![]() ![]() Howard Shore appeared during the Symposium and at the finale of the Return of the King and shared heartfelt words of how the entire project meant to him and how he just composed from the heart. The trilogy played out on a 42′ + HD screen with a rich, full sound of orchestra and instruments that often have been drowned out on the soundtrack (harp for example) along with a Switzerland choir that set eargasms aflame and child soloist and female soloist brought tears stronger than the movie itself usually brought. Here’s but a sampling of what I was able to watch this past weekend at the Lincoln Center in New York Saturday the 11th (Fellowship and the Two Towers) and on Sunday the 12th (Return of the King). It’s literally love and friendship and camaraderie that save Middle Earth. Frodo needed the shelter of Sam’s heart in order to find his way–and Sam needed a leader. Separate the pair of them, and neither would have made it. Who is there to give him a purpose as he travels across a land so big, so far, hoping to save his home? But he’s a gardener: his job is to make things grow, to nurture them and make them flourish. Likewise: Sam could never have made the journey alone. Who is there to offer a joke, a smile, a hug, an unjudging ear, an extra bite of bread when Frodo looks peaky and ill, a doubled-up bedroll when it’s too cold for a small hobbit used to a good hole with a warm fire? Frodo would have failed long before he reached Mount Doom without Sam to cheer him on. (No, this is not a joke about being hobbit-sized.)įrodo is the one who has to bear the mental torture and hardship of the Ring–but without Sam, he couldn’t have. ![]()
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