There's no way this is going to be cheap, but whatever they'll charge for it, it looks like it'll definitely be worth it.

--Brian

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I'd drop this on my credit card instantaneously. Considering how much this hobby has cost me thus far, another 9-CD set wouldn't seem like more than a drop in the fiscal bucket.

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...is the LotR Symphony scheduled for recording at all?

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Will you be in Antwerp too next year?

Would be fun!

FoobsZ

London: Oh yes! Haven't ordered my ticket yet, but should probably do so over the next few days, until category H is sold out like A is already.

Even if the set is $115, that's still a heck of a deal.

Of course, it's all up in the air as to what the price is really gonna be. But going off of Justin's estimations, and assuming they are roughly accurate, anyone who thinks it's unreasonable is just silly.

J

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Wow, these are fantastic news. It is so great to listen to it from Shore. I really hope the largest length possible!
I hadn’t heard anything about that book by Doug Adams. (Well, I had been away from this for sometime, and I still going like crazy with this year, but, whatever, I hope to stay better informed) Seems to be great!

Rach

I'm interested in writing a book on film music and would like to confer with you briefly, and at your convenience.

May I contact you outside of the board via e-mail?

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Doug,

I'm interested in writing a book on film music and would like to confer with you briefly, and at your convenience.

May I contact you outside of the board via e-mail?

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Sure thing. In fact, anyone's welcome to e-mail with further questions / requests.

D_Adams1127@aol.com

I also generally don't see much interesting material that isn't on the albums in either versions of the movies. The missing music I would like to have probably adds up to no more than ten minutes. If anything it's a testament to Howard Shore and his music editors.

Wicknestein: I agree that if you just want to have a general idea about Shore’s work with LOTR, you would buy just the normal soundtracks. But I think that there are amazing cues that have not been released, and you also have to take into your account that this box set will get edited as well. In the film many cues didn’t come out loud enough in the mixout. Howard said he is working on the edition himself. I’m sure that if you really liked LOTR music, the box set will really worth the price. I shall also think that the box set will be a limited edition. However, if you aren’t a big fan of lotr music, and you just want to listen a nice soundtrack, the normal soundtracks are a good choice.

Rach

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It's one of those few cases where I think the album edits really improve the quality of the compositions. For instance the Bridge at Khazad Duhm, Forth Eorlingas, and Isengard Unleashed are all much better on album than in the movie. When I watch these scenes I sometimes feel like I'm watching the Phantom Menace because the music is so jarringly different than the albums.

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Disagreed. The music in the film sounds different because there's a lot missing on the CDs. I'm not so sure about TTT (hard to tell, because the album isn't chronological at all), but the tracks on FOTR are severely shortened. For example, the Khazad-dum music is missing the intense dwarf chanting for the beginning of the stair sequence, and even the Balrog music is absent.

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Opening of FOTR, the Caradhras music, the bits I mentioned above, plus all the great new EE material (Moria fanfare, choral stuff in the finale). For TTT, there's the "berserker ostinato" in the Helm's Deep battle, for example.

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I still champion the effort composers make to turn their scores into extremely listenable albums. Williams has always been the master at this, combining shorter cues into marvelous mini-suites on his Star Wars albums and such, and it is hard to beat these original versions for pure listening pleasure. The same with Shore, in that he has done an outstanding job in condensing the various styles, sounds, themes and story arc of each film into 75 minutes and I don't feel cheated at the end of the CD.

But I’m immensely glad to have both options.

This is the first time I've been here in a long time.

I first wanted to congratulate Doug on the book. That is an awesome project and one I look forward to reading.

I can't wait for the complete score. I just hope Shore will do a couple of things with it. The first is that I hope he uses the full concert arrangements (I guess that is what you call them). For example, I hope Khazad-Dum will not have the sharp edit near the beginning like it does in the film. The CD features a little more music during the first 30 seconds of that track than the film does. However, I also hope that all of the Khazad-Dum music heard exclusively in the film will also be included on the complete score. So, it should be a blending of both.

The second item is actually a continuation of the first. I hope that the music does not jump around and have sharp edits just because part of this piece and part of this other piece were used during the same scene. I would like the score to be chronological as much as possible, but I don't want the music to suffer. A good example of this would be the complete Phantom Menace score. The music especially during the last few tracks is terrible because it jumps all over the place trying to be presented as in the film. That is great and all, but Lucas repeatedly edited the big battles near the end and Williams' score is hacked to pieces. The music does not naturally flow together. It is hard to explain, but I hope it is clear.

I have a failed petition to get the complete release of the Fellowship score out. It is still active at: http://www.petitiononline.com/LOTRFOTR/petition.html

The reasons I called it a failure is that it didn't include any mention of the music added to the extended DVD and doesn't mention The Two Towers or Return of The King. That is because I put the petition up before I realized there would be an extended DVD featuring additional music. Also, I was hoping a complete score would come out just before the next film. I was hoping they would have released a complete Fellowship score in November 2002 and a complete Two Towers score the following Novemeber and so on. Anyway, I'm glad a complete score for all 3 films is coming.

One other thing I hope is done is that an additional CD is inluded in the boxed set with Bilbo's party music and other similar music which may not be considered part of the score if these pieces are not included on the respective score CD's themselves.

I'm definitely excited about the complete score and will definitely be picking it up and the Symphonic Concert as well if it's not included in the boxed set.

Hopefully, Doug may be able to shed a little more light on the subject when the time draws near.

Mythos

It has yet to be announced