take your class even if I don't believe it!
Frodo's smile as he turns on the boat wrecks me every time.
I don’t think I’ve ever drawn a tear to an explanation of anything. But this transcends the traditional term of explanation. This. This is what art inspires and aspires to be. A touch both close to home and far from reality. Something we know and nothing we’ve ever seen. Stranger to stranger. A glimpse of a generation in a handshake.
what a beautiful comment You left here Jonathan....
I was crying at the end...Lord of the Rings has always made me emotional and now I know why. I learned a lot looking at the 3 part series for the trilogy. It's beautiful.
The Lord of The Rings score by Howard Shore is one of the most beautiful, emotional soundtracks of all time. The LOTR trilogy music is timeless and will live on for generations to come. I found this analysis fascinating. Thank you for this video! Howard Shore is truly a genius.
Also, Into The West is one of my favorite songs of all time.
I've got tears running down my face. Understanding how the music brings a deeper layer of emotion to an already powerful story is eye opening. THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!
Peter Jackson to Howard Shore - “Do you know what the Ainulindalë is”?
Howard: Yes.
He aught to know... he wrote it! Haha
Sometimes you don't know why you care about the music of some film, the creation of a fantasy that only exists in our imaginations, but after all they become a part of you, because you found something personal that reflects your emotions in that art. It's beatufiul. And Howard Shore, Peter Jackson and his team, and absoultely J.R.R. Tolkien, they had a reason to spend their lifes in this journey, I don't know what's that reason, but as you say they make us care about it, because of the journey itself, the characters and their feelings during this journey. Again, thank you for spending you time remembering us about Middle Earth and the brilliant music of Howard Shore. Your videos will be remembered.
I cried three times watching this video. That just goes to show how impactful Howard Shore's score for Lord of the Ring is
Howard Shore's music for this masterpiece is - in combination with the movies and their scenes themself - among the things that make me genuinely cry.
I love it.
Wasn't expecting to cry watching a youtube video today... and yet here I am, crying.
Just everything about The Lord Of The Rings is perfection.
The Grey Havens moves me every time I hear it. Every note hits my heart.
Every single time I listen to the Lord of the rings and Harry Potter soundtracks I feel so nostalgic and I feel like crying of gratefulness.
How lucky are we, to live on a planet where there are people able to create such masterpieces?
This wasn't fair. The Grey Havens theme is my single favourite composition, ever, bar none. I've actually made the request to a lot of people that I want "Into the West" played at my funeral (which hopefully won't happen any time soon).
My point is, you just made the most succinct video I've ever seen which perfectly explains why it's so important to me, and in the process you've made me bawl my eyes out. Bravo.
I have said the same thing about Into the West! That whole sequence hits me in a way that few things can.
Same here. I realised some years ago that ‘Into the West’ was the music I wanted at my funeral. It seems like the perfect way to take your leave.
It was our wedding theme - not a dry eye in the house!
Same here, I want that song, such a beautiful farewell to pass into the next world
The scores in this trilogy are truly the best in cinematic history
When Sam talked about Rossie Coton, I lost it in the theater. It was the only time I've ever cried at a movie.
To this day I can't get through the trilogy without unapologetically sobbing, and it seems like the more time goes by, the more it breaks me hahaha! Simply watching this video left tears in my eyes. Shore is one of the main reasons I decided to become a composer. Such delicate care and craftsmanship was woven into every fiber of the soundtrack.
Thank you for this video!
My pleasure! Thank you for watching!
Woah wasn’t expecting you guys to be watching him here! Thanks for listening to my recommendation! Listening In is awesome!
Wasn't ready to cry today. Thank you for the great video
4:07 This is my personal opinion. But in the transition theme from shire reuniting to the fellowship theme isn't a decline of the shire music. It's a marriage of the Shire coming to its pinnacle as it allies with the rest of the races in the sole purpose; for the first time in history.
Otherwise bravo on your interpretation. The music shudders the foundations of my soul. Always has.
Grew up with these films, the shire theme is the only song than brings tears to my eyes every time, reminds me of the good old days where I didn't have a care in the world
I promised I wouldn't cry, but I ain't sad to fail this promise.
This Soundtrack is a masterpiece. Even after listening and watching the movie for over 20 years you can still expericence something new.
The shire theme still makes me tear up today..
6:52 Oh my good Lord.... I can't even explain the feeling of wholeness and hope that steals over my heart when I hear that theme. This moment is like another universe - another world filled with light and patience and goodness and it feels like soaring past the breakers of the clouds and floating in the light.
Perfectly, beautifully put. I've never been able to explain the feeling of openness that fills my chest, the unexplainable warmth that surrounds me whenever I hear it
The most beautiful soundtrack ever created that puts you in another world of bliss. Thx for the insight 😊
I was completely unprepared for this video. The emotional rollercoaster of the beautiful music and the memories that accompany it, and then narrated so vividly... thank you for this masterpiece of a video.
1:12 OMG words can’t describe how much I love This Music
Thank you for creating such a touching video. 🙌 Very glad to have stumbled upon this.
This is my favorite trilogy & score of all time.
Amen
Thank you so much Dre! It’s my pleasure. Glad you found the video.
As Sam said, " I don't know why, but it makes me sad."
This made me bawl man. I've haven't cried so hard since I was a kid. This is way to many memories. I want to thank you and be mad at the same time. Thank you for bringing it back.
You’ve created a small masterpiece here…and reopened the longing felt by those who truly love Tolkien’s works and the beauty that has come from them. It’s the yearning that lets me know that this world is not, ultimately, my true home.