3.45 For Frodo | LotR Score Analysis
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มี.ค. 2022
- An analysis of the themes and letitmotifs of the Lord of the Rings - The Complete Recordings; composed, orchestrated and conducted by Howard Shore. The videos stay true to how the tunes are presented in The Complete Recordings, so all scenes with no or altered music are omitted.
IMPORTANT: The featured sample notations are not necessarily identical (in key, form or time signature) to the relevant music in the tracks. They exist to give a visual cue for the themes, not to be taken literally for every iteration of the theme.
Quotes mostly taken from The Annotated Score and The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films by Doug Adams
A big thank you to A Magpie’s Nest, and the mysterious transcriber M.W., without either these videos might never have been made.
I am not affiliated with Middle-earth Enterprises, the Tolkien Estate, New Line Cinema, Warner Brothers, WingNut Films, Doug Adams or Howard Shore.
All copyrights and trademarks for the books, films, and soundtrack music and lyrics are held by their respective owners.
ADDENDUM
This might be oddly specific, but the last 17 seconds of this track is and has always been my favorite part of the whole trilogy and score. Pure magic.
Thanks for watching!
My favorite part is coming up... :-)
So glad somebody else thinks the same, lol. Lots of people focus on 2:35--which makes sense, since it's awesome--but 3:00's always been my favorite. The shot of Frodo running into Mount Doom with that score... the viewer immediately knows _this is it._ Journey's end. The world is saved or lost _right now._ Acting, direction, effects, and music all combine for cinematic storytelling at its best.
My favorite but from this score is when we return to the Gate and the choir continues and switches from “For Frodo” to “The Eagles,” as the momentum has been building to that moment of triumph when the Eagles arrive.
Funny 'cus it's actually the first 30 seconds of this video for me. I keep replaying the movie whenever I remember on that part then going about my day. It's insane in a way I can't describe exactly.
When Gollum attacks, I love how Howard Shore’s score composition of the various themes you mentioned for the rest of this track has apocalyptic resonances to it, especially with the choir and dissonant notes
Such a small thing, but I LOVE that the Fellowship theme continues to play when we switch from the Aragorn and the others to Frodo and Sam. It really emphasizes that even though they have been on separate journeys, they are fighting for the same thing, and that good is prevailing through Fellowship across Middle Earth. And just anytime the Fellowship theme plays for Frodo and Sam is a delight, because it’s used to sparingly 👌
"You have my sword. You have my word. It cannot be broken. Nor turned aside"
Beautiful, just beautiful. This is what true friendship means.
“If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.”
Fuck I love this trilogy
There are three things I absolutely love about this track : the fact that everything seems to collide musically ; that it is, in the end, the Fellowship Theme that springs it all into action (even then, nearly at the end, it's those bonds that keep the story moving !) ; and that Nature Reclamation theme (tears in my eyes everytime).
Howard Shore should've written an opera out of this (yeah, I'm repeating myself, I am).
Also, there's something to be said about the fact that Aragorn runs ahead and alone (man has no more fear)....and the first ones to run after him are the Hobbits. If there ever was an explicit way of showing how much devotion, nobility and courage those halflings actually have...!
There's something tremeduous about how all different musical styles, instruments and timbres ultimately are represented with the voices of the choir. At the story's climax, nations and cultures, good and evil become irrelevant, all there is is pure human expression.
This has got to be one of my favorite pieces of music ever written, there's so much passion and force and just everything good packed into it. And I didn't know that the choir was singing Aragorns oath, but in Sindarin, That was really cool to learn!
These are the facts my channel exists for, people must know X D
Best final battle music ever! Where to even start? Fellowship theme with choir? The absolutely inspired idea of the lyrics being Aragorn's oath to Frodo? The way you can _hear_ things start going wrong at 0:47 and escalate out of control at 1:37? The rush of hope at 2:35 as the eagles arrive, stalling defeat just a little longer? The hair-raising chord at 3:00 signaling the do-or-die moment? Absolute perfection. There is no film score I've listened to more. _Thank you,_ Howard Shore!
"As it never has before, and never will again, the Fellowship theme sounds in full chorus..."
My man just dropped the hardest commentary on a soundtrack ever. You can tell it meant a lot to him. Well done.
So much of Return of the King, as a story and a film, is embodied in this sequence: In what should be the lowest point, suddenly, something good happens. Here it occurs most strongly in Aragorn's refusal to turn as well as in the choir suddenly accompanying the Fellowship theme.
Oh, and the lyrics themselves? 11/10
I'm so glad they nixed the Aragorn/Sauron duel that was in the original screenplay. A big climactic fight with a 14 foot villain is not fulfilling to Aragorn's character to protect Frodo by life or death.
