Uploaded July 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This ascending menacing motif it seems toevil present a more active threat, bursting forth when the sorcerer displays his power like when he attacks Radagast in Dol Guldur or menaces the wizard’s home at Rhosgobel but it also appears to signal the slow growth of this evil, rising ever upwards to trouble the councils of the Wise in The Hobbit. The motif is simple yet urgently insistent, Shore using a repeating variations to emphasize approaching danger and it is most closely associated with Necromancer himself and his dark abode.
As with the Dol Guldur Descending Thirds, The Threat of Dol Guldur seems to form the roots of the Mordor Skip Beat (or could be seen as its proto-form) that so often set a frantic, nervous pace for the chases and enemies hunting our heroes in LotR. This motif and the Dol Guldur Descending Thirds form the accompaniment figures that constantly trail the Necromancer’s theme and represent the Dol Guldur storyline throughout the trilogy, while the other evils Sauron unleashes have their musical roots in these three ideas.
This ascending menacing motif it seems toevil present a more active threat, bursting forth when the sorcerer displays his power like when he attacks Radagast in Dol Guldur or menaces the wizard’s home at Rhosgobel but it also appears to signal the slow growth of this evil, rising ever upwards to trouble the councils of the Wise in The Hobbit. The motif is simple yet urgently insistent, Shore using a repeating variations to emphasize approaching danger and it is most closely associated with Necromancer himself and his dark abode.
As with the Dol Guldur Descending Thirds, The Threat of Dol Guldur seems to form the roots of the Mordor Skip Beat (or could be seen as its proto-form) that so often set a frantic, nervous pace for the chases and enemies hunting our heroes in LotR. This motif and the Dol Guldur Descending Thirds form the accompaniment figures that constantly trail the Necromancer’s theme and represent the Dol Guldur storyline throughout the trilogy, while the other evils Sauron unleashes have their musical roots in these three ideas.
