The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (soundtrack album)
by Howard Shore
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Howard Shore bestography
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is ranked 2nd best out of 19 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 3295 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 453.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/07/2025 16:48 | JacobMullis | 723 | 88/100 |
| ! | 08/26/2025 09:49 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,730 | 82/100 |
| ! | 08/11/2025 14:16 | TonySayers61 | 23,143 | 64/100 |
| ! | 06/05/2025 21:54 | BorderFreeAndrew | 14,499 | 74/100 |
| ! | 09/30/2024 20:48 | Banner | 4,906 | 80/100 |
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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 13.5.
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EyeKanFly 11/19/2020 21:12 | #261113
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.
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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