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Last week, Howard Shore received the Maestro Award at the Billboard\/Hollywood Reporter Film & TV Music Conference. <\/p>\n Last week, Howard Shore received the Maestro Award at the Billboard\/Hollywood Reporter Film & TV Music Conference. <\/p>\n
The acclaimed composer chatted with Billboard about his long career and a collaboratin with Peter Jackson that now spans more than 21 hours of recorded music and — count them — more than 100 individual lietmotifs.<\/p>\n
\nIn late October, Shore was putting the final touches on The Battle of Five Armies soundtrack CD. Asked whether, with the light at the end of the Tolkien tunnel, he was feeling relief, regret, joy, pride, or some ineffable mixture of all that. \u201cWhen you\u2019re working on [a film], you\u2019re working so hard it\u2019s hard just to stop. It takes a little while. And we haven\u2019t really finished — you never really finish until it\u2019s in the theater,\u201d Shore tells Billboard with a laugh. <\/p>\n
No, it didn\u2019t sound as if he was ready to let go. Shore did confess that scoring the climactic destruction of Mordor in The Return of the King had been the most daunting task — \u201ca combination of everything that led up to it\u201d — and that the scenes between Frodo and Sam across the first three films had been the most enjoyable. Writing melodies to Tolkien\u2019s Elvish verse has been another pleasure.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n