FOTR Trailer Music

[Wolfshead]

I know I'm several months too late with this question but the film release has got me thinking about it again.

Does anyone know where the music on the FOTR trailers comes from, and who it's by? I expected to encounter it on the soundtrack some months ago but was dissapointed. And I vaguely remember hearing it somewhere else. I can't for the life of me remember where, or even if it was actually that music though. It is most distinguishable on the last FOTR trailer (the one that starts of with Gandalf going across a bridge on his cart).

[Legolas' Girl]

All the music in the movie(s) is/are done by the composer Howard Shore and his merry band of musicians. All the music of the first movie is available on the soundtrack, which I have!:p

The music from the trailers is clips from the original scores in the movie.




Wow. I know something someone else didn't.:eek: :D

[Ariana Undomiel]

Ummmmm ... Actually that is not true. A few of the trailers have music from the Fellowship of the Ring, but not any of the offical three trailers for FOTR. I personally don't know what music was used for the three main trailers except for the beginning of one. The one trailer for FOTR that starts with Gandalf's voice over and the panning over the trees has background music by Loreena McKennit's from her CD the Mystic's Dream.

The trailers that have been released so far for The Two Towers does have music composed by Howard Shore for the Fellowship of the Ring.

~Ariana

[ReadWryt]

Ok, here is where my deeply geeky Purist nature comes through. So far as I could acertain from playing the Ten Minute Preview off my hard drive while scanning around on the CD all of the music used in it was from "Fellowship". The only reason I checked was because of the whole "Charter Member Credit Scroll" fiasco. It seems that Mr. Jackson figured that the music from the first movie was fine for the Ten Minute Preview but the list of Charter Members needed all new music...*cringe*. With what we have heard about how he feels about these movies supposedly you would think that he would have demanded that the preview get new music before a list of names...

[Talimon]

The 10-minute preview is not really a preview at all, but more of a behind-the-scenes featurette. There is mostly dialogue all the way throughout, so music would only play a background role. I don't see why you are really upset about PJ composing new music for the charter members, though. If were on the list I'd consider it an honor. I doubt anyone who signed up for membership wasn't planning on getting the Extended edition to begin with, name-scroll or not. On top of that, consider that it doesn't fit on the theatrical disc to begin with, add to that the fact that it keeps more in line with it being the "theatrical cut", and I it all works out. This really isn't that big of a deal.

[PRH]

I believe what crasmith was asking here was, what was that piece of music used in the FOTR trailers? It appeared in 3 trailers: The Internet Preview, The LOTR Teaser (which came out in 1/01), and the Final Trailer (which came out in like 10/01). It did not appear in the first FOTR Trailer (which came out in 5/01). It's that big choral piece that was not written by Howard Shore. It did not appear in any of TTT previews or trailers.

I don't know the answer, but I heard it once...

[Wolfshead]

Ok, so we're not really any closer to the answer. Oh well. I might download that one by Loreena McKennet though.