Apple Lossless straight from my CD.
Rip was made using iTunes, because I don't really know any better way of doing it (suggestions?).

Here's the tracklist (copied from another thread here):

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RARITIES ARCHIVE

THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING

01 Prologue: One Ring to Rule Them All (Alternate)
02 The Shire/The Hobbits (Mock-up)
03 Out From Bree (Theatrical Version & Alternate)
04 Flight to the Ford (Alternate)
05 Moria (Mock-up)
06 The Fighting Uruk-hai (Alternate)
07 The Argonath (Alternate)

THE TWO TOWERS

08 Gwenwin in �n (“Arwen’s Song” Alternate/Mock-up)
09 Arwen’s Song (Complete)
10 Emyn Muil (Alternate)
11 The Rohan Fanfare (Mock-up)
12 The Eaves of Fangorn (Alternate)
13 The Ent Theme (Mock-up)

THE RETURN OF THE KING

14 The Return of the King Trailer
15 The Gondor Theme (Mock-up)
16 The Muster of Rohan (Alternate)
17 The Siege of Gondor (Alternate)
18 Shieldmaiden of Rohan (Theatrical Version)
19 Sammath Naur (Alternate)
20 Frodo’s Song (“Into the West” Alternate/Mock-up)
21 Elanor (Alternate)

HOWARD SHORE & DOUG ADAMS

22 In Conversation (Part 1)
23 In Conversation (Part 2)

And here's the link:

Apple Lossless (Note: has some audible errors on the last interview track)
MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LGH7VFEO)

FLAC
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CZ7G614T

No password.

Enjoy!

GREAT, thanks a lot!!

Awesome! Just awesome... Thank you so much for the share!

Out-F'ing-standing!!! Thank You!!!

Thanks. Magnificent!

Does anybody have a link to the book itself?

MERCI INFINIMENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It�s great! Thanks :)

Here's an MP3 version, for those who don't want to bother with lossless/encode:

LAME3.98.2 V0 VBR (5% Recovery record added) (http://anonym.to/?http://www.mediafire.com/?dw7gkcl29jz9h33)

just when i thought i had enough music from the films... another shows. thank you!

Thanks so much!

Oh, I can't thank you enough!!!

Thanks :)

Thanks!!!!!!

I have the book on order in the UK from amazon but there is a delay or something at the moment ..

Thanks to sorei for helping me I got it and it sounds wonderful , I love the Lord of the Rings music.

Great! Thanks! Very interesting material, and I do appreciate the Apple Lossless upload as I use iTunes. Don't know the percentage of those of us who do, but it takes the conversion step out, e.g. FLAC to WAV.

just when i thought i had enough music from the films... another shows. thank you!

Haha! So true.
Thanks tisho!

Thanks a bunch. This is definitely on my "very soon to buy" list...(not that I haven't spent enough on MULTIPLE versions of everything LOTR). Still...it is nice to get a good preview of this before the definitive article arrives. Cheers!

Thanks for uploading, although i cannot help to think these are rally rarities... It's not like the complete recordings are (as I can judge for now)

This is incredible! Thank you so much!
If anyone finds the book online, please let me know!

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This is incredible! Thank you so much!
If anyone finds the book online, please let me know!

SIMPLY AWESOME.

Hello

Thanks

But the link is dead� Could you reup Please?

Thanx

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Hello

Thanks

But the link is dead� Could you reup Please?

Thanx

Yes please re-up!

The first link still works.

It starts downloading and gets stuck halfway through. I've tried three different computers and gotten the same result.

It starts downloading and gets stuck halfway through. I've tried three different computers and gotten the same result.

I don't know what's wrong with it. Megaupload just says it's temporarily unavailable. I've seen it do that before and it just goes back to normal after a while, so maybe give it an hour? Or you could download Leon Scott Kennedy's mp3 version, instead. The link still works.

And please, guys, if you can, buy the book. It's an incredible achievement in itself. Books on film music don't get written every day, and if we want more, it's worth supporting this one.

Yeah, please buy and support this ... 400-page hardcover, plus CD, only $37.77 at Amazon right now...

