The story moves forward to the waning years of the Third Age of Middle-earth as we are introduced to the Shire. The short piece of music that ushers us into the hobbits’ homeland was originally written for the theatrical cut of the film, but the early Shire scenes were shortened when the Prologue was lengthened, so Shore’s introductory music went unheard until the DVD edit. “We had the piece and I’d almost finished orchestrating it”, the composer recalls.

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