A far green country under a swift sunrise
What is it about Howard Shore's score for Lord of the Rings? I have never yet come across any music that has such a power to bring me to tears. There's such a sense of melancholy in listening to the Lord of the Rings scores - such a wistful nostalgia. It's like...it's like feeling homesick for Middle Earth.
Whatever else I can say about Lord of the Rings - and there's a lot, because never have I loved any movies the way I love those movies - I think Peter Jackson nailed the tone just perfectly. Because when I think about those movies, when I think about the plot and the characters and the action and the dialogue and the actors, what I'm left with mostly is this strange bittersweetness, this melancholy. Even though Good triumphs over Evil, you can't really say there's a happy ending there. It's not unhappy. It's not gut-wrenching misery and horror that you're left with.
But it is that...that whole 'you can never go home again' feelings. Things can never be as they were. That innocence can never be regained. And you feel that at the end of these movies, and that's what the music evokes for me every time I listen to it. As Sam says, listening to the Elves, "I don't know why, but it makes me sad."
How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand. There is no going back.
*sighs*
Whatever else I can say about Lord of the Rings - and there's a lot, because never have I loved any movies the way I love those movies - I think Peter Jackson nailed the tone just perfectly. Because when I think about those movies, when I think about the plot and the characters and the action and the dialogue and the actors, what I'm left with mostly is this strange bittersweetness, this melancholy. Even though Good triumphs over Evil, you can't really say there's a happy ending there. It's not unhappy. It's not gut-wrenching misery and horror that you're left with.
But it is that...that whole 'you can never go home again' feelings. Things can never be as they were. That innocence can never be regained. And you feel that at the end of these movies, and that's what the music evokes for me every time I listen to it. As Sam says, listening to the Elves, "I don't know why, but it makes me sad."
How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand. There is no going back.
*sighs*