Lord Of The Rings Soundtrack Gatefold Promo LP + Press Kit Ralph Bakshi Fantasy

$

32

J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord Of The Rings" The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Double 12" Vinyl Record Album

Description: This 15-track gatefold double album cover features a few of Ralph Bakshi illustrations inside. On the back cover are album notes and a gold promotional stamp. Also included is the original 12x9 seven-piece press kit inside a pocket notebook containing a "Stand-Up Display", an eight-page "Release Itinerary" pamphlet, a "Fact Sheet", a poster order form and two more inserts. Yellow sticker on bottom edge of notebook. The vinyl records are both in glossy clean excellent to near mint condition. The gatefold cover is in very good condition, a tear and black ink near the lower center edge, a crease at top right corner, no seam splits. Please see pictures. Check out our other listings for a wide variety of vinyl records and CDs. We ship worldwide in secure, padded packaging. Please let us know if you have any questions for a prompt reply. Tracklist and additional album information below.

Tracklist:
Theme From The Lord Of The Rings
The History Of The Rings
The Journey Begins; Encounter With The Ringwraiths
Riders Of Rohan
Helm's Deep
The Dawn Battle; Theoden's Victory
The Voyage To Mordor; Theme From The Lord Of The Rings
Escape To Rivendell
Mines Of Moria
The Battles In The Mines; The Balrog
Mithrandir
Gandalf Remembers
Frodo Disappears
Following The Orcs
Attack Of The Orcs

The Lord Of The Rings is a 1978 American animated fantasy film directed by Ralph Bakshi. It is an adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy epic novel of the same name, comprising The Fellowship of the Ring and some material from both books of The Two Towers. Set in Middle-earth, the film follows a group of Hobbits, Men, an Elf, a Dwarf and a Wizard who form a fellowship. They embark on a quest to destroy the One Ring made by the Dark Lord Sauron; he has put much of his power into the Ring, and with it would control the whole of Middle-earth, but if it were destroyed, he would perish with it. Bakshi encountered Tolkien's writing early in his career. He had made several attempts to produce The Lord of the Rings as an animated film before producer Saul Zaentz and distributor United Artists provided funding. The film is notable for its extensive use of rotoscoping, a technique in which scenes are first shot in live-action, then traced onto animation cels. It uses a hybrid of traditional cel animation and rotoscoped live action footage. The film features the voices of William Squire, John Hurt, Michael Graham Cox, and Anthony Daniels. The screenplay was written by Peter S. Beagle, based on an earlier draft by Chris Conkling. Although Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings was a financial success, it received mixed reactions from critics, and hostility from disappointed viewers who felt that it was incomplete; there was no official sequel to cover the remainder of the story. Nonetheless, the film was an influence on Peter Jackson's trilogy in the early 2000s, as detailed in the DVD extras of The Fellowship of the Ring. The film score was composed by Leonard Rosenman. Bakshi wanted to include music by Led Zeppelin but producer Saul Zaentz insisted upon an orchestral score because he would not be able to release the band's music on his Fantasy Records label. Rosenman wanted a large score, involving a 100-piece orchestra, 100-piece mixed choir and 100-piece boy choir, but ended up with a smaller ensemble. Bakshi initially called his score "majestic", but later stated that he hated Rosenman's score, which he found to be too cliché. In Lord of the Rings: Popular Culture in Global Context, Ernest Mathijs writes that Rosenman's score "is a middle ground between his more sonorous but dissonant earlier scores and his more traditional and less challenging sounding music. In the final analysis, Rosenman's score has little that marks it out as distinctively about Middle Earth, relying on traditions of music more than any specific attempt to paint a musical picture of the different lands and peoples of Tolkien's imagination." The film's score was issued as a double-LP soundtrack album in 1978. The album reached number 33 in the Canadian RPM Magazine album charts on February 24, 1979. (wiki)

<<Check out our Top Rated store listings for a wide variety of vinyl records and CDs>>