Amazon.com: The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films: A Comprehensive Account of Howard Shore's Scores (Book and Rarities CD) (9780739071571): Doug Adams, John Howe, Alan Lee, Fran Walsh, Howard Shore: Books (http://www.amazon.com/Music-Lord-Rings-Films-Comprehensive/dp/0739071572/)

o.o

I've seen Megaupload have issues like that for more than 4 days in a row.
My guess is that people who have this problem are free users with no premium account, like me.
I'm trying to download this a second time now.
And I really don't want the mp3 version.
And I might buy it soon. (no pressure)

Also, for lossless rips, EAC (Exact Audio Ripper) is preferred for ripping CDs in lossless formats (APE/FLAC/WAV/WV/AIF/etc)
It can connect to Accurip databases and compare results with other rips (if someone shared the results) to let you know if you ripped a perfect-ish copy.
You can create .cue files too for peeps who want to burn them to CD after with Nero or other.
The .log file is also good for people to know how it was ripped and if there were any errors.
Exact Audio Copy 0.99 prebeta 5 - VideoHelp.com Downloads (http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Exact_Audio_Copy)

And here's a quick setup guide that'll give you good results for your rips.
Sonic On The Net • View topic - How To Rip 1:1 Copies of Audio CDs Using Exact Audio Copy (http://www.soniconthenet.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2656)

I believe it installs flac as well, which is what you'll need if you want to rip in FLAC formats.
Generally FLAC (level 8) is more favored over APE or WavPack.
Here's the official site for FLAC
FLAC - download (http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html)

Thanks for all the info, sparktank, I guess I forgot to mention I'm on a Mac, so none of the guides applied directly to my setup, but they were enough to get me started.

I re-ripped the CD, this time using XLD, which connects to Accurip and all that jazz. It's in FLAC this time around and doesn't have errors on the last track like the previous rip. I've included the .log and the .cue files.

MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CZ7G614T)

Enjoy!

Thank you, .flac's the best - I really appreciate that you ripped it again, uploaded it just for us! :D

Brilliant! Thank's for sharing this! I love the music from these movies, its really interesting to hear the unused stuff :D

Can anyone upload the scans to the Book?

Thanks for all the info, sparktank, I guess I forgot to mention I'm on a Mac, so none of the guides applied directly to my setup, but they were enough to get me started.

I re-ripped the CD, this time using XLD, which connects to Accurip and all that jazz. It's in FLAC this time around and doesn't have errors on the last track like the previous rip. I've included the .log and the .cue files.

MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CZ7G614T)

Enjoy!

hello
can do proper rip as a image + cue
please )

amazing, thank you...

...............................

Is anyone else as disppointed as I am by this so-called Rarities CD ? Synth demos are not very interesting, IMHO...

From Sarah's recent post regarding the FSM situation:

1) no copyrighted material is hosted on this server ... had we received a polite email asking us not to post FSM soundtracks we would've happily complied as we've done with varese and a few others.
...
2) the purpose of this forum is to share music that otherwise wouldn't be available, such as soundtracks that weren't released commercially, soundtracks that are out of print, and fan-made soundtracks. our moderators and administrators are here to remove music that shouldn't be here; threatening them makes absolutely zero sense.

In this spirit, I ask that some responsible moderator please close this thread and remove these links. This is brand-new, commercially available music. Doug Adams (a frequent FSM contributor) poured his heart and soul into this for nine years. He's not rich, and this is money out of his pocket. Once again, please close this thread and remove these links.

SWEET! APPLE LOSSLESS! THANKS!

I'd like 2 c more Apple Lossless on here because, other than WAV, it is the only way lossless music can go into an ipod.

"Soundtracks I'm looking for

Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the Clones (Extended Soundtrack) NO SFX
Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (Extended Soundtrack) NO SFX"

looking 4 these 2.

.

Many thanks for this! However, does anyone else miss the film versions of "A Far Green Country" and the climax of the Crack of Doom? They are definitely different than what is on the complete recordings.

Thank you!!! :)

Did the original release come with a digital book(let)?

Thank you ! I love music of The Lord of the Rings!

great, thanks for sharing. The LOTR scores are among the very best pieces of film music i've ever heard, if not the best.

Is anyone else as disppointed as I am by this so-called Rarities CD ? Synth demos are not very interesting, IMHO...

well its not ALL synth demos, it has more GONDOR THEME for crying out loud and in Fellowship too!

