to Shore throughout the four-year composition period. It is illustrated with drawings by the films' conceptual artists, the illustrators John Howe and Alan Lee. Shore describes the book as "a wonderfully readable version of what I created in music". He states that Adams became a friend, and "from all of his detailed study, [is] much more an expert in this music than I am!" The films' writer/producer Fran Walsh writes that "Howard's music ... gave the cultures of the Elves and the Dwarves and the kingdoms of Men a powerful authenticity", and that "I feel enormously proud that [Shore's] beautiful work, beloved by so many around the world, has been so eloquently celebrated by Doug Adams in this fine book." Leitmotifs Adams states that Shore has woven over 100 themes or leitmotifs (over 160, if the music of the Hobbit films is included), which can be grouped by the Middle-earth cultures to which they relate. Each theme is named, with the film scene where it is first heard; it is shown in musical notation, and then described in a few paragraphs of text. When Adams has identified other themes on related subjects, they immediately follow in the same section. Thus, the first section on themes is "The One Ring", with the main theme "The History of the Ring", followed by "The Evil of the Ring (Mordor/Sauron)", "The Seduction of the Ring", and "The Fate of the Ring/The Destruction of the Ring". The account is illustrated both with pencil drawings by the artists and by stills from the films. Adams states that Shore "instinctually" started with themes to ensure musical clarity. The first theme, "The Shire", may serve as an example. It features both in the films, many times, and in Shore's concert suite Concerning Hobbits. The melody, all in one key, occurs in pensive, rural, and hymn settings. The pensive setting is played classically, with the melody on whistle or clarinet according to the mood of the moment. The rural setting changes the theme into "a sprightly, Celtic-influenced peasant melody—the simple joy of Hobbiton in musical form." Adams notes that Shore commented that he wanted to give the impression that "the hobbits were playing the music", while Jackson said "Make it hobbity." Shore combined all three variations of "The Shire" in the end credits of The Fellowship of the Ring to create the song "In Dreams". The song has lyrics