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I think the LOTR movies are the best movie trilogy period.
Its clear that Episode III was the movie Lucas had in mind and the others were just fluff. He should have made Episode III 30 minutes longer and not bothered with I&II or he should have made I&II show more of the sith and where they came from.
btw- got the DVD-A and listened to it, and while I am very impressed with the packaging and the recording, in general as a DVD-A I find it lacking that last bit of sparkle the best DVD-As exhibit. Could it be due to it being presented at 48khz vs 96? I don't know. Still recommend it for any dedicated fan and having all the music in CD format is nice too. I havent listened to those yet but I plan on it. Btw- the DVD-A menu has some authoring problems that cause my all Meridian system to make some pretty unhappy popping sounds so please if anyone plays this, hit mute before engaging the full menu and then unmute once you get to the desired track. And, the mixing on the multichannel is excellent.
best regards,
Jerry
Best regards,
Jerry
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I think you are a little confused about LOTR & Star Wars...?
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There's an ever so slight delay to the initially planned release date, but now it is all set in stone: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS
THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS
SET FOR RELEASE November 7, 2006
Available For The First Time!
Howard Shore's complete Grammy-winning score for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, from the epic film trilogy The Lord of the Rings, will be available in a deluxe four-disc edition from Reprise/WMG Soundtracks on November 7, 2006.
This historic release contains over 180 minutes of music on three CDs, comprising the full score of the 2002 film, composed by Howard Shore. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Complete Recordings marks the second edition of the three complete recording releases of the film trilogy whose score has been honored with three Academy Awards, four Grammy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, and which has sold over 6 million copies worldwide. This deluxe set also includes exclusive new artwork, packaging, extensive liner notes written by Doug Adams, and “Gollum's Song” performed by Emiliana Torrini.
Composed for symphony orchestra and choir, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Complete Recordings was performed by London Philharmonic Orchestra, The London Voices, The London Oratory School Schola featuring vocal performances by Emiliana Torrini, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Sheila Chandra, Elizabeth Fraser, Ben Del Maestro and cast member Miranda Otto.
The fourth disc is a DVD-Audio presenting the entire The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Complete Recordings in 5.1 Surround Sound.
The boxed set for the complete recordings of the first film, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – The Complete Recordings, was released on December 13, 2005 . It spent months in Amazon.com's top 100 Sales Ranking, and garnered some of the best reviews of the year. “For fans of any of The Lord of the Rings films, The Fellowship of the Ring/Complete Recordings is an essential experience,” Heather Phares, All Music Guide. “The Complete Recordings is last year's most important archival soundtrack release, expanding and preserving one of the finest and most significant recent scores in all of film music. Shore's Lord Of The Rings trilogy is an operatic symphony that is among the finest musical accomplishments of the last half-century. The plethora of unreleased material on this beautifully packaged edition is mouth-watering at the least, and the sonic dynamic achieved on the surround sound DVD of the entire 180-minute score is simply astonishing. ” Randall Larson, Music From the Movies
Composer of over sixty-five film scores, Howard Shore brought a lifetime of experience to creating the epochal soundtrack for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Shore used Tolkien's texts and drew from multiple periods throughout music history to evoke the book's enchanted worlds. He developed over 80 leitmotifs to describe the cultures of Middle-earth . Collaborating with authors/lyrists Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, he composed choral music utilizing the Tolkien-created languages for the Elves (Quenya and Sindarin), the Dwarves (Khuzdûl), Men (Adûnaic) and the evil cultures of Mordor (Black Speech). For Rohan, all the choral text was set in Old English.
In 2003, working with conductor John Mauceri, Shore created The Lord of the Rings Symphony, a two-hour 6 movement concert piece drawing from the nearly 12 hours of music he composed for Peter Jackson's landmark film trilogy. This piece features a full symphony orchestra, adult and children's choirs, as well as solo instrumentalists and vocalists, totaling more than 200 musicians on stage. Since its debut in November 2003 in Wellington, New Zealand, The Lord of the Rings Symphony has been performed in sold-out concerts on four continents and in some of the world's most legendary venues, including London's Royal Albert Hall, Moscow's Kremlin Palace Theater and Sydney's Opera House . Some of the world's leading international orchestras – including the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony and London Philharmonic – have performed The Lord of the Rings Symphony in addition to regional orchestras across the United States, and this past July, the symphony celebrated its 100th performance by the San Francisco Symphony.
The UK's Classic FM voted The Lord of the Rings soundtracks the Best Film Score of All Time for five consecutive years. Shore's other impressive film credits include Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (Golden Globe Award), David Fincher's Se7en and Panic Room, Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia, and 11 films with David Cronenberg including A History of Violence and Spider . Shore is currently writing an opera based on his film collaboration with Cronenberg, The Fly, commissioned for the Los Angeles Opera, and he is also completing work on his fifth collaboration with Martin Scorsese, The Departed, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Martin Sheen and Mark Wahlberg.
Says Shore of his time on The Lord of the Rings, “Everybody felt that we were working on something important. It was a film that welcomed the intensity of our efforts. As much as we put into it, it showed us more. It was endlessly revealing working on The Lord of the Rings.” I'd imagine the UK release date will be Monday the 6th.
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I think the point you have to remember in comparing the SW and LOTR trilogies is that the LOTR trilogy is simply a set of films design for entertainment, and that the original Star Wars trilogy is obviously a documentary.
It even says as much in the films opening crawl.."A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away".
I don't recall that statement in any of the LOTR films...
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Of course, LotR was written a long,long time before SW  Look what's coming : http://www.howardshore.com/news/pressreleases/lotr-ttt.html Two Towers on 3cds and DVD-A .Great music on this one ~M~
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Oh I see, just ignore my post of the press release on the previous page then. Honestly I feel so rejected. 
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"just ignore my post of the press release on the previous page then. Honestly I feel so rejected. " No need.You've rumbled me . I feel cheap and dirty and am apparently blind I'll go now ......... ~M~
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I got my copy of Two Towers Complete Recordings today (I imported it as the UK release got delayed a little late toward the end of this month). The advance stereo track on the DVD-A disc is very good indeed, and 24bit 48khz as with Fellowship.... The choral material is mixed better this time round as well. It's certainly exhausting to listen through from beginning to end (there's just over 188minutes of score on this set) but it remains utterly compelling nevertheless.
What's fascinating about the Towers set in comparison to the Fellowship one is the sheer amount of material you've never heard before. Not only are various cues now in the thematic sequence Shore intended them to be heard before the final cut of the movie forced musical edits (Wraiths on Wings, Wolves of Isengard to name but two such tracks), but there's more material here put back that never made it into either the theatrical of extended DVD versions of the film. Gollum probing Sam about rabbit stew for example, it was in fact scored, but the music was never used, yet it's back in its rightful place on this release.
In many respects this is like hearing a complete different score to, obviously, the original 2002 album, but also as it is heard in the movie. At the very least it's like hearing the score for the very first time.
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Talking of LOTRs 5 days from now I'm immigrating to New Zealand specifically Wellington, just around the corner from a certain Mr P. Jackson's house and Weta Studios.
Apparently he's seen regularly around Wellington town, so if I bump into him I'll post here and let you know.
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President of the Imperial Galactic Government
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All the best for your new life in New Zealand!
Cheers
George
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HI Daniel
Where did you import from? I looked on Amazon france last night and noticed that the Fellowship "complete" was 38 Euros, whilst Amazon UK wanted �37 for it.
Cheers
George
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Thanks George,
A guy behind me at work has just bought a pair of DSP7000 (from this forum), so I'm glad I'm not staying in the UK as I might be tempted myself.
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