![]() ![]() There’s a lot of overlap there, but they each have their own melodies. In many ways, it’s like, ‘Is that Galadriel’s theme?’ because she is out to get him. “He affects people in ways that are really cool. It’s like an illness in your mind,” McCreary shared. “I describe it like the beehive in your mind. The Dark Lord’s haunting theme is employed throughout the series, even when characters are only talking about him. Sauron’s dark energy looms over Middle-earth in the show, so the TV composer used string instruments to create a sense of urgency. “Every second of the show has a thought put into what language will be there,” he noted. McCreary also wrote a theme for the show’s Big Bad, Sauron, containing “this very ominous melody” that is sung in Black Speech (the language used in Sauron’s realm Mordor). “It has a little more of a Celtic vibe, because she’s our Frodo in a way, but I wanted to create something different.” ![]() “The theme I wrote for Nori, in particular, has more Howard Shore vibes,” he continued. He’s visited Middle-earth for six movies now, and. It would just be wildly inappropriate and in the wrong story.” Howard Shore’s iconic score for Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy is regarded as one of the greatest soundtracks ever produced. That sets it apart from the British folk music heard throughout Lord of the Rings, which “really takes us to a kind of Tolkienien color, which is an 18th century ideal the homes the farmhouses. He went for an earthy vibe with the Harfoots, focusing on the idea that they’d turn a log they found in the forest into a musical instrument. So for me, I wanted to draw that influence from British and Celtic folk music that Howard Shore used, but I also wanted something that was more nomadic that took me to another place, and I used West African percussion.” “There is no Shire when we open on our show. It’s nostalgia for a very specific place, and that’s not what our show is about,” McCreary explained. “In my mind, the theme that wrote is the Shire theme. (Shore did, however, compose the main theme for Rings of Power.) McCreary, who wrote the music for all eight Season 1 episodes, worked to create a distinct sound that was influenced by Shore but didn’t feel like a rehash of what came before - especially when it came to the Hobbit ancestors, the Harfoots. The show is in no way connected to Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, which featured an iconic score by Howard Shore. ![]() The actors, the editors, and me… It’s going to surprise fans in a pleasant way. The person writing is definitely the right person. “I get it,” he adds, “but the person doing the costumes is the right person. ![]()
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