After the movie hype refreshingly different!

One thing first: A more light-great CD box! Interpreting the songs took place at the highest artistic level. Especially the folkloric hobbit songs could conquer the hearts of fans by storm. With guitar, flutes, violins and accordion It's sometimes playful cheerful, sometimes beautifully melancholy to the point. It is similar in many cheerful songs of Tom Bombadil. The pieces of the older cultures of Middle-earth, as the Elves, the Dwarves and the Dúnedain were usually interpreted by the classic Tolkien Ensemble, with borrowings from the baroque opera and the musical work by Benjamin Britten and Edward Elgar. However, especially the arias could appear strange to younger fans of the epic. Striking is the genesis of the compositions in chronological hearing all four CDs: the songs are often realized there on the CD with a small ensemble and simple, the pieces are to end up with huge choruses and large orchestra always pompous, of the melodies but also at the same time subtle and insistent. In order for this interpretation are not just the individual songs and poems from the Lord of the Rings, but also the structure of the entire work justice. Coronation of course literally the prominent support of Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark (illustrations) and Christopher Lee, who can be heard as the narrator and the Ent Treebeard. Music, poems and illustrations make The Lord Of The Rings - The Complete Songs and Poems to a fascinating journey to Middle-earth, which is a refreshing change to the huge movie hype and you can put any Tolkien-friend only his heart.