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Official LOTR Movie/Soundtrack Sites

On-line Lyrics

Theme Samples - Audio

Listen to full length tracks online

Sheet Music - Lyrics Publications

Movie Soundtrack Forums

LOTR Soundtrack Analyses and Discussion

Artist Websites

Fan/Artist Covers of LOTR movie music

Theme Samples - Audio

LOTR Soundtrack Analyses and Discussion

Howard Shore Interviews 2001-2005

Reviews of LOTR Soundtrack CDs

Howard Shore Official Site

Lord of the Rings Official Soundtrack Site

Lord of the Ring Official Movie Site

Doug Adams' blog - for the upcoming book The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films

DA podcast: FSMROTKQ&A - Nov 2007 (FilmScoreMonthly ROTK Question & Answer)

Fan formatting of Annotated Scores:

German translations of the Annotated Scores of the FOTR, TTT, & ROTK

The Music of the LOTR - the Annotated Scores of the Complete Recordings (written by Doug Adams) reformatted as an interactive website by John Jennette.

On-line Lyrics

The House of Eorl - doesn't have timestamps, only complete source texts, book sources and where the lyrics are heard in the soundtrack

Gwaith-i-Phethdain or The Fellowship of the Word Smiths - good for language info - last updated December 2005. My site is more up to date.

Theme Samples - Audio

The House of Eorl - soundclips of theme samples

The Music of the LOTR - soundclips of theme examples

Older sites not updated recently

Listen to full length tracks online

Three tracks from ROTK OST : The Grey Havens, Ash and Smoke, & The Ride of the Rohirrim (NPR Pre Oscar Coverage)

Two tracks from FOTR OST : A Knife in the Dark & Many Meetings (NPR Pre Oscar Coverage)

Sheet Music - Lyrics Publications

musicnotes.com

Schott Music

Movie Soundtrack Forums

Doug Adams' blog - the comment section functions as a forum of sorts

moviemusic dot com has a good search engine and lots of great info and discussion (old and new) can be found there.

Filmtracks ScoreBoard Forum

LOTR Soundtrack Analyses and Discussion

The House of Eorl (Earl Carvalho)

LOTR Score Analysis Project - wiki type site that breaks down the CR tracks by themes (Melson Zwerver)

ROTK OST Breakdown & Comparison to the CR-ROTK (Jim Ware)

older soundtrack analyses

Artist Websites

Plan 9 - Figures.com article (Claude Flowers 7-16-03)

Elizabeth Fraser

Aivale Cole (nee Mabel Faletolu)

Enya

Isabel Bayrakdarian

Sheila Chandra

Emiliana Torrini

Renée Fleming

Miriam Stockley

Annie Lennox

Sissel Kyrkjebø

Fan/Artist covers of Movie Music

Song of Solomon : Edge of Night - aggressive acoustic folk)

Yulia : Into the West - pop (click on 'music' and scroll)

Happy Rhodes (video) : Into the West - pop