Lord of the Rings | Middle Earth Music & Ambience, 3 Hours

This Trilogy helped me keep my sobriety. After 3 months without drinking I found a bottle that I hid in my house. I almost drank it and there was my DVD trilogy staring at me. Frodo fumbling with the ring. I heard the ring,whiskey talking to me. Howard Shore’s beautiful music. In a matter of seconds I found the “ring” and cast into the chasm of Mount Doom. My sink!!! True story

The greatest book ever written. The greatest movie ever made. The greatest movie soundtrack ever composed. The greatest film crew ever assembled. The greatest fandom to ever exist. The Lord of the Rings - one tale to rule them all.

I am nearly 70 years old. The Hobbit (the book, c. 1937) was in my elementary school library. I picked it up when I was in 4th grade and read, "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." I was hooked. I must have read that book ten times. I spent my meager allowance on a paperback copy sold through the Scholastic Books program. It wasn't until my 3rd year of college, during the years of Vietnam, Watergate, and civil rights riots that I discovered Lord of the Rings. All us hippies read Lord of the Rings. Our literature professors dismissed it as a WWII allegory or as "kiddie lit," or as one aging McCarthyist put it, "hippie lit." Little did they know that Tolkien has spawned a literary revolution. The first attempts to make movies of the books were pitiful. Peter Jackson was still a young stripling hardly out of short pants and nobody had ever seen a desktop computer yet. CGI wasn't even in anyone's vision. Howard Shore was very well known as a composer of cinema scores, but Lord of the Rings is considered his masterpiece. That's your history lesson for today, all you young folks. :-)

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - Gandalf

Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the age of Men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand! Men of the West!

Lord of the Rings is back on the menu boys!

It’s like in the great stories Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something. Frodo : What are we holding on to, Sam? Sam : That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

There will never be another trilogy as good as this

Not a single negative comment. No ones arguing. Just a bunch of people who may lost something and found it in this music again, or in the books. It's magical.

"There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."

Sometimes when I feel lonely or sad there is no music I want or need to hear more than this. For years it has brought a strange sort of comfort. It is as if I am remembering a world I've never been to, remembering that if I don't fit into this world, it's simply because I was made for another one.

Frodo: "I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened" Gandalf: "So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us” -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

I swear I will never get tired of LOTR ambient music

"But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass" - Samwise Gamgee

Love this quote by Roger Miller: “Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet”.

I wish Tolkien got to hear this.

I just want the person reading this to be healthy, happy and loved! Wishing you a good day!

I would rather share 3 hours of my lifetime with this music than face all the ages of this world never having heard it

This music makes me feel privileged to be alive.

“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring