The soundtrack for the first Hobbit picks up where the left off scores of The Lord of the Rings. Howard Shore is again exactly the tone that you know. Great orchestration, operatic vocals, dynamic, epochal sounds as if they came from another world, just from Middle-earth. Man listening to music and just know you're back in the world, the JJR Tolkien created. The latter especially when Shore picks known music of the first soundtrack. So you can hear pretty much at the beginning of those carefree music of the Shire. But often even hinted familiar sounds. So dip Music of the Elves or the threat of Mordor briefly and we think we know how it goes, but it makes then a completely different swing. All in all a thoroughbred soundtrack to Tolkien's world and also the song by Ed Sheehan end fits very well.
