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Topic: LOTR Package Update
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weyhoops
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we're about 2 weeks away from the press release if it's on the same schedule as Two Towers. That's exciting!
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posted 08-29-2007 07:31 AM PT (US) ip
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BattleToTheEnd
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=1 face=arial>quote:</font><HR size=1>Originally posted by weyhoops:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we're about 2 weeks away from the press release if it's on the same schedule as Two Towers. That's exciting!<HR size=1></BLOCKQUOTE>No, your about right on track. And yes its very exciting. I bet Doug doesn't pop up again until the PR and do what he did last year and just write "Tomorrow" and get everybody thinking and guessing what he meant, but now we will all know better. [Message edited by BattleToTheEnd on 08-29-2007]
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posted 08-29-2007 09:45 AM PT (US) ip
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gkgyver
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Do we?
We only know a third LOTR CR is coming. We know nothing about the book, other than it will be awesome; we know nothing about the multimedia content, other than it will be astounding; we know nothing about that rumored bonus disc(s), other than it (they?) will be spectacular.So, do we know better?
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posted 08-29-2007 09:54 AM PT (US) ip
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Christian Kühn
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. Actually, I don't, but I've grown weary of all this pre-anticipation and announcing of announcements. As long as I get RotK:CR for Christmas, everything's fine by me. CK [Message edited by Christian Kühn on 08-29-2007]
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posted 08-29-2007 11:46 AM PT (US) ip
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gkgyver
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I second that.I might buy the book sooner. If it comes out sooner. ... Doug?
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posted 08-29-2007 12:24 PM PT (US) ip
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Ge0rge
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quote:
Originally posted by weyhoops:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we're about 2 weeks away from the press release if it's on the same schedule as Two Towers. That's exciting!
I doubt that. Concerning the size of the final CR installment, the PR and release schedule must vary from the previous ones, and not to the closer dates.
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posted 08-29-2007 11:23 PM PT (US) ip
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Doug Adams
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Hi everyone,Bullet points! --Packaging and liner notes mock-ups now back from Warner / Smog Design… oh, and front cover sticker, too! Looks beautiful. Now editing. You should be green with envy. --Track titles officially finalized. --Don’t know when the press release will be, but I’ll again stress we’re currently on a timeline that looks a great deal like last year’s. Take that as you will, armchair detectives of the net. --Book / rarities discs on target for 2008… as of right now. I’d be surprised to see that change. Just pointing this out for those of you budgeting… ROTK will be released by itself this year. Hope this helps you plan accordingly. I don’t know the price tag, and I likely won’t until you do. Maybe Santa can help you out with all the above. More later, eyeball-deep in work! Enjoy your embedded hints.  -Doug
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posted 08-30-2007 11:19 AM PT (US) ip
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gkgyver
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You should be green with envy.
That was subtle 
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posted 08-30-2007 11:46 AM PT (US) ip
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Doug Adams
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quote:
Originally posted by gkgyver:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=1 face=arial>quote:</font><HR size=1>You should be green with envy.<HR size=1></BLOCKQUOTE>That was subtle
I'm sly.
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posted 08-30-2007 11:50 AM PT (US) ip
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Bladorthin
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Hello everyone!
A lurker emerges from the shadows once again, to join the thrilling anticipation for all new releases...
I am humble and shy to be in the presence. . .albeit online . . of people like you, who know so much about music. I've read all the messages before and I must say: thanks for all the details/information! Now. . . .let's wait...
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posted 08-30-2007 12:46 PM PT (US) ip
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gkgyver
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2008 for the book is fine with me, as long as it isn't too far into 2008.I already feared it would be like that.
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posted 08-30-2007 02:51 PM PT (US) ip
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Jim Ware
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rarities discs
Plural!
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posted 08-30-2007 02:58 PM PT (US) ip
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tomandshell
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quote:
Originally posted by Doug Adams:
--Track titles officially finalized.
Can't you reveal just one to whet our appetites?
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posted 08-30-2007 06:56 PM PT (US) ip
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Kungfuyu
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I love it when Mr. Adams posts.
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posted 08-30-2007 07:48 PM PT (US) ip
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BigT1981
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I haven't gotten FOTR or TTT's complete recordings but this might be my first one of the series I'll get, hehe. 
