Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats.

Our show is about to begin.

The music of the two towers continues at the turning of the tide.

This is the soundtrack show. The Soundtrack Show. The Soundtrack Show. Oh, Oh, Oh,

and Welcome back to the soundtrack show.

I'm your host, David W. Collins, and this is our fourth episode

on Peter Jackson's 2002 movie, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers. We're going to continue to examine some interesting moments in Howard Shore's film score, and start to listen to parts of the score that we haven't yet discussed, including the love story between Aragorn and

Arwen. But first, we need to pick up where we left off in the last episode, deep in the

forest of Fangorn. Shortly after Mary and Pippen have their first encounter with Treebeard,

the third piece of our fellowship, our three hunters, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimley, enter Fangorn Forest, in search of their two Hobbit friends. And when they do, Shore treats us to a version of Treebeard's music in high strings this time. It's very subtle. Instead of this,

Blah-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-m...

We get it way up here in the string section. I love the wonderful tension that this sets up.

I mean, hey, strings stretched tight across the bridge and nut of a violin.

Made even higher by playing closer to the bridge, is I suppose, the literal definition

of tension, but it's a nice version of the music for the ends, as our fellowship looks

around in wonder and fear.

This forest is old.

Very old.

Full of memory and anger.

And listen to that awesome tree sound design by David Farmer.

The trees are speaking to each other.

Kimli, Low your axe.

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