Dangerous Passes sets the Fellowship back on the road, depositing them this time at the hidden entrance to Moria. The moonlit doors are eventually revealed with a rising series of major triads and the choral text, "Gandalf at the Door to Moria." Once the doors creak open a brief overlapping statement of the Moria theme manifests, but soon dissipates as the Fellowship sees the carnage that awaits their arrival. Retreat, however, places them in even graver danger.
This composition marks the first of three sequential monster moments in the score, each of which is approached differently. The music for the Watcher in the Water's attack is almost entirely aleatoric—built primarily of controlled streams of orchestral wriggles, for which Shore strictly dictated pitch, entrances, material and performance style. The composer grins: "This is science fiction"
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