Favourite soundtrack song?

[Gwathagor]

And Foundations of Stone is definitely the first track on The Two Towers soundtrack; but it is very good, as you say.

[The Might]

Yeah, know waht you mean about the flute part, it's in the movies as the eagles come to rescue the Hobbits if I remember correctly.

Also worth mentioning here is the beginning of Flight to the Ford.
I wish I would get woken up every morning by that, has a dreamy thing to it.
Also, just realised that in Isengard Unleashed starting with 2.10 you have the theme of the Ents marching to war against Isengard.
This is something I personally not like so much...all the songs are made of leitmotifs, think I read somewhere there are about 80 in total and each represents a certain person or place. And so for Isengard Unleashed you have fthe Elvish song played in the movies as the Elves are dying on the walls of the Hornburg, then the Entish theme.
I mean, it's a nice idea to combine them, but I for one, would like all these leitmotifs separate.

[Gwathagor]

No, the flute part is when Sam and Frodo are lying on the side of Mount Doom, and there are flaming rocks falling down through the sky.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Well, I have burned copies of the soundtracks so I don't know all of the song names but...

In FotR I like tracks 2(it's called Concerning Hobbits I believe), 5, 9, 17and 18, Which is when the fellowship breaks and May it Be, they both make me cry.

In TTT I like track 17, its when Samwise gives his beautiful heart wrenching speech about what are they holding on to, it makes me cry every time I hear it.

In RotK I like Track 2, when Merry and Pippin get separated, also track 5, the steward of Gondor when Billy Boyd, who Plays Pippin sings the Edge of Night...It's so beautiful. I also like the ride of the Rohhrim...I think thats what its called, on track 7. My other favourate song is track 17, its so happy... And then you go to the grey havens and Into the West, the duo always makes me cry. Into the west has meaning to me as well, my mom and I were talking about our newly deceased cat, and how that song was kind of talking about him!

Not to mention the part of The Road goes ever on and on, which is not however in the soundtrack, but its in the movies and I heard that its on the complete collection for music too!

[The Might]

Oh, it seems it's been too long since I last saw the movies.

[Folwren]

No, no. I was thinking of the first RotK track. It's called A Storm is Coming, now that I look at it. I don't remember the song Foundations of Stone very well. That's when Gandalf and the Balrog fight, yes?

Can't stay longer to comment.

-- Foley

[Macalaure]

What I especially like about the Soundtrack is, that, while you know which song was featured during what scene, you don't necessarily need to connect the music with the actual pictures from the movie. You can just lean back and listen and have your own ideas in your mind at the same time. In the case of tracks which were used in scenes not from the book, I now even connect them with different passages. When listening to "The White Tree", for example, I now imagine the arrival of the Knights of Dol Amroth in Minas Tirith.

The mixing of the leitmotifs is sometimes done very well, sometimes not so much. In "Isengard Unleashed", I think, it makes sense to combine the two themes (the Elf theme at the beginning, of course, makes no sense) because in the story Isengard and Fangorn 'meet', so the themes should do so as well. But then there are also songs like "A Knife in the Dark", where the Nazgûl theme suddenly goes over into the Isengard theme, but for no reason at all.

My favourites are

Concerning Hobbits (of course)
The Shadow of the Past (this track gives me shudders)
The Treason of Isengard (I like the ring-verse-in-black-speech choir, as well as the ambiguous/threatening version of the Fellowship theme)
Flight to the Ford (my favourite among the songs which feature the Nazgûl-theme)
A Journey in the Dark / The Bridge of Khazad-dûm (I know it's fake-Khuzdul, but I think it sounds more than well enough / amazing atmosphere)
Amon Hen (I really like that small "Temptation of the Ring" motif at the beginning and how it develops. Personally, I happen to prefer the "Death of Boromir" music at the end to "The Breaking of the Fellowship" (I can't stand "In Dreams"))

Foundations of Stone
The Riders of Rohan, The King of the Golden Hall, Helm's Deep, Forth Eorlingas (I just love the Rohan theme. Of all leitmotifs used in the
Soundtrack, it's the one which goes through the most variations, I think.)
Evenstar (I have no idea why they use Old English for the songs about Arwen, but the atmosphere it conveys is very nice)
Isengard Unleashed (best song featuring Isengard theme, brilliant ending)

Hope and Memory (one of the shortest songs, but a little gem, I think)
Minas Tirith & The White Tree (of course)
The Ride of the Rohirrim (see above)
Shelob's Lair (it's a little too heavy on the string instruments, but to me, the ending is one of the most powerful parts of the whole Soundtrack)

Actually, I don't like the songs that are actually sung, at least when the language is English (except Gollum's Song). I think I once read somewhere that Gollum's Song was originally intended to be performed by Björk. Does anyone know whether that's true?

[The Might]

They first invited Bjork to sing it, but she declined as she was pregnant at the time, and instead they used Emilíana Torrini, also from Iceland I believe.
I like her voice.

I agree with the leitmotifs, sometimes their use doesn't make much sense.

What I however can't do is not think abut the movie when hearing the music. I mean, sometimes yes, but not for example with the White Tree, I always think of the beacons.

Also, I have a question, does anyone know why Requiem for a Dream is not on the soundtrack, I trecall this song having been used for the movie as well.

[Nogrod]

I normally tend to be swayed by a bit twisted harmonies - like when a choir or orchestra makes a proggression of beautiful chords with a little modernist dissonance into them.

But with Shore's compositions I seem to have been struck the most with the two quite archaic and moving solo-melodies.

First there is Eowyn's lament on the funeral which kind of let's shivers go through my spine everytime I hear it. There's simple beauty and emotional load in there. Sadly it's only on the extended DVD.

Secondly there is Billy Boyd's self-composed song which Pip sings in front of Denethor while Faramir and his men ran to the futile loss of life.

They're just beautiful!

As a nice sidenote I must say that "the Bridge of Khazad-Dûm" has an interesting kick to us Finns as the Maori-choir sings there repeatedly "musta-musta-musta" which in Finnish means "black-black-black". It really works!

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by The Might

They first invited Bjork to sing it, but she declined as she was pregnant at the time, and instead they used Emilíana Torrini, also from Iceland I believe.

I think Emilíana Torrini is an Italian singer. I think I heard that sometime and her name certainly isn't Icelandic.