The Road goes on and on

Huzzah!

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Complete Recordings will be released on November 6 of this year. It will include four CDs (the releases for the previous two films had three each) and a DVD containing the entire score in really good sound (I take their word for this).

At some point in the future, film music expert Doug Adams will have a book out on the subject of these films and their music. I can’t wait for that, either.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Howard Shore’s accomplishment on the LOTR films represents one of the towering masterworks of all film music.