Singer: Howard Shore
Title: The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King
Label: Reprise Records ‎– 9362-48565-2
Type: CD, Album, Enhanced DVD, DVD-Video All Media, Limited Edition, Brown Leather Book
Country: US
Date of released: 2003
Category: Classical, Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack, Score, Contemporary
Size MP3 zip: 1426 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1829 mb
Rating: 4.7✭
Format: MP3 AC3 AHX AUD RA DMF TTA AIFF FLAC

Tracklist Hide Credits

CD-1	A Storm Is Coming	2:52
CD-2	Hope And Memory	1:46
CD-3	Minas Tirith Featuring [Vocals] – Ben Del Maestro	3:37
CD-4	The White Tree	3:25
CD-5	The Steward Of Gondor Featuring [Vocals] – Billy Boyd	3:53
CD-6	Minas Morgul	1:58
CD-7	The Ride Of The Rohirrim	2:09
CD-8	Twilight And Shadows Featuring [Vocals] – Renée Fleming	3:30
CD-9	Cirith Ungol	1:44
CD-10	Andúril	2:35
CD-11	Shelob's Lair	4:07
CD-12	Ash And Smoke	3:25
CD-13	The Fields Of The Pelennor	3:26
CD-14	Hope Fails	2:21
CD-15	The Black Gate Opens Featuring [Flute] – Sir James Galway*	4:02
CD-16	The End Of All Things Featuring [Vocals] – Renée Fleming	5:13
CD-17	The Return Of The King Featuring [Flute] – Sir James Galway*Featuring [Vocals] – Renée Fleming, Viggo Mortensen	10:14
CD-18	The Grey Havens Featuring [Flute] – Sir James Galway*	5:59
CD-19	Into The West Performer – Annie Lennox	5:48
DVD-1	Lord Of The Rings Trilogy Supertrailer
DVD-2	Use Well The Days: A Behind The Scenes Portrait
DVD-3	Photo Gallery: Howard Shore And Orchestral Sessions
DVD-4	Poems, Text And Lyrics From Return Of The King
DVD-5	Use Well The Days Performer – Annie Lennox

Credits

• Orchestra – The London Philharmonic Orchestra
• Producer, Composed By, Conductor – Howard Shore

Notes

This was the Internet only advance release of the Limited Edition of the "Lord Of The Rings - Return Of The King" soundtrack. Was only available through the official soundtrack web site.

CD comes in a dark brown leather type hard-bound book style packaging.

The bonus DVD, "Howard Shore: An Introspective" includes:
* Use Well The Days: A Behind The Scenes Portrait
* Photo gallery from the studio sessions of The Return of the King
* Exclusive Supertrailer of The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
* Photo gallery of film stills and text from The Return of the King

This edition includes a booklet with lyrics, seven double sided high-gloss photos of the movies main characters (14 photos in total), a sheet of stamps and a short comment from Howard Shore and Peter Jackson.

The Enhanced CD function launches an Adobe Flash based program with links to the official movie site, the official soundtrack site and Reprise Records site as well as a link leading to the promised "WEB EXTRAS" with additional Lord Of The Rings multi-media content, including:
* Digital trading cards
* Buddy icons
* "Into The West" featuring Annie Lennox (Windows media & Quicktime format options)
* Video (Windows media & Quicktime format options):
- Behind the scenes of the song "Into The West"
- The Lord Of The Rings: Battle For Middle-Earth game trailer
- The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King game trailer
- The Return Of The King theatrical trailer
* Desktop Wallpaper
* Photo Gallery
* Map of Gondor (9.9MB PDF)
* 10 Print & Color sheets (PDF)
* Links to musical artists' web sites

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (CD): 1 48565 ECD02 M1S2 Z21229
• Mould SID Code (CD): 2UF1
• Matrix / Runout (DVD): 1 48560.1.A VA01
• Mould SID Code (DVD): 2UB9
• Barcode (Scanned): 093624856528

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
9362-48521-2, 9362-48521-2	Howard Shore	The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) ‎(CD, Album, Enh)	Reprise Records, Warner Music Group Soundtracks, New Line Records	9362-48521-2, 9362-48521-2	Europe	2003
PRO-CD-101303	Howard Shore	The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King ‎(CD, Album + CD, Single + Promo)	New Line Records	PRO-CD-101303	US	2003
H1259	Howard Shore	The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King ‎(CD, Album, Unofficial, HDC)	Sony Music	H1259	China	2004
48521-4	Howard Shore	The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King ‎(Cass, Album)	Reprise Records, Balet Plak	48521-4	Turkey	Unknown
9362-48521-2	Howard Shore	Der Herr Der Ringe: Die Rückkehr Des Königs ‎(CD, Enh)	Reprise Records	9362-48521-2	Germany	2003

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