The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers CR - 08. The Wolves of Isengard video free download

With a pitch of the melded Isengard theme, Five Beat Pattern

and Mordor's Skip Beat, a Warg-riding Orc pounces upon Háma,

the Rohirrim's scout. Aragorn rushes back to the caravan to warn

them of an impending attack while infuriated French horns

wrench forth, spinning the Rohan Fanfare's opening pitches into

a panicked klaxon. Théoden orders the women and children to

depart immediately, though the Hardanger sings out Éowyn's protests.

With a roar of the Isengard theme and the Five Beat, a full

company of Wargs charges the Horselords. Above, mixed chorus

sings "The Call," in Old English, building to the troops' first clash.

With the wicked twist of the curdling Cruelty of the Orcs, the

battle rages. Though the Rohirrim are winning, this motive, the

sharpest and vilest of the Orcs' collection, illustrates that the

creatures are taking their toll. A riderless Warg positions his open

maw over Gimli's head, but with a brassy stab of the Fellowship

theme, Aragorn is able to dispatch it at the last moment.

Abruptly, an inverted variant of the Cruelty of the Orcs knocks

Aragorn from his horse's back. The music spins, wrapped in a

churning 3/4 meter as Sharku, the Warg riders' captain, ensnares

Aragorn and drags him to the edge of a precipice. Trumpet figures

cycle restlessly, rising in pitch as Aragorn nears the cliff. With

a dissonant sustain of blistering brass and strings, Aragorn spills

over the edge.

IN THE MAKING :

Several changes affect this composition in the

film. When Legolas watches the full compliment

of Warg riders coming over the crest of a hill, a

few measures are edited in from Fellowship's Moria

sequence, extending the build a bit further than

Shore's original "Wolves" composition.

Originally, after the Eorlingas ride up to where Legolas

launches arrows at the Wargs, "The Wolves of

Isengard" returned to the panicked klaxon French

horn variation on the Rohan Fanfare, before presenting

a deep setting of the Isengard theme over

the Five Beat Pattern. In the film a thinner Isengard

theme begins earlier, right after Éowyn departs with

the women and children, expanding the score by a

few seconds.

Finally, the charge of the Riders towards the Wargs

was tightened in the final film, so Shore's setting

of "The Call" was shortened and a brass chord was

edited in to bring the warring forces together earlier.