On Thu, 14 May 2009 15:32:06 -0400, nemesis wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 May 2009 10:26:12 -0400, Halbert wrote:
>>
>> > I haven't heard the score yet. (I am a musician too, 2 music majors
>> > in college.) I will keep my ears out for it though.
>>
>> I've got the complete recordings set (all three films), and the music
>> is incredible.  Shore demonstrates a wide variety of styles and did a
>> surprisingly good job with it.
> 
> Yes, terrific score.  That's despite me being a Tolkien fan. :)

LOL

I liked the films, and am a Tolkien fan (I was going to do a special 
study of Tolkien in high school, just never got all the books I needed 
together for the proposal), but I look at the films differently than most 
who consider themselves "hardcore" Tolkien fans.

Tolkien set out to create a mythology for England - most of the 
mythologies that existed up to that point were non-English; the Arthurian 
legend, for example, was largely adopted by the French in the early 
1200s.  So while Arthur himself was English, ideas like the Holy Grail 
and the addition of Lancelot are generally credited to French authors.

One of Tolkien's goals was to create something that was uniquely English 
in origin.

The thing about mythologies is, of course, that they go through a great 
many retellings, and often details get changed, parts are removed and 
shuffled around, and some parts are dropped.

So approaching the films from a mythological point of view, they hold up 
quite well.

Jim

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