Bilbo Reflection

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Register to read the introduction… He invited Howard Shore to visit the different sets and to meet the cast, because he wanted him to immerse himself as much in the story as possible:"There were many months of reading Tolkien's books, studying Ring mythology and influences of Tolkien," Shore says "I had to do that in order to write, to express any ideas and emotions. [...] I think I´m always writing for an emotional impact. I want to feel something when I watch a film and that's how I create music. I mean, I'm watching a film and feeling something and trying to create that in music […] It is about these people and you want to relate to Frodo, and you want to relate to Bilbo and you want to feel what they're …show more content…
It also creates clarity for the listener so that you know that you are in the realm of Lothlórien or in the frolicsome country life of the hobbits. The hobbits are given a playful and jaunty theme. Enter the realms of the Elves and you find a very ancient, ethereal and almost religious sound, performed by a female choir. A dark, chanting choir represents the Black Riders and the result is an incredibly evil and very dramatic melody. The predominately masculine Dwarvish culture is presented by a male choir, consisting of 60 Polonasian singers that chant dark and powerful dwarvish verses. "When they look down into the depth of Moria", Peter Jackson says "you want to hear all the lost souls that have been lost in those mines – thousands of Dwarves."
Shore has been oriented towards the leitmotif principle . In this manner, the score centers on the heroic "Fellowship Theme," which occurs in many different facets throughout the entire movie. It slightly changes, depending on the characters' feelings and actions. The theme is slowly taking shape while the members of the fellowhip are uniting and reaches its full heroic form once the fellowship is complete. It, again, disintegrates as this close community is being ripped

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