Uploaded July 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Gandalf’s path leads him to uncover secrets and when he stumbles upon clues of the rise of dark powers, the dead walking abroad and a set of nine tombs in the High Fells of Rhudaur, Shore answers with a musical equivalent of a foreboding ghostly whisper, an eerie winding and ascending theme that is intoned by a solo soprano and a chilling chorus.
The form of the theme seems to suggest Gandalf’s secondary Istari theme with its ever searching higher aspiring progression but the tone is entirely alien to the life embracing and reassuring tones of Gandalf’s material. There is ghostly stillness to this theme, the orchestrations always clinging to chilling vocal invocations, a wraith-like echo of the world of shadows. And while the threat still remains elusive the composer tellingly weds it with the most lugubrious tones of the orchestra performing the Dol Guldur themes so give indication where Gandalf’s investigations will take him.
Gandalf’s path leads him to uncover secrets and when he stumbles upon clues of the rise of dark powers, the dead walking abroad and a set of nine tombs in the High Fells of Rhudaur, Shore answers with a musical equivalent of a foreboding ghostly whisper, an eerie winding and ascending theme that is intoned by a solo soprano and a chilling chorus.
The form of the theme seems to suggest Gandalf’s secondary Istari theme with its ever searching higher aspiring progression but the tone is entirely alien to the life embracing and reassuring tones of Gandalf’s material. There is ghostly stillness to this theme, the orchestrations always clinging to chilling vocal invocations, a wraith-like echo of the world of shadows. And while the threat still remains elusive the composer tellingly weds it with the most lugubrious tones of the orchestra performing the Dol Guldur themes so give indication where Gandalf’s investigations will take him.