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posted 08-30-2007 09:50 PM PT (US) ip
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Earl
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Woohoo... Thanks Doug, you're the best. You're apt to dropping subtle hints like this and that's what makes your posts special In related news, www.howardshore.com has been slightly updated. It now mentions ROTK:CR for Fall 2007. Not like we didn;t know it, but still... Better and better!! [Message edited by Earl Ignatius Carvalho on 08-30-2007]
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posted 08-30-2007 11:50 PM PT (US) ip
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gkgyver
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I love it when Mr. Adams posts.
Well, he's the juice that keeps this thing going. He's heading for pop star popularity scaringly fast
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posted 08-31-2007 08:11 AM PT (US) ip
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vdemona
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quote:
Originally posted by Doug Adams:
--Book / rarities discs on target for 2008… as of right now. I’d be surprised to see that change. Just pointing this out for those of you budgeting… ROTK will be released by itself this year. Hope this helps you plan accordingly.-Doug
Well my pocketbook is certainly sighing with relief!
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posted 08-31-2007 09:23 PM PT (US) ip
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Christian Kühn
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Originally posted by gkgyver:Well, he's the juice that keeps this thing going.
And what are we? Chopped liver?! quote:
He's heading for pop star popularity scaringly fast
Indeed. He's already hanging on my wall! Christian
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posted 09-01-2007 07:15 AM PT (US) ip
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Beren
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Mae govannen!Thanks for the great news mr. Adams,.So,if you said that the "rarities discs" will be launched in 2008,along with the book,than why would ROTK:CR need 4 discs?And if it will have 4 discs,will it be enough music space for one DVD?
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posted 09-01-2007 01:37 PM PT (US) ip
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BigT1981
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It was stated early on in the project by even Howard Shore himself that with how long the score for Return Of The King is it would definitely require to be spread out onto 4-CD's and 2-DVD's.The rarities thing will have just alternates and I think some more unused material.. not quite sure on that part hence why they're releasing it separately.
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posted 09-01-2007 04:06 PM PT (US) ip
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NeoVoyager
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1 DVD.
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posted 09-01-2007 10:24 PM PT (US) ip
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gkgyver
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And what are we? Chopped liver?!
No, we are the drooling fanboys that ask him geeky question
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posted 09-02-2007 06:21 AM PT (US) ip
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MJC
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Thanks Doug. Sounds like things are on their way. Cool.Martin
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posted 09-02-2007 08:07 AM PT (US) ip
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gkgyver
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Haven't seen or heard anything from RotK for at least two months now. Do you think I'll make it to the finish line?
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posted 09-02-2007 08:22 AM PT (US) ip
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Marian Schedenig
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I haven't listened to ROTK since TTT:CE came out. The only time I've heard it since then was the one time I watched the movies.
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posted 09-02-2007 08:47 AM PT (US) ip
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Sid2000
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My father was listening to RotK this morning, as I visited ...
"The White Tree" and "The Black Gate Opens" ...
I haven't heard it again after a few months. The construction und building of the music is so great.
I can't wait to hear the music in the new fresh and clear mix [Message edited by Sid2000 on 09-02-2007]
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posted 09-02-2007 12:54 PM PT (US) ip
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Jim Ware
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Originally posted by NeoVoyager:
1 DVD.
You know this? How?
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posted 09-02-2007 01:23 PM PT (US) ip
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NeoVoyager
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quote:
Originally posted by Jim Ware:
You know this? How?
I don't know for absolute certain, but I'll quote a much earlier post: quote:
Originally posted by Swashbuckler:
"According to comments Doug made in one of the earlier incarnations of this thread, the quality that the DVD-Audio tracks on Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers were encoded with was chosen because it would be possible to fit the voluminous length of Return of the King on a single disc at that format. It is not all that the advanced resolution format can offer, but it was a decent compromise, and it sounds much better than the CDs do."
I think it will be one DVD. Why else would they have chosen a less-than-optimal format that left a decent amount of space on the DVDs of both Fellowship and Two Towers if they would were going to alleviate all concerns for storage capacity for RotK by including 2 DVDs (which will leave a colossal amount of space unused)? I'm sure all of this was thought out carefully beforehand. We'll all know for sure within a few months. [Message edited by NeoVoyager on 09-02-2007]
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posted 09-02-2007 02:04 PM PT (US) ip
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Marian Schedenig
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And here we were thinking you'd seen it...
