Title: Great soundtrack from a great film
Product review: All too many film soundtracks consist of The Big Theme and loads of could-be-pretty-much-anything-filler. This is different. There is a whole range of themese relating to characters and situations, and they are interwoven and displayed after the manner of the motif system, pioneered by Wagner in (appropriately enough) his Ring Cycle. There isn't a bad track on the CD.My only complaint is about some of the other reviews which refer to the "Irish" nature of the Hobbits theme. Humbug! Tolkien based the Shire on an idealised rural England of his childhood, and the Hobbits are his representation of the English yeomen and farmers he lived among as a boy. To anyone who knows the differences between the various styles of music in the British Isles "Concerning Hobbits" is quintessentially English, and reminiscent of compusers such as Elgar and Vaughan Williams.
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