Welcome to What’s the Score, where one passionate nerd mispronounces a lot of words while exploring her favorite tracks from film scores new and old! If you like movies, or music, or especially both together… or if you’re just a fellow nerd, or if you’re lost and don’t know how you got here, that’s fine! Pour yourself a cup of tea or pop some popcorn and stumble along with me through this magical, cinematic, shamelessly sentimental soundtrack journey.

Many thanks to Marilynn Miller  - check out her incredible collection and her analysis of Howard Shore’s music here.

Film Scene referenced: “The Charge of the Rohirrim.”

I own none of the rights to the music used in this podcast episode:

Copyright / Film audio / scene citation: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Dir. Peter Jackson. Wr. J.R.R. Tolkien (novel), Philippa Boyens, Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson (screenplay). Score: Howard Shore. Edited by Jamie Selkirk. Production Companies: WingNut FIlms, Saul Zaentz Company. Distributer: New Line Cinema. Released 2003.

Copyright: ℗ 2001 New Line Productions, Inc., under exclusive license to Varese Sarabande Records LLC © 2001 New Line Productions, Inc.
Copyright: ℗ 2002 New Line Productions, Inc. © 2002 Reprise Records for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the U.S.; Motion Picture Artwork and Photography 2002 New Line Productions, Inc.; "The Lord Of The Rings, The Two Towers", and the names of the characters, events, items, and places therein, are trademarks of The Saul Zaentz Company d/b/a Tolkien Enterprises under license to New Line Productions, Inc.

Copyright: ℗ 2001 Reprise Records for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the U.S. © 2001 New Line Productions, Inc.; 2001 Reprise Records for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the U.S.

Copyright: ℗ 2003 Reprise Records for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S. © 2003 Reprise Records for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S.; Motion Picture Artwork & Photography C2003 New Line Productions, Inc.; "The Lord Of The Rings", the characters, names, and places therein TM The Saul Zaentz Company d/b/a Tolkien Enterprises, under license to New Line Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved. C 2003 New Line Productions, Inc.

Copyright: ℗ 2012 Marvel Music, Inc. © 2012 Marvel & Subs. Alan Silvestri, and Hollywood Records.