The Third Age: the Lord of the Rings [Recent Events]

LONDON (Reuters) – For Canadian composer Howard Shore, it has been the movie challenge of a lifetime — writing the nine-hour score for the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy.

But he loved every moment in the dark and fantastical world of Middle Earth, can’t wait to dive back in and is hopeful the mammoth composition could be Oscar-winning material.

And he stayed ever faithful to the J.R.R. Tolkien classic that has attracted more than 100 million readers over the last 50 years and was voted in many millennium polls as the book of the century.

When I was writing, I had the book open on my desk and I was reading it page by page,” Shore told Reuters Television on the eve of Monday’s world premiere of “The Fellowship of The Ring,” the first in the trilogy of films being released every Christmas for the next three years. Shore, whose impressive Hollywood track record ranges from “Seven” to “Mrs. Doubtfire,” from “Silence of the Lambs” to “Philadelphia,” was the first to admit this was the most daunting musical challenge he had ever faced.

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