Does The Rings Of Power Score Live Up To Howard Shore's Work?

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The Lord of the Rings trilogy is an iconic and well-known series of movies, not just for how they touched the hearts and the lives of fans worldwide, but for their critical acclaim within the film industry. Winning 475 awards out of 800 nominations, the trilogy is, to this day, the most awarded movie series in cinematic history, with recognition across the board of writing, acting, effects, costume, and many many more. But arguably one of the most stirring and emotive sets of awards for the films is those awarded to composer Howard Shore, who received 3 Academy Awards, 3 Grammy Awards, and 2 Bafta nominations. Shore himself describes the Lord of the Rings music score as the pinnacle of his career, and it is a soundtrack that has stayed with him for all of the years of his life.

Shore also did the musical score for The Hobbit trilogy just over a decade later, which was once again revered globally for its stirring and epic composition, which enhanced Peter Jackson’s movies to a new level. Now, again nearly a decade later, fans are about to see another return to Middle Earth, but this time with Amazon at the helm, as the latest rendition of Tolkien adaptations is about to hit the big screens. With less than a month to go until the series is released, Amazon has just released the Rings of Power soundtrack, and fans' hopes and fears have surged as they have received their first glimpse into the emotional resonance and reverberating impact that the musical score will have on the show and its success, or its failure.

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The mastermind behind the latest soundtrack is Bear McCreary, whose name may be recognized for other hugely successful musical endeavors, such as Battlestar