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Movie title Song title Artist Writer US charts UK charts Miscellaneous July 21 The High and the Mighty “The High and the Mighty” LeRoy Holmes: music by Dimitri Tiomkin, lyrics by Ned Washington: 9 20 also charted in the US in 1954 by Victor Young, # 8, Les Baxter #6 and Johnny Desmond # 28
The theme was reorchestrated for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers trailer [3] and is known by the name "Requiem for a Tower", presented by "Corner Stone Cues". The theme has been featured in trailers for other films, including Babylon A.D., [4] The Da Vinci Code, [5] I Am Legend, [6] Sunshine, [7] and Valley of Flowers. [8]
A few of the diegetic songs are settings of poems by Tolkien, interspersed in the text of The Lord of the Rings. [29] [30] Among these is "The Road Goes Ever On", sung softly by Ian McKellen playing Gandalf arriving in Hobbiton in his farm cart, to a melody by Walsh. [31]
Following the style of his music for The Lord of the Rings film series, Howard Shore constructed the score for The Hobbit using many strong recognisable musical themes. The musicologist Doug Adams described these as "an encyclopedic network of leitmotifs: dozens of themes that represented cultures, characters, objects, and dramatic concepts in Middle-earth."
"Into the West" is a song performed by Annie Lennox, and the end-credit song of the 2003 film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. It was written by Lennox, Return of the King producer and co-writer Fran Walsh, and composed and co-written by the film's composer Howard Shore. [1]
"The Road Goes Ever On" is a title that encompasses several walking songs that J. R. R. Tolkien wrote for his Middle-earth legendarium. Within the stories, the original song was composed by Bilbo Baggins and recorded in The Hobbit. Different versions of it also appear in The Lord of the Rings, along with some similar walking songs.
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It was Enya's second consecutive single to do so, following her song "Only Time". [14] In 2005, it was released as part of the compilation The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: The Complete Recordings. This time, the version of the song was identical as featured in the movie's ending titles.