The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (soundtrack album)
by Howard Shore

The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring by Howard Shore
(Soundtrack album)
Year: 2001
Overall rank: 3,778th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
82/100 (from 78 votes)
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82/100 (from 78 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 82.3/100, a mean average of 82.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.8.

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100/100
From 12/08/2020 14:19
Really don't think there's much more to add as people below have really summarised it so well. Like all great movies, the soundtrack to Fellowship isn't just an addition to what's on screen, it viscerally conveys the emotions and themes and sheer scale of what plays out. It's one of my favourite films ever and the score is such a big part of that.

Talk about welling up when music makes you feel sad, that isn't the case here; I well up because of how astonishingly good this whole thing is.
#262273 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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From 03/25/2020 00:10
Best soundtrack ever for me personally, so I'll have to give it 100/100.
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From 10/31/2019 07:24
Amazing music for amazing film
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From 08/15/2019 22:45
Impecável!
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From 06/29/2019 17:51
Hard to compare something like thks to the likes of Radiohead, the Beatles etc. Had to include some of my favourite scores in the ranking though and this represents the LOTR trilogy. Very difficult, as with the films themselves, to choose one of the three.

Shore's work is the very definition of a motif based score. It made a huge impact on me as a teenager and helped to create some of my greatest "cinema experiences".
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From 07/31/2017 18:48
And the other soundtracks from the trilogy are the same.
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From 07/31/2017 18:47
I told myself I'd never give a soundtrack "album" a score, but this soundtrack takes the cake as the greatest of all time. The feelings I get listening to this is similar to that of "lift your skinny fists". Perfection.
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From 02/02/2016 13:15
The beginning of a fantastic trilogy of soundtracks. It sets up many haunting themes that evoke the beauty and drama of the story. Great work by a great composer.
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From 11/09/2012 16:36
desperately waiting for the Hobbit...
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