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By Abby Robinson\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Saturday, 03 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power<\/a> made its long-awaited debut on 1st September, with many critics impressed<\/a> with what\u2019s on offer in the opening two episodes of the series, which is set thousands of years before the events of the films.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s much that deserves praise, from astounding visuals to a cast who are pulling their weight to the sumptuous score, which\u00a0RadioTimes.com<\/a><\/strong> spoke exclusively about with composer Bear McCreary.<\/p>\n

He said that while he\u2019s a \u201chuge fan\u201d of J R R Tolkien\u2019s books, it was \u201cPeter Jackson\u2019s films in conjunction with Howard Shore\u2019s scores that brought Middle Earth to life\u201d for him and subsequently \u201cchanged the trajectory\u201d of his life.<\/p>\n

McCreary worked with\u00a0Shore on the series, adding: \u201cHe was very supportive and just a delightful guy to get to know, and I\u2019m so thrilled with the work that he\u2019s contributed. I feel like he created this fanfare that majestically takes us back to Middle Earth, takes us back to those Peter Jackson films.\u201d<\/p>\n

But he went on to emphasise that while there are parallels between the two scores, the music in The Rings of Power has its own identity: \u201cI\u2019m drawing from the colours and emotional tools that Howard Shore used in the films, but I\u2019m using them in a different way. I think it sounds, technically, nothing like the [musical] cues Howard Shore wrote, but I think fans will hear the line that can be drawn from this, that will become the cues Howard Shore wrote for the film, so continuity is the word that I kept in my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cynthia Addai-Robinson as Queen Regent M\u00edriel in The Rings of Power.<\/span><\/figcaption> Courtesy of Amazon Studios<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

McCreary cited the Dwarves to illustrate his point: \u201cIn the Peter Jackson films, the Dwarves are a people in diaspora. There is a sense of sadness and darkness to everything pertaining to the mines of Moria, to the Lonely Mountain. Yes, Gimli was a very comedic character, but at the end of the day we understood him almost to be like an orphan. I want to use those colours that Howard Shore used, in particular the deep male vocals.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut in contrast, in the Second Age [the films are set in the Third], we\u2019re not seeing the mines of Moria, we are seeing Khazad-d\u00fbm, we are seeing a society at its peak. They are a capital of industry, there is mining, there is agriculture, there is light. What does that sound like? Suddenly, those deep male vocals don\u2019t sound like a sad song of diaspora. It almost sounds like a nationalist Soviet work song. It\u2019s uplifting, it\u2019s energetic.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cWhat I want as a fan is to be able to sit down and watch 50 hours or so of the Rings of Power, then\u2026 marathon the director\u2019s cut versions of the Peter Jackson films in one day, and feel a continuous experience. So I\u2019m doing my part to make that happen.\u201d<\/p>

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