Oh god, can you imagine what a shitshow it would've been? Just the fact that they made Frodo wrestle Gollum over the edge has made me question if they really understood the point of the story (though I've come to terms with it not being on purpose), imagine if they had let Aragorn kill Sauron.
@@monoverantus they were originally going to have Frodo "push" Gollum over the edge, but when they looked at the footage it looked like Frodo was trying to kill Gollum and that it wasn't keeping with Tolkien's theme of pitty and mercy leading to fate. That's why the changed it to an ambiguous arm wrestle.
00:03-00:47 is my favourite section of the lotr score.
Always get that huge wave of an urge to just cry when I hear those chords. I always only just manage to hold back the tears, they flood my eyes though
Just beautiful.
I love the poetry in these pieces of music 😍!!! Thank you for not just talking about the music, but the the lyrics as well!!
In this case they're especially important!
Yess! Been waiting for this one for a while! 🤩
So much happens in this track, I can't keep up with the comments, lyrics and themes 😂
It's not gonna get any easier in the coming tracks... ; )
I’ve been waiting for this one. My favorites one. The ultimate culmination of the Fellowship theme.
It's a travesty that this one isn't on the OST.
I've been looking forward to this
Smeagol hat es versprochen. Smeagol hat gelogen.
Ich liebe diese Zeile 😅
1:41 the male chorus really went for it there!! so powerful
Ah, It's a good day. Because I found this video.
You can hear "Nature's Reclamation" theme in important scenes, so I thought the lyrics should have meanings and I was looing for videos with lyrics.
Two tracks more until the Ring is destroyed, and with it, the Evil, Mordor, Seduction, and Five Beat phrases!
Just one track: 3.46 The Crack of Doom
@@cuitaro Actually, 3.46 Mount Doom and 3.47 The Crack of Doom.
Lotr movie and music is trully a masterpiece. This concept of Aragorn's vow to Frodo in Rivendell translated to Sindarin.. Damn I didn't know and probably 99% of us didn't know. This is something remarkable.
3:01 I actually think that's not the History/Evil hybrid, but just plain old History. It resembles the contour very closely, but it also feels more appropriate, as this will be the moment that decides the fate of both the Ring and all of Middle-Earth.
Yes that's what I thought too, the pitches are exactly the same (only the last pitch of History is missing), and the rythm is also almost identical to History
Niiiiiiiiice
Hi thanks for doing this. I have a question about the missing bars. In the movie extended edition, the choir starts just after Pippen and Merry take off. Which part of the line "If by my life or death" is the choir singing at that point?
The choir comes in as the fellowship theme starts. Is the choir starting at the line "life or death" in the movie?
No worries! "Ae na guil" is left out, starting on "nin egor na ngurth nin" etc.
Unfortunately, it's impossible to make a perfect translation of what's left in the movie (as with most chopped up phrases in the score). Word for word, the Sindarin mean "If by life my or by death my", which gets chopped between "life" and "my", so what's heard in the movie translates to "my or by death my" : (
What a beaaaautiful, beaufitul journey (I'm Tanatarca btw!)
Welcome, and thanks!
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Hey Monoverantus! How do you feel about the music in the first full-length official trailer for Rings of Power? I am asking in this post because the music in 1:57 of the trailer sounds very much like the setting of the History/Evil hybrid at 3:01 of this soundtrack.
I've actually made a few twitter threads about all the music we've heard in the teasers/trailers so far, if you're interested. Now that we know that Shore will make the opening credits for RoP, I'll definitely adress it (and related stuff) in a video eventually.
For Frodo…
Thank you for these videos, but Aragorn has a reason to fight, he doesn't find Mouth of Sauron convincing, and there's no way he would make an agreement at that point.
As much as I love this piece, I think it could have been better.
Are you going to make Sammath Naur, from the rarities? For me that is the ultimate piece.
I didn't say he had no reason to fight.
I might do the Rarities at some point. There are definitely interesting things to highlight, but less official information to base the analysis on
@@monoverantusIt would be very cool if you continue doing LOTR related stuff after these.
@@kumathros I have other franchises I want to analyse too, but I definitely will continue to explore LotR. As I've mentioned before, the obvious next step is analysing every theme in isolation, though I'm still figuring out the best way to do that.
@@monoverantus Yeah, I really liked the Gondor theme mock-up from the Rarities. The ascending coda feels so different and like it doesn't care about war or Sauron, just the joys of Gondor, unlike the movies where it feels kind of _impure_ (please don't judge me based on this comment), i.e., mixed with the hardships of war and the permanent marring of the world by Morgoth and the fading of the Elves, Dwarves, Ents and Hobbits and the bygone days of the First Age and bla-bla-bla...
Book 6, chapter 3: "The Mount of doom"
Book 5, chapter 10: "The Black Gate Opens"