The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

2002: Reprise 48379-2

1. Foundations of Stone
2. The Taming of Sméagol
3. The Riders of Rohan
4. The Passage of the Marshes
5. The Uruk-hai
6. The King of the Golden Hall
7. The Black Gate Is Closed
8. Evenstar
9. The White Rider
10. Treebeard
11. The Leave Taking
12. Helm’s Deep
13. The Forbidden Pool
14. Breath of Life
15. The Hornburg
16. Forth Eorlingas
17. Isengard Unleashed
18. Samwise the Brave
19. Gollum’s Song

The first time I played this CD I thought “YOW!!!” I had no idea the music was a strong an element of that opening scene as it was, and in fact hearing it without the visuals taught me that it really is gloriously “big” while at the same time indelibly linked with that incredible sequence of Gandalf and the balrog fighting while plummeting to the depths of Moria. As much as I enjoyed the Fellowship of the Ring music, I loved The Two Towers’ music more, largely because of its Rohan themes and the absence of the cute “light” stuff which made up much of the frosting in the first soundtrack album. The first soundtrack was Storytelling, and this one was Drama. The third one, however, was Epic.

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