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Film Scores: LOTR Vs. TDK

I love the film score for Lord of the Rings, but a friend of mine said he liked The Dark Knight film score better. Which is better?

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"The Lord of the Rings", without a doubt. It's a true symphonic musical score, and a great one at that. The score to "The Dark Knight" is more sound design than actual music. It is based more a sort of frenzied ambiance than recognizable melodies, and sounds like it was composed and performed by machines.

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I'd like to clearly state that the LOTR film score is my favorite. Some of the Music is just so beautiful. I can't even see how the two compare.

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Lord of the Rings without a second thought. It has every element you could hope for including music that invokes power, nostalgia, hope, sadness. I mean there's a little bit of everything.





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LOTR.

I don't remember a single music line from TDK.



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Me either. The lotr music is so wonderful and memorable.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (December 14, 2012)

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LOTR for me too.

I´m sure many of you here will disagree on this, but a couple of days ago I was asking myself the same thing but with LOTR vs Kingdom Hearts scores. I know LOTR is very close to perfection, but the Kingdom Hearts one, even though some might consider it infantile just at the sound of the name, is perhaps a bit more magical and emotive IMO, although LOTR would be better in the technical and instrumental musical aspects. It also helps if you have ever played one of the KH games which the score suits very well. In general they have very different vibes so it´s just hard for me to decide.

I won´t comment on TDK because I think it´s not that great a soundtrack.

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I'm now interested in the Kingdom Hearts score. I've never heard it before, but I'm going to check it out soon. I agree on the TDK part. It's not that great a soundtrack. I actually dislike it.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (December 14, 2012)

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In that case, here is a video you might find interesting hoopsjonathan3.
Made by myself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl5NYWhSj8U

Title is perhaps a little dramatic and biased, but it´s a good way to draw views.

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Its a great video!!! for the lotr part, i wouldn't say that you chose the same pieces as I would have, but they are still great choices. At the moment my 3 favorites from lotr are: Concerning Hobbits, May It Be, and The Breaking of the Fellowship. And the Kingdom Hearts music was really good!!!

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (December 14, 2012)

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Ok, I appreciate that you watched it. My videos don't get many views even though I added this one a few days ago so I shouldn't be complaining just yet.

In all honesty, I might even say LOTR is the better soundtrack, the whole thing has just always felt close to perfection for me. I don't know if there might be better soundtracks than KH as a whole to compete with LOTR, I know there are many great ones out there ... Listened to Death is the Road to Awe by Clint Mansell recently and even though I've never seen the film it belongs to, called The Fountain, I thought that track was brilliant. TBH I first heard it as a part of a pretty enjoyable LOTR tribute, so I think you'd enjoy that, I can send you a PM with the link if you don't mind.

Kingdom Hearts for me is all about magic and innocence in the music. I didn't have that much trouble selecting the LOTR ones (Forth Eorlingas absolute favourite, but also Bridge of Khazad Dum is amazing and another favourite too) even though they are all great. But with Kingdom Hearts I did (I even left out some of my very favourites because I'm planing to make a bigger track-ranking video for KH alone) have trouble, because once you play the games like I have (Have played and completed 5 in the last 3 years ... a little infantile perhaps compared to some other stuff, but horribly addictive) then they all fit the game and the vast majority are awesome in their own way ... So I'll have to make a Top 50 video or something, lol.

I also want to apologise for having changed the subject of your topic, since it was LOTR vs TDK soundtrack and I barely mentioned TDK, it just passed through my mind.

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LOTR easily. No contest.

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I have bought all 6 soundtrack CDs. They are all good value. I far prefer the Lord of the Rings ones, and I play them a lot more.

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Lord of the Rings

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LOTR for sure.
Seems your friend is about the only one that has another taste.
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