The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring

Original Score Performed Live with Film - Composed by Howard Shore

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. Project Description "Der Herr Des Rings" German Article Covers Ludwig Wicki in Preparation for German Tour of Fellowship of the Rings

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Manager: Jean-Jacques Cesbron, Ronald A. Wilford

Management Territory: Worldwide

Upcoming Performances


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7/4/2013
NHK Hall
Tokyo, Japan

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7/5/2013
NHK Hall
Tokyo, Japan

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7/6/2013
NHK Hall
Tokyo, Japan

Artist News

  • March 25, 26, 27, 2011 - The Fellowship of the Ring - Live to Projection

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

  • April 1, 2, 3, 2011 - The Fellowship of the Ring - Live to Projection

    Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, MO/Saint Louis Symphony; Conductor: Erik Ochsner

  • April 17 & 19, 2011 - The Fellowship of the Ring - Live to Projection

    Philharmonie, Munich, Germany/Munich Philharmonic

  • April 28, 29, 30, May 1, 2011 - The Fellowship of the Ring - Live to Projection

    Tampere Hall, Tampere, Finland/Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra; Conductor: Erik Ochsner

  • May 6, 7, 8, 2011 - The Fellowship of the Ring - Live to Projection

    Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia/Sydney Symphony/Conductor: Ludwig Wicki

  • June 17, 18, 19, 2011

    NJPAC, Newark, NJ/New Jersey Symphony/Conductor: Ludwig Wicki

  • August 18 & 19, 2011 - The Fellowship of the Ring - Live to Projection

    Ravinia Pavilion, Highland Park, IL/Chicago Symphony/Conductor: Ludwig Wicki