{"id":99596,"date":"2015-11-08T15:54:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T20:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=99596"},"modified":"2015-11-08T15:56:40","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T20:56:40","slug":"lotr-score-voted-favorite-film-score-for-6th-consecutive-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2015\/11\/08\/99596-lotr-score-voted-favorite-film-score-for-6th-consecutive-year\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;LOTR&#8217; voted favorite film score for 6th consecutive year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/03-Frodo-Elijah-Wood-catching-ring-orch.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/03-Frodo-Elijah-Wood-catching-ring-orch-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Frodo (Elijah Wood) in \u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - In Concert\u201d \" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-44320 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/03-Frodo-Elijah-Wood-catching-ring-orch-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/03-Frodo-Elijah-Wood-catching-ring-orch-1024x731.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Peter Jackson delivered the images and Howard Shore&#8217;s delivered the unforgettable musical score for &#8220;The Lord of the Rings.&#8221; Music and film lovers haven&#8217;t forgotten, voting in the favorite film score fro the sixth consecutive year at Classic FM.<\/p>\n<p>The site, that calls itself the world&#8217;s biggest classical music radio station in the world, plays such music including film and video game scores. It is said to be the UK&#8217;s only 100 percent classical music radio station that includes radio on all platforms including streaming world wide on the web.<\/p>\n<p>After thousands of votes, Shore&#8217;s score edged John Williams&#8217; effort for Steven Spielberg&#8217;s &#8220;Schindler&#8217;s List,&#8221; and Hans Zimmer&#8217;s music for Ridley Scott&#8217;s &#8220;Gladiator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those who have been with TORn from the early days will remember that a Burger King tie-in commercial was the first time Shore&#8217;s score was heard by the masses, as the &#8220;Fellowship&#8221; theme showed off flame-broiled goodness along with the miracle of in-scale Men, Hobbits, with a pony, a Dwarf and  Wizard. <\/p>\n<p>The score carried themes from &#8220;Fellowship&#8221; into the following movies, earning an Academy Award for &#8220;Return of the King,&#8221; after a snub of even an nomination for &#8220;The Two Towers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are many highlights, and different fans would have different favorite moments.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"750\" height=\"422\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vvSyhWKVCsQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can read Classic FM&#8217;s story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicfm.com\/music-news\/lord-of-the-rings-howard-shore-movie-hall-fame\/#QwzU6yReg4zOhHX0.97\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and find more links to more of the top 100.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Adams&#8217; book, &#8220;The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films,&#8221; stands as the definitive word on the score but is also one of the finest books written on musical scores anywhere. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/01\/16\/41736-review-music-of-lotr-films-best-of-tie-in-books\/\" target=\"_blank\">read our review of it here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Jackson delivered the images and Howard Shore&#8217;s delivered the unforgettable musical score for &#8220;The Lord of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":82066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[163,197,21,5,18,83,496,149,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-merchandise-books","category-fans","category-shore","category-lotr-movies","category-merchandise","category-merchandise-music","category-production","category-lotr","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1-howard-shore-Oscar.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-pUo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99596"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99602,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99596\/revisions\/99602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}