Shelob's Lair

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Now alone, Frodo follows Gollum’s lead. He is beckoned to enter the dank mouth of a tunnel. Hesitant, he falters, but Gollum prods him. “Go in, or go back.” Shore’s music here is unusually dissonant, seemingly free of the tones that have thus far painted Middle-earth. Something is very wrong. The orchestra moves in opposing directions, the linear counterpoint thickening into a complex web. A chromatic eight-note motive in bassoon and low strings falls, striking an oddly regular rhythmic profile.

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