Tolkien (original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Thomas Newman

Sony Music announces the release of TOLKIEN (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) with music by GRAMMY®, EMMY® and BAFTA® Award-winning composer THOMAS NEWMAN, whose scoring credits include American Beauty, Six Feet Under, Skyfall, Finding Nemo and more.  Available Friday, May 3, the soundtrack features music from Fox Searchlight’s Tolkien, which makes its theatrical debut Friday, May 10.Of the soundtrack, composer THOMAS NEWMAN says: “Because J.R.R. Tolkien is embedded in popular culture, and because his work and outlook have been the subjects of much interpretation, I wanted to write music for Tolkien that would honor his ethos, his individualism, without being slavish to it. The musical vocabulary draws from a wide swath of instrumental and vocal colors, from winds with string accompaniment to solo voice in hushed pianissimo. There is Swedish kantélé, mandolin and monochord intersecting bell rhythms and piano-derived ambiences. The object is to give musical identity to the nascent feelings of the young storyteller from Birmingham, only just beginning to stretch his wings. And because much of the story is seen through the prism of his time spent in the trenches of World War I, there is that parallel experience of epic conflict that deepens my feeling for his language and, I hope, lets sound, noise, and melody rise up and sing.” Directed by Dome Karukoski and written by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford, Fox Searchlight’s Tolkien explores the formative years of the renowned author’s life as he finds friendship, courage and inspiration among a fellow group of writers and artists at school. Their brotherhood strengthens as they grow up and weather love and loss together, including Tolkien’s tumultuous courtship of his beloved Edith Bratt, until the outbreak of the First World War which threatens to tear their fellowship apart. All of these experiences would later inspire Tolkien to write his famous Middle-earth novels. The film stars Nicholas Hoult as J.R.R. Tolkien with Lily Collins as his future wife and muse Edith. The film also stars Colm Meaney, Anthony Boyle, Patrick Gibson, Tom Glynn-Carney, Craig Roberts, Derek Jacobi, Harry Gilby, Adam Bregman, Albie Marber, Ty Tennant, Laura Donnelly, Genevieve O’Reilly and Pam Ferris. Tolkien is produced by Peter Chernin, p.g.a., Jenno Topping, p.g.a., David Ready, p.g.a., and Kris Thykier p.g.a.TRACKLISTING:1     Dragons    2     Impecunious Circumstances    3     The Great War    4     The TCBS    5     White As Bone    6     John Ronald    7     Vinátta (Friendship)    8     Rugby    9     Kings and Queens    10     Army of the Dead    11     Lúthien Tinúviel    12     A Good Man in the Dirt    13     Dutch Courage    14     Sunlit    15     Starlit    16     Everything That's Good    17     Geoffrey    18     Eik (Oak)    19     The Ascanius    20     Black Rider    21     Scuppered (Ancient Things)    22     Other Sorts of Scars    23     Dark Magic    24     Fellowship    25     Helheimr (End Crawl)