Yeah, please buy and support this ... 400-page hardcover, plus CD, only $37.77 at Amazon right now...

Amazon.com: The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films: A Comprehensive Account of Howard Shore's Scores (Book and Rarities CD) (9780739071571): Doug Adams, John Howe, Alan Lee, Fran Walsh, Howard Shore: Books (http://www.amazon.com/Music-Lord-Rings-Films-Comprehensive/dp/0739071572/)

Cool!

btw guys here is some unreleased music NOT on the rarities in listenable form

YouTube - LOTR TTT- The Dead Marshes Film Version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mAQqaM2epk)

YouTube - LOTR: ROTK Roots and Beginning's Film Version/Source (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFLIU5c4lBs)

YouTube - Root's And Beginning's Alternate (Partial) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGN62e6Xmno)

YouTube - The Rarities Archive Disc 2: Frodo's Song/Into The West Alternate (Partial) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL_jhyFLWT4)

MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PBSGSZIG)

Giddy!

Very interesting, thank you!

Never heard of this before! Definitely downloading! Thank you!

Thank you for this! Howard Shore is a master and I will always remember his beautiful themes and only associate his music with Middle Earth.

Okay, this is just... I have no words... Have a scan of the book that goes with it? ;-)

Here is the album with more alternate versions from all three movies. Made by me with the Original Soundtracks, the Rarities Archives CD, the Complete Recordings CDs and the DVDs.

Tracklist:

THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
01 Prologue: One Ring to Rule Them All (Alternate)
02 The Shire/The Hobbits (Mock-Up)
03 Concerning Hobbits
04 Prologue: One Ring to Rule Them All (Alternate 2)
05 The Nazg�l (Alternate)
06 Saruman the White (Alternate)
07 Flight to the Ford (Alternate)
08 Moria (Mock-Up)
09 The Fighting Uruk-Hai (Alternate)
10 Out from Bree (Theatrical Version & Alternate)
11 The Breaking of the Fellowship (NZSO Version)*
12 The Argonath (Alternate)
13 The Breaking of the Fellowship/End Credits (Alternate)

THE TWO TOWERS
14 Gwenwin in �n (Alternate)
15 Arwen's Song (Complete)
16 Emyn Muil (Alternate)
17 The Rohan Fanfare (Mock-Up)
18 The Eaves of Fangorn (Alternate)
19 Gandalf the White (Alternate)
20 The Ent Theme (Mock-Up)
21 Forth Eorlingas (Alternate)

THE RETURN OF THE KING
22 The Return of the King Trailer
23 The Gondor Theme (Mock-Up)
24 The Muster of Rohan (Alternate)
25 The Lighting of the Beacons (Alternate)
26 The Siege of Gondor (Alternate)
27 Shieldmainden of Rohan (Theatrical Version)
28 The Black Gate Opens (Alternate)
29 Sammth Naur (Alternate)
30 Frodo's Song ("Into the West" Alternate/Mock-Up)
31 Elanor (Alternate)
32 Use Well the Days
33 In Conversation (Part 1)
34 In Conversation (Part 2)

Total Time: 2h06min
* Performed by the New-Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Link: MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B5ANS1IW)

Enjoy !!!

Enjoy !!!

Thanks for sharing this compilation Abbey! There's some stuff I have heard, and some stuff I have not.

Additional music to add:

Concerning Hobbits (Alternate 2)
The White Wizard (Alternate)*
Forth Eorlingas (Alternate)*
Dernhelm In Battle (Alternate)

*contains more alternate music

Link: MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OE814N4E)

Lovely to revisit these beautiful pieces in a different manner. By the way, would it be possible to upload this in lossless quality?

Lovely to revisit these beautiful pieces in a different manner. By the way, would it be possible to upload this in lossless quality?

Yes, it's indeed interesting to hear the different versions.
I'll upload a FLAC version as soon as possible !!!

Yes, it's indeed interesting to hear the different versions.
I'll upload a FLAC version as soon as possible !!!

Merci beaucoup!

You wouldn't happen to know the whereabouts of the film version of "A Far Green Country" from Return of the King, would you? Or possibly the film mix version of "The End of All Things/Sammath Naur"?

Merci beaucoup!

