The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Piano/Vocal/Chords)

This book takes several of the main themes from the film The Return of the King and all the ones I was hoping for were included. I especially love playing the sequence that involves the crowning of Aragorn. I am an intermediate player and did not find these songs difficult. Most of them I was able to sight read tolerably. If you are a fan of Lord of the Rings, I really recommend this book. As a side note, I also own the sheet music for the first two films and I don't play out of those books as often as I do this one.

Classic story

Great collectible style booklet with full color pages of movie scenes, but only 4/5 because it is very small compared to the hours of music made for this incredible film. Really needs Gray Havens, Ride of the Rohirrim, and Anduril. Rest of the book is done very well, not too challenging but plenty good for my Shire loving students, they're eating these books up! I personally wish for all the music possible for LOTR and keep looking for more advanced too. But considering this is just a corporate production, it's plenty good for teasing the Hobbit feet.

Excellent piano book, the arrangement of Into the West is a bit bland but that's okay, there's plenty of room to improvise over it.

Our son loves the arrangements and is spending more time with his piano practicing since he got it!

Terrific movie

I only needed this book to finish my set of three. Haven't played from it yet, but I will eventually.

It's books like this that made me wish I had the natural talent for music, or had at least studied and practiced hard enough to develop talent. The motion picture score that Howard Shore composed for The Lord of the Rings trilogy is absolutely brilliant, and while nothing can match his magnificent orchestra, there is something unique and incredible about hearing the same music played on a simple piano -- coming from your very own fingers. Or, with today's synthesizer technology, you can orchestrate your own versions! The cover is the same as the Return of the King promotional photo. Inside, one can find fifty-four lovely pages' worth of selections from his score for Return of the King. Included in that tally are six pages of rich photos from the movie. Thankfully, it's just the heroes this time, there are no frightening pictures of orcs which, as in the case of the first and second books, caused the need to keep an eye on little youngsters who might be a little frightened by the ugly and gruesome orcs. Shoot, they still frighten me! ;-) The songs include: - Minas Tirith, the theme for Gandalf's ride to the City of Kings, and Pippin Took's first glimpse of the grandeur of the stronghold. Lyrics are included for the Elvish verses sung in the background, including the Retreat from Osgiliath, and The White Rider. This is one of the best songs, if you ask me, because it includes the gorgeous theme for Gondor. - The Steward of Gondor, which includes the White Tree "theme" (not a really defined royal theme, unfortunately), and Billy Boyd's solo he sung to Denethor as Faramir rode out on his suicide mission. - Twilight and Shadow, with is essentially a "poor Frodo" score, but also includes some music for Arwen. - The End of All Things, the tumultuous but awing cacophony that you hear during the battle on the slopes of Mt. Doom and subsequently before the Black Gates as Frodo attempts to destroy the Ring, and Aragorn leads his troops in a last effort to distract Sauron. (As you can imagine, this, like the others, is not exactly a simple tune for beginners, but I was able to pick out some Lord of the Rings tunes, so middling players ought to be able to do okay) Lyrics are included for the many verses sung in the background of this as well. - The Return of the King, which begins with Frodo's awakening and the reuniting of the Fellowship, and then Aragorn's coronation. At the end, sheet music fans FINALLY get the music for the Hobbiton theme, which is titled "A Toast in the Shire". - Into the West, Annie Lennox's endearing song which pretty much sings about heaven, or at least Middle-Earth's version of it. - Use Well The Days, a bonus because fans haven't yet heard how Howard Shore has arranged this one! It's pretty certain it will be crafted into the Return of the King: Extended Edition which releases around Christmas. From the lyrics, one would infer that it is sort of a benediction that Frodo gives to Sam, although I seriously doubt it is sung that way. For your piano players, guitar-strummers, and singers, make 'em happy, give them some of the most awesome soundtrack ever to be played for the Lord of the Rings movies.

I have purchased the books for the first two movies as well. I was a bit disappointed at the lengths of the other books, but this one is much longer. Great addition to my LOTR piano book collection.

I bought this as I wanted to be able to play the music from The Lord of the Rings; Return of the King. I was not disapointed. Some of the pieces in here are quite hard but with practise I'm sure I will be able to play them! I would recomend starting with Into the West by Annie Lennox as i found that the easiest song to play, but at the end of Steward of Gondor is Edge of Night, which isn't very hard either! This is an amazing music book and I love using it to play music from my favourite film!

Nach den wunderschönen Bearbeitungen zu den ersten beiden Teilen nun dieses vergleichsweise dicke Heft mit stellenweise recht langen Stücken. Das Niveau ist nochmal um einiges angestiegen, aber mit ein wenig Übung kann man die Stücke gut meistern (oder wenigstens so, dass sie sich gut anhören :-)...). Man merkt, dass die Musik im dritten Teil ganz anders ist als in den vorhergehenden, die Melodien sind weniger leicht, stellenweise ein wenig träge und nachdenklich, aber trotzdem wunderschön zu spielen. Ein paar kleine Kritikpunkte sind a) das Arrangement zu Into the West, bei dem das Klavier nur die Gitarrenbegleitung und die "Orchesternebengeräusche" spielen darf und nicht die Melodie sowie b) dass bei The End of All Things (S.25, Takte 1-4), eigentlich der musikalische Höhepunkt der Trilogie und auf CD sehr imposant eingespielt, das gespielte Produkt ein wenig dünn klingt (lässt sich wohl leider nicht ändern). Wer noch schwankt, dem sei gesagt, dass das Geld auf jeden Fall erstklassig investiert ist. Zuschlagen, im Buchhandel sind die Filmmusiknoten durch Import teilweise doppelt so teuer...

I played The White Tree for the gospel fanfare on the organ for palm sunday in a village church last year from this book. No one knew what I was playing but the film title just made perfect sense for me to do this.