Fellowship of the Ring

Original Score Live with Film

Composed by Howard Shore

Composer Howard Shore brings J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary imagination to vivid life with his Academy®- and Grammy® Award-winning score to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Shore’s music expresses Peter Jackson’s film as an immense symphonic work—a uniquely developed vision drawn from centuries of stylistic tendencies.

The music of The Lord of the Rings is counted among film music’s most complex and comprehensive works. This unique performance sets the score to the film, but allows the music to bear the narrative weight, creating a wholly new and dramatic live concert experience.

Shore’s score not only captures Fellowship’s sweeping emotion, thrilling vistas and grand journeys, but also echoes the very construction of Tolkien’s Middle-earth. Styles, instruments and performers collected from around the world provide each of Tolkien’s cultures with a unique musical imprint. In operatic fashion, these musical worlds commingle, sometimes combining forces for a culminated power, other times violently clashing…and always bending to the will of the One Ring and its own ominous family of themes.

Says Howard Shore, "My first score for The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, was the beginning of my journey into the world of Tolkien and I will always hold a special fondness for the music and the experience."

- Doug Adams

Doug Adams is a Chicago-based musician and writer. He is the author of the book The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films.

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Manager: Jean-Jacques Cesbron, Ronald Wilford

Management Territory: Worldwide

Artist News

  • The Radio City Lord of the Rings Concert - Now on Sale

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Howard Shore’s film score will be Performed Live to Picture by 300 Musicians at Radio City Music Hall on October 9 & 10, 2009 at 7:30 PM. This extraordinary live music event in the heart of New York City includes a screening of the film with a vast orchestra and choirs performing live to picture! Tickets are on-sale now for this two-night only can't-miss event. Ticketmaster charge by phone: (212) 307-4111.

  • Sept 25, 2009 7:30/PM - Fellowship of the Ring

    KKL Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland | 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus | Conductor: Ludwig Wicki