Mais de rien, c'est un plaisir !!! ^^

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You wouldn't happen to know the whereabouts of the film version of "A Far Green Country" from Return of the King, would you? Or possibly the film mix version of "The End of All Things/Sammath Naur"?

I'm sorry, but I didn't understand what you wrote... Could you say it in another way, please ?

Looks like I need somebody who can translate my writing into French...I don't know how to say it any more clear than that. The version of "A Far Green Country" that plays in the film sounds different from the version that's on the Complete Recordings. You are posting alternate and bonus tracks, and I am curious to know if you have an alternate for that particular track.

Looks like I need somebody who can translate my writing into French...I don't know how to say it any more clear than that. The version of "A Far Green Country" that plays in the film sounds different from the version that's on the Complete Recordings. You are posting alternate and bonus tracks, and I am curious to know if you have an alternate for that particular track.

Ah, right !!! Well, indeed the film version is different: it contains humming voices, but it have never been released, unfortunately...

Ah, I see. Well, thanks for your response and also thanks for bonus alternates you have been able to share. One can never have too much Lord of the Rings music!

THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
01 Prologue: One Ring to Rule Them All (Alternate)
02 The Shire/The Hobbits (Mock-Up)
03 Concerning Hobbits
04 Prologue: One Ring to Rule Them All (Alternate 2)
05 Concerning Hobbits (Alternate 2)
06 The Nazg�l (Alternate)
07 Saruman the White (Alternate)
08 Flight to the Ford (Alternate)
09 Moria (Mock-Up)
10 The Fighting Uruk-Hai (Alternate)
11 Out from Bree (Theatrical Version & Alternate)
12 The Breaking of the Fellowship (NZSO Version)*
13 The Argonath (Alternate)
14 The Breaking of the Fellowship/End Credits (Alternate)

THE TWO TOWERS
15 Gwenwin in �n (Alternate)
16 Arwen's Song (Complete)
17 Emyn Muil (Alternate)
18 The Rohan Fanfare (Mock-Up)
19 The Eaves of Fangorn (Alternate)
20 Gandalf the White (Alternate)
21 The Ent Theme (Mock-Up)
22 Forth Eorlingas (Alternate)

THE RETURN OF THE KING
23 The Return of the King Trailer
24 The Gondor Theme (Mock-Up)
25 The Muster of Rohan (Alternate)
26 The Lighting of the Beacons (Alternate)
27 The Siege of Gondor (Alternate)
28 Dernhelm in Battle (Alternate)
29 Shieldmainden of Rohan (Theatrical Version)
30 The Black Gate Opens (Alternate)
31 Sammth Naur (Alternate)
32 Frodo's Song ("Into the West" Alternate/Mock-Up)
33 Elanor (Alternate)
34 Use Well the Days
35 In Conversation (Part 1)
36 In Conversation (Part 2)

Total Time: 2h14min
* Performed by the New-Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7VEJK2AA

Superb Abbey! Thanks again for the flacs!

Looks like I need somebody who can translate my writing into French...I don't know how to say it any more clear than that. The version of "A Far Green Country" that plays in the film sounds different from the version that's on the Complete Recordings. You are posting alternate and bonus tracks, and I am curious to know if you have an alternate for that particular track.

Isn't that just an edit? like the first few notes repeated?

Here is the explanation by Doug Adams: "The film uses a different first performance on the Grey Havens theme, which features humming voices. This music was edited in from the music wrote for the film’s concluding chapters."
I didn't here other differences...

Ah so it was tracked in from the ending music.

Isn't that just an edit? like the first few notes repeated?

No, it's almost like the film version is just the harmony of the theme, whereas the score version has the harmony and melody. I'm glad to see an explanation from Doug Adams; I had thought at one point that the film version borrows from the near-end of "The Grey Havens". It's not quite the same, but it is similar. If you want to and extremely sh*tty edit of the track in question, pop on over to this YouTube page full of tracks stolen from my edits: The Return Of The King- A Far Green Country (Film Version) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsd8Q5Ft-DU&feature=plcp&context=C238a1UDOEgsToPDskJQIQrr2B5NZOWECVinEG5V)

thanks, didn't know this existed.

THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
01 Prologue: One Ring to Rule Them All (Alternate)
02 The Shire/The Hobbits (Mock-Up)
03 Concerning Hobbits
04 Prologue: One Ring to Rule Them All (Alternate 2)
05 Concerning Hobbits (Alternate 2)
06 The Nazg�l (Alternate)
07 Saruman the White (Alternate)
08 Flight to the Ford (Alternate)
09 Moria (Mock-Up)
10 The Fighting Uruk-Hai (Alternate)
11 Out from Bree (Theatrical Version & Alternate)
12 The Breaking of the Fellowship (NZSO Version)*
13 The Argonath (Alternate)
14 The Breaking of the Fellowship/End Credits (Alternate)

THE TWO TOWERS
15 Gwenwin in �n (Alternate)
16 Arwen's Song (Complete)
17 Emyn Muil (Alternate)
18 The Rohan Fanfare (Mock-Up)
19 The Eaves of Fangorn (Alternate)
20 Gandalf the White (Alternate)
21 The Ent Theme (Mock-Up)
22 Forth Eorlingas (Alternate)

THE RETURN OF THE KING
23 The Return of the King Trailer
24 The Gondor Theme (Mock-Up)
25 The Muster of Rohan (Alternate)
26 The Lighting of the Beacons (Alternate)
27 The Siege of Gondor (Alternate)
28 Dernhelm in Battle (Alternate)
29 Shieldmainden of Rohan (Theatrical Version)
30 The Black Gate Opens (Alternate)
31 Sammth Naur (Alternate)
32 Frodo's Song ("Into the West" Alternate/Mock-Up)
33 Elanor (Alternate)
34 Use Well the Days
35 In Conversation (Part 1)
36 In Conversation (Part 2)

Total Time: 2h14min
* Performed by the New-Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Link: NOTICE (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7VEJK2AA)


might I request a possible reup of the flac please? just started getting into lots but never got this :/

That's...uh...That's actually just the Rarities Archive in its entirety combined with the OST versions of any of the tracks that sounded different on the Complete Recordings. Really any fan who has all the OSTs, all the Complete Recordings, and the Rarities Archive doesn't need that. I'm saying this because I'm pretty sure I downloaded it once, and that's all it sounded like to me.

That's...uh...That's actually just the Rarities Archive in its entirety combined with the OST versions of any of the tracks that sounded different on the Complete Recordings. Really any fan who has all the OSTs, all the Complete Recordings, and the Rarities Archive doesn't need that. I'm saying this because I'm pretty sure I downloaded it once, and that's all it sounded like to me.

Oh true. I don't have the original sot's just the completes. I am looking for use well the days in flac, though.

I'm pretty sure that track was in a LOTR video game, film version of a far green country. I remember ages ago a bunch of unreleased ROTK music was cracked from a LOTR videogame in HQ, they were all film versions of the score. I'm pretty sure that was on there. It was years ago though, can't remember which game D: and I deleted the tracks once the Complete Recordings came out, the cues were clean though. Good lord I'm talking like 6 or 7 years ago when I first started compiling and collecting scores. I may be mistaken though it might actually been like the 2nd half of the cue or something and that may not be useful to you.

Well, do you have any idea what game that might have been? Like a PC game, or GameCube, PlayStation? Because all I have is TTT and RotK for GameCube, and they both use a very limited selection of the OSTs of FotR and TTT. I'd be curious to know if anyone can shed more light on xKorix's memories.

Re UP please....

So...no one can help me in the slightest? Or darth2602 for that matter?

The game might be Battle for Middle earth 1, 2, or the expansion packs.

Hmmm...I searched for those on the Shrine, and this is what I got: Thread 80716. Looks like at least for the first game, the music was not composed by Howard Shore. But I wasn't quite expecting it would be either.

Very rarely, have I seen composers for films also do work on the video game adaptations of said films. And if they do (Steve Jablonsky for Transformers comes to mind), their video game compositions are usually entirely original and unrelated to their film compositions. On top of that, if music from the movie gets used, it's hardly ever anything more than the OST. Exceptions to this fact are Star Wars and Indiana Jones (I think).

But probably none of that helps in trying to identify what xKorix was remembering. I just know it was disappointing to hear some totally unrelated action music from TTT during the final battle with Gollum in the RotK video game, instead of, you know, "The End of All Things". There was absolutely no unreleased music from those GameCube games, and they came out around the releases of the movies...so, actually more than six or seven years ago.

