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The Lord of the Rings Online™: 10th Anniversary (Original Game Soundtrack)
Title: Hills of the Shire
Released On: June 1, 2017
Composed By: Chance Thomas
Arranged By: Chance Thomas
Published By: Standing Stone Games
This double album features 26 beloved tracks composed by Chance Thomas for The Lord of the Rings Online massively multiplayer online game.
The soundtrack’s release is a celebration coinciding with LOTRO’s 10th Anniversary Festival, honoring the games’first decade of continuous online play.
Chance Thomas is a composer and producer of original music for video games.
He has worked on titles such as Lord of the Rings Online, King Kong, X-Men and Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire.
Thomas' projects have won major awards, including the Oscar, Emmy, IGN, and G.A.N.G.
Thomas was the first game composer to score an Oscar-winning film and register more than one million downloads of his game music.
Chance Thomas began writing music for The Lord of the Rings well before Howard Shore tackled the soundtrack for Jackson’s trilogy.
He has already contributed to 9 games and expansions spanning a 20-year period, and just started work on a 10th expansion.
All of this music – orchestral, choral, and acoustic ensemble music – is completely original and is all based on personal research conducted into the literature by Chance Thomas himself.
He collected these references, sorted through them, organized and then distilled all of his research into a 26-page document which he called ‘The Tolkien Music Style Guide.’
For each of the 5 key races in Middle-earth, his Style Guide lists specific instrumental palettes, vocal ranges, stylistic guidelines, even home keys – all based on references and inferences drawn directly from the text.
All of the tracks are deeply and spiritually connected to the literature of JRR Tolkien.
Pieces like ‘Moria,’ ‘Drums in the Deep,’ ‘Khazad Dum’ and ‘The Eored’ use choral elements to great effect.
The male choir fittingly provides dread, and the percussion and brass add a frantic panic and urgency to the pieces.
Strings and woodwind soar in an effortless and beautiful fashion in pieces such as ‘Ages of the Golden Wood’ and ‘Rivendell,’ and Thomas’ use of a female choir to support their angelic sound is a welcome touch.
Included as well is real-world sounds, such as the wind blowing through the trees, and the sound of bird songs, which really gives a calming atmosphere to those particular moments in the score.
‘Learning to Ride,’ ‘Horse Lords of Norcrofts’ and ‘Urgent Errands’ all have great drive to them, transporting the listener on a journey.
One can imagine themselves on horseback, galloping across vast empty plains to someone’s aid.
As Game Developer Magazine once published, this music is “drawn from the very pen of Tolkien’s writings, ringing of truth to anyone familiar with its pages.”
Those who love the books will feel an immediate, organic connection to this music.
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*** Playlist - LotRO: 10th Anniversary ***
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLudL0VyqzaHeuXOrxNvT_YIIege-og_DC
*** The Lord of the Rings Online™ ***
lotro.com/en/game
store.steampowered.com/app/212500/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Online
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Online
steamcommunity.com/app/212500
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twitter.com/TheDunedainLotR
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tumblr.com/blog/thedunedainlotr
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The Lord of the Rings Online™: 10th Anniversary (Original Game Soundtrack)
Title: Hills of the Shire
Released On: June 1, 2017
Composed By: Chance Thomas
Arranged By: Chance Thomas
Published By: Standing Stone Games
This double album features 26 beloved tracks composed by Chance Thomas for The Lord of the Rings Online massively multiplayer online game.
The soundtrack’s release is a celebration coinciding with LOTRO’s 10th Anniversary Festival, honoring the games’first decade of continuous online play.
Chance Thomas is a composer and producer of original music for video games.
He has worked on titles such as Lord of the Rings Online, King Kong, X-Men and Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire.
Thomas' projects have won major awards, including the Oscar, Emmy, IGN, and G.A.N.G.
Thomas was the first game composer to score an Oscar-winning film and register more than one million downloads of his game music.
Chance Thomas began writing music for The Lord of the Rings well before Howard Shore tackled the soundtrack for Jackson’s trilogy.
He has already contributed to 9 games and expansions spanning a 20-year period, and just started work on a 10th expansion.
All of this music – orchestral, choral, and acoustic ensemble music – is completely original and is all based on personal research conducted into the literature by Chance Thomas himself.
He collected these references, sorted through them, organized and then distilled all of his research into a 26-page document which he called ‘The Tolkien Music Style Guide.’
For each of the 5 key races in Middle-earth, his Style Guide lists specific instrumental palettes, vocal ranges, stylistic guidelines, even home keys – all based on references and inferences drawn directly from the text.
All of the tracks are deeply and spiritually connected to the literature of JRR Tolkien.
Pieces like ‘Moria,’ ‘Drums in the Deep,’ ‘Khazad Dum’ and ‘The Eored’ use choral elements to great effect.
The male choir fittingly provides dread, and the percussion and brass add a frantic panic and urgency to the pieces.
Strings and woodwind soar in an effortless and beautiful fashion in pieces such as ‘Ages of the Golden Wood’ and ‘Rivendell,’ and Thomas’ use of a female choir to support their angelic sound is a welcome touch.
Included as well is real-world sounds, such as the wind blowing through the trees, and the sound of bird songs, which really gives a calming atmosphere to those particular moments in the score.
‘Learning to Ride,’ ‘Horse Lords of Norcrofts’ and ‘Urgent Errands’ all have great drive to them, transporting the listener on a journey.
One can imagine themselves on horseback, galloping across vast empty plains to someone’s aid.
As Game Developer Magazine once published, this music is “drawn from the very pen of Tolkien’s writings, ringing of truth to anyone familiar with its pages.”
Those who love the books will feel an immediate, organic connection to this music.
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*** Playlist - LotRO: 10th Anniversary ***
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLudL0VyqzaHeuXOrxNvT_YIIege-og_DC
*** The Lord of the Rings Online™ ***
lotro.com/en/game
store.steampowered.com/app/212500/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Online
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Online
steamcommunity.com/app/212500
*** TheDunedain Social ***
facebook.com/TheDunedainSounds
twitter.com/TheDunedainLotR
instagram.com/thedunedainsounds
https://www.pinterest.pt/TheDunedain/
tumblr.com/blog/thedunedainlotr
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The Dunedain the official channel for soundtracks and video games!
The channel with the best music videos, with high quality digital, in 4K and HD.
The popular soundtracks of videos games, TV series, Anime, Manga, cartoons and much more.
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