Which is your favourite piece of music written for / inspired by the works of Tolkien?
I will always love the soundtracks by Howard Shore - his leitmotif work is absolutely stand-out. The moment in the films when the Fellowship are all shown together for the first time unites in The Ring Goes South is absolutely magnificent.
I also really love the atmospheric setting of “Far under the Misty Mountains Cold” sung in The Hobbit.
Tell me which pieces you love, and why!
The best music?
cave anserem
The world was fair in Durin's Day
Fellowship's entire soundtrack knocked all our socks off. Still the best, I feel - but the sprinkling of Into the West that permeates Return is just gorgeous.
The Wood-elves lingered in the twilight of our Sun and Moon, but loved best the stars.
For actual “songs”, like with words in, I do really like the final tracks on the Hobbit films: Song of the lonely mountain by Neil Finn, I see fire by Ed Sheeran, and that one what Pippin sings
cave anserem