The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers CR - 09. Refuge Of Helm's Deep

Legolas and Gimli find Sharku bleeding upon the plains, sputtering a sickly laugh to himself. The Orc claims Aragorn is dead,
offering as proof Arwen's pendant. Cor anglais pitches proceed down and back up, setting the Fellowship opening over a C-minor
triad in low strings. The Fellowship theme, which before offered a major harmonization to a minor theme, can no longer maintain
the paradox. Aragorn is gone. Surveying the carnage, Théoden fears the Orcs will return, and orders the troop to move on, leaving
the dead. Celli and basses again pass through the Fellowship's opening notes, sinking the theme's spirits even lower.
Elsewhere, Éowyn has led the women and children of Edoras to Helm's Deep. The opening of her theme carries her hope to
the gate, admitting her inside where she finds scant provisions, a ragtag band of soldiers and the weary refugees of Rohan. The
orchestral swell halts, constricted to a single disbelieving C-natural. "It's disappointing," Shore confirms. "It's seen through her eyes.
That's part of what Peter was doing, always trying to bring it down to the human spirit. Musically, as well, I'm working with the
characters and their emotions." Hardanger sings the Rohan Fanfare in the same fragile setting used when the exodus began. The
stronghold seems to have done little to aid the Rohirrim.
Isabel Bayrakdarian returns to provide the text for Éowyn's wordless expression. Two lines from "The Missing," are set to a
melodic line that prefigures the upcoming "The Grace of the Valar." The translated lines, "...she felt the loss/of all things that she
missed," express Éowyn's pain and hopelessness, and yet the burgeoning mysticism of the melody seems to suggest the tale is not
yet over. "Isabel did one take of this," Shore recalls. "That one take was the only one we ever recorded. We were recording 'Evenstar'
and the session had been going for hours. Then, as she was leaving, I said, 'Maybe just try this once, we'll record it tomorrow.' She
just did it once and we never recorded it the next day because it was so great

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[Darkrunn]

There's a typo in the title.

Thank you so much for uploading this! I can't get enough of the complete recordings!

[jediking12]

@Darkrunn Refudge? lol

[1966065015]

@ejkz4789 Took a little tumble off the cliff *chokes on blood*

[1966065015]

@jediking12 I... love... fudge... and LotR

[ejkz4789]

"He's....*cough*...dead!"

"You lie!"

[SemperEAS7]

3:33 Angelic.