Uploaded July 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
The mysterious evil sorcerer, The Necromancer, who is actually the Dark Lord Sauron in disguise, is represented again by The Evil of the Ring/Mordor, which he can’t shed even in his shadowy form in Dol Guldur. Shore quotes the material a scant few times in the first film but offers a strong musical clue to the identity of this new evil that has risen in Middle-earth. The composer truncates the ending of the melody so that it trails off into an exotic new coda but this creates a feeling of absence, the musical idea not quite fulfilled. In the sequels Shore unveils the fully formed Eastern tinged melody from the ancient era of Middle-earth, when the mystery is finally solved and the Enemy reveals itself in DoS There a thunderously imperious variation recalling its most powerful appearance at Minas Morgul in The Return of the King assaults Gandalf when the Grey Wizard finally uncovers the truth about the master of Dol Guldur. In BotFA the theme is treated to a new lugubrious and wicked version featuring an organ as the White Council faces the Dark Lord and his most powerful servants in Dol Guldur.
The mysterious evil sorcerer, The Necromancer, who is actually the Dark Lord Sauron in disguise, is represented again by The Evil of the Ring/Mordor, which he can’t shed even in his shadowy form in Dol Guldur. Shore quotes the material a scant few times in the first film but offers a strong musical clue to the identity of this new evil that has risen in Middle-earth. The composer truncates the ending of the melody so that it trails off into an exotic new coda but this creates a feeling of absence, the musical idea not quite fulfilled. In the sequels Shore unveils the fully formed Eastern tinged melody from the ancient era of Middle-earth, when the mystery is finally solved and the Enemy reveals itself in DoS There a thunderously imperious variation recalling its most powerful appearance at Minas Morgul in The Return of the King assaults Gandalf when the Grey Wizard finally uncovers the truth about the master of Dol Guldur. In BotFA the theme is treated to a new lugubrious and wicked version featuring an organ as the White Council faces the Dark Lord and his most powerful servants in Dol Guldur.