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posted 09-02-2007 02:09 PM PT (US) ip
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Jim Ware
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I was just using it as an excuse to stick in a Gandalf quote.
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posted 09-02-2007 02:36 PM PT (US) ip
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Olorin
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The last couple of days, I've been listening to the CRs and it's really getting my appetite whetted for the ROTK CR! In addition to hopefully soon finding out the track titles, perhaps we'll also soon get to know what cast performances are included (I'm thinking Viggo's and Billy's are a given, since they were on the OST, and that Liv will be in there too, since Doug has said as much, but are there others?).
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posted 09-03-2007 10:38 PM PT (US) ip
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franz_conrad
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Not trying to stir up trouble or anything, but why does everyone care so much about track titles?
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posted 09-03-2007 11:58 PM PT (US) ip
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Sabsi
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My thoughts excactly, fanz_conrad!
I don't care how the tracks are called.
I want to listen to the MUSIC, not the track titels. Hey, they could name them "track 1", "track 2", "track 3",... Concerning the cast performances:
Don't forget the Drinking Song in Edoras. Since they included the Green Dragon Song, I'd be surprised, if it would be missing.
But I doubt that Gollum's "Little Fly-Song" will make it 
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posted 09-04-2007 12:08 AM PT (US) ip
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Incanus
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Originally posted by Sabsi:
My thoughts excactly, fanz_conrad!
I don't care how the tracks are called.
I want to listen to the MUSIC, not the track titels. Hey, they could name them "track 1", "track 2", "track 3",... Concerning the cast performances:
Don't forget the Drinking Song in Edoras. Since they included the Green Dragon Song, I'd be surprised, if it would be missing.
But I doubt that Gollum's "Little Fly-Song" will make it
I guess Olorin was thinking more in the lines of "it would be nice to know the track titles
so we could all start a giddy speculation of what music goes exactly where and all that".
The classic giddy fan stuff. I think we are getting near the time of the year when we all start sounding like drug addicts desperate for another LotR fix I know that from reading my own posts close to the release of previous CRs. It is almost embarrasing. Oh and that "Little Fly-Song" is few seconds long and doesn't add much to the Shelob's Lair score. It is almost spoken anyway so I would not count that as a song. A nice nasty little ditty in the film but I really wouldn't care to see it on the CR.
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posted 09-04-2007 01:03 AM PT (US) ip
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Beren
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If "Gollum's Fish Song" didn't make it to the TTT:CR, maybe the "Little Fly-Song" won't appear on the ROTK:CR either.Although, it would be nice to have them both on the so-called "rarities discs";along with "The Song of the Entwives" of course. [Message edited by Beren on 09-04-2007]
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posted 09-04-2007 07:25 AM PT (US) ip
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gkgyver
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I will jump Mr. Adams' throat if Gollum's "Little Fly" poem is interrupting the eery sequence in Shelob's Lair!
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posted 09-04-2007 07:29 AM PT (US) ip
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Sid2000
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don't panic!
but if it does, we can jump together!but I don't think it will.
It's no music that HS had to "compose around", like Pippins Song oder Eowyns Lament ... or even Gandalfs "the road goes ever on and on ..." in the beginning of FotR.
for me it's just not part of the musical concept!
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posted 09-04-2007 10:11 AM PT (US) ip
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Doug Adams
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CAST PERFORMERS
Billy Boyd
Dominic Monaghan
Viggo Mortensen
Liv Tyler...Seriously, my throat?
-Doug
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posted 09-04-2007 10:25 AM PT (US) ip
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Sabsi
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Thanks for the quick reply, Doug! No surprises though, we thought/knew/hoped that Gollums Fly-Song won't appear...
I like it, but I have to admit that it doesn't belong on the CR.
I don't like the Entwives-Song (if you can call it 'song' at all) though, I keep thinking:'Nasty Treebeard, spoils nice music' I'm a 'giddy fan' since April (and proud of it!), so you're probably right - speculations of 'what music goes exactly where' could be fun, I haven't thought of the track titels that way... [Message edited by Sabsi on 09-04-2007]
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posted 09-04-2007 11:20 AM PT (US) ip
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