What Are The Reoccurring Elements In The Fellowship Of The Ring

This week in class we viewed the first 90 minutes or so of the movie, “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.” This movie is a fan favorite of millions of people all over the world. Along with the movie, we hear music playing throughout the background almost 90 percent of the time. The idea of the composer was to represent the important elements throughout the story. Important elements include: characters, objects, and ideas. The way the composer successfully composed about 11 hours of music, has only ever been attempted by one other person. With such a long series, lasting a little under four hours each, it was the perfect opportunity for composer Howard Shore to create a single coherante piece of music. In class, we discussed over 11 reoccurring elements musical elements. Basically, this means that these musical elements were heard two or more times throughout the movie. With this, at some point in the movie you are bound to recognize the composed themes. “The big three,” consisting of the shire theme, the fellowship theme, and the Rohan theme, are the most recognizable themes throughout the movie, hence the name of the big three.

I believe that the huge amount of reoccurring musical elements was just right. Yes, there’s a large number of them, but the movie is also a little under four hours in total. Throughout the first 90 minutes we experienced about 11 of these musical elements. I feel as though this was a good amount and very effective. Lots of actions and people are introduced during The Lord of the Rings. The way he set up this movie was by making music to to go along with the characters and ideas. With so much happening during the movie, there would need to be numerous amounts of musical elements to go along with