The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers CR - 02. The Court Of Meduseld video free download

Here, at Rohan's darkest hour, the Fellowship of the Ring steps into the kingdom's gnawed core and finds...a worm. Contrabassoon,

tuba, celli and contrabasses wallow in a sepulchral, debauched chromatic line, spewing out the Gríma Wormtongue theme,

colored by resonant bass drum strokes and a film of high string clusters. Wormtongue slithers his way around Théoden's seat, the

true commanding force in the throne room.

And yet, even Wormtongue's words belong to another. As the Fellowship battles their way to the fallen king, the blank rhythmic

stride of Wormtongue's theme gives way to a more telling shape. Rising bolts of brass in Rohan-esque Dorian modes snap to,

while each angular phrase is stretched over five beats—an element of Isengard pitted within Rohan. As Gandalf reaches Théoden,

we understand:Wormtongue is in league with Isengard, and Saruman has possessed the King. The Five Beat Pattern returns unencumbered

as, with a single Quenya word, full chorus reveals that Gandalf the Grey is now Gandalf theWhite: "Mettanna," ("To

the end.") The language of the Rohirrim introduced Gandalf to Fangorn Forest, and now the language of the Elves introduces

him to the Rohirrim. Chorus continues with "The King," and Gandalf attempts to rescind Saruman's influence. Above this, a brass

line enunciates the score's downand-back-up shape twice, first as Isengard's half-step, then as the Fellowship's (and Gandalf the

White's) whole-step, in a battle for Théoden's soul.