Here is the album with more alternate versions from all three movies. Made by me with the Original Soundtracks, the Rarities Archives CD, the Complete Recordings CDs and the DVDs.

Tracklist:

THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
01 Prologue: One Ring to Rule Them All (Alternate)
02 The Shire/The Hobbits (Mock-Up)
03 Concerning Hobbits
04 Prologue: One Ring to Rule Them All (Alternate 2)
05 The Nazg�l (Alternate)
06 Saruman the White (Alternate)
07 Flight to the Ford (Alternate)
08 Moria (Mock-Up)
09 The Fighting Uruk-Hai (Alternate)
10 Out from Bree (Theatrical Version & Alternate)
11 The Breaking of the Fellowship (NZSO Version)*
12 The Argonath (Alternate)
13 The Breaking of the Fellowship/End Credits (Alternate)

THE TWO TOWERS
14 Gwenwin in �n (Alternate)
15 Arwen's Song (Complete)
16 Emyn Muil (Alternate)
17 The Rohan Fanfare (Mock-Up)
18 The Eaves of Fangorn (Alternate)
19 Gandalf the White (Alternate)
20 The Ent Theme (Mock-Up)
21 Forth Eorlingas (Alternate)

THE RETURN OF THE KING
22 The Return of the King Trailer
23 The Gondor Theme (Mock-Up)
24 The Muster of Rohan (Alternate)
25 The Lighting of the Beacons (Alternate)
26 The Siege of Gondor (Alternate)
27 Shieldmainden of Rohan (Theatrical Version)
28 The Black Gate Opens (Alternate)
29 Sammth Naur (Alternate)
30 Frodo's Song ("Into the West" Alternate/Mock-Up)
31 Elanor (Alternate)
32 Use Well the Days
33 In Conversation (Part 1)
34 In Conversation (Part 2)

Total Time: 2h06min
* Performed by the New-Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Link: MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B5ANS1IW)

Enjoy !!!

any kind soul out there could do a reupload of this album
pls and thank you

If you've got the original Rarities Archive, you've got everything there. Everything else in that list is just the OST versions of the tracks from the Complete Recordings--aside from four other tracks that Abbey posted in another post.

you mean these extra 4
Concerning Hobbits (Alternate 2)
The White Wizard (Alternate)*
Forth Eorlingas (Alternate)*
Dernhelm In Battle (Alternate)

which means these 4 is not in the the rarities cd and also not in the complete 10 cd recordings of the lord the ring series?

Soouu, hoping for a re-up pretty please someone? I only see MU links which saddens me for the lack of a working link + the death of MU :(

you mean these extra 4
Concerning Hobbits (Alternate 2)
The White Wizard (Alternate)*
Forth Eorlingas (Alternate)*
Dernhelm In Battle (Alternate)

which means these 4 is not in the the rarities cd and also not in the complete 10 cd recordings of the lord the ring series?

They're actually from the original soundtracks

Oh, but they are not from the original soundtracks. Those four alternates are unlike anything on either the Complete Recordings (CR) or the original soundtracks (OST). Okay, that's a bit extreme. Let me break it down:

Concerning Hobbits (Alternate 2): Nowhere close to the version heard on the OST. Closer to the version heard on the CR, except that there's an alternate insert.

The White Wizard (Alternate): I have this named as "Gandalf the White". As far as I know, this track is not on the OST. It is, however, a shorter version of "Gandalf the White" from the CR and also features several alternate inserts. That's just from looking at it through Audacity; I haven't listened to it in a while, but I know it is different...I think the choir might be different.

Forth Eorlingas (Alternate): I think this should properly be called Alternate 2, as this cue appears on both the OST and the CR and all three are different. I don't know specifics, but just viewing them through Audacity, I can tell they are not all the same version of that cue.

Dernhelm in Battle (Alternate): As far as I know, this track is not on the OST. This track is 48 seconds shorter than the version heard on the CR. They both appear to be about the same track until about 53 seconds and then the alternate changes.

Also, the overall sound quality (the mastering?) is different for those tracks for reasons I am not sure of.

