Still going to Middle Earth

I’ve been listening, off and on, to my recently-acquired The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: The Complete Recordings set. Interestingly enough, this still isn’t the end of the major descent into the world of LotR music: Doug Adams, the guy who wrote the liner notes for the Complete Recordings releases, is working on a book about the music for release sometime in late 2008, and this book is supposed to include yet another CD of “rarities”, meaning, out-takes and un-used musical concepts and demos and all that sort of thing, in order to highlight the compositional process of Howard Shore. And he’s started a blog on the topic of that book. Check it out!