The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (soundtrack album) by Howard Shore

The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King by Howard Shore
(Soundtrack album)
Year: 2003
Overall rank: 6,499th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 47 votes)
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Award Top albums of 2003 (128th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (1,134th)
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Howard Shore bestography

The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is ranked 2nd best out of 18 albums by Howard Shore on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Howard Shore is The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring which is ranked number 3990 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 361.

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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 47 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.8/100, a mean average of 81.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.6.

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80/100
From 11/19/2020 21:12
It's absolutely criminal that "The Lighting of the Beacons" was only included in the extended version of the soundtrack. Otherwise, this condensed version is wonderful. Howard Shore's score was absolutely essential to making the Lord of the Rings trilogy into the epic it became.
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From 09/11/2019 18:27
If this was the extended version of the album it would be an easy 100. Still great but seriously the extended album for each movie is a masterpiece
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