I have The Rarities Archives, it's in mp3 @ 320 Kbps, it has only 23 tracks & Front Cover...here is the link: Hotfile.com: One click file hosting: The Lord Of The Rings- The Rarities Archive.rar (http://hotfile.com/dl/156198778/790b2d3/The_Lord_Of_The_Rings-_The_Rarities_Archive.rar.html)


Enjoy

Scott

thanks, but can someone re-up the flac version?

Oh, but they are not from the original soundtracks. Those four alternates are unlike anything on either the Complete Recordings (CR) or the original soundtracks (OST). Okay, that's a bit extreme. Let me break it down:

Concerning Hobbits (Alternate 2): Nowhere close to the version heard on the OST. Closer to the version heard on the CR, except that there's an alternate insert.

The White Wizard (Alternate): I have this named as "Gandalf the White". As far as I know, this track is not on the OST. It is, however, a shorter version of "Gandalf the White" from the CR and also features several alternate inserts. That's just from looking at it through Audacity; I haven't listened to it in a while, but I know it is different...I think the choir might be different.

Forth Eorlingas (Alternate): I think this should properly be called Alternate 2, as this cue appears on both the OST and the CR and all three are different. I don't know specifics, but just viewing them through Audacity, I can tell they are not all the same version of that cue.

Dernhelm in Battle (Alternate): As far as I know, this track is not on the OST. This track is 48 seconds shorter than the version heard on the CR. They both appear to be about the same track until about 53 seconds and then the alternate changes.

Also, the overall sound quality (the mastering?) is different for those tracks for reasons I am not sure of.

I believe most of them are from the Fanclub credits on the EE DVD's after the normal credits.

Yeah, after a while, I started thinking about that. I wondered: "How much more music from the Fan Club stuff hasn't yet been released?" A very long time ago, I found a couple low-quality rips of music from the Fan Club stuff and had no idea of its origins.

Could someone upload the scans of the Book to this? if thats possible

thanks, but can someone re-up the flac version?

It was re-uped in Porko Rosso's "most complete" LOTR thread a few days ago.

Can you re-upload the FLAC link, please? Thanks in advance!

Once again, see post #155 on this page (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/most-complete-lord-rings-soundtracks-collection-dvd-83700/7.html). The links there still seem to be working.

There was absolutely no unreleased music from those GameCube games, and they came out around the releases of the movies...so, actually more than six or seven years ago.

Ha, Hindsight is so awesome. ;)

Here is a link to my working link if anyone is still after this. Good Luck with the new Rapidshare layout though... (http://rapidshare.com/share/1AFAC6E277EA9AEE1021AA9850FE575D)

thanks!

I would very much appreciate the link to a mp3 or flac version of "The Rarities Album", the CD that comes with the book "The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films: A Comprehensive Account of Howard Shore's Scores"

I'm really looking forward to that one!
Thanks for those who bother :)

Reupload: Lord of the Rings: Rarities Archive in FLAC
Depositfiles (http://dfiles.eu/files/vwbkyvoxk)

7-Zip archive, password: tolkien4

Thanks.

Thank you holunder2 for link.

Thank you holunder2 for link.

Thanks to Tisho for the original and holunder2 for the re-up.

Can someone please re-upload a mp3 or Apple lossless version? Thank you so much!!!

Thanks holunder2 for link!! :)

Reupload: Lord of the Rings: Rarities Archive in FLAC
Depositfiles (http://dfiles.eu/files/vwbkyvoxk)

7-Zip archive, password: tolkien4

Thanks a lot! :D

Many, many thanks!

Thanks for this!

Brill

Thank you.

Reupload: Lord of the Rings: Rarities Archive in FLAC
Depositfiles (http://dfiles.eu/files/vwbkyvoxk)

7-Zip archive, password: tolkien4

Thank you holunder2. :DRep. added.

Thanks for the Re up.

Reupload: Lord of the Rings: Rarities Archive in FLAC
Depositfiles (http://dfiles.eu/files/vwbkyvoxk)

7-Zip archive, password: tolkien4


thanks!!

Amazing. Thanks!

Thank you.

Nice, gonna download this. :)

Great share, thanks!
Any chance to get a link to the book itself (pdf or similar)?

Can I get a link please? Thanks

Any one got an upload to Mega.nz