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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - The Complete Recordings,Movie Soundtracks

- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - The Complete Recordings
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Released 2007

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Éowyn's Dream
01:24
591 plays

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Days of the Ring (Includes "I
11:09
579 plays

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Lighting of the Beacons
09:03
570 plays

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- 1
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Roots and Beginnings
- 06:31
- 497 plays

- 2
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Journey to the Cross-Roads
- 02:17
- 428 plays

- 3
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Road to Isengard
- 02:18
- 433 plays

- 4
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Foot of Orthanc
- 04:44
- 419 plays

- 5
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Return to Edoras
- 01:51
- 439 plays

- 6
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Chalice Passed
- 01:50
- 446 plays

- 7
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Green Dragon
- 00:34
- 432 plays

- 8
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Gollum's Villany
- 02:10
- 449 plays

- 9
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Éowyn's Dream
- 01:24
- 591 plays

- 10
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Palantír
- 03:10
- 404 plays

- 11
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Flight from Edoras
- 02:18
- 480 plays

- 12
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Grace of Undómiel
- 06:21
- 548 plays

- 13
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Eyes of the White Tower
- 04:33
- 455 plays

- 14
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/A Coronal of Silver and Gold
- 08:27
- 455 plays

- 15
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Lighting of the Beacons
- 09:03
- 570 plays

- 16
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Osgiliath Invaded
- 08:47
- 425 plays

- 17
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Stairs of Cirith Ungol
- 02:40
- 368 plays

- 18
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Allegiance to Denethor
- 03:19
- 392 plays

- 19
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Sacrifice of Faramir (Inc
- 04:08
- 448 plays

- 20
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Parting of Sam and Frodo
- 04:04
- 354 plays

- 21
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Marshalling at Dunharrow
- 04:56
- 322 plays

- 22
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Andúril - Flame of the West
- 03:27
- 390 plays

- 23
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Passing of the Grey Compa
- 04:12
- 367 plays

- 24
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Dwimorberg - The Haunted Moun
- 02:26
- 336 plays

- 25
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Master Meriadoc, Swordthain
- 01:39
- 468 plays

- 26
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Paths of the Dead
- 06:22
- 346 plays

- 27
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Siege of Gondor
- 09:01
- 367 plays

- 28
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Shelob's Lair
- 08:53
- 301 plays

- 29
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Merry's Simple Courage
- 02:08
- 453 plays

- 30
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Grond - The Hammer of the Und
- 01:32
- 345 plays

- 31
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Shelob the Great
- 05:12
- 303 plays

- 32
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Tomb of the Stewards
- 03:58
- 325 plays

- 33
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Battle of the Pelennor Fi
- 04:10
- 473 plays

- 34
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Pyre of Denethor
- 02:59
- 363 plays

- 35
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Mûmakil
- 00:57
- 307 plays

- 36
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Dernhelm in Battle
- 02:06
- 337 plays

- 37
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/A Far Green Country
- 01:27
- 348 plays

- 38
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Shieldmaiden of Rohan
- 05:07
- 339 plays

- 39
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Passing of Théoden
- 02:16
- 350 plays

- 40
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Houses of Healing
- 02:58
- 1,486 plays

- 41
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Tower of Cirith Ungol
- 04:41
- 338 plays

- 42
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Last Debate (Includes "As
- 04:21
- 474 plays

- 43
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Land of Shadow
- 06:29
- 319 plays

- 44
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Mouth of Sauron
- 08:15
- 328 plays

- 45
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/For Frodo
- 03:16
- 387 plays

- 46
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Mount Doom
- 04:09
- 434 plays

- 47
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Crack of Doom
- 04:01
- 416 plays

- 48
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Eagles
- 02:23
- 448 plays

- 49
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Fellowship Reunited
- 12:18
- 429 plays

- 50
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/The Journey to the Grey Haven
- 07:34
- 429 plays

- 51
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Eleanor
- 01:27
- 403 plays

- 52
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Days of the Ring (Includes "I
- 11:09
- 579 plays

- 53
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King/Bilbo's Song
- 02:57
- 375 plays

album review

If J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy was considered unfilmable from its publication in 1954-1955 to the early years of the 21th century (not counting a 1978 animated version that only covered about half of it), that was both because the required special effects didn't seem technically possible and because it was hard to see how the sprawling story could be condensed into the confines of a two-hour movie. The special effects problem was overcome eventually, but it took director Peter Jackson to make a virtue out of the structural issue. Why make it into one small film? Why not three big ones that could be promoted as a major cinematic franchise à la Star Wars? Jackson's insight didn't stop there, however. In the era of the DVD, he took his already lengthy treatments of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and made them even longer as videos after their theatrical runs were over. Similarly, the soundtrack albums featuring the scores composed by Howard Shore have been superseded by multi-disc "complete" versions, of which this is the third. In theaters, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ran three hours and ten minutes; Jackson added another hour for the DVD version. Spread across four CDs, Shore here turns in a version of his score running just short of three hours and 50 minutes. As with the books and the films, the sheer length is perhaps the most impressive thing, impressive enough to garner two Oscars, one for the score and the other for the song "Into the West" (which is embedded in a track called "Days of the Ring" on the fourth disc). Employing the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Shore creates an old-fashioned big-budget movie score, not unlike the sort of thing that used to accompany biblical epics around the time the books were first published. The cues support moments of cinematic spectacle and close intimacy in ways that audiences have been trained to understand. Musically, it all seems to come to a climax by the end of the third disc, with the fourth filled by low-key pastoral themes as if to accompany a calm coda to the film (maybe they play under all those endless credits). It's hard to believe that this is really the end of the epic saga, but at least it comes to a thoroughly exhausted conclusion. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide