Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the States, and to those celebrating abroad.

I thought a little holiday treat was in order, so please enjoy Howard Shore discussing The Hobbit with Classic FM.

Back soon,

Doug

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Hi everyone,

Ok, here's the deal: The Hobbit's official website currently has some music playing in the background; some music that may be of great interest to blog readers. Or it may not, I'm not going to say!

If you would like to talk about that music, please feel absolutely free to do so. I won't be chiming in at this time, but I might somewhere down the line. However, links to anything other than The Hobbit's official website will be deleted. This includes, but is not limited to, YouTube, SoundCloud, or extraction instructions. These links will deleted and repeat offenders risk being banned.

This is probably all an overreaction on my part. In fact, I'm almost sure it is! But I'm still not sure what gets me into hot water and what doesn't, so I'm playing  it safe.

So, this is my best solution. Stop by the official site, turn your ears on, and come back here and chat. Speculate, analyze, identify, but don't link beyond the official site. And don't mind me grinning in the corner holding my peace. I'll pipe up later ... :)

Thanks, you guys are the best!

D

I'm telling you, folks, you will want to read this book very closely before Hobbit time! It pays to invest oneself in the details ...

But enough of my hackneyed sales pitch. Big thanks to the Geek League. Their Music of LOTR entry is below;  you can read their full list right HERE.

It saddened me not to include a Lord of the Rings book on my initial draft of this list. There is simply no book available that covers LOTR’s extensive production from beginning to end in a fashion that I recommend. The Extended Edition Blu-ray/DVD collections and Costa Botes’ fly-on-the-wall documentaries really do the best job covering all of it. I would be remiss, however, if I didn’t include Doug Adams’ (no, not that Doug Adams) mind-blowingly extensive account of Howard Shore’s scores of the films. Loaded with illustrations from Alan Lee and John Howe, this book covers all three films and the musical themes developed therein.  

Adams is a musicologist, so this isn’t light reading. It talks about what goes into scoring these films, both from extensive interviews with Howard Shore as well as musical theory, and requires a little music acumen to totally comprehend the finer points of the text. It also comes with an exclusive rarities CD that features original concept recordings and versions of themes that didn’t make it to the big screen. Doug Adams is working on a new book for The Hobbit and like Rinzler’s ROTJ book, my pre-order is ready to go.